I recently wrote an article for Website Magazine that will be published in the August issue.  The article covers deal negotiation with Internet ad networks and affiliate programs, maximizing your site’s earning potential, and how to conduct the legwork to put you in good positioning for a higher revenue share from your ad provider.
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Joel Comm just released a free ’secrets to Shopzilla’ ebook about getting the most out of the Shopzilla Publisher Program.
If you’re thinking about using Shopzilla Publisher to monetize your site, this is a good introduction. Contrary to the title, I wouldn’t say it has any ’secrets’, but it does have some insight.
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Jason Calacanis delivered a great keynote to kick-off Affiliate Summit West ‘08 back in February. If you are in the content business on the Internet, you should watch this:

Are affiliate marketers polluting the river? Some certainly are, and hopefully this keynote inspired a few of the guilty to conduct some thoughtful introspection.
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First, let me say the primary purpose of this blog is not to make money… it’s to share my personal thoughts and insights on numerous topics (primarily technology, politics, and American culture), and to hopefully spur some thoughtful discourse in return. For this reason, the blog as a whole can appear very disjointed, and [...]

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Wired is reporting on the recent AdWords CPC increases that have taken a toll on arbitragers and others. The argument in favor of these increases is that it allows Google to display fewer (but more relevant) ads, thus increasing the CTR.  On the flip side, some ad buyers are saying that it simply costs more [...]

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Jeremy Schoemaker ponders how long it will be until someone gets killed(!) at one of the Affiliate Summit conferences.
Pardon my language, but WTF? I was just at the last Affiliate Summit in Vegas not more than a month ago… and the closest it came to violence was when that ClickBooth guy ate the last [...]

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