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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: August 8, 2007 at 7:40 pm / Popularity: 29%

How Akismet Hosed My WordPress Blog

For some time now I used to have this perplexing problem where I simply couldn’t access the administrative section of my blog without it timing out on me. I couldn’t figure out what was causing the latency issues, and I also noticed that if I tried to access it from a different browser or different IP address, the issue would usually clear itself up. It was an anomaly…..

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