Wil Reynolds’ Link Building Victories & Failures

August 20, 2010

At the Link Building Victories & Failures Affiliate Summit session, Wil Reynolds explained that authority links aren’t always the answer! In his example, Wil explained how a client of his had numerous authority links (fashion magazine websites) but still was not getting the same rankings as the competition. So Wil and the folks at SEER [...]

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Supercharging WordPress for SEO

August 19, 2010

Jon Henshaw, co-creator of Raven Tools, presented on day 1 of Affiliate Summit in a session called, Supercharging WordPress for SEO. The session was jammed full of resources to help improve the search engine optimization of a WordPress blog, primarily via plug-ins. To start, Jon explained how WordPress 3.0 now comes with the multi-user functionality [...]

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Finishing the Affiliate Summit Nike+ Challenge

August 9, 2010

This week, I’ll be wrapping up the Affiliate Summit Nike+ challenge, and I’m on schedule to reach my goal of 250 miles by Friday (I’m at 243.26 miles, and it’s Monday, so I’ll finish up either Wednesday or Thursday). Jangro quickly came up on me and passed by me, but then he took a month [...]

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Affiliate Summit Schedule

July 16, 2010

One of the greatest innovations to Affiliate Summit since early registration (Saturday before the show) is probably the interactive scheduler, which allows you to select from the sessions and create your schedule for the show. I’ve created my schedule, and have a little tip which may help you out, if you use Google Calendar. Click [...]

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A Tribute to Matt McWilliams

July 7, 2010

Since I decided to learn & master harmonica, Matt McWilliams has taken it upon himself to become my booking agent & signed me up as the entertainment for the ShareASale Think Tank. Shortly afterwards, Todd Farmer (who’s using Learn and Master Guitar) inquired if I were available for a gig in Michigan around the 4th [...]

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Learn & Master Harmonica

May 21, 2010

I’ve been wanting to learn a musical instrument for some time… I played the drums when I was younger, but gave up on that (dumb decision!). I can goof around on the piano and play a couple songs, mostly by ear, but I’ve never been good at reading music (drums were different – I could [...]

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Adding CJ Products To Your Datafeed Website

May 18, 2010

I received an email last week asking how to add Commission Junction products to datafeed websites. To do this, take a look at the CJ Web Services. Particularly, the Product Catalog Search Service (REST). What this does is allows you to specify a merchant’s ID, and get all of the product links for that merchant. [...]

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Tracking CJ Commissions with Prosper202

May 3, 2010

I got a call today from a guy in NJ looking to track CJ sales with Prosper202. He saw my post on Tracking ShareASale Commissions with Prosper202 and another post on using the Commission Junction Web Services and wanted some info on how to combine the two. It’s actually pretty simple… just take the code [...]

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Being a Green Affiliate

April 22, 2010

On this 40th Earth Day, I wanted to talk about some ways that as an affiliate, we can be a little more green. Let’s start with what you may already be doing: working from home. When you work from home, you obviously eliminate the energy it takes for you to get to / from an [...]

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Handling Products Removed From Datafeeds

April 15, 2010

I received an email the other day from Garrett, and he asked: I’m just curious how you might deal with pages/urls on your site that have been indexed (and may be getting good traffic/links), but all of a sudden they’ll disappear if the product happens to drop off the merchant’s feed. After a couple emails [...]

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