http://www.illeat.com My blog where I talk about my trials, successes and failures in the world of affiliate marketing and business online. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:37:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As affiliate marketers, almost every visitor that  comes to one of our pages is paid for.  Whether the cost is the bid click price that we pay on our PPC campaigns, the time invested building links and writing content for organic sites, or the programming and research that comes with ... http://www.illeat.com/squeezing-the-most-out-of-every-visitor/ Just wanted to make a quick post that I'll be in Boston this weekend for ASE. Looking forward to meeting up with the guys I've been working alongside this past year and partying it up in Beantown. If anyone wants to meet up, feel free to shoot me ... http://www.illeat.com/off-to-affiliate-summit/ So in yesterday's post about cloaking to facebook interns I mentioned that one way to mitigate against the new review process is to check the IP of the interns and store for future use. To help you get started, I went ahead and grep'ed some of my old logs ... http://www.illeat.com/facebook-internal-ips/ So the Facebook interns finally got wise to the old method of cloaking and have begun testing the ads both with and without the traditional intern referral url. Over the past few weeks, I've seen the following requests occurring sequentially: [offer url], 76.102.66.165, 09:48PM, 2008-07-01, http://harvard.intern.facebook.com/intern/ads/review.php [offer url], 76.102.66.165, 09:48PM, 2008-07-01, So ... http://www.illeat.com/new-facebook-cloaking-script/ Anyone who's read Diorex's Affiliate Playbook knows that one of the goals to aim for in affiliate marketing is a direct-to-merchant relationship. This allows you to work directly with the merchant who's offer you are promoting and cutting out the network middle man altogether, equating to higher payouts and ... http://www.illeat.com/going-pseudo-direct/ One of my favorite blogs to read is Michael Martinez's Seo Theory. Every once in a while, Michael will post a list of different experiments to try to help the beginner/immediate SEO hone their skills and understand different aspects of optimization. Recently, I've been experimenting with different campaigns ... http://www.illeat.com/facebook-social-ads-experiments-campaign-quality-score/ Hmmm...command center may be a little overblown, but groneg from #cakes asked to take a peek at how I setup my Facebook campaigns server side so I figured Id just post a shell of the script that I send all of my ads through. This requires that you have ... http://www.illeat.com/facebook-social-ads-command-center/ Its pretty common knowledge among the affiliate marketing industry that you have to hide your traffic sources. Regardless of of the kind of relationship that you have with your network and affiliate manager, its bad business to expose all of the search terms, traffic sources and content that you ... http://www.illeat.com/scrubbing-your-traffic-with-meta-redirects/ DISCLAIMER: This post, like all of the other posts on this blog, was for informational purposes only. It was written for a friend who lost 10K worth of commissions from an advertiser after 2 weeks of sending facebook leads. It was not written to encourage screwing over merchants/advertisers ... http://www.illeat.com/laundering-your-facebook-traffic/ Alright ... its been over a month since my last post on Facebook Social Ads, and in that time, I've been spending a lot of time scaling up my facebook campaigns and really getting to know their system. I've picked up a few more tidbits of knowhow that ... http://www.illeat.com/messing-facebook-social-ads-take-2/