Huh? Obviously, right? Amazon pays affiliate commissions on referrals. Why wouldn't a commission be paid if the customer chooses fast, same day service?

Check out this forum thread to get the facts.

Bottom line: Amazon is not paying its affiliates anything if a referral decides to use PrimeNow.

And in case you missed it ... Amazon has been all over the news about its new PrimeNow website and expected huge growth.

Stated another way: huge growth...

If you have ever sold a marketing product you have likely received requests for a review copy. Also known as a freebie.

When should you give out review copies?

Testimonials

If your product is new and you do not have any testimonials then you should strongly consider giving out a review copy.

You will want to evaluate who is asking. Some who ask for review copies only want a free product and will never provide a review. Dealing with...

If you receive a "thin site" penalty from Google this means your website was reviewed and:

1. It is an affiliate site.

2. The reviewer did not see sufficient value.

This can be rough, as you may have spent a lot of time creating your content.

Keep this in mind: Google's internal website rater guidelines instruct that affiliate sites by default are to be considered spam, regardless of their content.

So what are we gonna do...

Here is an issue that bites virtually every new affiliate marketer: structuring affiliate links for easy changes.

Once you've hit by this you learn a quick lesson. It was recently mentioned to me by one of my Elf Links customers and it is a hidden benefit to using Elf Links.

Here's the Problem

You create a bunch of affiliate links on your website. Great! Until the merchant goes out of business, changes their links, you want to use a different merchant, you...

I just saw this on the Warrior Forum, for the umpteenth zillionth time, being regurgitated without any thought, about how to make easy money:

1. Start a blog
2. Collect email addresses
3. Find products to promote as an affiliate

I'll guess 99%+ of Warrior Forum members doing this are making squat.

No one mentions flipping this on its head, where the real money is made - being the product seller.

1. Create a product
...