On Friday, June 11, checking the outgoing links in my blog, I’ve noticed something extremely bothersome. All of the direct links in my blog have suddenly started going through in-between viglink.com URL. So, for example, when someone clicked the Buy my books link on in my blog’s sidebar, they’d have […]
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Father’s Day is quickly approaching, and just as is the case with any holiday, its the merchant that makes gift shopping as easy and stress-free as possible that gets the sale. Holidays are great time for gift-related merchants, but take the stress out of shopping you want to provide your
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Are you into web analytics yet? If you want to succeed in digital marketing, you must be! All successful marketers (regardless of their focus, but especially affiliate ones) constantly measure, test, tweak and improve, replicating and perfecting what works, and cutting off what doesn’t. Below I am listing the 20
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A recent blog post by Logan Thompson made me think in the direction of “questions to ask your affiliate manager”, but in a slightly different way. Here are the 3 questions you may have not thought of asking your affiliate program manager: What’s your favorite drink? — Whether it is
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A Russian math genius, and arguably the smartest man on earth, who in 2006 declined to collect the mathematical world’s equivalent of a Nobel prize [more here], has done it again. After solving a problem which could not be solved over the past 1,000 years, yesterday afternoon Grigory Perelman “did
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In case you haven’t heard, the Zappos’ PATRON (Public API for Translating Request to Object Notation), originally announced two months ago, is already in early beta phase, and developers can start playing with it. Shopping APIs are great for affiliate marketers that are technologically capable of putting them to use,
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Staying on top of the current trends and demands is awesome, and every marketer (especially affiliates) should be constantly monitoring the hot topics, events and anything else that may influence the market they are in. However, there is one thing I am particularly strongly against, and that is capitalizing on
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Microsoft, the company which has quite possibly lost more money online than any other company (see the below chart published by the Business Insider in April of this year), has announced that they are closing Bing Cashback. Microsoft’s online services division lost over $710 Million dollars in the first quarter
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Social Media has come into our lives quickly, beautifully, contagiously; and Social Media (SM) marketing followed almost immediately. Now very few marketers doubt that it has come into our world to stay. Our marketing methods and techniques will change to adapt to the emergence of new technologies and platforms, but
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Yesterday Econsultancy released its Innovation Report (focused on the UK digital marketing space, one that is always fun to follow). These reports are always great to read, as in them Econsultancy focuses on “innovative digital tactics” but does it not for the sake of merely listing the new developments, but
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