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Warning: Amazon Blogger Integration Broken

By Andy Beard | Published: December 17, 2009

Blogger (Google) and Amazon it seems have collaborated and introduced a way for people using Blogger to monetize their blogs using Amazon.
I wonder if Google is making some money as a 2-tier affilaite referring so many affiliates to Amazon

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When Will New York Introduce A Google Tax?

By Andy Beard | Published: May 15, 2008

Today's news is that Overstock have decided that they are axing 3400 affiliates in the New York area because of the previously reported "Amazon Tax" - which Amazon are fighting.

I think Janet was the first to break the news of the Overstock changes

This is a story that both Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs and Shawn's Affiliate Blog have been covering in depth.

The New York Times also has coverage and been giving out some great links.

Techcrunch has a Scribd copy of the original Overstock posted letter (Shawn posted the email)

The New York Times reports that

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Amazon vs New York – Affiliate Can of Worms

By Andy Beard | Published: May 2, 2008

For years I have been paying sales tax (VAT) on purchases I make online through services such as Clickbank. It is inconvenient but it is much easier for Clickbank to work this way then to have to monitor the location of a seller and buyer.

The general rules in the US, as far as I can determine is that if you have a business presence in a state, you have to pay tax there. This applies if you own your own servers in the sate, or if you have employees.

Thus it might be beneficial for me, living in Europe to only

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Amazon Affiliates Burned At The Stake By Kindle?

By Andy Beard | Published: November 20, 2007

Whilst the blogosphere has been ranting or raving about Amazon's new Kindle Ebook reader, I have been sleeping on the idea.

Sure it is easy to earn yourself a quick $40 or whatever by promoting it, by dropping text links all over the place such as this one:- Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Or you can use some other creatives such as a nice sidebar widget (might not show in a feed reader)

Amazon's Success Is At Least In Part Their Affiliate Program

For years affiliates have been driving traffic to Amazon. They don't get the benefit of recurring or lifetime commissions, the

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TwitThis Causes Pages To Load Slowly – Here is a fix

By Andy Beard | Published: April 2, 2007

Have you noticed my pages loading extremely slowly over the last few days? I am not talking about my sidebars, which appear after my content, but my articles which always load first, and usually quite fast.

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Warning: Amazon Contextual Links – Do Not Use

By Andy Beard | Published: March 27, 2007

Amazon Contextual Links has launched in beta – actually a good job it is beta because I have already noticed a few bugs just by visiting one blog that was discussing the news.

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Adsense Guidelines – Contextual Ads – Adsense Backgrounds

By Andy Beard | Published: January 20, 2007
Google Adsense

You might well have read on Jensense about the changes in the contextual advertising policy that confirmed my understanding of the policy that I wrote about 2 days ago.

As I stated in the comments in that post, I also contacted Google directly but I asked multiple questions. I had to use the email route not having a direct line to decision makers at Google, but Google have been fairly prompt in replying to my questions.

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FTC | Word of Mouth and Affiliates

By Andy Beard | Published: December 14, 2006

I was honestly so caught up in other things over the last 36 hours, I totally missed this and it is highly relevant to my Disclosure Policy Plugin.

I am not a lawyer, thus any interpretation of the situation I am going to leave in the hands of lawyers who I have a great deal of respect for, and who themselves are involved in the internet marketing field.

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Broken websites

By Andy Beard | Published: October 18, 2006

I haven’t got hundreds of IT specialists looking after my websites, so the odd problems (such as my tags not working yet), are to be expected. Read more on Broken websites…

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  • RAP Bank

    I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
    It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

    It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
    It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
    Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

    >Affiliate Program

    P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.