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Don’t Use The Amazon Site Stripe To Create Links To Non Product Pages

by El Plumber (admin) on January 1, 2010

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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Why Your Amazon Affiliate Site Is Failing Miserably

by El Plumber (admin) on October 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Damn you Googhydr-20!

by El Plumber (admin) on April 9, 2009

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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People do NOT Buy Stuff on Christmas

by El Plumber (admin) on December 26, 2008

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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