An Affiliate Website Anyone Can Build

June 9, 2011

I know a lot of my posts are rather technical, but this one is a bit different. I’m going to show you an affiliate website that anyone can build, and walk you through exactly how I did it. First, you need a niche. I’ve covered this before, How to Choose an Affiliate Offer to Promote. [...]

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ShareASale ThinkTank 2011 Recap

June 2, 2011

Last week was ShareASale‘s 2011 ThinkTank, but this one was pretty different from the event last October. Previously, ThinkTank was by invitation only, and everything but your travel to the event was covered by ShareASale. This time around, they opened it up to everybody, charged a whopping $50 for the event, and you were on [...]

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Adding Google’s +1 To Your Thesis Themed Site

June 1, 2011

Google announced the availability of +1 today, and gives you the code to add +1 to your website. But if you’re using Thesis, how can you add it to your posts? I have buttons to Tweet my posts, like them on Facebook, and Stumble them, and I wanted to add +1.

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ShareASale ThinkTank 2011

May 12, 2011

ShareASale ThinkTank is less than 2 weeks away, and if you’re doing business with them but not going, you’re missing out. This is a great event, traditionally held in Q4 by wisely moved to the generally slower Q2 this year. I was lucky enough to get to attend the ThinkTank 2010 event, and will not [...]

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Speaking at #ASE11

May 5, 2011

It’s just been announced that I’ll be speaking at Affiliate Summit once again. This time, however, it’s going to be a bit different. My session will be both Monday and Tuesday, from 8 to 9am. Not everyone at Affiliate Summit is a night owl, so for you early birds, come to my Early Bird Whiteboarding [...]

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Merchants: Why You Need To Partner With An Affiliate Network

April 29, 2011

For some reason, in one of the niche’s I’m in, over half of the merchants that have affiliate programs decided to use (or create) an in-house system, avoiding networks. While there may be some benefits to using an in-house system (such as avoiding network fees & overhead), I think in the long run, merchants will [...]

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“Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day” Book Review

April 26, 2011

Evgenii (Geno) Prussakov‘s “Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day” could very well be the textbook for a course in Affiliate Program Management. If you somehow find yourself with the title of Affiliate Program Manager, and don’t know how you got there, obtaining this book should be your first step. While other affiliate program management [...]

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Fix Your Permalinks

April 19, 2011

There was a Tweet that was going around today:

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Automation FTW!

March 31, 2011

Being a programmer, and a lazy resourceful person, I love automation, and streamlining as many daily processes as possible. Sometimes a task is so simple, we just do it without thinking. That’s especially true if automating it can take one or more days. But, there’s more than just those 8 minutes you spend every day [...]

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Scraping Websites using PHP’s Document Object Model

March 28, 2011

I had a need to get some data that wasn’t available in the merchant’s datafeed, and since I wasn’t going to be putting a huge burden on the merchant’s site (ie: if you scrape, be nice*) I decided to write a little scraper to do so. In this script, I’m using all, pure PHP functions: [...]

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