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Affiliate Marketing

Why Google HQ Loves Thin Affiliates

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Despite what you may have read, Google secretly has a love affair with thin affiliates. Like a techie and Gizmodo, Google can’t get enough of affiliate marketers who build sites with no value add. If Google has its own internal Twitter, Eric Schmidt would tweet, “I heart affs who rely on search to power their [...]

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The Affiliate Marketing Newbie’s Guide To Finding Niches

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When I started out in internet marketing, I browsed around various lists of high paying keywords as well as some arbitrary lists that veterans just decided to share [without explanations] on their blogs.

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Cloaking Affiliate Links, How and Why

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Today’s topic is one that gets asked about pretty regularly, should I cloak my affiliate links to search engines, why or why not, and what are some of the best ways to do it.

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How TED Helped Me Understand Personalized Search

January 19, 2009

Long time readers here will know that I’m not a big fan of Google’s personalized search. However late last week I watched a TED talk and had a zen moment of clarity, and finally got personalized search. More interestingly I got it within the first 2 minutes of the presentation (shown after the jimp)

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Needed Related Affiliate Offers Plugin

March 3, 2008

So you’ve seen the Aizatto’s Related Posts plugin that I use here and other people use as well. Which got me thinking we need one for affiliate offers too. In addition to scanning the text it would be great if it could look at tags and categories. So let’s say you run a fashion blog [...]

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When to Pull the Plug on Affiliate Marketing

September 14, 2007

When your affiliate TOS looks like this it’s probably time to realize you have gone over the edge and are now in an adversarial relationship with your affiliates

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Apple iTunes Commissions

January 16, 2007

Checking your stats and seeing stuff like this is funny.

Building my empire five cents at a time

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Azoogle 2.0 Interface

October 18, 2006

Sorry I’m totally not liking the new Azoogle 2.0 interface. Eye candy for the sake of eye candy. Much slower IMHO. Links aren’t underlined by default, so I have to guess where to put my mouse and hope it’s a link. I get some bizarre firefox warning error message when I try to copy [...]

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Dave Taylor at Affiliate Summit

September 1, 2006

If you’ve ever tried to convince your boss, or partners, or anyone in your organiztion that adding a blog to your website is valuable, and failed, here’s something you should watch. It’s filled with some great content and lots of ammunition to help you make your case. The video is an hour long. Dave Taylor [...]

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SEO for Product Reviews, Part II

March 3, 2006

In SEO for Product Reviews, Part I we talked about how ignoring or not addressing “keyword review” or “keyword reviews” leaves your company or product in a vulnerable position. However since I’m trying to be more positive in this post I’d like to talk about some SEO strategies for reviews.

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SEO for Product Reviews, Part I

March 2, 2006

If you do any SEO work on branded or named products or services, hopefully you’re already optimizing for “keyword review” or “keyword reviews”. Not only is it good because people actually search for those phrases, but it’s an effective strategy for getting better placement in Google. However before we get into any tactics, I think [...]

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Marketing Lessons from Dr. Seuss

January 18, 2006

If you have kids, nieces, nephews, or were ever a kid yourself chances are you’ve heard of Dr. Seuss. For most of us Dr. Seuss stories are nothing more than funny characters who help children read, learn the alphabet or teach life values. However some of his stories directly relate to business and marketing [...]

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Linkshare Dropping SubID

January 11, 2006

If you’re a linkshare affiliate and use subID’s to track sales to different websites chances are you got an email telling you they discontinuing the program. You have to sign up for anew system and change all your links. They say everything will still work if you don’t you just won’t have reports [...]

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Top Earning Affiliate List

July 8, 2005

UPDATE PART IISee Top Earning Affiliate List Part II for a comment from Jeff Molander who sells the list.
Jeff Molander is selling the Top Earning Affiliates List. Now before I joined the bathrobe workforce I used to work for a large regional merchant. We managed our own email and conventional address mailing lists. So I [...]

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