I previously mentioned that ebay is disallowing the sales of digital products such as ebooks, mp3, videos, etc in their site. The reason is because they have a sister site that they're growing to sell digital goods, called Payloadz.com . That's right folks. And they function in the ways of google where they're also gonna group competitors into the mix, possibly to rule them all. Some of their payment processes that they allow, includes clickbank.Like clickbank, you get a store, an affiliate prog... Read more »
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Ebay Paypal Helps Sellers Sell Digital Products with Payloadz
Posted on 29 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Wordpress launched 2.5.1 with important Security Fix
Posted on 28 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Wordpress just launched a new version 2.5.1 which includes a security fix. Obviously, those who just upgraded to 2.5 should upgrade to avoid your site security being compromised. Wouldn't want to get hacked and injected with hundreds of bad neighbourhood links in blog pages.For those of us who don't know, wordpress is free and is a great software for blogging, starting a website and managing it. With the use of plugins, you can easily add all types of functions into a website.New Affiliates or n... Read more »
Microsoft Live Mesh - Remote Computing, Yahoo's Q1 Profits
Posted on 23 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Well Yahoo has managed to dodge the bullet for now, with their Q1 profit and revenue beating Wall Street's estimates.So the takeover bid by Microsoft on Yahoo will drag on.Yahoo had a First Quarter profit of $542 million, with most of it (some $401 million) coming from IPO of Alibaba.com, a chinese e-commerce site owned by Yahoo.They have plenty of high value sites and if only they were utilized better. Too little to late?On other news Microsoft is starting work on a web based software system ca... Read more »
Sales Tax on New York Affiliates
Posted on 22 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Read this interesting article which says that if you are an affiliate with web sites that are based in New York and your website generates referral sales for Merchants (Online retailers) based outside New York, then these online retailers are require to collect a 'SALES TAX' from the affiliates.Why? Because they want to raise 50 million for the state of New York.Now, this is news that you want to keep up with because of the fear that this will cause ripple effects like more cities adopting this ... Read more »
AffiliateBot Launches Private Blogs
Posted on 21 April 2008 by Ezer Ratchaga, Affiliate
Most of you would have noticed by now, the option to publish to 'My Blog'. That's right, we're giving you your very own blog, completely independent of the Community blog we had earlier.It's still in its infancy now and we're building various configuration options and features into it as we speak. You can still contribute to the Community by selecting Post to: AffiliateBOT Blog. Your individual blogs will have a unique subID, and is accessable through your public profiles. Happy B... Read more »
Online Matchmaking sites and services Vs Online Dating Sites and services in Asian countries.
Posted on 20 April 2008 by Seena Vincent, Affiliate
This is an abstract of blog post that appeared on the Friendship Boat, the relationship blog. Please read the full document at Online Matchmaking sites and services Vs Online Dating Sites and services in Asian countries. Asian Countries especially India, Pakistan, Nepal etc are still have the good old concept of match making. The dating concept is rather new and more or less confined to the major cities in the country. So you will find more matchmaking sites and services in India and Paki... Read more »
NEW Revolutionary USDA Organic Skin Care
Posted on 20 April 2008 by Monica Pound, Merchant
May 1st We will be launching our new Revolutionary USDA Certified Organic Skin Care line. This line is called Body Organic and will come in a variety of 10 different fruity scents. What makes this skin care so revolutionary is first it is the only full skin care line that bears the USDA Seal and is Certified by the USDA for its true Organic integrity. Second our skin care comes in popular fruity scents which is the trend in the skin care industry. People want fruity and floral scents and as far ... Read more »
The Cost of PPC Ads to Advertisers
Posted on 18 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Just did a forum post regarding BigReds.com suing Yahoo for Overture PPC Click Frauds. PPC ads are used to get instant traffic as well as targeted traffic to the your site. You can have more control than SEO, in that you can target different keywords, stop a campaign at any time and easily measure the effectiviness in the short term.However, it is expected that a portion of the traffic you're getting will be from click frauds. Useless traffic that never had a chance in the first place to generat... Read more »
More Videos Watched Online - Winner - Youtube
Posted on 16 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Watching videos is going strong, considering that US Internet Users watched over 10 billion videos online during the month of February.3.42 billion of these videos was watched in Youtube. It's followed by Fox Interactive, Yahoo Sites, Microsoft Sites and ABC.com.We know that google is testing video ads on youtube videos and video ads on their search results. Googles has this kind of viewership (81.8 million), and a 35.4% of the video viewing market share compared to the NEAREST competitor of onl... Read more »
Google Trademark Changes
Posted on 16 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Did you know that Google will change it's AdWords Trademark Policy on May 5th? Basically new AdWords campaigns will be able to include trademarked keywords. That includes keywords of your brands. It will cost more for merchants and brand owners to bid their own trademarked keywords. They will have more leaked traffic to competitors.Ofcourse, this doesn't mean that it'll be legal for competitors to use your trademarked keywords on their site. Just that Google's not gonna monitor it anymore, leavi... Read more »