Jangro.com Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, etc. Heavy on the etc.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was reviewing refererers to jangro.com in my web server logs and of course an Amazon.com url would catch my eye:

http://www.amazon.com/ exec/obidos/ASIN/0789725258/ XXXXXXXXXXXXX-20/103-5085788-0070201

I checked it out and this link goes to Shawn Collin’s book, Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

My first [...]

Back in October, I put out a call for affiliate marketing bloggers with the promise of creating a page listing them.
It took me a while to pull it together, but with that exta time, it became a good bit more than I originally envisioned.
The result: The Affiliate Blog List.

Just got blog-tagged, not once but twice in a 30 minute span. I think one of them got tagged by the other first, so I don’t think it’s legit, but I’m not telling.

I was wondering earlier today if this would make it over to me. I figure it’s inevitable, if I started seeing [...]

I guess this wouldn’t be a blog about affiliate marketing that’s worth it’s salt if I didn’t mention the recent buzz going on about buzz marketing, the FTCs comments on full-disclosure, and how it all relates to affiliate marketers.

The Washington Post ran a story earlier this week. I won’t rehash it except to say [...]

We noticed a precipitous drop in the past few days in our Google traffic on one well-indexed site.

It’s been puzzling us for a few days until we noticed in the Google Webmaster Tools that our robots.txt file was somehow instructing Google to disallow everything, from the root directory, down:
robots.txt URL       http://www.example.com/robots.txtLast downloaded     December 7, 2006 [...]

Second Bite Solutions is an online service provider that has an effective, patent-pending, technology that assists merchants in addressing the shopping cart abandonment problem. But is it at the expense of their traditional affiliates?

According to their website,

Second Bite approaches the problem by addressing the behavioral triggers displayed by consumers during the shopping process. Second [...]

Shawn Collins announced the Pinnacle Award Finalists today. The awards will be handed out at Affiliate Summit 2007 West in Las Vegas in January.

There are several categories. I’m on the list for “Best Blogger” alongside Jim Kukral and Beth Kirsch.
I give my humble thanks for the nominations and votes that must have taken [...]

I came across a browser plugin today called cooliris. (thanks lifehacker). It shows a preview of pages in search engine results pages, e.g., on Google or Yahoo. It provides very similar functionality to what they’ve done on Ask.com.
This is the sort of thing that you have to see. So I made [...]

People hurt people. Someone’s got too much time on his hands.
A saying comes to mind.
“It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Or written a bit differently , a much longer time ago:
“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise:
and he [...]

Earlier this week, I wrote about a problem that we’re having where the Adwords Keyword Insertion function was not working properly . Apparently it’s working just fine, or at least as Google has designed it.

To recap, in the ad text, you can put the following notiation:
{Keyword:Default text}
and it will insert into your google ad the [...]