Category Archives: Monetization

Hide affiliate url on craigslist.

By bulalo | Published: February 25, 2009
Craiglist is a teeming market. Unfortunately, they don’t look kindly on affiliate links cluttering up their pages. Business affiliates have to find ways in order to “hide” their links. One of the easiest method is to use a URL-shortening service such as TinyURL. However, the resulting link really has no identity and a lot of people [...]
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How affiliate cookies work.

By bulalo | Published: February 18, 2009
Affiliate programs gives us a slice of the pie as finder’s fee for ferreting out customers. Online companies usually use cookies to determine from which affiliate the buying customer came from. Cookies are teeny bits of text data stored by web browsers on a surfer’s computer. Affiliate programs use tracking cookies. When we sign-up with online companies [...]
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Have we prepared for Cyber Monday deals and sales?

By bulalo | Published: December 1, 2008
Cyber Monday is the Monday immediately following Black Friday, which this year is December 1. Whereas Black Friday is about offline shopping, Cyber Monday heralds the online shopping frenzy before Christmas. The term was coined in 2005 when marketers noticed a 3/4 increase in online sales the monday after Thanksgiving. Online stores are giving out laptop [...]
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