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Simple non-U.S. visitor redirect for your affiliate landing pages

Even with proper geo-targeting set up for your campaigns, search engines and ad networks will sometimes send you traffic from countries you did not request. In that case, it's probably better for you to redirect them to an appropriate offer that takes traffic from their country. If you let the affiliate network do the redirecting, [...]

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Invalid clicks on Facebook and account credited

Over the last couple weeks, I've run a few test campaigns on Facebook Ads. I was disappointed to see that about half the clicks Facebook said I got were not recorded by my Tracking202 installation. I thought maybe it was a problem with the speed of the server the Tracking202 software was on (a somewhat [...]

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Do Link Injection Techniques Help With Search Engine Ranking?

I've discovered an Alexa top 2000, PR8 (front page) e-commerce site that is vulnerable to search box link injection techniques. Do these techniques still carry any weight with search engines, or have their algorithms completely discounted, if not punished, them? I've got an experiment going, and I'll let you know the results in 6-8 weeks.
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MaxMind GeoLite Country and GeoLite City Made Easy

Some consumers are up in arms because that fake blog they read by someone who just happens to be from the same city they live in, turns out to be a bit phony. They're surprised to find out that a piece of software is behind the trick, which does a GeoIP lookup on their IP [...]

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Meeting Facebook Ads’ Landing Page Requirements

I've been experimenting with the Facebook Ads platform a bit, seeing what they will approve, how much traffic costs, and how well it converts. As with most subjects, jumping in and experimenting teaches you a great deal of things, in a very rapid fashion. I highly recommend this method, as long as you have an [...]

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Keywords AJmain and GGmain showing up in Tracking202 data

I've been using Prosper202 to track keyword searches and performance for some affiliate marketing experiments we're doing. It's a very nice product, with a lot of information available on which keywords people search for before clicking on your ads. It takes a fair amount of setup, but once in place, the information that can be [...]

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