Shawn Collins' Blog

Affiliate marketing and other stuff from Shawn Collins, co-founder of Affiliate Summit.

Archives for October 2004

Affiliate Sweepstakes from ARC

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Andy Rodriguez Consulting has launched the ‘Get Lucky In Las Vegas Sweepstakes‘ to give their affiliates a chance to win a Grand Prize worth more than $4,000.

The Grand Prize consists of:

– Up to $250 airfare allowance per person for a maximum of two (2) people – $500.00 SRV
– Hotel stay at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas for two (2) nights – $378.00 SRV
– Champagne and Massage Gift Package at the Aladdin Elemis Spa – $200.00 SRV
– 4 Piece Luggage Set – $350.00 SRV
– Women’s Personalized Diamond Initial Pendant – $495.00 SRV
– Men’s Sterling Silver Money Clip, Key Chain and Cuffs – $155.00 SRV
– Gift certificate to MagazineAgent.com – $100.00 SRV
– 3 Month’s supply of weight loss product – $199.99 SRV
– Deluxe Poker Game Set – $60.00 SRV
– Shopping Spree Gift Certificate to BettyMills.com – $275.00 SRV
– Limited Edition Vegas board game set – $ 25.00 SRV
– 5 Bundle Set Gambling Software Games – $25.00 SRV
– 3 Mega Pixel Digital Camera – $ 250.00 SRV
– AndyRodriguez.com – $500.00 Cash Spending Money
– ABestWeb.com – $500.00 Cash Spending Money

The sweepstakes runs through 12/31/04 and they will be picking a winner on or around 1/17/05.

Visit http://www.andyrodriguez.com/vegasrules.html for the rules.

Protect Your Content

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When it comes to making money on the Internet, content will always be king. You don’t necessarily monetize the content directly, but it’s a great tool to lure in vistors to expose them to targeted advertising.

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Here’s how it works – you buy or write quality content, it gets spidered by the search engines, and then targeted traffic comes to your site.

But content doesn’t come cheap, and you’ve got to be a decent write to put out engaging content that will attract visitors. Unfortunately, in order to overcome the barrier of obtaining quality content, some creeps take a shortcut and steal the articles, reviews, etc. from other sites.

In the past, it was difficult to catch this sort of thing. But then Indigo Stream Technologies (creators of Google Alert – not affiliated with Google) made a service called Copyscape available.

Just plug in your URL at copyscape.com and you can find out who has been fleecing you (and your commissions). Take that, plagiarists!