Basically, I want to make more money, online and offline, and do less work. Now I could increase my hourly rate of course, but there's an inherent problem with hourly rates: they limit the amount of money you can make in an hour. So I've decided I'll do some other stuff. First is monetizing this site, a little. In the sidebar you see 2 banners now, I will sell a maximum of 4 spots in total, and do some paid reviews. I will only do paid reviews for stuff that interests me and you, though, so it should all still be relevant for you, as a reader.

Next to that I'll be working on more WordPress stuff, together with Adriaan Pienaar. He's built some great Premium News Themes for WordPress, which we'll be working on together. This is actually my dream scenario: making money on doing cool stuff with WordPress.

I've got some other tricks up my sleeve as well, also to do with WordPress, you'll be seeing those roll out over the coming months!

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They're talking about how rules were being created in the process of building up this affiliate program, companies that were doing SEM for them as well as being an affiliate for instance. At Hilton he didn't allow affiliates to do paid search, as there was a lot of competition from their own franchises.

At Napster though they are encouraging their affiliate to use search, and even to use their brand. They were using their own budget to fill in the gaps were their affiliates weren't doing anything, making their campaign look incredibly big. Napster doesn't exclude affiliats from using it's own brand in PPC and SEO either, making sure all the results on brand terms are either affiliate or Napster itself, which isn't working the way I see it (see for yourself).

He says they even go as far as sharing keyword lists with affiliates, and give them artwork. To be honest a lot of the issues he's talking about seem quite simple to solve from a technological standpoint.

I was looking at some of their affiliates and caught one javascript cloaking and copying their frontpage, and Jeff said they would probably ask them to remove it and "come back to the light side of the force". Someone else asked how important affiliate is for their program, an, without revealing any numbers, he said it was very important for their sales.

Another interesting question was whether they'd allow affiliates to advertise offline, and he said they probably wouldnd't, but that they couldn't make it work.

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Basically, if you're an experienced SEO or SEM, you can make loads and loads of money by combining your knowledge with affiliate sites. There's a big growth as well for companies doing full service online marketing, including affiliate management, like Kris Jones's PepperJam does...

Onetomarket doesn't do affiliate management yet, but it's something I'm going to be advocating, as that would allow for a good integration of search and affiliate, which is in the best interest of our clients.

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I found this rather intriguing:

How can I promote the CPA ad unit?
Since this is a test and these CPA ads are not regular ad units, we are giving you more flexibility in saying things like "I recommend this product" or "Try JetBlue today" next to the CPA ad unit. However, you should still not incite someone to click on the ad, so saying "Click Here" is not ok.

SeekingAlpha suggests that, if this goes live, this might kill a few of the affiliate companies out there, such as ClickValue. The biggest opportunity I see, is that Google wil automatically try to put the best converting ads for your site on there, so you won't have to go through lots of affiliate marketing deals yourself...

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