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A great example of an affiliate incentive that works

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It’s been debated in the past about if affiliate incentives, be them performance related or not, work.  I’ve always been a big advocate of them and suggest them to all of our clients, here are a few of the prizes that I’ve had a hand in giving away. 2 Trips to Barbados Weekend break (with [...]

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Today’s NMA Coverage and the Affiliate Network Blacklist

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There are a couple of affiliate articles in today’s NMA that I thought I would share with my blog readers and comment on.. (Click to enlarge) I won’t go too much into my letter that has been published as I’ve said it all before but if you do have any comment on them then do [...]

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WordPress 2.5 due in 6 hours

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It’s been a while since WordPress 2.3 was released in September but today should see the release of WordPress 2.5. I’ll likely be online later tonight to give it a test drive and I’m sure we will see loads of plugins and themes that have been broken by it, but here are some of the [...]

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The Affiliate Voucher and Cashback debate rages on

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I should make it clear from the start that I do not have a problem with the idea of voucher or cashback sites – I often use them myself when I do my online shopping and ensure that when topping up my house insurance I use them to get some great CPAs! But whilst networks, [...]

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De-Duping and brand name bidding – part 2 of 2

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If you managed to catch yesterdays article focused around brand name bidding then you may remember that the second part of the article was still to come and on another hot topic in the affiliate industry – merchant de-duping. For those of you that are unaware it’s potentially worth reminding us all what I mean [...]

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Mystic James Prediction..

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There have been a few buyouts in the affiliate market place recently, and specifically with networks: Buy.at didn’t tell us what they sold for, but industry mags are saying around £70m Affiliate Future deal went through the courts yesterday for £10m DGM did the whole management buyout thing And now I will give you my [...]

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My views on brand name bidding and de-duping from merchants – part 1 of 2

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Ever since I can remember there have been some strong views in the affiliate marketing world about brand name bidding and the latest hot topic in the industry is merchants de-duping their sales and reversing potential commissions to affiliates. As someone that runs an affiliate network and someone that has in the past run a [...]

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I’m with the band..

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I thought I would jump to the defense against the vicious rumors about my hair that seem to have been going around the industry over the past few weeks. Apparently some unscrupulous people have been saying that I need a hair cut, saying that the current style is a little “out of control”. In my [...]

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How to spammers find our sites so quickly?

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I know that blog spammers need to stay ahead of the game, etc, but I do wonder how on earth they find my sites so damn quickly? With my Diet blog, I received my first spam (or pingback) within 24 hours of the site going live and today, after linking for the first time to [...]

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Playing with vlogs

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As regular readers will already know (after the Christmas Post) I have been experimenting with online videos recently and have now setup my first vlog (video blog) – a personal project called Diet Blog TV. The site is a bit of an experiment as I want to know a few answers to the following: How [...]

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