UPDATE June 2010 – the party was great – but Niche Devil is longer available – and yes I still make money from it LOL The last few days have been rather entertaining. Vic released a {kick arse cool money making on steroids|automated worthless con} script called Niche Devil. If you haven’t caught up with all this you could call Niche Devil – the best alternative to BANS for eBay affiliates. Its faster to set up than BANS, has a very small footprint, indexes very quickly and has the potential to make me a great deal of money. It takes me under a minute to create a full blown site with this script – and yes the site is full of legal, unique content. I must admit I had reservations on the script because I knew that some of my readers would be worried that it was in conflict with some of the other approaches to making money online. Lets be clear – it is. There are lots of ways to make money online - life is complex – you will just have to make your own decisions. Quite a number of people I know and respect are basically saying [...] Read more »
Online Income Tips: Managing Affiliates
How do you manage your affiliates? My management has evolved, primarily by accident I admit, but a recent post over at Passive Family Income got me thinking. PFI manages his affiliate links manually – I don’t and here’s why. Whats the Problem with Affiliate Links? In short an affiliate link is what pays me online income, it includes the code that says “pay Lis” to the vendor. There is a problem with affiliate links too, in fact two problems: first they are ugly – would you really want to click on a link that looks like : http://47b252e70zsw9sdoja39pbvq2r.hop.clickbank.net/ Many people don’t. often you don’t know if anyone is clicking – clickbank comes to mind they don’t provide any stats on home many clicks you get – just how many people buy. Here’s the kill though: what if the affiliate changes the code? Yes it happens – and it just happened to me with one of my more successful affiliate earners. You have to change the code, everywhere you used it? Maybe you can remember every place you used an affiliate code – good on you – I can’t! I use a product called PHP Link Cloak. What a Link Cloaker [...] Read more »
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