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Share On Twitter – A New Amazon Associates Feature

Now you can share Amazon affiliate links on Twitter! Amazon is releasing a new feature for Amazon Associates that is available today. The purpose of the feature is to facilitate the affiliate marketing efforts of their associates. If you visit Amazon.com while logged in using your Amazon Associate credentials, you will see a new bar available at the top of your screen. The "Share on Twitter" button located on this toolbar will allow you to quickly...

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Social Media Affiliate Marketing Guide 101 – With Amazon

This guide is a summary of proper methods and guidelines for affiliate marketing on social media. This is also a follow up to the first article No Precedence For Social Media: Amazon Hangs Us Out To Dry. The purpose of this guide is to help affiliate marketers find success and make money with affiliate marketing in social media. Follow this comprehensive guide from start to finish and feel confident in the fact that...

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Twitroduce: A Fresh Approach to Twitter Social Networking

There is a new Twitter app that has a fresh approach to Twitter social networking. It is called Twitroduce. It has been described as a service that formalizes #FollowFriday, except for it makes sense every day of the week. You know #FollowFriday or #ff, the popular hash tag to use on Friday's where you recommend people to follow?

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Twitter Tip: Utilizing RSS & Yahoo Pipes

I have always been a huge fan of RSS. More specifically, I have been a fan of XML. Quite a few of the projects I have worked on past and present have utilized XML to standardize data. RSS really is just a specific type of standardized XML. The purpose of RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is, as you may have guessed, to syndicate content. The most common use of RSS is to...

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No Precedence For Social Media – Amazon Hangs Us Out To Dry

A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing And Amazon.com Recently I had an interesting interaction with Amazon's affiliate program. Rather than telling you the story from start to finish, I am going to Tarantino it. I am going to tell you what happened, and then take you on a journey. Amazon.com refused to pay any commission on a link that I distributed through Twitter and Facebook, sending me a link to their T&C as the reasoning.

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Twitter SEO – The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags

Hash tags are a fad. Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and reading a book written in another language. When Twitter hit the big time, just a couple months before the landmark "@oprah" show, all of the trending topics on Twitter were hash tags. It was new, it was cool, it was hip to know what a hash tag was. And if...

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Twitter SEO – the Future of Keywords

The future in search appears to be how real-time data is going to be accessed by users. Twitter is at the forefront of this with its enormous feed of status updates from its users. As we speak, the data is being parsed by hundreds of websites that use the Twitter API. This data is manipulated in many different ways. However, there is one way to search this data that will always be true, keywords. We all know...