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Entries Tagged ‘Affiliate Programs’

Advice for Squidoo – Ebay Affiliates

Recently (May), Ebay released some policy changes for their affiliates, not allowing them to put links on domains they don’t ‘control’ instead of content.
This has caused some big time ripples as it is the latest in a string of moves by eBay that increasingly makes their affiliate program more and more hostile towards its own [...]

Ready to Make some Money with PepperJam?

As promised, I’m going to walk everyone through a sample lens built with a Pepperjam affiliate program. If you haven’t already, learn how you can sign up with Pepperjam and get 10 bucks free so you can follow along. Not totally sure what type of affiliate network PepperJam is? Read my full Pepperjam Review.
Now, I’m [...]

An Affiliate Network that Listens to Affiliates

I was editing my Profile on my Pepperjam Account today and I noticed something that I think is very cool.

So many of you folks have signed up with Pepperjam and used your Awesome Lensmaster Profiles as your websites that Pepperjam Actually added Squidoo as a Promotional Method in their System!
I think that this level of [...]

What is No-Follow and why do you need it

After my SEO Tips for Squidoo yesterday, I had a few comments asking some great questions. One was by ‘A Course in Miracles’ and it read as follows:
Hi Captain,
What exactly is “No-follow your affiliate links”? Can I do that with my Amazon links for instance? Thanks for your great posts. Really worth reading.
No-Follow Links:
Adding ‘no [...]

How to Make your First $10 in Affiliate Marketing in 10 minutes

I’ve written a full review of Pepperjam’s Affiliate Network before, make sure and check it out if you are unfamiliar with PJN.
This week Pepperjam announced that for July Only they are offering $10 to every new member that signs up under an existing member. (Disclaimer, there’s $7 in it for me too – yep, massive [...]

Ebay and Pepperjam Partner up – CJ weeps softly

As many of you may know, eBay recently severed their longstanding affiliate relationship with Commission Junction (as in it ended Saturday). Out of this came a few things:
1) Ebay launched its own affiliate network to bring their affiliate program ‘in house’.
2) Many of the ebay affiliates have been complaining ever since then (April 1) that [...]

Is PepperJam part of your Squidoo affiliate plan?

There was a huge hubub a few months ago when the PepperJam Affiliate Network (run by Kris Jones) opened to the public. I signed up early in their release but I wanted to use the system a while before I threw my 0.02 in on the issue.
How does PepperJam stack up?
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All of the graphics and [...]