There are so many people that think just reviewing sales pages is a bad idea. Some will even say "so what if everything on the page is fake...so what if all of the testimonials are made up...so what if the scarcity is completely faked to a ridiculous degree...what I want to know is whether or not it's a good product."

To me if a site has to go far out it's way mislead people to make a sale, then I can't imagine why anyone would really want to purchase anything at all from...

Sometimes I hear people complain that people are promoting products of their friends and business acquaintances. While they certainly have a point when it comes to potential bias, as one affiliate marketer's experience with her promotion of the highly controversial product Blogging To The Bank revealed there is a great need for an affiliate to keep on top of products updates or changes in a company's business practices.

I've experienced this sort of thing myself over the years. There...

When I'm blogging I often forget to do things like use the fields of my SEO plugin to optimize the various SEO-important components of my post. But one thing I've noticed that if you're posting on an authority site that doesn't always really matter.

It's not clear to me exactly how powerful an authority site is, but I do know that it seems to be fairly simple to get top rankings for numerous competitive keywords or to get top rankings for recent product launches such as ranking for...

At any large forum there is often a large amount of forum reply spam. In other words members will post meaningless or nearly meaningless replies in an effort to do one of the following:

1) Get their signature file noticed.
2) Get their post count up to increase their forum benefits (i.e. some forums require that you post a certain number of times before you can have a signature line).

Often it's easy to identify reply spam because the posters engaging in this...

You may not like a lot of the way affiliate marketing was conducted in 2009 but there's an awful lot that can be learned from the phenomenon that can be applied to ethical direct marketing.

For example, fake news sites like News3Insider.com have apparently worked incredibly well. But why?

There's not much new to report on there except what is likely obvious to experienced direct marketers:

1) Using advertorials instead of straight sales pitches (although...