Why GAN Publishers Should Never Use Adsense

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Publishers who make any meaningful income from the Google Affiliate Network should never use Adsense. It’s way too risky. Background In 2007, in a massive conflict of interest, Google acquired Performics, an affiliate marketing network. In 2009, Google required every

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Simplx Review: An Affiliate Site Posing as a Dropshipper

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Earlier this year, I came across an interesting business called Simplx.com.  They claim to be “The Next Generation in Dropshipping.”  That’s a pretty bold claim. (At the time, I was considering adding my own inventory to ShoeSniper and using dropship

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RetailMeNot.com and the Greatest Affiliate Success Story of All-Time

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If you’ve shopped online at all in the past 4 years, you’re probably familiar with RetailMeNot.com.  The online coupon aggregator generates millions of page views each month and enjoys top Google ranking for almost every “_______ coupon” query. This is

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Get Rich Click Review

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I got a free copy of Marc Ostrofsky’s book Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet at Affiliate Summit in New York.  It was pretty much worth the price.  Ostrofsky is probably best known for

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Nevada Road Trip

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A recent law passed in California that makes it impossible to run an affiliate-model comparison shopping site from a California location.  Despite the silliness of being forced to move a non-polluting, borderless, virtual, tax-generating business across state lines for political

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