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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]