A visitor of my site who read some of my product data feed resources contacted me with an interesting question about how to deal with availability and SEO issues when you are utilizing merchant product feeds.

If I build a website…

I was updating and expanding my affiliate product data feeds and APIs resources at Cumbrowski.com, in particular the resources to the product feeds and store builder feature provided by the PepperJam affiliate network, which was launched about one year ago.

I liked what…

Somebody contacted me recently with some very specific questions about affiliate product data feeds.

“I have an Affiliate company with 1 other person and right now we have a little over 1000 SEO-based sites. We want to add product data from…

The old affiliate model’s walls are crumbling and have been for years now. The misguided Amazon tax is just just another sign of the times. So what’s next? I believe there are a bevy of options that are being overlooked. Let’s have a look…

Microsoft IE Security MVP, Sandi Hardmeier, pinged me earlier this weekend over yet another problematic advertisement in a big network. She blogs again on the elusive “Winfixer”, or you can pick a name among many, for this deceptive software scam.…

DuPont sponsors Jeff Gordon’s Nascar, but have you seen their new science video content? Ford is a perennial super bowl advertiser, but they also produce the Ford Bold Moves campaign.

These are just two examples of traditional advertisers blurring the lines between advertiser…

Shotguns and Mud Puddles

In the “shotgun into mud puddles beta experimental podcast” I participated in with Sam Harrelson we touched on Google Adsense and CPC arbitrage (sometimes called “Click Flipping”) noting some of the research I had conducted in the…

Moving into the weekend I hooked up with Sam Harrelson to continue some of our Gonzo conversations we started at Affiliate Summit West with some experimental collaboration. Based on CPN’s first Beta Podcast in response to my Slumsense post. Yes- there are extensive…

Sam reports at CostPerNews

Taking advantage of the system or optimizing it?

Either way, AdSense is a poor way to advertise and a worse way to monetize. Unless you just want short term gains. Then, by all means… run as many contextual…

(NASDAQ: GOOG) According to staff writers at WebProNews Google is outsourcing their YouTube filtering. Two unnamed sources, per Mercury News, stepped out saying that Google will soon unveil filtering technology from third party filtering provider, AudibleMagic. I would note the same…