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July 1st

twitter (feed #2) 8:52pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
And Hawaii says Aloha (as in goodbye) to the Advertising Tax http://bit.ly/HhusG How about you NC and RI?
blog (feed #1) 8:48pm Aloha Advertising Tax!
twitter (feed #2) 3:19pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
Great news! #AdvertisingTax (aka "Amazon Tax") vetoed in California. http://bit.ly/IURQs WTG @schwarzenegger
blog (feed #1) 3:15pm Advertising Tax Vetoed from the CA Budget
twitter (feed #2) 1:55pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.
@DannyK Thanks! Its always fun to join the Affiliate Thing show. @lisap @affiliatetip

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1 Written By: Scott Jangro
July 2, 2009

Aloha Advertising Tax!

That’s Aloha as in “goodbye”.
On the same day that the Governor of California vetoed the Advertising Tax from their budget, the governor of Hawaii did the same.
For Immediate Release: July 1, 2009
GOVERNOR LINGLE VETOES ONLINE TAX BILL
HONOLULU – Governor Linda Lingle vetoed HB 1405 today because this legislation has immediate and adverse consequences for [...]

7 Written By: Scott Jangro
July 1, 2009

Advertising Tax Vetoed from the CA Budget

The news just hit the wire that Governor Scwarzenegger vetoed the Advertising Tax from the state budget.
07/01/2009 GAAS:355:09 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Governor Schwarzenegger Remains Committed to No New Taxes, Announces Overstock.com Will Continue to do Business in California
Following Overstock.com’s announcement that it will pull its affiliate advertising from California due to the [...]

13 Written By: Scott Jangro
June 29, 2009

Getting Ahead of the Advertising Tax

Just when you thought it was safe, the Advertising Tax legislation came back out of nowhere a few weeks ago and appeared as line items in the state budgets for North Carolina, California, and other states. Both budgets are still pending, but this didn’t stop Amazon from making good on their threat to drop [...]

22 Written By: Scott Jangro
June 3, 2009

How not to Congratulate Affiliates for Working Hard to Increase Sales

Here’s a great email exchange that I just had with a merchant that we’ve been doing pretty well with recently through one of our community shopping sites. Names have been changed to protect the, uh, well, just because.
Affiliate Manager:
I wanted to let you know that we strictly prohibit direct linking to our website from [...]

9 Written By: Scott Jangro
June 3, 2009

Concerns over Affiliate Program Taxes?

This question comes from a reader in Cleveland, OH, who is thinking about starting up an affiliate program:
I’m sure you’ve seen this, but I wanted your latest thoughts/updates on the tax issue. I’m also not clear on how this is handled. Who collects and how?
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0525/042-internet-taxation-software-digital-tools.html
For our program right now, [...]

34 Written By: Scott Jangro
May 3, 2009

Link Cloaking, What is it?

I hear a lot about “link cloaking” and that I should be hiding my affiliate links to keep them from getting hijacked. Is this true?
– Joe S.

What is Link Cloaking?
Link Cloaking is the technical practice of hiding an actual URL through a link on the local domain, or a through a benign third party domain.
URL [...]

9 Written By: Scott Jangro
May 2, 2009

Ask Jangro

I’ve resurrected an old feature here on jangro.com, the “Ask Jangro” tab.
I previously removed it because I was getting a ton of questions from visitors with DLP TV repair questions, when I was really hoping for affiliate marketing questions.
But now, I want to write more here and I just don’t have enough topics that come [...]

8 Written By: Scott Jangro
May 1, 2009

Changing Permalinks in Wordpress Doesn’t Have to be Scary

For a website owner who knows anything about search engine optimization, one of the scariest things in the world is changing the URL structure. Not only do you need to make sure the pages work on the new URLS, bu you have to make sure that all of your old urls properly redirect to [...]

14 Written By: Scott Jangro
April 10, 2009

Affiliate Networks Doing Their Part

With the proliferation of the AdvertisingTax, it’s critical that the state legislators who are pushing through these tax law changes understand the full impact of their decisions. Until recently, they’ve apparently been blinded by dollar signs.
Affiliates, who are the constituents directly impacted in these states have sprung to action with incredible impact. A [...]

9 Written By: Scott Jangro
April 9, 2009

Amazon’s Letter to Maryland Senator Currie

This letter made it’s way to me indirectly, so I’d say it’s out in the wild enough to post this.
In it, Amazon expresses their clear opposition to Maryland’s version of the “Amazon tax”, and the actions they’ll take if it passes, which is to drop their Maryland-based participants in the Amazon Associates program, as they [...]