I often look for similar sites when I am searching for affiliate programs to promote, so I can get the best commission, and compare other elements of the affiliate programs. Typically, I use Google to search out sites, but I came across SimilarSites.com, which makes the process more efficient, since it enables me to enter [...]
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I was riding the subway in New York yesterday, and the car I was in was covered in ads for the Panasonic Lumix camera. There were a variety of ads, but the one that jumped out to me read, “HAVEN’T HEARD OF US? GO AHEAD. SEARCH LUMIX ONLINE.” So OK, they didn’t exactly challenge affiliates [...]
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VeriSign, the registry for .COM and .NET, will be increase domain registration prices on July 1, 2010 – .COM will go up 7%, and .NET by 10%. So naturally, as the increase is passed on to domain registrars, they will pass it right on to us. I’d suggest taking care of them now to save [...]
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Scribe is a new WordPress plugin from Brian Clark, publisher of Copyblogger, that helps writers optimize content. I have never been much of an SEO guy, so I was excited when I heard about this tool to improve my blog posts. I’ve been using the All in One SEO Pack plugin for quite a while, [...]
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I was reading “Top 10 WordPress Plugins That Affiliate Marketers Need” at MarketingElf.com the other day and came across a really useful WordPress plugin I wasn’t using. The plugin is called Pretty Link, and it enables affiliates to shrink the huge affiliate links and get a branded URL with the affiliate’s domain name. Plus, the [...]
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[audio:http://geekcast.fm/podpress_trac/web/2778/0/affiliateabcs19-history-affiliatetip.mp3] I had a fun chat with Deb Carney on her AffiliateABCs podcast the other day about my early days in affiliate marketing. This discussion came out of a link I Tweeted recently for an article I wrote in 2000 on the history of affiliate marketing. We touched on the origins of the industry, as [...]
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There was a post on Search Engine Journal a few months back, No Precedence For Social Media – Amazon Hangs Us Out To Dry, that railed at Amazon.com’s affiliate program, because “Amazon.com refused to pay any commission on a link that I distributed through Twitter and Facebook.” There was a lot of buzz about the [...]
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You’ve probably heard by now that the Federal Trade Commission announced new rules yesterday regarding disclosure of freebies and financial interests by bloggers. But what does that mean to you when it kicks in on December 1, 2009? I am fortunate to be a part of a secret cabal, and I heard about the new [...]
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