One of the things that many companies forget about is that it isn’t just the Affiliates which could be taking advantage of them. A lot of times it is the Affiliate Manager or Outsourced Program Manager (OPM). Often times the company hired someone or a company who thought they were or pretended that they were […]
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One thing that always drives me crazy are hitting 404 pages that look and act like 404dead pages. If you don’t know what a 404 page is, have you ever gone to a site and it says page does not exist, error or a bunch of random lines of code and folder directories. That page
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I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with one of the most well known SEOs, Rae Hoffman-Dolan. Not only is she someone that I think everyone should follow, but she is one of my favorite speakers to listen to and Bloggers to read. Here is my interview with her and some of the
An Interview on SEO with Rae Hoffman-Dolan. Great Advice! Read More »
Before you read this, please understand that this is only my opinion. Networks and Adware Affiliates will disagree and argue out the other direction so please judge for yourself and form your own opinions on this topic and these types of Affiliates. So the very controversial subject of adware is here. Before we go into
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So in the second part of my series, Does Your Affiliate Program Add Value, I want to cover Trademark Bidders. They are those people that “only want to poach off of people who are already your customers, have seen your ads or are in your shopping carts but leaving to look for a coupon”….so can
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One thing that many merchants with Affiliate programs wonder is if their Affiliate program is actually adding value. There are tons of things to think about like coupon sites (remember that not all coupon sites are bad) that only send sales from people leaving your site when they see your coupon code box and search
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This is a live blog so there will be mistakes and typos. Gib Olander, Brian Combs, Eric Branlett, Michael Dorausch and Chris Tolles. People are asking about producing content each day and not getting success. All it takes is getting one or two posts that can really take off. One thing you want to do
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This is a live blog post. Sorry for typos, mispellings and random quotes that I liked. Jeffrey Eisenberg. What bugs me about social media is that people think it’s like Media. Why the yellow brick road – Don’t look at the man behind the curtain – Wizard of Oz. 70% of americans are checking their
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Internal linking structures are a huge part of SEO. The thing is that it is different for Ecommerce Sites, Blogs and Affiliate Sites. Ecommerce sites can use it to rank categories and vanity terms on their homepage to drive sales. Affiliates can use it similar to Ecommerce sites to rank for vanity terms and products,
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I can’t believe PubCon South is only a few weeks away. (There are still Pubcon South tickets available if you want to come). Last October was my first PubCon and it quickly became one of my favorite shows ever. Not only did I love getting to speak there, but I am completely excited to get
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