Welcome to the 'General Internet Marketing' section.
The broader world of internet marketing, beyond affiliate programs and specific tools such as affiliate data feeds.
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Due to a bug in the popular WordPress blogging platform, Matt Cutts is now officially publishing duplicate content on his WordPress blog. If you haven’t yet applied the fix, so are you! No, this isn’t the same tired old duplicate content vulnerability that’s due to bad theme design or poor permalink choices — it’s a a bona fide bug.
Have you ever wanted to provide a link which, when clicked, would lead somewhere other than where the link XHTML itself is coded to point? For example, you might have been trying to track clicks through a given link but without actually cluttering up the link by appending tracking parameters. Or, you might have been trying to ensure that the Page Rank contribution of a given link wasn’t lost on some obscure page deep within a site. A little simple javascript can help you send clicks to one place and Page Rank to another.
A leading online pharmacy affiliate program has issued a warning suggesting state health authorities in Florida, California and New York have taken active steps to shut down pharmacy affiliate sites hosted in these states. The warning comes shortly after another report that a leading US-based domain registrar seized pharmacy related domains.
A recent change in PayPal’s terms of service means they will no longer permit sending or receiving payments involving tiered programs of any kind. While some multi-tier programs are trying to convince themselves the rules don’t apply to them, others are scrambling to come up with alternative ways of paying their affiliates. If you get paid by a tiered program via PayPal, it’s not just their account at risk — it’s yours, too.
Roche has temporarily halted shipments of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu in the United States, saying it wants to prevent hoarding and ensure adequate supplies to treat conventional flu cases this winter. The Swiss corporation said companies had been creating their own stockpiles for use by their employees in the event of a pandemic caused by avian flu. That activity threatened to deplete supplies needed for the regular flu.
We don’t often link out to authors known to engage in automated content scraping, re-blogging, or other content manipulations, but having already done it once today, we couldn’t pass up a mention of Kathy’s long article entitled “Too Many Ways to Make Money Online”.
A well known affiliate marketing veteran has discovered the wild world of blogging and is now offering thoughts on blogging specifically to target AdSense. Regular AffiliateInsight.com readers will probably already be aware of the power of well-targeted content for leveraging the power of AdSense, but nonetheless his new blog could be worth a visit.
If you’ve followed the advice doled out by just about everyone in the affiliate marketing space, you will have spent the month of August building and writing and testing and getting as much work done as you possibly can. Conventional ‘wisdom’ on strategy has it that while consumer sales in the northern hemisphere go through a seasonal lull, affiliate marketers ought to use the time to work, work, work. Here’s to dumping conventional wisdom and thinking for yourself.
Have your conversions dropped? Or are you just in awe at how impressively your traffic levels have grown over the last few months? Either way, bad bots — automated crawlers that ignore established web standards for excluding them — could be inflating your traffic levels beyond all recognition. Unless you are taking specific steps to handle them, it’s likely that you don’t nearly as much as you’d like to know about your own web traffic.