Affiliate Management e-Book Review

March 21, 2011

Greg Hoffman announced today the availability of his newest e-book, Affiliate Management for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless. This 40-page PDF includes 5 steps to affiliate program success as well as a worksheets to help you complete your competitive analysis, a monthly reporting template, and a checklist to make sure your affiliate program has [...]

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How To Specify The Thumbnail Image When Sharing A Link On Facebook From Your Thesis Site

March 15, 2011

At the time of writing this, Facebook’s Like (or Share) button acts the same as sharing or posting a URL to your wall, except you don’t have the chance to leave a comment or choose which image to include with the post. If you post a link to your wall, Facebook will guess at which [...]

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QR Code Generator for Facebook Ads

March 12, 2011

After reading an interesting post by Ring Revenue, I started thinking where QR Codes could be used to generate Pay-Per-Call leads. Facebook, of course, came to mind.

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Using the Microsoft adCenter API to Automate Reporting in PHP

March 10, 2011

After nearly three months of on & off coding, banging my head against the table and thumbing through the most comprehensive yet incomprehensible documentation I’ve ever seen, I was finally able to automate downloading stats (impressions, clicks, cost) for my coupon site. For the longest time, the adCenter API was very closed. However, it now [...]

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Blocking Spam Comments By IP

February 4, 2011

Vinny O’Hare and Missy Ward had a conversation on Twitter today about blocking spammers by IP, something I’ve done for a while. But how do you know when to block an IP, and when to just mark the comment as spam and move on?

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Hosting Datafeed Images Locally

January 25, 2011

I was asked today how to host datafeed images on your local server. Starting with the script given in Step 2 of the datafeed series, we’re just going to add some code after the MySQL query has been executed without errors:

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Affiliate Summit West 2011

January 17, 2011

Affiliate Summit West 2011 is in the history books (read through my session recaps). This was the first Summit in which I spoke (Datafeeds panel and Inside the Minds of Affiliates) and while I didn’t think it was a big deal, I was relieved when the second panel was finished.

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ASW11 Session Recap: SEO Site Review

January 15, 2011

It’s hard to write a session recap on the SEO Site Review/Clinic, because site owners submit their sites to the panel (Rae Hoffman-Dolan, Michael Gray, Kenny Hyder, and Michael Streko) and the critique is done on-the-fly with most of the content specific to the site owner. However, there are some useful tips you can get [...]

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ASW11 Session Recap: Local Lead Generation

January 13, 2011

Amanda Orson (aka Phillian) and Ad Hustler (aka… Ad Hustler) presented at Affiliate Summit West 2011 on Local Lead Generation. This was one of the best-received sessions at Affiliate Summit, based on the non-scientific Twitter chatter I was monitoring.

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ASW11 Session Recap: Making Money With Affiliate Programs for Beginners

January 13, 2011

While not quite a beginner at affiliate marketing, I had never heard James Martell speak before, so while at Affiliate Summit West 2011 in Las Vegas, I attended his session, Making Money With Affiliate Programs for Beginners. Although it was a session targeted towards beginners, sometimes its great to hear what you already know to [...]

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