Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.An ongoing debate about whether online marketers should allow affiliates to bid for search engine positions on the marketer`s trademarked names has resurfaced, with Google`s announcement in January of a new [...]

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I just received a sales call from a service called Window Positions, a Searchclimbers company. They can “put your website on the top of all the major search engines and actually open your website in the results.”
How do they manage such a desired function? Well, it’s all through an “update” to Internet Explorer. If [...]

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I just came across Gizoogle.com, a Snoop Doggified search engine.
Funny stuff on there - if you do a search on affiliate tip, here are some of the results you get:
Affiliate Program Directory - Affiliatizzle
… affiliate tip is a free resource ta hizzay affiliates wittaffiliate programs, as W-to-tha-izzell as a guide as ta how ta promote [...]

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The e-mail was blatantly illegal.
The promotional, unsolicited message was sent to e-mail addresses stolen from various Web pages. It didn’t include the sender’s postal address. And it didn’t have the required “unsubscribe” link.
But the junk e-mail wasn’t pushing pornography, generic Viagra or some other dubious merchandise typically associated with spam. It was selling Dell computers. [...]

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Where can I buy double opt in email addresses - it would take me forever to harness emails just from a form?
It’s appealing and easy to rent names from somebody else (and you can certainly do this from DM News and other sources), but if you want to bring in long-term customers, I’d suggest rolling [...]

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I’ve launched a news source (article manager, not a blog) at http://affiliatetip.com/news/
If anybody is creating affilate related content they’d like to syndicate, touch base with my and I can setup a login for you.
The pages (example: http://affiliatetip.com/news/article003.php) include functionality to forward to a friend, as well as printer friendly versions.
If you would [...]

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Have you got any links to PHP codes that generate affiliate sites? I have one from MediaPlazza that could be better, in terms of SEO, but I would like to make some other sites the same way.
I ran a few searches in Google and was able to come up with PHP scripts that generate sites, [...]

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Congratulations to Angelin Tan of Overture for winning a free pass to Affiliate Summit 2005 in the Affiliate Summit 2005 Sweepstakes.
If you’d like to enter for a chance to win a free pass to Affiliate Summit 2005, visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=56736837053

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I have a couple of websites where I place banner ads and generate affiliate revenue. I have incorporated (mainly cause I hated giving out my SS#). Now I have to apply for a Tax ID number. How would you classify an affiliate business? Anything related to Internet sales implies selling hard goods. Any advice?
That’s a [...]

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WEST JORDAN, Utah, Feb. 11 — Affiliate marketing just got exciting again. LinkMo (http://www.linkmo.com), the pay-for-performance marketing and lead generation tracking arm of Ouimette Communications, Inc. (OuiCom, http://www.ouicom.com), today announced the relaunch of its own affiliate marketing network - and it bears little resemblance to affiliate networks of the past.
The big difference: LinkMo merchants pay [...]

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