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February 6, 2012

You are Losing Money on those Links

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I LOVE the StudioPress Genesis framework and their plethora of beautiful child themes. What I HATE is seeing folks lose potential commissions because they don’t bother to change out the footer links which go straight to StudioPress! You can make money on those links! In the following video I show you how to change your [...]

Congratulations – You Just Earned $0.00

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I love receiving affiliate commission sales notices that state how much I just earned from the sale of a product that I’ve recommended on my site. But those that read “You have earned an affiliate fee of 0.00 USD for the sale of XYZ product on Wed Apr 6 2011 9:44:29 MST“, don’t thrill me [...]

Why Haven’t I Sold Any _____?

Have you ever wondered why you haven’t sold even one of a specific product from your affiliate site in a very long time? This video might explain the reason… For those who have watched the video, I only have 95 more to go…

Beware Free Merchant Domains

I was wondering why I hadn’t earned a commission on a particular product in quite awhile. The merchant had given me a free domain set up to redirect to their store with my affiliate link, so I went to that URL and it was still redirecting, no problem. However, when I clicked on “Buy Now!” [...]

Lovin’ Amazon’s New Site Stripe

Amazon has just made it SO much simpler to get your affiliate links from them. With their new Site Stripe, you just navigate to the page of a product that you want to promote, click the ‘Link to this Page’ link in the Site Stripe bar (as shown in the graphic below), login (if you [...]

To Link or Not to Link: The Grocery Store Analogy

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I wrote a review about the Project Black Mask. Although I summarily denounced the basic tactics espoused by its authors, I commended the work on its keyword research and generation section. Although most of the comments posted about my review were supportive, I got an earful from a few who took great exception to the [...]

Merchants: PLEASE Keep Your Links Updated

Cheese me. I was in the Linkshare interface the other night getting Allzine links for blog posting about on the Roamsters.com site. Thirty magazines were returned in the Travel & Leisure category. I grabbed about ten of them, creating ten draft posts with magazine pictures and titles and planned to write descriptions of them later. [...]