The Amazing Flying Nature of Time

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Was it really just last week that I started this thing up for reals? I suppose the lifespan for Web ventures is a bit like dog years, with one week live on the Interwebs equivalent to a month or two in meat space, but it seems like I’ve been kicking around here for much longer than a week.

Free for all Friday. Got a question? Ask it.

Today is shaping up to be pretty hectic, so it’s a coin-flip as to whether I’ll have time to babble on later about anything even remotely useful. I’m meeting with a realtor later this morning to check out some possible investment properties and I still need to wage war on the last of the boxes and unpacking from when we moved in August. I swore I’d knock that out during my glut of time off from the day job in December, and, err, the clock is ticking much more loudly and it’s still not done.

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  1. 1 On December 29th, 2006, Peter Moody said:

    Great, posts so far on the affiliate marketing world. I jumped over here from your
    poker blog and am getting ready so start up a website. My questions comes in how
    links work. It’s kind of like the chicken before the egg. Do you put up a link
    to items(in this case scrapbook materials) or write content and wait to get your
    page rank up and then start adding the links. I guess in my mind if you start
    sending a website traffic and have no deal with that website how do you get paid
    later? Thanks in advance!

  2. 2 On December 29th, 2006, ScurvyDog said:

    Peter,

    That’s a good question and something I plan to babble about in the future.

    It’s good to get in the habit of always including affiliate links and/or Adsense ads with your content when you create it, instead of waiting to add it later when you start to get traffic. Adding that stuff does slow down the content creation process a bit at first, but it’s by far the best way to go, especially if you’re building sites for specific products.

    Traditional, product-based affiliate programs like that all use cookies to track the people you refer, and the tracking is usually based on the first visit of the surfer to their site. So if a surfer goes to widget.com from a generic link on your site that doesn’t have your affiliate code in it, you don’t get paid a commission for anything they buy, either on that visit or at any time in the future. This really sucks for you, as otherwise you’d get a commission for all of their purchases.

    That’s the main reason to sign up with an affiliate program first, get the links you need to promote their products and track people you refer, and then build the content around the products, with the affiliate links already in place. That way you ensure that you get credit for each and every customer you refer to them.

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