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So… Everyone uses affiliate marketing. On both sides of the deal. This post is about the marketers looking for the best converting affiliate programs from web directories.

Now a lot of web directories have affiliate programs, but most of them convert very poorly. As far as I am concerned, I tried about all of them, and the best converting one was the V7N Directory.

What I want to mention is that although John Scott and myself know each other, this is not a “pay per post”, a “friendly recommendation” or neither of these kind of scenarios. It’s just my own experience with web directory affiliate programs.

Continue reading The V7N Directory affiliate program. The definite stop.

Daily Blog Tips just made a Top25 with SEO Blogs worldwide, based on Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Each factor has a score from 0 to 10, and the maximum score for each blog is 40. Details about the algorithm can be found below the table.

Beeing at only the 19th spot, offcourse I’m dissapointed :)

Sign-up today for Yahoo! Search Marketing, and you get a $50 free PPC credit:

Offer open to new Sponsored Search advertisers only. (A new advertiser is one who has not advertised with Yahoo! Search Marketing for the past 13 months). Each account requires a nonrefundable $5 initial deposit. Advertisers signing up for Self Serve will receive a $0 credit into the account. Advertisers signing up for the Assisted Setup service will receive $0 off the $199 service charge. In each case, initial credits are nonrefundable and will be applied to click charges. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.10 per click-through. Limit one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Sellers of certain legally restricted products may require third party certification at extra cost. Search listings subject to editorial review. Offer may not be combined with any other offers or discounts, separated, redeemed for cash, or transferred. Other terms and conditions may apply; see Advertiser Terms and Conditions when you sign up.

More info at Vbulletin Faq.

I wonder how the development of the most used paid forum in the world will go on from now on… especially since it has been aquired by the leading operator of media and e-commerce websites for large ticket consumer purchases in cars, mortgage, real estate & travel, which has nothing to do with what Jelsoft has been developing until now.

Will the prices increase ? Will there be a much poorer support ? That always happens in a bigger company.

Official announcement at the Vbulletin Forums.

Georgeta Teodorescu, the Public Relations Manager from American Experience (a very friendly company) just left an interesting e-mail for me. American Experience (East Central Europe Division: Romania, Ukraine, Russia) is searching for a Regional Marketing Director for Eastern Europe.

Continue reading American Experience: Marketing Director for Eastern Europe Wanted

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With just a $25 monthly “donation” you will get your own .EDU blog as long as you respect the blog rules.

The webmaster of Adison University is Preston White. He manages the Blog network and the whole Adison website.

A frinedly company, Intrasoft, is looking for 8 J2EE programmers (minimum 2 years experience).

Minimum monthly wage: very rewarding (depends on experience).

Bonuses:

• Dinner checks
• The 13th wage
• Wage increase, every year, with minimum 10-20%.

Please send your CV to alin.salcu@intrasoft-intl.com.

PS: Location: Bucharest (only).

Want a free, disposable, 24 hours lifetime email ?

Get it from BugMeNot.

Don’t ask me, what is it good for. Try: Anti-spam ? Registering to spam-sending websites ? etc.

Beeing at the 2nd edition already, the Romanian e-Commerce Awards conference is the only Romanian award show that repays the performance and efforts of those involved in eCommerce, starting from banks and ending with payment gateways, online stores, services suppliers and ecommerce solutions as well as specialized press.

The awards (the same as in the first edition, on 8 June 2006) are classified is 3 categories:

1. Awards based on statistics offered by RomCard (Credit Card processing company)
2. Awards based on the Jury votes (not disclosed until launch day)
3. Awards proprietary to Link2eCommerce

ePravalie (online IT&C shop) is already subscribed, so hurry and reserve your spot.

Smashing Magazine just published the Golden Rules of Linkbaiting.

As the first comment shows, I just don’t know if a week’s reading time can cover all that content.

From the article:

• What is Linkbaiting?
• Profound Rules of Linkbaiting
• Writing-related Principles of Successful Linkbaiting
• Tactics and Strategies of Linkbaiting
• Linkbaiting Hooks
• Copywriting: Improve Your Writing Skills
• Copywriting Books
• Sources, Resources

PS: My blog is mentioned :)

Robert Scoble tells you how he manages to read his 622 feeds every single morning …

He also mentions what are the most important aspects of a story, before he clicks to read it.

Google has introduced a top 100 searches words / phrases chart called Hot Trends. More than that, what we never had from Google (except the Zeitgeist), a daily history of top 100 searches.

The top was compiled starting from 15 May and continues till the day I posted this article (23 May).

Continue reading Google Top 100 queries: Google Hot Trends

I once wrote about a lot of Google “secret” features (and part 2), including an ad-free Google search.

Continue reading Google search without ads and other options

A member in one of my discussion lists just got his account banned by Digg.

What was the reason you say ?

Your account was banned for the rate of Digging activity you’ve engaged in. We’ve determined that the time in which your Diggs happen, it isn’t possible to actually read the stories. Please read each and every story before you Digg or bury a story. Once you agree that you will Digg/bury more responsibly and read the stories, we will unban your account.

Recently, the Digg staff, trough their automated algorithms, is watching if a user is reading a story, by counting the time the user stays on that particular page, and the time it takes him to press the Digg button.

As another member in the discussion list said :

That’s funny. I have a feeling this is going to bite them in the ass.

I agree … This algorithm tweaking and fear of SPAM is going way to far … I mean, come on guys, banning users for voting stories too often ?

I would really love a response from someone at Digg.

PS: Noupsell has a really good personal explanation and clarification for this situation, at the Digg page.

PS2: Apparently, the Digg community catalogues this post of mine, as SPAM :)

“dig_count”:”31″,”area”:”Upcoming”}, {”type”:”report”,”itemid”:”2071615″,”date”:”2007-05-23 13:41:42″,”timestamp”:”1179927702″,”reason”:”Spam”,

Yes, it’s quite true. DreamHost representatives are asking their clients to block GoogleBot trough the .htaccess file, because their websites were “hammered by GoogleBot”.

Dreamhost representatives are also guiding their clients to make all their websites “unsearchable and uncrawlable by search engine robots”, because they cause “high memory usage and load on the server”.

PS: This is NOT a rumor. Multiple people are already complaining about Dreamhost asking clients to block search engine spiders. A post in QuickOnlineTips confirms this too.

Initial news bit via Zoso.