Affiliate Marketing “Scams”
Published 2010/10/01 | 
Every once in a while I sign up for “Home Based Business” information. It’s not that I don’t already work from home but that I’m curious as to what ideas are currently floating around and this is one way to have other people make suggestions on how to make money from home. Unfortunately not every company that gets your phone number in this way is on the level. This is the case with a phone call I received last night from IveGotInsurance.com. Continue reading
Kazoo Plugin for WordPress
Published 2010/09/24 | 
Kazoo Plugin Website
Did you ever find yourself wanting to get down and dirty with some of the data from the WordPress API – I mean without having to code your own plugin or use PHP? Have you ever wanted to include or exclude content based upon who is logged in or wheher or not they were a Guest, Contributor, or Admin? If so then there’s a new plugin out there that can help you. It’s called Kazoo for WordPress.
Kazoo is a wrapper around the powerful KudzuPHP template engine. Kazoo exposes key portions of the WordPress API to the Kudzu template engine via template tags. Not only can you conditionalize content you can write your own version of the WordPress post loop without any PHP code.
Kazoo is free and Open Source so visit the website today and check it out. http://www.kazooplugin.com
Link Cloaking
Published 2010/07/17 | 
Here’s a usefull tool I found last week that ought to be in the favorites list of every affiliate marketer. It’s the free link cloaking site Free Affiliate Link Cloaking.
Now I own and operate a link redirection website/service myself called Qure?us that I use to manage and track all my affiliate links but these days I’m finding that link redirection through YOURLS just isn’t enough. It doesn’t provide some of the advanced features I need.
I need advanced URL Redirection and Cloaking at the same time and I need the resulting link look good to the audience. If I can have all that in an easy to use interface – well that’s a plus that Free Affiliate Link Cloaking offers.
The website has an easy to use interface that lets you plug in your affililate link (or any other type of link you have) and cloak it so that those who might rip off your content will have a much more difficult time hijacking your links. This will boost your sales and decrease your losses due to link hijacking and content theft.
There are some helpful tutorials there that explain how to use the site and why you might want to. Head over and check them out and start protecting your affiliate links now.