Internet Marketing with a Helmet.

What A data feed is basically a database of products that is put together by a merchant. For example, a merchant that sells bridal/wedding related items will create a database with all of the products they sell. This database will include item numbers, item names, descriptions, etc. It will also include a tracking link for each item. This tracking link is routed through the affiliate network which records you as the referrer. If the visitor ...

This is part 2.  Part 1 is here: A4D Meetup 2010 Trip Recap Notes - Part 1 Mike Powell In my opinion, Mike gave the best presentation of all.  It was interesting, well organized, and evident the guy really knows his stuff.   His style is also fast and to the point which is great and kept my mind from wandering.  The topic of his presentation was PPV and most of the time he focused on TrafficVance and regarded them as having the best ...

There are two affiliate marketing meetups coming up. I live in San Diego and will be going to both. Meetup202 Los Angeles - March 20, 2010 This is part of the Tracking202 sponsored Meetup202 group. This should be pretty interesting. The organizer is JasperP. He runs nerdyaffiliate.com and is responsible for that cool Tracking202 keyword CTR mod that a lot of people are running. I"ve never been to one of these except the giant ...

Guru guy Gauher Chaudhry posted a pretty cool video the other day about 7search.com You've probably already heard of 7Search, but in case you haven't, it's a 2nd tier PPC search engine that usually get's a bad rap.  It is generally considered crap traffic and full of click fraud.  I tried using 7search a few times myself.  A long time ago, I tried some 7search -> MFA site arbitrage which never made any decent coin.   Last year, I ...

There is an interesting article in the January 2010 Wired called "How Group Think Rules What We Like". The premise: "Can you persuade someone to like a product by telling them that it’s popular? Do teenagers like Taylor Swift because she’s good or because everyone else they know likes her — so hey, she must be good, right?" A guy named Duncan Watts wanted to test this. His problem, however, was how to replay history. The example ...

Since there is no point in rehashing this and I've already read a ton of shit, let me help you out.  There are quite a few newbie guides available, but only a couple of them are worth reading. #1 Nicky Cakes Newbie Guide Irreverent in the usual Cakes style,  it's a fun read. The downside is: it's a bit sparse.  This guide is a pretty good overview but Nicky glosses over a bunch of stuff. If your a total newb, you will probably have a ...

For my very first post it seems appropriate to bring my [future] readers up to speed on what I have been doing and what I will be doing with regard to affiliate marketing. A few years ago, a friend of mine told me about "net income", Shoemoney's webmaster radio show. After listening to some of those podcasts I was hooked. All that money everyone seemed to be making really piqued my interest. I began reading forums and blogs on the subject ...