Affiliate Rant!

Persistence pays.

In case you hadn’t noticed, eBay is rife with copyright infringement. If you’re interested in monitoring eBay for your wares, have a look at SearchDigger. The key for free information providers is to restrict resale of their information. That won’t stop everyone, but it does give you legal recourse when approaching eBay and the legal authorities. The unfortunate fact is that most content authors never discover their stolen content and when they do they rarely do more than request that eBay remove the offending listing. A few well publicized lawsuits would probably do much to stem the tide of this growing problem.

Beginning July 1, 2006 eBay will raise affiliate commissions on the low end.  I can’t tell if the move is revenue neutral - only eBay knows, but what is apparent is that they are very interesting in driving interest in their affiliate program with people new to the program.  New affiliates driving $100 - $999.99 in fee revenue winning bids can earn 50% of the fees.  This is up from 40% prior to the new rate schedule becoming effective.

The clowns are loose… a few April Fools collected by GoogleMat.

The sky is falling! You could see this coming a mile away… All you Adsense jokers better get busy replacing that revenue.

In a stunning announcement today, Google reported that it is shutting down its Adsense advertising program - effective immediately.

Already have my copy and this is a real page turner!

The Affiliate Code (available 4.1.06 at all major bookstores) tells the story of a California technology company that will do anything to bring in the big publishers and advertisers to their network.

I previous penned my opinion on Google silently reducing the Adsense qualifying affiliate referral time-period from infinity to 90 days here.  It seems they have, again silently, changed the referral time-period - this time from 90 days to 180 days.  Good move.