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So I was listening to the recent Shoemoney podcast and heard Jeremy and Jon talking about some ways of attracting traffic to convert into affiliate sign-ups. This one killed me-

You go to craigslist and place an ad for a young single girl looking for a date. How many guys do you think will reply to an ad like that? Lots I figure. Especially since some of these guys are pros at writing ad copy.

Then they collect all those emails and reply to them with an affiliate link to some dating site, stating that they are uncomfortable going any further with the email correspondence directly, they’d rather go through the online site for protection or some nonsense.

The poor sods who fall for this become victims and the perpetrators become 4 bucks give or take richer.

This takes the cake of slime ball tactics online. If you can’t make 4 bucks without conning somebody you’re pretty pathetic in my book.

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Some more good news from Chitika-

Chitika publishers who have referred other publishers to the system will now receive referal fees for 15 months instead of 12!

If you’re like me and started referring people from when they started the program (around 12 months ago) now will continue to earn 10% of the earnings of those that they referred until the end of the year instead of having it end around now.

Considering the next three months are the best months for online advertising, this is timely and welcome.

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Chitika is testing a brand new ad unit call the Related Products Unit.

The related products unit (nicknamed: RPU) is a little ad unit that publichers will have at their disposal that will show related products and offers. You can see how they look on this page.

feedbuzzard was one of the lucky twenty website owners to be selected to test these new ad units. It’s too early for me to be able to comment on the CTR and eCPM of these units but I am optimisitic they’ll do well on my sites which are frequented by shoppers looking for products.

You can read more about these ad units at Chitika’s Related Products Unit (RPU) Frequently Asked Questions page.

Thanks Chitika for giving us new and improved tools!

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