Why The Google Affiliate Network Stinks

January 27, 2011

I’ve made money with many affiliate networks and programs in my day.  Commission Junction, Linkshare, AffiliateFuture, ShareaSale, Epic Direct when is was Azoogle, Clickbank, Ebay, Amazon, Neverblue, and a slew of other smaller individual company programs. I don’t make a lot of money with many of them, drawing most of my earnings from Amazon and [...]

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Swipeauctions and Swipebids Out Of Business

January 17, 2011

A couple of months ago we reported on a sudden huge advertising blitz by penny auction site Swipebids.com, which later changed it’s name to Swipeauctions.com.  It wasn’t the companies themselves, but their affiliate offer was so lucrative that everyone and their brother started filling the internet with advertising. You can read my original report on [...]

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What Is An Electron Plumber?

January 15, 2011

I’ve been asked by a couple readers lately just what an electron plumber is. First, look at the definition of a plumber: “A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, and drainage.” An electron plumber does the same thing but with electronic signals.  If you [...]

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Content First, Design Second

January 14, 2011

There are going to be a bunch of people who disagree with this statement without reading the reasons here and too bad for them. When building a website worry about content first, design second. Now there are certainly some obvious exceptions to this rule, but unless you plan to get all your traffic through a [...]

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Ask The Electron Plumber

January 13, 2011

Have a question for The Electron Plumber?  Found an amazing money making opportunity that seems too good to be true?  Want an unbiased opinion if a certain e-book or program or opportunity is worth it?  Have a question about affiliate marketing or making money on the Internet? Use the Comment form below to ask away.  [...]

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White Hat vs Grey Hat vs Black Hat

January 11, 2011

When I started doing online money making, blogging, and affiliate marketing, there were lots of terms around that I didn’t really understand.  There seems to be an internal language that  doesn’t make much sense at first and everyone takes for granted you know exactly what they’re talking about. One of them was something called “White [...]

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Affiliate Site Analysis: Deallooker.com

January 9, 2011

There was a little dust up on the official Amazon Affiliates forum the other day, where one user posted about his price comparison site and about a spike in his daily earnings that quickly went away. This type of thing happens quite often.  Someone trying to get free traffic or backlinks posts to the Amazon [...]

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Pay Per Vote Cheating At The Shoemoney Affiliate Summit West Contest?

January 3, 2011

Vinay!?!  You should be ashamed of yourself! It appears that at least one finalist in the Shoemoney Affiliate Summit West contest is cheating and paying for votes.  Shocking that in 2011 a random Affiliate Marketer would not have issues with a little vote rigging huh? <—- Insert sarcasm here. I took a look at the [...]

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What I Learned From Not Making the Shoemoney Extreme Payout Threshold

December 29, 2010

Shoemoney owes me $97.50! Well, not really.  Back in mid 2009 during the height of the Flog (Fake Blog) craze for promoting get rich quick schemes, I was getting a nice spike in traffic by drafting off the massive affiliate media buys for the Google Income Kits.  I would target organic search traffic warning people [...]

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Keyword Targeting Your Images For Fun and Profit

December 27, 2010

I’ve been getting a great deal of traffic lately on one of my sites from Google Images. It actually took me a while to figure out where the traffic was coming from.  My stats tools don’t differentiate between where the search traffic is coming from when it comes from Google, just that it came from [...]

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