This is a short list of the successful affiliate program:

• Usability of the program's website.
  
• Quality of the program's landing pages.
  
• Efficiecy of the program's shopping cart.
  
• Questions are answered on the website.
  
• Not overplaying the ability to phone in orders.
  
• IF price is an issue (commodity) the business price is competitive.
  
• Is the offer is a commodity, it is a value-added proposition.
  
• An affiliate manager exists with some track record of "doing the job well".
  

  For all the reading and research, I don't find even the best affiliate managers (by reputation) doing a particularly effective nor convincing job of getting or presenting the proof of the readiness of any program OR proof an existing program IS top shelf. I find it troubling given the business IS marketing.

Suppose you are a heavy windows users (running intensive tasks or needing performance). By turning off the page file, you get a nice performance boost. Rather, it does not take away from performance.

Take 1GB of physical memory on a laptop, while reaching the limit in Windows with the paging file off. It poses a challenge (in other words, it worked just fine without it). It is because Windows attempts to use the paging file whenever possible (proactive). This contrasts Linux, which uses it only when no other way (reactive).

Everything depends on the applications you run. One approach is better than the other. However, from personal observation, I don't like the Windows approach. Caveat Lector: This could be because I wasn't seeing slowdowns which may have been caused by the reactive approach. This is just a supposition, but it seems reasonable.

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For Linux, keep the swap partition and forget it. For Windows, the best way to learn if you need the page file is loading as many apps as you normally use. Maybe, add a few more. Check memory usage (don't trust "VM usage" in the windows task manager, since it doesn't show what you think it does!). If usage is lower than physical RAM, by a few hundred MBs, turn off the page file and don't look back. If closer, set the page file to a small size. Usually, this is no more than 512 MB. If setting the file, make the size static. This prevents Windows from trying to adjust it all the time (it's too dumb to understand you want it as small as possible).

Everyone knows how bored you are. Poor you. Someone really needs to come and entertain you. What are you, 12 years old? If you're bored with your marriage, maybe it's because YOU'RE BORING.

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Have you ever stopped to think if you're bored, she probably is too. However, instead of throwing a temper-tantrum, like some 2 year old, she's at home cleaning the lint trap on the dryer and washing kool-aid from the kitchen floor. Yeah, she's having a riot washing your underwear and cleaning cat puke.

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Marriage is hard work. Hell, life is work. Grow up and take some responsibility for yourself. You have a brain, USE it. Put some thought into your marriage and effort into your life. Stop blaming her and being a baby because life isn't the way you want it.

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There is a disproportionately larger amount of guys commenting on hot girls than girls commenting on hot guys. This is not to say it doesn't happen. Yet, it appears more common for guys to be guilty of this. So you guys, listen up. STFU! I'll repeat this in case you think it's a misprint. STFU!

When you see a hot girl on MySpace, do whatever it is you want with your hands and move on. Maybe once your balls have descended, send her a message. But, there is nothing sadder than three pages (or more!) of guys going on about how hot a girl's photo is. It's like the sausage party which never was. Commenting on hot girls is not a free pass to make yourself and the rest of us sound retarded. Girls don't like suck-ups. Besides, using such witty lines like "u r hottt" won't do anything for your sex life.

Suppose you use numerical series which are generated by market activity. These include price and volume. Then, you use this information to predict future price trends. This is called technical analysis (or chartism). These techniques are applied to any market having a comprehensive price history.

Mostly, technical analysis is done by studying charts of past price movement. This is not exclusive. A variety of methods and tools are involved in technical analysis. However, they all depend on the assumption trends and price patterns exist in markets. Also, these are identified and exploited.

Technical analysis makes no attempt to analyze a company's financial data. It ignores dividends, cashflow, and projection of future dividends. Using this data is fundamental analysis. Also, technical analysis does not claim to be 100% accurate. Rather, its goal is to give the "most likely" outcome.

Some traders combine elements from both fundamental and technical analysis. This is a growing field called fusion analysis. Explicitly, it advocates combining fundamental and technical analysis.

Many of its practitioners view technical analysis as more art than science. Many academic studies determine technical analysis has very little, if any, power to predict. However, it has a dedicated following. This is especially true for active traders. Also, it has support amongst the academic community.

Quietly, Orkut was launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Büyükkökte n is a Turkish software engineer. While working at Google (permitted by its policy), he developed Orkut as an independent project.

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Some users (and potential ones) are uncomfortable with this. Some point to Google's other noteworthy product of 2004, which was the web-based email client Gmail. It allows the company to automatically scan text of users' private emails to show them targetted ads. Previously, while working for Affinity Engines, Orkut developed a similar system, called InCircle. It was intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed a lawsuit against Google. Their claim was Büyükkökte n and Google based Orkut on inCircle code. The allegations are based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in orkut which exist in InCircle.

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Originally, the orkut community was believed elite. This is due to membership being by invitation only. However, at the end of July, 2004, Orkut surpassed 1,000,000 members. At the end of September it passed 2,000,000. By April, 2006, Orkut's members were: 71.94% Brazil 11.33% United States 3.05% India 2.18% Iran 2.18% Pakistan.

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The intended invitation method was e-mail between acquitances. Obtain an invitation to orkut via the web, with diligence, or eBay, like Gmail invites.

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Orkut, as a social tool, is complex. This is due to various people frequently trying to add strangers to their pool of friends. Often, this simply increases the number indicating their friends next to their name in their profile. Many "add-me" communities exist, entirely for this purpose. A large number of cloned, fake, bogus, invisible and "orphaned" profiles exist.

So why do I care whether PPS is better than revshare?

We (PPS webmasters) bust our humps to run a PPS program and remain competitive. We spend nights running numbers to squeeze an additional 2 dollars from the average user. Revshare sponsors don't have that motivation because they aren't "hungry". Their margins do not matter. Why? Their margins are FIXED! They are set in advance. 60/40, 50/50, 70/30.. Their profit is GUARANTEED. It doesn't matter whether they retain 1 day or 10 years.

Why do the richest in this business choose PPS over revshare?

Your spreadsheets aren't full of question marks, unlike revshare. Your earnings, per sale, are predicable. This lets you take a 6 dimensional revshare calculation and make it a simple "my counted clicks and my earnings per sale". Sure... there are occasional revshare member earns you 80 bucks. However, the more common member earns you 2 or 3 bucks.

I understand the temptation of search engines to do more hand-coding over their algorithms. However, it's a very poor decision for any search engine to make, if the SE aspires to be a top quality player.

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There are many issues. The nature, and structure, of different categories (e.g. historical information websites vs. widget shops) results in very different kinds of websites (form follows function and marketing follows function too, btw...). Depending on the category, and nature, of a website, there are differences in structure, navigation, content, internal and external linking patterns, and a host of other important measures. There are issues of philosophy, e.g., which kinds of results are better?

Google has moved in the direction of favoring information over commerce. It makes some of their SERPs cleaner and more useful. However, it makes some of their SERP's largely useless. This is especially true when people are searching for products.

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Set against these issues, one holy grail for any great SE is, regardless of category, featuring the most relevant and useful websites for a given request. This is nearly impossible for a single algo. So, SE's hand-code. Or, they segment algorithms, one way or another, by category. Or, they try to find, one algorithm so keen and intuitive it shows for any given request, excellent results.

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Brandable website names are much better than the annoying and ugly dash domains. Branding is a much better long-term goal. Depending on the types of websites you have, or services you provide, it makes a BIG difference in revenues.

Let's use finance for an example here. 

Suppose you have a website. It is mortgage.com versus find-mortgages.com. First, mortgage.com is seared into any potential customer's head. On the other hand, the other may appear as findmortgages.com to them, without the dash. This means you've just branded your competitor's domain into their head instead of your own!

On the search engines, sure, domains are important. However, they are not THE most important, if you want fluid search engine traffic. I've noticed over the last few months, search engines have been giving a lot more attention to non-dashed domains, than the dashed ones.

I'm sure other SEO experts will disagree. However, when searching for something, I generally stay away from the dashed websites. Also, from a mortgage perspective, when looking for a mortgage online, and you are willing to fill out a lot of personal information, which would feels more comfortable? Do you want mortgage.com or find-mortgages.com? I go with option A.

The problem with posting articles is: 1. Everyone does it. Therefore, you have to keep doing it. This makes it a potentially never ending process. You have to question the value!

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2. Articles only appeal to article copiers and stealers. Thus, you are attracting the 'wrong' type of visitor, which is unwanted. 3. Writing an articles rarely converts to a sale. The only reason for visting your website is to get the article for their own agenda.

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4. Posting hoards of articles doesn't make anyone expert. Plus, the quality of some of the articles is laughable and is suspiciously close to 'spam'.

5. There might be a free link for you. However, the practice is so widespread - it kinda loses it's 'edge' as a marketing tool. Do you really want the person clicking on your url at the end of the article thinking you are desperate? It might actually cost you a visitor or, more importantly, a sale.

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6. You need to post at least 10,000 different ones for it to be worthwhile. AND you need to maintain that number constantly for it to work and keep ahead of the game. It is a waste of valuable time in exchange for the value of traffic gained.

7. One theory why article banks exist isn't to necessarily 'help' anyone. Instead, they charge others to post articles. As so many do it, it must be conceivable the ones after the free links, DON'T have the ad budget anyway. The last thing they do is puchase anything from the article resources or the poster themselves.

Therefore, submitting articles as a traffic source is short-term and very questionable.

What is the deal with linking?

The question is not about on-topic vs off-topic links, but whether one-way links are better than reciprocated links. Some people believe 1-way links are better than reciprocal links. Some say 5 or 10 times better. Its always puzzled me why some people think this.

If 1-way links are better, it is not by much. If so, it would only be because you do not have an outgoing link. Thus, you share more of your PR among your own pages.

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The test case is getting something like a 1-way links from a PR4 page with a total of 25 links on the page vs. getting reciprocal links from an identically weighted page.

I agree, in this case, a 1-way link has slightly more influence. But, it is slight. Let's say it has 33% more power, for argument's sake. Thus, we say a reciprocal link has a power of 3 and a 1-way link has a power of 4. Thus, you need 30 1-way links to have the same effect as 40 reciprocal links.

However, getting 1-way links is significantly more difficult than getting reciprocal links. It's not 33% harder, but more like 300% harder. Suppose you really know what you are doing. Let's say it's only twice as hard to get 1-way links.

So, it would take twice as much effort to get 30 1-way links as it takes to get 30 reciprocal links. Or, it takes the same effort to get 30 1-way links as it takes to get 60 reciprocal links. Above, I figured 30 1-way links is equal to 40 reciprocal links. It all boils down to this:

Reciprocal links are 150% more powerful than 1-way links. This is the case when the amount of effort (time/money) involved is used to weigh the result.

Pound-for-pound, dollar-for-dollar, i t is hard to beat reciprocal links for ROI.

I was quite generous giving 1-way links a lot of credit in the above example. A more accurate assessment is probably a 1-way link only being about 10% better than a reciprocal link. It is probably 3 to 4 times more difficult to get 1-way links than it is to get reciprocal links. If you were to use these figures, you find reciprocals have about 3.6 times as much bang for the buck/effort as 1-way links have.

So, yes, 1-way links are better. However, I prefer a high ROI for my time, energy, effort, and resources. As a result, my focus is on reciprocal links. It works, and it's easier.

I believe PageRank is over-rated as a gauge of a web site's inherent ability to gain relatively dominant web presence, generally speaking, for their desired target markets.

After being laid-off from my former employer, back in 2002, I have been operating an "enthusiast web site" in a highly competitive industry (of course, which isn't on the Net) that I THINK (I don't even bother worrying about PR) is a PR4. Yet, I easily rank in the Top Ten if not the #1 position against some of the biggest corporate sites. That's computer, networking & telecom (phone, cable, wireless & satellite) corporate sites.

I think their Madison Avenue Ad Firms have no clue, when it comes to SEO (and I thankfully collect their $$$ from their Adwords ads displayed on my site)... I take that back. They know enough to know they are not very good and must augment their Net marketing with Adwords/AdSense advertising.

I think this is a WIN - WIN situation. The professionals essentially subsidizing the operation of industry enthusiast web sites, which in turn are attempting to promote interest in their respected industry.

The only problems arise when people attempt to "game" the system. I'm afraid this includes far too many desperate web publishers currently. However, I believe Google is in the possess (still tweaking) of attempting to remedy this situation, hence much of the belly-aching since the bourbon update. Yes Google squeezed a little too hard with the current "filter," but I'm sure they are also working to better this short-coming too.

Google has always tried for better results... It just gets harder for them as more publishers become dependent upon the Google marketing system - as that is what their search engine has become since "every ma & pa's" web site has become "monetized."

Unfortunately, there is only so much room at the top of the SERPS. Many good sites are unable to gain the web exposure that the quality of content should "rightfully" earn it. No is Google allow some "lesser" sites rank higher than the corporate sites in a particular market sector, just to give cause for the corporations to purchase AdWords to get their message out? Perhaps... however my "enthusiast web site" has had relatively excellent web presence in Google before they even adopted their contextual ad marketing scheme.

That's why there is PPC. It is a self-perpetuating marketing scheme, while there are enough interested parties attempting to market their goods & services in a particular sector. HENCE the "built-in" obsolescence of Page Rank - "Corporate Google" needs to generate increasingly more money from PPC advertising to satisfy their shareholders - I don't believe that PR fits into the equation anymore...

It's nice when companies make an honest and long-term effort to track visitors sent by each affiliate's campaign.

As affiliates, what do we want? Proper cookie tracking! It's a given that not all people accept cookies. But the percentage of people who do accept them is good enough to create measurable results.
So the cookies ought not to crumble.

The problem is that companies often set their cookies without regard for the affiliate's best interests.

Many companies set different cookies for company_site.com and www.company_site. com. Unfortunately, this means that when you, the affiliate, send your traffic to www.company_site. com, you probably won't get credit when your visitors choose to go directly to company_site.com.

Also, do you ever get the feeling that more and more companies are expiring their cookies earlier and earlier...especially the ones containing affiliate tracking variables? Cookies should last a long time...especially the ones containig affiliate tracking variables!

It's particularly disturbing when companies issue cookies that expire at the end of the session, or within 24 hours. Clearly, a long-lasting cookie is a draw for successful affiliates.

Also - it's nice to have the company indicate very clearly who gets credit when a new affiliate sends the same visitor. Does the first click get the sale? The last click? Is it split?

Finally, it's nice when companies that do measure conversions the first time around store the affiliate info in the database (from the cookie) in order to give proper credit for future actions.

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The very basics: Sites are ranked on both on-page and off-page factors.

On-page factors include whether (and how often) the search phrase appears on your page, whether it appears in headings on your page, whether it appears in the title of your page, (arguably) whether it appears in the your description and keywords metatags, etc.

Off-page factors include the number of links pointing to your page, the quality of those links, and the anchor text of those links, etc.

There are a lot more factors than this, but these are some of the things to start thinking about. Competitors, outranking another website, are doing better than because of at least some of these criteria.

For instance, other websites may have a lot more incoming links. Or, they have the search phrase in the anchor text of more of their incoming links than others.

Instead, here are some things I don't like about 2 products:

- OsCommerce is a real pain to customize the layout with all the PHP code weeded throughout and all of the stores look pretty much the same. You can smell OsC the minute you hit the page, and I often wonder if that same old look freebie cart doesn't result in lower sales. I think their admin side takes way to many clicks to get any work done.

- Miva has some issues as well, like when you add things to the cart and the same page shows up with no clue that something was added except maybe a small type number of items in cart somewhere. I hear lot's of non-savvy shoppers complain about them. Also, Miva's admin side is another click happy obtuse interface but I think OsC has it beat in obscurity.

I'd say start with some ecommerce comparison reviews, pick the features you absolutely can't live without and then narrow the field from there. THEN read webmaster reviews of those products and see which are the best of the worst :)

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I was further informed that this scam has been
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Its all to do with pr flow within the site. With 30 pages you were probably feeding lots of pr back to the home page. Now each page pr is being shared amoungst more links on each page to your new pages. In other words, where you had only a few links per page (each taking a proportion of the pr off the page) now you have more links and thus each link is carrying less pr.

Have you added a lot more links off your home page? If so, it is no surprise that they now make the next level only pr3. The home page may have reduced in pr because now it has pr3 pages pointing back to it rather than pr4.

If you had linked all the new pages from one of your original pr 4 internal pages and left the old pages as they were, I suspect your old pr4 and pr5 home page would have stayed the same.

You should consider how much pr each page needs in order to rank well for its target phrase. The new pages may be targeted at non competitive phrases so they may only need pr1 or 2. If that is the case, you need to redesign the pr flow so that the index page returns to pr5, your next competitve pages pr4 and the non competitve pages can drop to pr1 or2.

It is often said that people who risk money by buying a stock deserve the dividends they get by the risk they taking buying the stock. This is kind of tautological within the economic system however. The economic system consists of corporations producing commodities (PCs, bread, a colocation rack) and exchanging them for other commodities - a few decades ago money backed by gold, nowadays money which is theoretically worth something because one can pay taxes with it. Corporations often produce commodities which no one wants, which is the main risk of capital investment, it's a loss. Virtually everyone recognizes this as true, from former GE CEO Jack Welch to socialists like Paul Sweezy. Thus, the economic system commits the error of misplacing resources. This error produces capital risk, and this capital risk is the common explanation of why people deserve dividends from capital investment, instead of, say, the workers at the corporation who created that wealth.

As far as the US economy, productivity was extremely poor throughout the 1930's, then from the mid 1940's to the mid 1960's were 20 years of enormous productivity. It began slowing down in the mid 1960's, and by the early 1970's everyone realized there was an enormous problem. Nixon went off the gold standard, imposed wage and price controls, and dismantled the Bretton Woods system. Productivity has been pretty poor since the mid-1960s, there have been arguments of whether it had a decent bump in the late 1990s or not. The late 1990s bump is obviously from the Internet, an R&D project the US government poured billions of dollars into from the 1960s until the mid 1990s, it was a state project (DARPAnet/NSFnet) handed over the corporations when it had been developed after 25 years of taxpayer funding. Anyhow, this long slowdown in economic productivity in the US has resulted in the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US being below what it was 30 years before. Asia seems to be the only area with decent productivity growth in thw world, but that creates another problem of who is going to buy all of the commodities China is pumping out since the market is already saturated.