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Amazon Ends Relationship with North Carolina Affiliates

North Carolina residents who are Amazon Affiliates recently received an email telling them the company would be ending its relationships with them due to the North Carolina state legislature getting ready to, as Amazon puts it, "enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme." What the North Carolina government is proposing would apply sales tax to purchases made through online affiliates based in NC. It has not yet passed.

No More PPC for Amazon Associates

Amazon is ending the payment of referral fees to associates in North America using pay-per-click (PPC) to get traffic. This is effective beginning May 1st. The change is not temporary. Amazon will not reinstate payment of referral fees to paid search associates. They say the decision to make the change is based on their review of how they invest their advertising resources.

eBay Affiliate Program Goes In-House

I don’t know if this had anything to do with Shoemoney’s cajoling but eBay is going solo and bringing their affiliate program in-house. They’re calling it the eBay Partner Network and launched a new blog about it.

PepperJam's New Affiliate /CPA Network

You’ve probably seen quite a bit of coverage for the newly launched Pepperjam Network (PJN for short) a new affiliate /CPA network launched by Pepperjam, a full service internet marketing agency. Will you bring your affiliate income to the next level by promoting PJN affiliate programs?

Mirroring Websites by Giving Affiliates Subdomains

Question: We were thinking of mirroring our website by giving affiliates subdomains with our content like xyz.oursite.com. Is this a good idea or a duplicate content nightmare?

Amazon Affiliates Burned at the Stake

Whilst the blogosphere has been ranting or raving about Amazon's new Kindle Ebook reader, I have been sleeping on the idea.

More Stress On AdWords Landing Page Guidelines

Google is laying a lot of stress on landing page guidelines. For this, AdWords has new list of FAQs. The Inside AdWords blog has a post called, "Websites that may merit a low landing page quality score" which mentions the kinds of websites that will be penalized with low landing page quality scores:

Is Google Replacing Affiliates With Big Brand Spenders?

Google's search for utmost relevancy is hitting affiliate marketers hard, who are noticing their best converters diminishing as keyword prices raise. Relevancy has been the company's buzzword, but critics say it's more about the Almighty Coin (pr. Kwan).

How Long Until Search Engines are the Biggest Affiliates

MSN is considering adding images to their search ads.

Local TV Affiliates Threatened by Internet

Greg Sandoval looks at the growing fear among local TV stations that their livelihood is at risk in part due to the rise of the Internet.