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I don’t know, I found this somewhat amusing. As this is a blog about affiliate marketing, I figured my readers would need to know this.

READ THIS

Yep, the FTC is trying to kill 90% of affiiate marketers’ businesses.

Basically, if you endorse something without telling whoever is reading it that you might get paid or whatever, the FTC will drop the hammer. Or whatever it is they do.

“Online, if you think that somebody is providing you with independent advice and … they have an economic motive for what they’re saying, that’s information a consumer should know.”

What a bunch of crap.

In my opinion, it’s still the ‘consumer’s choice to pull out their freaking credit card in the first place.

It’s not like we force people to do anything, we just kind of point them in the right direction.

“BUY THIS NOW THROUGH THIS LINK OR I WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!!!11!!1!”

No, it’s not like that.

And oh, I found this amusing:

So parents keeping blogs to update family members on their child’s first steps technically would fall under the FTC guidelines, though they likely would have little to worry about unless they accept payments or free products and write about them.

But they would need to think twice if, for instance, they praise parenting books they’ve just read and include links to buy them at a retailer like Amazon.com Inc.

That’s because the guidelines also would cover the broader and common practice of affiliate marketing, in which bloggers and other sites get a commission when someone clicks on a link that leads to a purchase at a retailer. In such cases, merchants also would be responsible for actions by their sales agents — including a network of bloggers.

Amazon declined to comment.

Bwah.

Whatchu think?

/Linus

Got something fun for you today… ONE single line to add to the bottom of your landing page to double your clickthroughs on your affiliate link.

Durn, practically gave it away already.

Oh well, so here’s the secret:

Add a tiny little [secret 'Product Name' link] somewhere on your page…. where it looks like it’s SUPPOSED to be hidden or something, but is in fact very visible.

Like this: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK

Okay… now look on the bottom right.

Exactly.

Just add one of those to your landing page and watch your affiliate clicks soar…

Do you have ANY idea of how damn CURIOUS people are?

;)

Linus

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A bit late on this one, but if anyone else noticed… Clickbank gone web 2.0!

Uhh…  well not really, but the tabs within CB has gotten a bit of a web 2.0-ish look. Check it out for yourself :)

Okay, I might have said somewhere in the past that I was starting with some CPA stuff.

I changed my mind.

Sure, there’s a heck of a lot of profit there. In fact, the reason I chose to talk about this now is because of the upcoming high ticket product called The Arbitrage Conspiracy. But don’t worry, I won’t promote it to you, or to anyone at all.

See, the guys behind it are pulling in about $50,000-$100,000 Net Profit each and every day.

That’s a whole bunch of cash right there.

But why am I not doing it?

I’m too lazy, that’s why.

MY problem with CPA is that it has to be managed constantly. You have to keep your campaigns in check.

You see, the advertisers that puts out their offers on the CPA networks… they can pull their offer at any time they choose. Like “we don’t need more leads now, let’s pull this campaign…” or because they can’t afford to pay the affiliates.

Also, CPA offers expire as well, if the advertiser hasn’t removed their offer before the expiry period ends.

That’s my problem.

What I do, is things that I can set up once, and not have to touch it ever again.

Things like small SEO sites that pull in free traffic and gets sales or possibly adsense clicks on autopilot. And things like Clickbank offers don’t expire, neither does adsense. Even if a site only brings in a couple of bucks per day, it’s duplicable, like most things. If you have like 20 sites then it starts to add up.

That’s my kind of thing… not having to work. Period. Yeah, I’m a lazy bastard.

However, if you’re cool with working a few hours per day I’m sure CPA is a great way to go. I’m sure the Arbitrage Conspiracy is too. Heck, even MARK JOYNER promotes it. I have enough respect for that man to know that the product must be absolutely fantastic if he chooses to promote it.

So well, now you know what in my opinion are the primary drawbacks of CPA. If I was doing CPA, I would buy the Arbitrage Conspiracy though, and if you want to do that, go right ahead. Unfortunately I don’t have any affiliate link for you…

Well I’ll see you guys. I know I haven’t updated in a while, I just haven’t… felt like blogging. We’ll see if I get back into it, oh well.

See ya,

Linus