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POSTED: January 26, 2008 at 6:14 pm / Popularity: 18%

How to Spot A Fake - A Case Study of Affiliate Related Spam

Black-hat affiliate marketers follow a common pattern in their efforts to liberate you of your money. Once they decide on a niche, they then sign up for the most lucrative affiliate programs that appeal to that particular niche, and then they’re off to work their dark magic. As a case study, let’s take a look at how such marketing was done for appetite suppressants, specifically Hoodia.

Now if they’re the sort…..

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POSTED: January 26, 2008 at 2:42 pm / Popularity: 11%

You’re Being Lied To - Anatomy of an Affiliate Marketer

A while back I wrote an in-depth post on how an online scammer was promoting cures for ulcers, shingles, warts and whatnot, all packaged in eBooks you download for a fee.

It’s time to take that a little further and dissect how these scumbags run their games online, especially when they’re working as affiliate marketers.

One particular affiliate marketer recently clued his audience in on how he might…..

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POSTED: October 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm / Popularity: 7%

Expanding The Dating Pool

Got an email today from a dating service inviting me to join their affiliate program. Yawn.

But then I noticed this:

Ashley Madison is the premiere online dating agency of its kind designed for people in a relationship, either married or otherwise, who are interested in having romantic and intriguing experiences outside of their relationship…

:wideeyed: Holy jumping jiminy jam jimbos…

It does beg the question…..

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POSTED: September 17, 2007 at 8:00 am / Popularity: 4%

Can I like, skip this week?

Man, so much to do, so little time to do it. Have to work early this week, get some balloons, a card and a gift together for some relatives’ wedding anniversary, get fitted for my new hearing aids, get my old hearing aids repaired, add my parent’s name to my bank account, create landing pages for my affiliate programs, purchase the SEOBook and give it a good read, and…..

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POSTED: September 3, 2007 at 2:43 am / Popularity: 4%

Becoming an affiliate whore

I’ve been dabbling in the world of affiliate programs as a way to make some extra money lately, and so far I’ve already made 10 bucks by getting an affiliate sale for the folks at Clicky. I decided the easiest way to break into this field though was to just sign up for affiliate programs advertising products and services that I actually use. …..

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