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Re: Hammered by Spammers – Time for DoFollow to Go

Jason Forthofer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:42:22 -0000

It would be nice if bloggers had a comment 'whitelist' of people who contribute regularly. Only posts from people you manually put on a whitelist enjoy the backlink benefit.

Re: Worlds Collide: Mahalo and Affiliate Marketing

Jason Forthofer — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:57:56 -0000

Sam - coincidence I believe. I've created recent affiliate tags in amazon and they all end with the -20.

Re: Worlds Collide: Mahalo and Affiliate Marketing

Jason Forthofer — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:56:41 -0000

I don't notice the amazon affiliate links on everything, but where I do see it, it's not labeled "Sponsored". I was looking on his 'disney movies' page.

Re: Pepperjam Jammed

Jason Forthofer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:05:52 -0000

Seems like good ol' fashioned competition to me. In the end, like with any free market, the customers (advertisers/affiliates) win. Maybe this will bring some networks to lower their network fees.

Further, if merchants are paying less network fees, they can give some of that savings back in increased commissions for affiliates.

Re: I Am No Longer an Affiliate

Jason Forthofer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:27:04 -0000

How deep in the red before all the Amazon and Ebay links at Mahalo turn into affiliate links?

Re: Thank you Jason Calacanis

Jason Forthofer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:17:31 -0000

While I agree with everything Jason said, I don't think Mahalo is really any better. It's a lame directory filled with links from all the big players everyone already knows about.

Look up a movie, it's all IMDB, Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes, etc..

Travel pages are loaded with TripAdvisor, Frommers, Concierge.com, etc...for every travel related page. Real creative.

Part of me just thinks his "ballsy speeches" are just a great way to get us doing exactly what we wants...talking and linking over to Mahalo.

Re: Linkshare is Dead. Long Live Linkshare.

Jason Forthofer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:57:51 -0000

Ya, love the new affiliate side. We just launched a new program with LinkShare so waiting for the clean design to make it's way to the merchant side of things.

Re: Attack of the Comment Monkeys

Jason Forthofer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:20:35 -0000

Scott,

Looks like this post is now # 1 on that search.

Why isn't blog spam prevented by just adding a javascript handler that won't let the comment fields contain a 'www' or 'http' anywhere in the field? Seems like a simple fix to a growing problem. Sure, my name won't link to my blog/site, but is that a big deal?