If you’re an affiliate of ShareASale, you may be interested to know they have a blog set up now:
ShareASale Blog
We are pleased to announce and release the first version of our corporate blogs. We will be updating 2 sets of blogs to start with, the first will be an affiliate focused blog where we will [...]
Techdirt: Bogus Diet Patch Company Gets Away By Blaming Affiliates
Despite the fact that the company was probably pushing others to do the spamming for it, if they didn’t do the actual spamming, should they be held liable for spamming? Of course, there’s also the followup. If they know it was the affiliates, then why not [...]
So I’ve been a cookie monster this month, big deal!
Cookies Crumbling Drama & Confusion
Disturbing Cookie News
More Crumbling Cookies Talk
But being involved online with affiliate marketing, HEY COOKIES ARE IMPORTANT! When the cookie doesn’t work, I don’t get paid.
There’s a great discussion going on over at Search Engine Watch Stopping Anti-Spyware from Deleting Cookies [...]
Paul Short has written a few great *informative* posts in this thread over at the Warrior Forum:
The Most Saturated Internet Biznesses (spelling error left intact). He starts off with:
Yesterday morning at about 12:30am I had an idea for a niche web site. I did a little digging and if I had found there was no [...]
I can’t make sense of this, can anyone provide some wisdom?
Connie Berg at revenews has a puzzling post:
Just My Imagination Or Something Fishy Going On?
So many questions and no answers yet.
Is this really nothing, is my suspicous mind just working overtime?
Why are Shoponlineshopping. biz and Shoponlineshopping. us which belong to the Robbins on the same [...]
Are the report’s numbers off? Another perspective about the cookie news I posted earlier today here Disturbing Cookie News. Seth Godin writes:
File Under: Stats That Cannot Be True
Let’s do a reality check here. This is the same population that can’t get rid of pop ups, repeatedly falls for phishing of their Paypal and eBay accounts, [...]
CGI Holding Corporation Acquires KowaBunga! Posted on Kowabunga’s Corporate blog
Todd Farmer, the CEO of KowaBunga, stated, “Merging with Think Partnership and their impressive family of companies offers KowaBunga an unprecedented opportunity for growth and development. We see this merger as a synergistic partnership that will allow us to reach a wide variety of new clients [...]
A press release by Jupiter Research has some unsettling news for net marketers.
The report found that as many as 39% of online users may be deleting cookies from their primary computer monthly, undermining the usefulness of cookie-based measurement and leaving many site operators flying blind.
More alarming news:
According to a recent consumer survey cited in [...]
Well this article seemed to have died a tragic death, there’s no more talking, no response and no clarification forthcoming. And I waited over a week! I did want to make sure I wasn’t reading what I was reading, but you decide for yourselves what the story is.
I think this is definitely an [...]
Yahoo Publisher now has a page up and you can submit your email to be notified when it launches:
To support the publishing community, Yahoo! will be introducing new products and services-including publishing tools, advertising products and access to our Yahoo! audience. Our products will leverage the Yahoo! network to provide the most value for small [...]
In this thread over at ABW: Fix Reporting, I’m Losing Lots Of Money affiliates are growing more frustrated with the recent tracking problems.
I’m squeaking in an odd sale, but this month on a whole has been one big FLOP on Commission Junction. The CJ rep is stating that sales aren’t affected, it’s just traffic tracking [...]
I’m a big fan of Michael Campbell’s after I read his ebook Revenge Of The Mininet. This ebook is a ’step above’ all the affiliate handbooks out there IMO and is geared more towards the intermediate or advanced affiliate. I was able to really pull a lot of useful, workable information and apply it to [...]
DesignerWiz.com is offering a free link cloaking script that automatically appends the &afsrc=1 tag at the end, offer found here:
Free Affiliates Link Masker Redirect
FEATURES:
Affiliate links that point to an internal URL destination (your server cgi-bin) will allow you to effectively hide some of the banned affiliate URL’s that are commonly removed from the marketing pages [...]
Spent some time going through Ben Edelman’s site today (it’s recovered from the DDOS attack) and he’s really put together a phenomenal amount of information in regards to parasites, spyware, thiefware, etc. Well documented stuff!
You can view his most recent presentation here that he prepared for a recent online affiliate conference:
An Overview of Software [...]
Seems there’s a new free BHO (Browser Helper Object) on the market that will affect how our websites will be viewed.
Browster describes itself as:
What is Browster?
Browster is the quickest way to browse through search results and other lists of links. It is a free browser plugin that automatically prefetches links and provides a fast preview [...]
ABestWeb Thread
There’s been a problem reported over on ABW about Ask Jeeves messing with the ads being displayed on adsense.
Here are Affiliate Boards ads shown while viewing from Ask Jeeves:
Affiliate Boards - Framed In Ask Jeeves
I’m seeing ads for cold medicine, flooring, cough drops and homeopathics. Pretty targeted stuff!
When viewing Affiliate Boards directly:
Affiliate [...]
Today is February 9th and I haven’t had *one single sale* this month on CJ. I have a mix of encrypted links and non-encrypted links. Clicks seem to be tracking just fine. Zero sales.
My adwords campaigns pointing to pages mainly built on CJ are being paused as we speak. IMO something’s wrong somewhere and I’m [...]
Here’s a shopping directory a friend of mine just launched:
ShopShootah
It’s shopping related so submit all your aff sites and get them listed!
Directory is brand spanking new, so there’s no Google PR yet - but get in now to be at the top of the results (right now it’s bannerboxes loading - manually submitted sites [...]
Wow if you’ve ever wanted to try adding rss to your site, Carp is the way to go!
Carp - Free Download
I played with it a bit yesterday and couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up. I’ve added it to one content site and will be adding it to another right away.
The instructions are [...]
The Brand Futurist Nick Wreden has listed the
Hottest Branding Trends for 2005 on his blog.
Top 5:
1. Performance-based compensation
2. Enhanced customer connectivity
3. Social branding
4. Universe is the brand
5. Blogs, wikis and RSS
Fast-forward to the future: Keep an eye on podcasting, mososo and immersive communications. These won’t have much of an impact in 2005, but [...]
One of my new aff product sites just rocked with sales/conversions when I first launched it. Then it took a big nosedive. I thought it was just slowing down because of the time of year (beginning of January), but discovered a horrendous mess when I picked through the site.
Somehow the code got all messed up [...]
I can’t believe it, seems the time has finally come (or at least given a timeline now).
I just read this over at Affiliate Tip and seems I missed some big news.
Does anyone know just how long the wait has been for this to happen? And I wonder if they’ll use better glue on their envelopes [...]
Very interesting discussion going on over at affiliateboards here:
CPA vs. CPC
What we do as affs when creating websites that sell products and include our affiliate links is called CPA (Cost Per Action). We’re setting ourselves up to earn a commission from each *sale* made. That’s CPA.
What they’re talking about in this thread is building websites [...]
The hosting problems that happened with the blog yesterday were the least of my worries. I had opened four new hosting accounts for various projects this past week and only two activated my account right away (actually the host that’s hosting this blog and one other).
One host hasn’t responded to my account setup request [...]
Dr. Andy Williams from ezSEO makes a prediction for this year that sites using scripts and software to crank out hundreds or thousands of pages to spam the search engines with (ie. merchant datafeeds) are going to take a serious hit. He’s suggesting that Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines won’t even ’spider’ these [...]
