In this week’s Affiliate Marketing Tip of the Week we tackle a situation faced by countless affiliates and affiliate managers – that of competing with Amazon’s stellar search engine rankings. Amazon, the company whose affiliate marketing program is in many ways exemplary of leveraging affiliates for growing a business, is crushing […]
Affiliate Marketing Tip of the Week: Competing with Amazon in SEO Read More »
Two days ago, a famous affiliate abuse and click fraud detective Ben Edelman (see my recent Econsultancy interview with him here), has revealed some alarming data on “hack-based cookie-stuffing” by rogue affiliates via a fairly new Bannertracker-script at online forums based on vBulletin (versions 4.x to 4.1.2). Here’s an abstract from
Major Online Forums Hacked by Affiliate Cookie-Stuffers Read More »
Nearly everyone knows that some 25% of all online sales, and for many book titles 50% or more of their sales [source] happen on Amazon.com. Amazon also ranks books by sales, and I thought it’d be interesting to go to the e-tail giant’s website, and see what are the top
Top 5 Affiliate Marketing Books Read More »
Earlier last week Amazon held its annual shareholder meeting in downtown Seattle. One of the questions that came up repeatedly was one that is of utmost importance to the affiliate marketing world — namely, the affiliate nexus tax, and Amazon’s stance on it. We know that every time a new
Jeff Bezos Clarifies Amazon's Stance on Affiliate Nexus Tax Read More »
If you’ve got great content, and 5 minutes of time to convert it from whatever format into DOC, PRC, or PDF (and a few other formats are supported too), you must consider self-publishing an Amazon Kindle book of your own. Why Kindle? Because (1) it’s free publishing, (2) Kindle books
How to Self-Publish an Amazon Kindle Book Read More »
Important: The title must really read 20 not 12 hours. See details in this comment by a LivingSocial affiliate, and the one right under it. How many of you have heard of LivingSocial before today? We all know Groupon, but “Living” Who? Well, they’re Groupon’s direct competitor, and they have
LivingSocial Acquires Over 1 Million Customers in 12 Hours Read More »
Earlier this morning ForeSee Results has released their 6th annual Holiday Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a ranking of the top 40 largest online retailers by revenue, scored on customer satisfaction by nearly 10,000 survey respondents. The “holiday” period is defined here as “the holiday shopping season from Thanksgiving
Top 40 Largest Online Retailers. Amazon & Netflix Score Highest Read More »
A couple of days ago I’ve received an email from Google Books informing me of an upcoming launch of Google’s new project — Google Editions — and inviting me to submit PDF files of my books “to sell digital access” to them once the project is open to public. Here’s
Google Editions Will Change Book Search Read More »