ElectronPlumber » Affiliates http://electronplumber.com Exposing the Bullsh*t Of Internet Money Making Fri, 07 May 2010 03:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why Search Engine Traffic Is Still King http://electronplumber.com/why-search-engine-traffic-is-still-king/ http://electronplumber.com/why-search-engine-traffic-is-still-king/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:44:25 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=1191 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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]]> http://electronplumber.com/why-search-engine-traffic-is-still-king/feed/ 0 Don’t Use The Amazon Site Stripe To Create Links To Non Product Pages http://electronplumber.com/dont-use-the-amazon-site-stripe-to-create-links-to-non-product-pages/ http://electronplumber.com/dont-use-the-amazon-site-stripe-to-create-links-to-non-product-pages/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:01:21 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=1173 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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]]> http://electronplumber.com/dont-use-the-amazon-site-stripe-to-create-links-to-non-product-pages/feed/ 0 Why Your Amazon Affiliate Site Is Failing Miserably http://electronplumber.com/why-your-amazon-affiliate-site-is-failing-miserably/ http://electronplumber.com/why-your-amazon-affiliate-site-is-failing-miserably/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:57:37 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=926 Some of the mainstays of Ethical Affiliate Marketing are always provide readers and search engines valuable content, never use any black hat techniques for driving sales or traffic, and only promoting real products that have real value. With that in mind, we’ve been part of the Amazon Affiliate program for a year now, and have used [...]

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]]> http://electronplumber.com/why-your-amazon-affiliate-site-is-failing-miserably/feed/ 26 Above List Price – Amazon Finally Shows (small) Action Against 3rd Party Seller Price Gouging. http://electronplumber.com/above-list-price-amazon-finally-shows-small-action-against-3rd-party-seller-price-gouging/ http://electronplumber.com/above-list-price-amazon-finally-shows-small-action-against-3rd-party-seller-price-gouging/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:02 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=982 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 [...]

Above List Price – Amazon Finally Shows (small) Action Against 3rd Party Seller Price Gouging. is a post from: ElectronPlumber

]]> http://electronplumber.com/above-list-price-amazon-finally-shows-small-action-against-3rd-party-seller-price-gouging/feed/ 4 What Is An Affiliate Cookie And Do I Care About It’s Duration? http://electronplumber.com/what-is-an-affiliate-cookie-and-do-i-care-about-its-duration/ http://electronplumber.com/what-is-an-affiliate-cookie-and-do-i-care-about-its-duration/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:15:35 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=928 [ad] I realize recently that I was falling into the same trap that drove me crazy when I first started attempting to make money online last fall. Everywhere I went, people were talking in terms and acronyms that I did not understand in the least and had to spend tons of time researching what they [...]

What Is An Affiliate Cookie And Do I Care About It’s Duration? is a post from: ElectronPlumber

]]> http://electronplumber.com/what-is-an-affiliate-cookie-and-do-i-care-about-its-duration/feed/ 0 Amazon Closes All Affiliate Accounts Based In North Carolina http://electronplumber.com/amazon-closes-all-affiliate-accounts-based-in-north-carolina/ http://electronplumber.com/amazon-closes-all-affiliate-accounts-based-in-north-carolina/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:57:14 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=698 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) appears [...]

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]]> http://electronplumber.com/amazon-closes-all-affiliate-accounts-based-in-north-carolina/feed/ 0 Damn you Googhydr-20! http://electronplumber.com/damn-you-googhydr-20/ http://electronplumber.com/damn-you-googhydr-20/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:56:02 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=102 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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]]> http://electronplumber.com/damn-you-googhydr-20/feed/ 3 People do NOT Buy Stuff on Christmas http://electronplumber.com/people-do-not-buy-stuff-on-christmas/ http://electronplumber.com/people-do-not-buy-stuff-on-christmas/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:27:53 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=183 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 routed [...]

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]]> http://electronplumber.com/people-do-not-buy-stuff-on-christmas/feed/ 0 Amazon Affiliate Data Secrets http://electronplumber.com/amazon-affiliate-data-secrets/ http://electronplumber.com/amazon-affiliate-data-secrets/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:26:17 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=174 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 percentage [...]

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]]> http://electronplumber.com/amazon-affiliate-data-secrets/feed/ 0 Affiliate Links are NOT against the Google Adwords TOS. http://electronplumber.com/affiliate-links-are-not-against-the-google-adwords-tos/ http://electronplumber.com/affiliate-links-are-not-against-the-google-adwords-tos/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:23:11 +0000 El Plumber (admin) http://electronplumber.com/?p=103 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 that [...]

Affiliate Links are NOT against the Google Adwords TOS. is a post from: ElectronPlumber

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