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The Other Shoe Drops: Pinterest Blocking Amazon Affiliate Links

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Pinterest vs. The Marketers: Round 1

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Joe Sousa Just saw my first affiliate terms of service prohibiting posting of links on Pinterest. I guess they have hit the big time now.
Jan 13 via webFavoriteRetweetReply

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Turning Blog Comments Off - a Short Case Study by @mattgemmell

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Testing JS-Kit

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Affiliate Links in Twitter, Amazon Says No

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I'm Done with Blog Comment Systems. Finished. Kaput.

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Damn Marketers. Affiliate Links in Twitter

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2008 Review Continued, Personal Stuff

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Comment Systems Review Redux

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Silicon Valley Charm School, Attendance Zero

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Back in the Disqus-sion

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Mailplane and Site Specific Browsers

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Chinpose Free-shirts: Go Sox!

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Disqus Wordpress Integration: Javascript vs API

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Hacking Disqus

No video for this post today. It's just pure geekery that just cannot be made any less geeky or any more interesting by staring at my talking head. Have I mentioned before that I <3 Disqus? I think maybe I have. And a big thanks to the disqus guys for adding in a quick feature request I had that allowed me to pull my own disqus...
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Evaluating Blog Comment Systems

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The Action is in the Comments

My favorite part of blogging has always been the comments. I enjoy participating in discussions on other blogs and I love when lively discussions happen on my own blog posts. It's what keeps me going. I love comments! It totally blows my mind when bloggers have comments disabled on their website, or even when people require accounts...
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Hammered by Spammers - Time for DoFollow to Go

I've been thinking a lot about this recently. Currently my comment links are set to Dofollow. I've always thought that it is the least I can do to thank people who take the time to comment on my posts and contribute. But I'm getting slammed by spammers. Until a few days ago, this blog was PR6. A PR6 Dofollow blog? Spammer heaven! ...
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Random Sunday Bits. iTunes Movies, Email Nirvana

I take a break from battling it out with my fellow affiliate marketers over bullies and boogeymen to bring you a few random thoughts that have been kicking around in my head for the past few weeks. First up, iTunes movie rentals. Brilliant idea. Worst possible execution. ever. I rented 300 the day that the service launched. I had 30...
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I Am No Longer an Affiliate

The other day, I thanked Jason Calacanis for hitting the Affiliate Summit attendees, and therefore the affiliate marketing community, in the face with a big fish of a keynote address. It was a "wake the hell up" message that I believe strongly that we needed to hear. I'll also give Wayne Porter a long overdue public thank you for his own...
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Thank you Jason Calacanis

photo by Zac Johnson The keynote address yesterday at Affiliate Summit West 2008 was delivered by the outspoken and usually controversial Jason Calacanis. His engaging presentation that seemed to focus primarily on what's bad about the affiliate marketing industry elicited strong reactions from many of the hundreds of affiliate...
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Attack of the Comment Monkeys

Due to my long-time use of do-follow, this blog has become identified as a high pagerank do-follow blog. I do believe that the use of dofollow has had positive impact on this blog, but I'm heavily targeted by what must be cheap-labor outsourced blog comment farms. These are real people posting pseudo-real comments on my old posts. ...
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Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

I posted recently about the dofollow effort and I actually think the number of manual comment spammers has increased since then. I haven't counted so it's just a gut feeling. Are spammers searching for blogs that mention dofollow as a method of targeting sites that are worth getting links on? It wouldn't be easy to locate blogs that...
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Blog Commenters: White, Black, and Gray

I am in complete agreement with the no-nofollow/dofollow movement in the blogger community. I've had the dofollow plugin on this blog a few years now. I love getting comments, and I think that an outbound link is the least I can do for someone who has spent time on a meaningful reply to one of my posts. There's a growing trend,...
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SEO Lessons from Zappos.com

Zappos has employed a co-branding marketing strategy. They've set up many sub-domains and skinned them with a different header and navigation. Some...
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Affiliate Fitness Update and Some L*nk L*ve

Today marks two weeks of my getting into shape efforts. Laundry is becoming an issue, as expected. I dropped a few hundred at Dick's Sporting Goods last night on shirts, shorts, and socks. I looked like nicky-new-guy on a first day of school this morning. I'm happy to report that I've kept up my initial ambitious regimen, running 6...
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DON'T BE AN IDIOT (DBAI)

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Performics HouseLinks and News Within the News

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Buh-bye Askimet

I just pulled the plug on Askimet. Why would I do this to a plugin that's been saving me about 1000 spam comments a day? Because once in a while it caught up a real comment. While I appreciate the effort these guys go through to thwart comment spam, one false positive is too many. Instead I've installed the Did you pass math? plugin...
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A Well Known Affiliate Marketing Pro Spamming?

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 reaction was, cool,...
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