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What Is Cookie Stuffing & How It Can Land You In Jail

August 3, 2010 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

I came across a story that could shock the affiliate out of you. I would share the story with you in a while. It is related to cookier stuffing therefore let us clarify what does that mean.

Cookie stuffing is also called cookie dropping. Cookie stuffing or cookie dropping is said to occur when a user visits a website and as a result of that visit receives a third-party cookie from an entirely different website (target affiliate website), usually without the user being aware of it.

If and when the user visits the target website and completes a transaction like making a purchase or subscription, the cookie stuffer is paid a commission. [Read more...]

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5 Qualities That Would Make You Successful Affiliate

June 27, 2010 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

As more and more people turn to internet business these days affiliate marketing success secrets are in demand now. While many claim to sell you those secrets, in reality there are no hidden secrets. You need to follow certain principles and eventually you are going to succeed.

While I was pondering over this, I asked myself this question – What are most desirable qualities which assure success in affiliate marketing business. So I came up with this list of five best qualities.

Below, you’ll find each qualities you would require to make it in affiliate business. [Read more...]

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Make Money With Google Affiliate Network

April 11, 2010 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

I happened to join Google Affiliate Network for becoming an affiliate at DIYSEO, an SEO solution for small business owners.

Google Affiliate Network needs you to have a preexisting Adsense account which I had and my application was approved within a day.

Once I logged in I was surprised to see the number of advertisers Google Affiliate Network had. There are a lot of products that you can sell with your payment in just one account.

What Is Google Affiliate Network?

Google Affiliate Network is self explanatory. It is an affiliate network that allows you to an advertiser’s banner or text link on your site. When a transaction, such as a sign-up or purchase, occurs through one of these affiliate links, Google Affiliate Network will track the sale and pay you a commission.

What Are The Requirements?

You need to have a website with audience. Google says

We encourage you to consider Google Affiliate Network if you:

  • Manage a site that attracts a desirable audience.
  • Can test advertising offers and nurture the most productive relationships.
  • Are an expert in driving and converting visitor traffic.
  • Adhere strictly to Google Affiliate Network quality standards and advertiser-specific terms.

It further mentions

We’ve found that Google Affiliate Network tends to yield greater benefits to publishers who create niche content, manage loyalty and rewards programs, aggregate coupons and promotions, or manage social media.

So if you have a website you can potentially apply for joining the network. Google Affiliate Network even accepts publishers outside of the United States.

Is There Any Fee?

A good affiliate network is always fre of charges to join. There’s no cost to participating in Google Affiliate Network.

How To Apply?

To sign up for Google Affiliate Network:

1. If needed, apply to Google AdSense.
2. Visit the Google Affiliate Network sign-up page.
3. Provide your AdSense user name and publisher ID.
4. Provide your website information, promotional details, and other profile information to create your Google Affiliate Network account.

Typically you would receive a confirmation or rejection when the review process is complete. That usually should happen within 24 hours.

I am still restricting my campaigning with DIYSEO but I am considering joining few publishers more.

Would let you know.

You can share your views in the comment box.

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What is Pay Per View Marketing or PPV Marketing

March 13, 2010 By Arun Pal Singh 1 Comment

A recent product launch on this topic got me intrigued and I started searching. What came out was just quite surprising.

And you will find that there is a whole lot of world out there. Outside realms of organic or paid traffic from search engines or social sites or other web places.

And that the people are making good money with this kind of traffic. silently and effectively.

Before you fully understand the concept of PPV marketing let us refresh the concept of adware.

Do not worry. Dots would be connected very soon.

Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used. [Wikipedia]

Advertising functions are integrated into or bundled with the software, which is often designed to note what Internet sites the user visits and to present advertising pertinent to the types of goods or services featured there. Adware is usually seen by the developer as a way to recover development costs, and in some cases it may allow the software to be provided to the user free of charge or at a reduced price.

Some adwares aer viruses and harmful for computer but many other are genuine and do not do more than annoying pop ups.

Suppose  you type a url in the address box or tried to perform a google search, and a new, seemingly random browser window opens up over your intended result. That is adware.

PPV marketing is based on the platform of Adware.

How does PPV Marketing Work?

Suppose you are an advertiser with a particular target audience.  You sign up with an adware company  that has built adwares which your target audience might use. You signup and choose the keywords and  user of a computer affected with program performs a search on that term on that computer, the user will get their normal search results, but, the adware causes their computer to open a browser on top of their search results with their ad.

This is one method of doing it.

In addition, the advertisers can also bid on URLs. This causes the adware to open their ad or page in a browser window when the user of an infected computer types a certain url into the address bar.

Cool!!

One of the benefits of PPV marketing is that  keywords or urls are much cheaper to bid on compared to adwords.

Trafficvance.com, mediatraffic.com, and zango.com are the major sites dealing in this kind of marketing. When I visited Zango.com asks you to mail. Strange! Nothing else is there.

Some people have had extraordinary success with PPV marketing.

I am not sure if I would like to try this. I personally do not like the pop ups. They have annoyed me a lot in the beginning when I had a new computer and I was fool enough to download these kind of stuffs.

But if they say it is effective, it must be.

Some one with an experience might throw some light on this issue.

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Do You Have Disclosure Policy

January 28, 2010 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

With Federal Trade Commission guideline coming into effect, all bloggers must offer a disclosure policy about their connections and compensations wassociated with the products they endorse.

If the you are  receiving something of value from the product (such as free products, free services, or cash), it needs to be disclosed this relationship to your website readers.

I created my disclosure policy about two weeks back. I advise you to do the same.

You can take a look at Home for Profits Disclosure Policy here

If you want some help in drafting of the policy, here are few links.

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Clickbank Contextual Ads Are Not Effective

July 13, 2009 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

At least they did not work  here

In an experiment, I had started putting Clickbank contexual ads, a new feature introduced by Clickbank. After six weeks of observation, I have concluded that they are  not effective.

There could be many  reasons for that.

For one they resemble Adsense ads and it has not good CTR  on this blog. May be the readers are overexposed. [Read more...]

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GetResponse – Old Customers Need To Upgrade To Access New Features

July 9, 2009 By Arun Pal Singh 1 Comment

When Aweber did it, people cried foul but GetResponse has followed footsteps of Aweber very closely.  To use  new features that are available after launch, it is asking for an upgrade to a new plan.

But need not worry.  If you are not in need of new features, which I think majority would not be, you can still continue to use GR as before. You can see if you wish to use new features and then you might want to upgrade.

All the old customers can use Get Response as before without any obligation to upgrade.

Here is the comparison of features with and without upgradation. [Read more...]

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Clickbank Surprised Me

May 31, 2009 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

clickbank

I have not been promoting clickbank products for quite some time. but I have seen clickbank stay the same for years together. It has been dressed in its trademark blue and offered a serene kind of picture.  But recently Clickbank has become bold and bright. Gone is the serene blue and it has been replaced by excitement bright red,  yellow and green. Even the logo has got new colors.

But it is not only the web site design that has been changed. The new interface is very likable and there are many new excitinh features available both to affiliates and sellers now called vendors.

I was more interested in affiliate features so I checked them in detail and found very interesting changes.

One of the things that I liked is HopLink Shield, a tool that encrypts the affiliate and vendor nicknames in HopLinks. This adds an extra layer of privacy and anonymity to HopLinks, keeping affiliates’ promotional efforts and techniques hidden from others. [Read more...]

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How To Choose Hot Selling Affiliate Products That Bring You Money

April 21, 2009 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment
Affilate Products Are Good To Make Money

Affiliate products are the best way one can begin his online business. One of the common problems encountered by newbies in affiliate marketing is choosing the right product to promote. Almost every third product has an affiliate program. A beginner might get confused in this plethora and may not begin at all or gets stuck in the wrong product line, wasting time, energy and money.

Here are few tips that would help you to choose a good selling affiliate product.The best strategy is to find products that are
already selling well.

Clickbank

Clickbank is grand daddy of digital products affiliate programs.Search the ClickBank Marketplace to find products with
a good gravity score. Gravity is a score that Clickbank assigns to each affiliate product according to their secret formula. It has to do with how many sales and how recently those sales have occurred.

High gravity means that affiliates are making a lot of commissions on sales. Low gravity means that there has not been many sales at all. So the gravity is measure of how success of the product is.

A product with gravity score 50 and 150 is a good to start because it gives you a popular product that doesn’t have fierce affiliate competition. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing

Aweber Announces Changes In Its Affiliate Program

February 26, 2009 By Arun Pal Singh Leave a Comment

aweberRecently Aweber announced few changes in their affiliate program. They have added many new features and some of them are very welcome.

This change has been based on a recent survey conducted by Aweber and includes

All commissions will be raised to 30%.

Aweber has raised the commission it used to pay its affiliates. This includes existing 1st tier commissions of 20%.This means more money from your sales efforts.

Second tier commissions are being phased out

I do not like this one. You get hit badly if you are making a good money from your sub affiliate sales. apparently this has been done to meet Paypal’s terms of service and enable paying of affiliates via Paypal.

One Year Cookie

Your affiliate cookie will be a 1 year, first visit cookie. This seems to be too much as people are whining over it.
PayPal

This again is great move. No more checks in the boxes. Paypal would handle it now.  All affiliates will be paid once a month, on the first of every month.
Minimum Payout
Minimum check payout will be $30.00 for US affiliates and $50.00 for affiliates not based in the US.  I do not think there is much change here.

There are certain good fearures

What do you say?

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