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Anyone Ever Stole Your Site?

March 9, 2010
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No matter if you are a SEO, PPC Marketer, or just a website developer I guarantee you suffer from the following issues. People steal your landing page. Your site goes down and you don’t know about it. The latter speaks for itself but people jacking your stuff is by far the biggest problem today. Yesterday [...]

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Affiliates: Please Read Before You Spam Facebook Fan Pages

December 14, 2009

I had a few “creative” affiliate friends tell me they had their fan pages taken away from them recently… After following up with them and Facebook I found it it was because they were spamming affiliate links. Forget what you have heard. I am telling you if you are building a fan page around a [...]

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Withdrawing From The Affiliate Summit Facebook Panel

December 3, 2009

POSTSCRIPT: 12/05/2009 – A well informed birdy just told me Dennis Yu has been asked to step down from the panel. No official word yet. 12/4/2009 – I had been told before that the Affiliate Summit board of advisors had voted that Dennis be allowed to speak at Affiliate Summit. This source was incorrect. I [...]

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How I Made Over $1,500,000 Using A Free CSS Template

December 2, 2009

So often I get emails, facebook messages, and even tweets from people asking how to get started with affiliate marketing. It comes with a good reason too; starting affiliate marketing can seem like such a daunting task! You have the landing pages, the advertisement creatives (banners and text ads), traffic sources, keywords, Ahh! You know, [...]

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How I Optimize My PPC Campaigns

August 31, 2008

As many of you know, I am a 16 year old affiliate marketer. A lot of people are more interested in talking to me about my age or how much money I make– than the techniques I use to do it. It’s true that I usually make a six figure net (not gross) income each [...]

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Is There Really a Need For Transparency In Affiliate Marketing?

April 21, 2008

Recently I keep hearing about “the need for transparency” in affiliate marketing. While it might sound good I wonder what exactly these companies are talking about. Thinking about it from a advertiser perspective I can’t think this sounds to attractive… I mean you need to have an unknown margin. Lets be honest this is just [...]

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5 Ways To Make Passive Income On Your Website

March 15, 2007

Disclosure: My employer ShoeMoney Media Group INC is co-owner of Auctionads LLC and while not mentioned specifically in the post below I thought it should be disclosed. This is not the first time I have talked about these different forms of revenue but I always like to revisit the list. This time I also decided [...]

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When To Make A Landing Page – Affiliate FAQ

March 13, 2007

I see this question get asked all the time. “Do I need a landing page and why?” Stats – Even if you just iframe or frame in the landing page you still get all the statistics on your visitors. This will of course help you in generating invalid click reports if you are doing ppc [...]

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Do You Trust Your Affililate Company?

February 28, 2007

Recently I have seen a lot of posts in forums and blogs questioning trust with their affiliate company. Be it tracking or shaving statistics. I have a simple question for you all. {democracy:7}

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showmoney, PPC Blogs/Forums, SEO Class, Lost, and more

February 27, 2007

Few Monday Questions on Tuesday! Why do so many people call you showmoney? When a lot of foreign people see me at conferences they say showmoney I think they just pronounce shoe like show. I think then via word of mouth people think show instead of shoe. That or people think I am a showoff. [...]

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CPA Empire and Mobile Sidewalk Team Up On Ringtone Fraud

February 20, 2007

The reason people HATE ringtone affilaite marketers is because they signup through some sketchy affiliate who promises “Free” ringtones so they put in their phone number and get there pin code then start getting billed 10$ a month or so and are super pissed. Well here is a great example of some of the scumbags [...]

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2006 Was The Year Of Ringtones – 100,000 Ringtone Leads

January 19, 2007

Its been over 6 months since I have done anything really different in the ringtone industry so I thought it was time to sell off some websites that were driving leads. Of course the buyers are interested to see the exact financials so I had to go through all my affiliate accounts… I honestly never [...]

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Garbitrage – Affiliate issues panel

December 6, 2006

Kris Jones coined a new phrase at the affiliate issues panel at SES. It was a pretty heated panel as promised Tim Daly (Google apologist) took most of the heat. I finally figured out why he hates arbitrage so much. During this session he revealed that his company spent $4,000 in PPC and only made [...]

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Its Cyber Monday Baby!! How Are Your Sales?

November 27, 2006

Yay its Cyber Monday again! What is Cyber Monday? Its the biggest online shopping day of the year. (The first working day after thanksgiving). Shopping is definitely up this year. Akamai has retailer charts that are updating every 5 minutes. By the way if you’re ever going to rely on a company to give you [...]

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Linda Buquet – 5staraffiliates – Episode 16 Net Income

October 5, 2006

On the October 3rd edition of the Episode………. Announcements: I am speaking at affiliate summit west in las vegas. Shawn Collins (host of affiliate summit) to be the guest next week. First Spotlight Site of the week suggested – slientbits.com I love the way this site integrates there adsense. Thanks to twotimer for suggesting this [...]

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