comment spam

I’m amazed. I posted 2 comments on the trafficsynergy blog in the last few hours, and already there is comment spam on the last 2 postings. If this trend continues, then I’ll have to suspend comments, and if visitors want to comment on the postings, then they’ll rather have to email me the comments, and I’ll post them on the traffic synergy blog.

 

For those who are not aware what comment or blog spam is, it’s simply the method of adding a comment to a blog with the only objective of getting your site mentioned and your url hyperlinked. This results in an incoming link to your site, and if done from the right site, it is good for getting extra traffic from the search engines, as the incoming links results in good search engine optimization practice, which results in your site being listed higher in the search engine rankings.

 

I’m honoured that people believe the trafficsynergy blog is good enough to comment spam on (I guess it does have a rather attractive page rank) but unfortunately comment spam does nothing to add value to the many visitors who read the traffic synergy blog on a daily basis.

 

Therefore, I’ll have to watch over the next few days, and see whether there is any further blog spam – if there is, then I’ll have to consider stopping comments from being posted on the traffic synergy blog (which is a pity as it was meant to be an interactive blog), but I’m thinking that perhaps it’s also a good idea to have a forum for people to discuss issues related to the traffic synergy affiliate network and internet marketing in general.

 

 

baidu being accused

An interesting story has been reported on a number of affiliate marketing message boards and forums, that Baidu, which is the large Chinese search engine, one of the owners being google (I recall that they own about 2% of the company), has been attacking the servers of a chinese e-commerce site, 8848. Baidu recently ipo’d for a huge sum of money, and it will be interesting to see how they respond to this accusation.

number-one-affiliate-network

After I wrote the article on how to promote an online offer using an offline marketing stategy, I thought I’d see who is using the domain Number-One-Affiliate-network.com (note that I used dashes between the words – whether you should use the words with dashes is a conversation that I’ll write about at a later date – but I have to tell you that I’ve spent many hours over a cold beer with other internet marketers debating whether urls with or without dashes are better – and we still don’t have a definitive conclusion).

 

It’s interesting to see that no-one appears to be using the number-one-affiliate-network.com (with dashes). Don’t all rush out to register it at once! J

offline marketing an online offer

There are so many different ways to promote an offer. Everyone has different ways, so I thought I’d lay out some of the most common methods, so you can see how others are doing it as well. In the future, we’ll try delve a little deeper into the different forms of promoting the merchants offers. I’ll start with offline marketing.

 

Offline Marketing is making smart marketers a lot of money.

 

Believe it or not, some affiliates are doing well using offline methods, such as advertising on radio, tv or the press, or doing offline PR. The first question people always ask is how you use offline marketing to promote online offers as you have to give a long url fulled with your affiliate ID so that your visitors get tracked.

 

Here’s a little secret that some of the top affiliate marketers use. Register a domain name which is memorable, and simply redirect it to your affiliate URL. Simple, but few use this innovative way of marketing offline. So when you are being interviewed on the radio, or place a classified in a targeted magazine or newspaper or take out an advert somewhere, you use your unique domain name. As an example, if you are promoting an offer for our affiliate network, TrafficSynergy, using the url which we give you, for offline marketing is a little cumbersome, and there won’t be that many people offline who go and type in the entire url.

 

So go and spend the 10 bucks and register a domain like www.number-one-affiliate-network.com (that’s just an example as it probably has been already registered).

 

But when you promote offline, you now advertise that URL and it redirects to your affiliate URL.

 

And when people tell each other about the advert they saw or the radio show they were listening to, they’ll mention the number-one-affiliate-network.com as the URL – and you get credit.

Lots happening @ TrafficSynergy

Well, we’re all very excited. There are a lot of new and exciting changes taking place at the TrafficSynergy affiliate network. Watch this space, as we are going to make a number of announcements in the weeks and months to come.