Exposing the Bullsh*t Of Internet Money Making
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Even in the new Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare/Digg/Reddit Social Media onslaught, for an ethical marketer search engine traffic is still by far the BEST source of traffic for most sites, especially newer sites. You sometimes read other places about sites still doing fine after getting canned from Google rankings because of some grey hat (more on that later) [...]
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I’ve been an Amazon Affiliate for almost a year and a half, not on this site (although I really should add some links to books down the sidebar there someday) but on a couple of other sites. Last year before Amazon basically killed the practice, I was doing what is generally called Affiliate Arbitrage, where [...]
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Amazon quietly rolled out a new feature to take some of the sting off 3rd party seller price gouging in the past couple of days (we’re not even exactly sure when it went live) without any announcement that we could find, then quickly removed it. No idea why it was removed, but hopefully it will [...]
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At 4:30am this morning, all Affiliate accounts based in North Carolina were closed by Amazon. That means no more referrals paid for anyone sending affiliate tagged links to Amazon if they are based in NC. The affiliates received the following email: We regret to inform you that the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) [...]
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Well Mr/Mrs CoffeeResearch, it was certainly fun playing with you, but it looks like we’ve both been kicked off the playing field. I had planned out and started writing a series of articles on how to make money driving traffic from search engines (such as Google, Yahoo, etc) directly to Amazon using what some people [...]
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Well, I suspected this. I posted about the Alexa traffic graph for Amazon last week, and if you look closely you’ll notice a dip right around Christmas last year. I suspected that Christmas wasn’t going to be a good conversion day, and BOY was I right. Ready for this? Over the past 4-5 months I’ve [...]
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Ok, I’m a geek at heart and love charts and graphs that actually represent data in a meaningful way. I’m going to let you in on a couple of little secrets here using a graph I pulled up from Alexa.com: This graph represents the “Daily Reach” of Amazon and Ebay, as a function of the [...]
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I’ve read a bunch of forums lately where people state that buying PPC on Google Adwords for Affiliate links is against the Google Terms of Service (TOS), and nothing could be further from the truth, at least not today. Go check out the Google Adwords Terms of Service if you don’t believe me. It’s possible [...]
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