The Affiliate Marketing Category

CakesTV Episode 1

Here is Episode 1 of CakesTV, Nickycakes’ new internet marketing webcast. Guests this week were Charles Ngo, Daniel Treisman, Wes Mahler, and Robert Adler. Some topics discussed were: State of the Industry, Affiliate Summit West 2012, Recent FTC Settlements, Copeac and other networks closing up shop, Leadscon, and questions from the audience about various stuff.

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Landing Page Theft: Wrong or Fair Game?

Most of the larger affiliates have run into this problem.  Since your ads are so incredibly visible to everyone on the internet, it is very easy for other affiliates to simply copy/paste your landing page onto their own domain and run traffic to it from your traffic sources.  Doing this can take as little as [...]

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Newb Guide Pt 8: Taking Over The World

This is the final part of Nickycakes’ Newbie Affiliate Marketing Guide.  If you have not read the other parts, go read them. So, you did it.  You set up tracking, got approved on some networks, picked offers, made landing pages, set up campaigns, and optimized until you started making some profit.  Good for you.  You [...]

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Google Money Tree Hit By Texas Attorney General – Can You Really Be This Stupid?

Ok, on Friday, the Texas Attorney General filed charges against Jonathan Eborn of Google Money Tree.  For those who don’t know, Google Money Tree was a very popular BizOpp offer running on quite a few networks.  It was promoted by a lot of affiliates for a while, and people loved it for having such good [...]

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Ad:Tech San Fran 2009 Wrapup

It’s been a few days since Nickycakes got back from Ad:Tech, and no doubt you’ve already seen the videos of some of the stuff that went down at the Nickycakes.com/PPC.bz party. But what happened at the event itself? Day 0 (monday): As many of you know, Nickycakes loves flying Virgin America. They have neat stuff [...]

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