“Zilch, zip, nix, nada, nothing…” In a NPT forum post entitled “Is This Odd?”, Kaycee reported: “About 6 weeks ago, all of a sudden conversions from the one of those merchants completely tanked! Zilch, zip, nix, nada, nothing. I’m not doing anything different, links are working fine, their merchant account is active, nothing broken on [...]
Will Your Site Be Shut Down Next?
Make this costly mistake at your peril…. I’ve become increasingly aware of affiliates, primarily new Affiliate marketers, who risk having their affiliate and Clickbank accounts closed, and worse, their entire sites shut down. What are these affiliates doing? Well, instead of writing their own content or spending a few bucks on PLR articles, they’re publishing [...]
Free Hosting is BAD for Business
Don’t even think about using a free web hosting service to host your professional affiliate site! Not unless you don’t mind someone else’s ads plastered all over your site and a domain that looks like: ‘http://freewebhost4u.com/~yourname/yourfiles/‘ e-YUK! That’s just cheesy and it doesn’t give your visitors a good first impression. You want your site to [...]
Affiliate Scam Alert: Bogus Merchants
Why would an affiliate marketer do this? I caution those who read Super Affiliate Handbook AGAINST affiliating with merchants that place affiliate links on their sites. Links out for which you WON’T get paid. Fortunately, most merchants ‘get it’. They don’t cheat their affiliates in that way. However, yesterday I ran across a relatively new [...]
Here’s What Happens to Affiliate Site Copyright Infringers?
Report the thieves and be persistent… Awhile back I wrote about “Three Ways to Catch Affiliate Site Rip-Off Artists“. Well, below is an example of what happens to affiliates like Tony Munoz when they’re caught and reported. Affiliate SuspendedYou received this message because you were most likely directed to Adult FriendFinder by one of our [...]
I’m Affiliating with this Merchant…NOT!
I thought I’d come up with something unique and interesting when I discovered SmokingDate.com… As I’m often on the prowl for new offers to promote to my dating site crowd at Sage-Hearts.com, I thought I’d come up with something unique and interesting when I discovered SmokingDate.com. The site bills itself as ‘Online Dating for Smokers [...]
How NOT to Post Testimonials: DVDDropShip Example
Anthony Hamerton of S & H Promotions was kind enough to drop me a line and point me to the following: Hmm… you might recognize that picture from the Super Affiliate Handbook homepage. It’s me in front of my computer. According to DVDDropship however, my name is Carla James and I’m married to Ian. Wow! [...]
