Things you need to know about Permalinks

Permalinks are a great way to optimize your blog post URLs.  If you read my article on WordPress Permalinks,  you may be using the same permalink structure that I use, namely this one: /%category%/%postname%/ With this type of permalink structure, your post URLs will look like this: http://affiliate-minder.com/wordpresstutorials/install-wordpress-theme/ This is an actual URL from this [...]

2. An Overview of Building Fat Affiliate Sites

There is a lot of planning and decision-making involved in starting an affiliate site. It is tempting to take short-cuts because everyone wants to see quick results. However, I cannot emphasize enough the need to take your time. Follow each stage carefully, and don’t move on to the next until you are 100% happy with [...]

1.2. Spam Techniques

In the “leaked” raters report mentioned earlier, Google goes on to highlight several common spam techniques.  Here they are: Spam technique 1 – Sneaky redirects Have you ever clicked on a search result in Google, but the URL you end up at is not the one listed in Google’s results? = SNEAKY REDIRECT. Similarly, if [...]

1. Avoid Being a Thin Affiliate

OK, so what’s all this about thin affiliates? In a “leaked” document reportedly coming from Google, the big G gave guidelines to human spam-busters on how to classify affiliate sites as thin or not. A “thin affiliate” is basically one that creates pages with the sole intention of ranking well and directing traffic to an [...]

Criteria for an affiliate-friendly associate program

When we look at affiliate programs to include in this directory, they must pass stringent criteria. These are designed to protect your affiliate commissions and make sure that you get paid for sales generated from your referral link. These 4 criteria are essential to get listed in this directory: 1. No link to the merchant’s [...]

Affiliate Minder – Helping affiliates

Are you tired of losing affiliate commissions because a merchant doesn’t do enough to protect your cookie? How many times have you seen affiliate sales pages that have a prominent link to their affiliate sign-up page? This is a regular occurrence especially amongst Clickbank affiliate programs. Have you ever wondered why these programs don’t have [...]