Thoughts

With the Black Friday sales event almost upon us, many affiliates are working hard to capitalize on it. Let’s face it. Many folks wait for months to get some of the things they need during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As long as you have great content for your visitors, there is no reason you [...]

Many assume that affiliate marketing is a super easy way to make money online. After all, if you can slap banners on a web page, you can make money online, right? Most experienced affiliates know that is not to make real money in this business. Top affiliates are always working on new products/services or portals [...]

In this day and age, new, shiny gadgets are released to the market everyday. The first temptation for many affiliates is to start promoting these products right away. There is nothing wrong with that approach as long as you do your due diligence. Many affiliates that I know cut corners and rely on early reviews [...]

The affiliate marketing business can be quite unpredictable. There are going to be months when everything goes according to the plan, and your business results exceed your expectations. Then there are months that nothing seems to go right. Many affiliates do get a bit nervous when their earnings start to drop. Making rash decisions in [...]

Not every company is against affiliate tax bills that are being approved all over the country. Companies such as Amazon and Overstock do not plan to continue working with affiliates affected in states that have already passed the law. Then we have B&N, Walmart, and Sears that are actually pushing these types of bills to [...]

In case you have not been paying attention, you have realized by now that affiliate tax is going to come to most states. The lawmakers are looking for a tax legislation for the whole country. But it is not clear when such legislation will make it to the books. Let’s face it. The current economic [...]

Banned by Google? Unless you push the envelop, Google won’t have anything to do with you, right? That is not exactly true. You could get banned for all kinds of reasons. Your Adwords and Adsense accounts can get suspended if you are not too careful. If your account is flagged by Google, chances are you [...]

Many affiliates see what is going on in other states and hope that Amazon tax won’t come to their state. It is nice to be optimistic but that is not the way to run a business. SC is the latest state to pass the affiliate tax law, forcing Amazon and a few other companies to [...]

Just in case you missed it, Google slapped many affiliate sites hard with its latest Panda update. Google Panda is not a new change. It went into effect a while ago and brought down many content farms. On April 11th, Google take it to the next step and devastated many more affiliate sites. Of course, [...]