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PayPoster is the Future of Affiliate Marketing!

PayPoster is a new guerilla marketing resource that utilizes QR code technology to embed web-linked affiliate advertisements into printed posters and flyers for distribution in the real world. Once posted, smart phone users can easily scan them, and be taken to a web site.  PayPoster’s growing army of guerilla marketers are paid commissions on sales generated by the flyers and posters they distribute.

Here at Affiliate Millions, we believe PayPoster is the future of not only affiliate marketing but guerilla marketing too.

Be sure to go to the site and sign up; It’s FREE and easy for anyone to start making extra income immediately!

Onward and Upward!

Tony

Amazon still Allows Direct Search Marketing.

With the announcement last month that eBay UK would join eBay US in disallowing direct search marketing, I decided to check on another favorite brand of mine, Amazon.com, to make sure they still allow the practice.

After reading their updated terms and conditions, I was completely uncertain, so I simply wrote the Amazon Associates Program and asked them.  Here is the relevant protion of their reply;

“You are still welcome to advertise Amazon.com on search engines and link directly to our site. However, please note that we do not allow the use of Amazon keywords or any variation of the word Amazon for the search terms of the ad. You are welcome to use “Amazon” in the ad title, ad copy and the display URL.”

Perhaps this is a bit of a non-news item, since Amazon’s policy on direct search remains unchanged, but I felt my reader’s might be wondering, with other big companies moving away from direct search, and since the terms and conditions did not clearly state whether or not this was allowed, I felt I should help get a clear answer out there for everyone.

Tony

eBay UK follows eBay US and disallows direct search for affiliates

I received the following email from eBay UK yesterday.  It seems they will no longer allow direct search for affiliate advertisers. 

Dear Affiliate,

The eBay.co.uk team is constantly re-evaluating the affiliate programme and in doing so has decided on a couple of changes detailed below.

New Rules for Paid Search AffiliatesUnfortunately, from 1st February 2008 we will no longer compensate for Paid Search traffic from Google, Yahoo or MSN, if directly linked to an ebay.co.uk page. After this time, any earnings from revenue or ACRUs generated through direct Paid Search will be reversed. This applies to the UK affiliate programme only. For further details click here.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all Paid Search affiliates for the hard work they’ve put in since joining the programme – the eBay UK affiliate team really appreciate your commitment.

But it doesn’t all have to end here! We’d love to keep you on board, so do check out the other business models out there and as an added incentive for you to do so, see the announcement about the pricing increase below. We really want to keep you as part of the eBay team, so if you’d like to discuss your options with us, you can always contact us using the following email address: ukaffiliates@ebay.com



Pricing Increase for eBay.co.uk AffiliatesGood news, early in 2008 we’re increasing the eBay.co.uk affiliate programme pricing to continue to reward and recognise quality traffic & incentivise further growth from our affiliates. We’ll be publishing the new payment structure very soon – do look out for further communication from us.



Merry Christmas and we wish you all the best for 2008,

Cian & Julia
The eBay.co.uk Affiliate Managers