May 18, 2009
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This is hot off the presses. Yahoo is knocking off 35% off for their web hosting packages! That’s bringing the cost for awesome RELIABLE hosting down to $6.47/month. If you’re looking for a cheap reliable host, this could be a great start for some affiliate sites!
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May 13, 2009
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Looks like there was a small glitch for May 6th in regards to ACRU/CRU tracking. Here is what they had to say about it..
There was an issue that started at 5pm on Wednesday May 6th with the system that assigns CRUs and ACRUs to individual accounts. Engineers have now resolved the issue, but you may see some very low numbers or even zero for your CRUs and ACRUs in your reports for the dates of May 6th and 7th. The underlying new user events are all tracking correctly, so we have the data we need to credit the right accounts, and calculate the appropriate account level quality scores for the US program. All affected publishers will be compensated through a bonus in their next payment, although the missing transactions will not appear in the reports.
May 10, 2009
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I figured I should work on another code example since it’s been a while! On one of my sites I needed to convert URLs to be active anchor links. Along with being active anchor links, I thought it would be cool to convert eBay URLs to automatically contain the rover code. Now, all I need to do is paste a straight eBay link to a listing and it will automatically be set to go.
I do this with two custom functions convertEbay() and change_string(). change_string() has a very powerful function called preg_replace_callback() which detects if there is a URL and passes it to the convertEbay() using the callback argument. I store my rover portion as a PHP constant.
May 9, 2009
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I like to use multiple ‘types’ of sites for generating revenue across my affiliate marketing network. I’ve discussed this before, but in a nutshell, you shouldn’t focus on one ‘type’ of site (ie: just a blog, etc). I like to break sites into the following areas:
Basically, these are types of sites that you can monetize the traffic. Each type of site has their challenges and rewards. It’s important to identify those sites and to understand how you can gain income from the visitors to those sites.
May 8, 2009
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Looks like Amazon is making some changes to their API. First they’re changing the name to ‘Product Advertising API’, which is fine with me. But it looks like they’re changing how you make calls. Based on the email sent they’re requiring authentication with each API call. Not sure what kind of impact, if any, this will cause. They are implementing this change on May 11 and will finish up by August 15th.
I personally will want to wait until the last minute to ensure the bugs were worked out. Unfortunately, my earnings with Amazon are always low, so it’ll be hard to gauge if something is wrong after the roll out.
Here is a portion of the letter sent out to associates related to the API: