Who knows if I’ll be able to attend eComXpo for any length of time this week, but I’ll probably pop in and poke around for a bit. I just have the basic limited access pass, so I don’t imagine there’ll be too much for me to participate in - but I’ll give it a shot [...]
I’m gearing up to build a bunch of new sites filled with affiliate products and one thing I’m stumbling on is the networks and merchants to use. With the recent problems Commission Junction has been having, I’m hesitating to build up new sites that depend on that network. Actually any network.
I’m not saying CJ sucks, [...]
We’re already at the end of September. This month has been one stinky month for affiliate commissions for me (so far), but I fully expect a big bounce up starting in October.
Although it’s important (very much so) to ensure our pages are clean, sparkling and ready to rock with customers - we also need a [...]
I was catching up on my newsletter reading while at work and came across this interesting article:
Minipreneurs from TrendWatching (make sure to sign up for their newsletter - always a great read).
Increasingly, consumers are participants instead of passive audience members, and this mega-trend manifests itself in a variety of ways. In fact, the more we [...]
I can’t take it anymore - this blog is going to be toasted in a mad fit of spazzing rage asap (keeps eating my posts this past week). I have a combo disaster happening between my ISP service and this blog’s hosting service. Something’s gonna give and it aint gonna be pretty :wink:.
Now on to [...]
Wow seems every time I log into CJ to check my stats - my balance is lower … and then … lower … and then (you guessed it) lower again.
So far I’ve had invalid credit cards (one from a purchase *3 weeks ago*) and returned merchandise listed as the reasons.
At the rate this is going, [...]
Have you been thinking about making the move from affiliate to merchant at all?
Look what I found in my inbox:
Absolutely no merchant fees at all for 2005, and fees as low as 15% thereafter. So you can run your own affiliate program in 2005 at absolutely no cost to you beyond [...]
August was a pretty darn good month for me (yay), but I seem to be frozen stuck for the past week!
Commission Junction had the faucets open for most of the month, sales coming in regularly. Then BAM - nothing since Friday. Performics was down over the weekend (just couldn’t log in - tracking was [...]
As promised yesterday, here’s my quick review of “The Rich Jerk” ebook that’s been getting some recent buzz (no aff link btw).
I’m surprised - I loved it. And I really wanted to hate it and poke fun at the guy (Just kidding).
This ebook is written exactly how I like them:
To the point. There’s no [...]
Lots of buzz on the forums about The Rich Jerk - you just have to check out his copy (not an aff link).
What a hoot!
Price is $97 buckaroos, ebook is 40 pages and yeah - I bought it. What the hey, had a decent month in commish, package looked good so I’ll give [...]
A couple weeks ago I was thinking of buying a copy of Lotus Organizer 6.1. Try doing a search for that online and see what you find. Now filter that search down for a canadian buyer (I live in Canada btw).
*What A Freakin Nightmare*
Can you see the difference? How easy it is for an american [...]
A couple things are making me wonder what Google is up to.
First was martinibuster’s blog entry Can Your Content Pass a Hand Check?
Some quotes:
So I pored over the websites and I have to admit they were right. Those were content rich websites, and I too would be upset to have those sites banned.
And:
If your content [...]
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
I’m really not much of a ‘think positive and you will make it happen’ kinda gal. I mean if all it took was positive [...]
Something that really alarms me is how many affiliates are sweating day and night to slap up adsense sites. All kinds of topics, all kinds of web formats, but the bottom line is - these sites are being thrown up to earn off adsense.
One of the things I learned early on was that to make [...]
I just freaked out my husband.
cackle cackle
I called him on his cell to tell him: I love you. That’s it - just that.
Unfortunately - I don’t do that enough. So why today? It’s our wedding anniversary - 19 years (we married FAR TOO YOUNG). He’s not sure what’s going on, but he’ll figure it out [...]
I spent a whopping 1 hour on the site last month, so nothing really is shaking here. But I am seeing a bit of a shift in my traffic.
3285 - Unique (+209 from June)
5681 - Visits (+958 from June)
1426 - Yahoo (-283 from June)
607 - MSN (+223 from June)
122 - Google (+56 from June - [...]
I wrote once or twice about an aff site of mine that is just going *nowhere*. I’m starting to get some nice, targeted traffic (top 10 in both MSN and Yahoo! - nowhere in Goog of course :???:), yet I just don’t see *any* sales. Ok one or two, but that’s it!
My visitors are poking [...]
What started out as an oh-so-slow month (sales/commissions), has bounced back nicely for me. Whew.
We’re gearing down for July and heading into August, would it be too much to hope that I’ll smash all previous records and have an all time high earning month?
I’m hoping!
I love summer but ick - commissions are just harder to [...]
I’m checking stats on Commission Junction and am greeted with the dutch version of the site?
Konzentrieren Sie sich auf erfolgreiche Partnerschaften, schon bevor Sie diese eingehen. Mit Hilfe unserer Performance Kennzahlen wie EPC oder Network Ranking gehen unserer Publisher und Advertiser einen Schritt weiter aufeinander zu.
Weird.
Word is out - Yahoo is Updating … and changes will continue over the next week or two.
I *love* Yahoo. It has treated me well and has continued to do so this go around.
One thing I’ll be watching is a new-ish site of mine that’s been doing well in MSN, yet hasn’t hit top 10 [...]
Great discussion about working with merchants that have toll free numbers plastered everywhere - Losing Affiliate Commissions to Merchant’s Phone Number. This is pretty timely for me because I noticed recently that *every* merchant but one that I have on a niche website has toll free numbers front and center.
This website is relatively new (about [...]
I’ve been following the discussion around town regarding The Affiliate List since Graywolf posted about it over on threadwatch: List of Top Earning Affiliates. I pretty much want to stay out of it.
But I will discuss here how all this has affected me as an affiliate and my future outlook. Maybe my voice isn’t all [...]
Back in May I started a little experiment with a hobby site that was monetized, but not really doing anything. The traffic was still low, but at a point that it definitely could have been performing much better. I decided to spend some time on the site to see if I couldn’t get more out [...]
I have a website or two that has some low level traffic, but enough that they should be doing *something* for me. These two websites bring me a combined total of $0 in affiliate commissions per month.
Now I could say:
The sites are duds and don’t have much to offer.
But the reality is:
I [...]
Anyone else feeling organic search engine traffic doom and gloom lately?
We discovered recently that Google hand plucks affiliate sites right out of its hair: Google’s Spam Recognition Guide and now there’s word you can blast a competitor right outta Yahoo’s SERPs by filing a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint :Using DMCA to Nuke [...]
