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  The Internet sales tax is coming sooner rather than later. At this point, it comes down to what the Congress decides. California was one of the states that managed to pass the Internet sales tax bill but has put that on hold for a year. Every product that we buy from companies such as [...]

There are plenty of scripts you can download to manage affiliate links on your site. Of course, in order to start an affiliate program of your own, you are going to have to offer a good or service. Thanks to Affiliates for WordPress, you can set your affiliate program up and running on WordPress. This [...]

For a long time, I was using one tracking ID for each site I had thinking that was the right approach. After all, I didn’t care where my clicks and sales came from as long as they were coming. Optimizing your landing page and testing to see what works are necessary if you want to [...]

Commission Junction is one of the top affiliate networks around. It has a ton of merchants and can bring you a considerable amount of revenue if you take time to promote the offers available in it. I am personally not a big fan of importing data feeds to my sites to make money from affiliate [...]

In case you have not noticed, platforms such as Kindle have given independent publishers more ways to publish their books without having to go broke. As long as you can write valuable content, there is no reason you can’t be a success on Amazon. Of course, you will have to promote your e-book properly to [...]

Google Plus is the latest great social network. It has been growing exponentially fast and is on its way towards becoming a dominant force in this space. Not surprisingly, top affiliates are now looking for ways to promote their offers in this network and make even more money online. Considering that technically you can’t operate [...]

Many affiliates have been on the move to avoid getting kicked out by Amazon over sales tax laws in their states. There is no question that some states have been more friendly towards Amazon affiliates than others. But if the Democrats have their way, the law will be applied all over the country. Amazon has [...]

Many of us are too attached to our work and assume that merchants have been waiting all this time to work with us. Unfortunately, that is not really the case in reality. Affiliates get rejected by merchants on a daily basis. Some merchants do not like to work with affiliates who may not bring a [...]

Many of us affiliates are honest about what we do. We work hard to build content, develop relationships, and set our businesses apart from our competitors. Most of us don’t even think about stealing other people’s content. When we borrow small sections of an article, we give a link back to the source (fair use). [...]

It is so funny when people who preach about others having to start their newsletters start sending automated e-mails to their followers and subscribers. Many of these so called “marketing gurus” do it all the time. When you subscribe to 10 different newsletters and get the very same e-mail from all 10 of them at [...]