Can I Promote Your Affiliate Program?

Question for you… Can I promote your affiliate program? If you own or manage an affiliate program, and: You pay your affiliates on time You never skim affiliate commissions And you always honor your agreement with affiliates …Then you qualify for inclusion in the Paid On Time Affiliate Program Directory.

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New Search Engine: Blekko

I just discovered the new search engine Blekko. I haven’t used it much yet, but the video walk-through is intriguing because it explains some new twists on what we’ve come to expect from search. For instance, Blekko offers multiple ways to sort search results. Plus, they’re giving open access to ranking data — which is […]

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Don’t Build a Business on Top of Fickle Social Media (Especially Twitter)

Here’s more proof that you should never build a business on top of fickle social media. Twitter Suspends UberMedia, Creator of TweetDeck Twitter holds all the cards in this “negotiation.” If you build a business on top of Twitter (or any other social media company), you’re in an extremely vulnerable position. With a snap of […]

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Paid Links Constitute “Black Hat SEO”? Hardly…

This week, J.C. Penney was blasted for buying links to increase their search engine rankings. The NY Times said buying links is a black hat SEO technique. I thought that was a little strange. Paid links are hardly black hat. As Fred Black pointed out in his article about the J.C. Penney link buying scandal: […]

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Traffic Patterns – What Influences Traffic

Last week, I tried an experiment. Normally, I publish one or two or three blog posts a week. I hold back a lot of my ideas because I don’t want to email my list too much. But last week I wrote and published a blog post whenever I felt like it. I didn’t hold back. […]

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