Is Google+ “Dead”?
Bring back Reader while you’re at it, Google! What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform — essentially ending…
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Writing Is Dead
Beautiful (and horribly depressing) read: It is not just that people with degrees in English generally go to work for corporations (which of course they do); the point is that…
Streaming as We Knew It is Dead
Fascinating stats… and “piracy” is about to regain its steam as it did around 2007 when things got out of hand with digital download pricing… “content is key” as Bowie…
No Simple Highway, a Sermon
I’m was too young to see the Grateful Dead live with Jerry Garcia, but I’ve tried to make up for it over the years by going to shows by Phil…
CostPerNews Special: Are CJ and Linkshare Worth Their Salt?
…who has worked inside of a merchant affiliate program, with CJ, Linkshare, BeFree, DirectTrack and with various CPA affiliate networks. What results in this ten minute podcast is full of…
Linkshare Updates Deal Dispatcher: Are Clean Interfaces Selling Points?
According to the Linkshare newsletter emailed out this morning, Linkshare has cleaned up their Deal Dispatcher interface. Based on suggestions from the recent affiliate survey, Linkshare writes that it has…
LinkShare Addresses Downtime and Preps for Holidays
In an email to affiliates / publishers this week, LinkShare’s co-Presidents (seems to be a popular trend with affiliate networks these days) laid out their plans to address the past…
My Tweets, Links, Music, and Books
…Instagram now, but they don’t have RSS feeds and clearly aren’t fans of users pulling their own pics out of their silo. Tweets, Links, Music, and Books – Sam Harrelson….
Daily Stat Sheet 2: “Are We There Yet?!” Links and Affiliate Marketing
Following up on Wednesday’s post, here’s my podcast with a little more depth into my opinion of how and why we should move beyond links in affiliate marketing. Agree? Disagree?…
Phishing Scam Targets (Dumb) Twitter Users Opening DM’ed Links
…their usernames/passwords. Soon. Oh, and don’t open DM links from people you don’t know. Why in the world would someone do that?? Did we not all learn our lesson from…
At Least Give a Disclosure, LinkShare
You’d think there would be … I don’t know … a disclosure near and/or at the top of a post on a blog such as MarketingLand clarifying the author’s intended…
Why Are There No Affiliate Network Apps?
…now. Time to app up. And this, Linkshare, is just janky: LinkShare Mobile Dashboard Launches: “LinkShare has launched a mobile dashboard (“Mobile Dash”) that allows affiliates to login from a…
CostPerNews Widget Now Available
Links are dead (more on that soon). I’ve been promoting widgets as a promising platform for the future of affiliate marketing. So, I decided to construct a widget for Cost…
Are Affiliate Bloggers Worth Their Salt?
…I think links are dead (that’s not hysterics and extends well outside of “affiliate” marketing), and view link baiting as pretty much worthless. The traffic you get from such antics…
Google’s New Link Reading: Potential Problem for Affiliates?
For those of you not content with Google’s present level of omnipotence, here’s more for you to chew on: Google Blog Search Now Reads Links on Web Pages: “Today Google…
“…let him declare what he seeth…” or Apple vs the Web
…that Plato channeled through Heraclitus. Everything flows. Perceptions, marketing techniques, web technologies, app platforms. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Rather than believing the teacher that tells…
Redundancy is not helpful
…ponder which they should click. The more courageous users click on both links only to be disappointed when they discover that the links lead to the same page. Repetitive links…
Correction: So You Can Make Money With The Amazon Affiliate Program
…program. Looks like John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog found the sweet spot for making money with Amazon affiliate links… Who ever said blogging doesn’t pay? Last Tuesday, Daring Fireball blogger…
Performics Network Interface Improvements and the Usability Question
Performics has released a series of upgrades and usability improvements to its reporting platform, ConnectCommerce this week. Primarily, the updates focused on an improved links interface, advertiser profile interface, enhanced…
MyBlogLog, Widgets and the Future of Online Marketing
…My analytics have also shown me that since that time the number of page views, time spent on the site, links in from other blogs and the general word of…
American Allegory and The Middle
…internet in the mid-90’s as I stumbled upon bulletin boards of fellow seekers of Beatles writ and knowledge as well as The Grateful Dead and Nirvana. As I began my…
GeekCast Episode 6: Plugging the Right Holes
…and incomplete list of discussions this week: -Headset Tech – Analogue or USB? -Lisa’s Skype Troubles -Cable is Dead? -Super Bowl Twitter Friends -Paying to Play in UK Affiliate Networks…
My Grandfather’s Name
…his name when I get that silly “Who would you want to have an hour long conversation with if you could talk to any human – living or dead –…
Google is killing goo.gl and we’ll see more web rot
…and bit.ly etc for years to mask complex links and encourage sharing or easier verbal communication. But like all things having to do with the web, you should plan for…
Invalid Clicks: Whose Traffic Is It Anyway?
Adam Viener has an interesting post about CJ’s passing of expired links on to the merchant with no compensation for the affiliate, which differs from their previous practice of routing…