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CJ backsteps a little on mandating JS links

Commission Junction’s recent announcement that they would be mandating the use of javascript, as opposed to straight HTML, links caused a significant uproar among publishers and they seemed to have backed off the issue a little.

On June 23, 2006, JavaScript links will become Commission Junction’s default link type in the CJ Marketplace. However, we will [...]

Popunder Rates Falling

Over the past 6 months I’ve noticed a steady decline in popunder rates at both Fastclick (now ValueClick Media) and Casale.
There was a time when Fastclick was my primary popunder provider with the most campaigns and the best rates. Then Casale passed them. Now ValueClick (VC), has passed Casale again, but [...]

Commission Junction Mandates Javascript Links

CJ.com recently announced a new policy whereby affiliates will have to start using javascript links practically exclusively when promoting merchants in their network. For certain special types if integration, such as for email or datafeeds, the links will stay the same, but for all others they will need to be javascript.
In my opinion this is [...]

Burst!Media Changes Default System

Burst!Media announced today that they launched a new defaults system whereby publishers can input a value for their defaults and if their defaults are valued at higher than Burst’s ads then the defaults can run before those campaigns.
Burst!Media isn’t the first major network to do this, Fastclick (now Valueclick) did this last year.
However, I do [...]

Market Research: Part I - Finding A Niche

Market research should be the first step for any webmaster, seasoned or just starting out, when seeking a niche based website to develop. I remember speaking to a fellow webmaster who said something to the tune of “how do I find a new niche, when they are all taken up?”. How can all niches be [...]

Common Mistakes - Chapter 1

As most of you know, I am new to this whole blogging thing here at WP, but after some deliberating, I think I will start to address different aspects of generating revenue and web promotion topics in specific chapters. We’ll dub this chapter “Common Mistakes”, and we’ll address and focus on things that you probably [...]

Introduction: Mook

Hey everyone out there. This is my first time publishing a blog.
For the longest time I’ve wanted to get into blogging, but never really had the drive or time for it. Thanks to Chris (Aspen on SP) we worked something out to join together and further help webmasters out. I have a lot of respect [...]

Desire Targeting

I thought I’d try my hand at creating a new phrase, like “link baiting” and so I thought I’d expand on a topic I have covered previously here. Basically the process of targeting your advertisements not based on your content but based on the desires of your visitors.
Targeting advertising & affiliate programs to [...]

Attracting advertisers with little traffic.

Here goes, my first blog post. Leave your comments.

With most new sites I build my objective is to make money off of private advertisers, with CPC and affiliate programs supplementing my revenue — not being the primary source of my income. Getting checks each month from private advertisers is much more stable than fluctuating [...]

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