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I was updating the content on my page of Free SMS Services, and noticed that, as you’d expect, several of these had disappeared without a trace. That’s not so bad, I just remove the link and move on…

…except there’s something else I could do - check to see if the domain name has expired. In this instance one of them, MentionIt.com.au was expired, and 5 minutes later (after paying $25 to Hostess) I owned it. The beauty of doing this is that already has links to it from 57 other sites, mostly ringtone/SMS related. Once I’ve added some content, there’s no reason why it can’t have a Google PageRank of 3 or 4, be receiving free search visitors, and generating an affiliate income via ads for SMS or ringtone services.

You won’t find one of these every day, but they can be an easy way to make a quick buck if you catch one.

I’m a merchant with ClixGalore, but only at the most basic level, and for me it has proven the old adage - you get what you pay for. My biggest two gripes would be

- the site doesn’t work properly in Firefox
- 95% of the affiliates applying are of the “bad neighbourhood” variety

Over at ABestWeb an Aussie is relating a very negative experience with ClixGalore, made especially worse by the fact he paid for the very top-of-the-line Corporate Platinum service. Despite this, he has great difficulty even getting someone to respond to his emails & phone calls, let alone the corporate features promised.

It’s just one person’s opinion, but feels accurate. Read here… 

That’s what you can earn from World Vision’s affiliate program via DGM UK.

Doesn’t sound quite right to me - paying lots of money to marketers for finding folk who will make donations. If World Vision are willing to pay me such a huge commission, who else are they bribing paying, and how much actually makes it to the intended destination?

Given the high cost of TV ads, and what they are offering affiliates, I dispute their official figures of:

“87% of funding went to programs, 8% went to fundraising and 5% went to management & general”

I suspect that some creative accounting is being used! I can’t help think of charity workers in Africa driving brand new Range Rovers and eating 4-course meals…

Amazon had one of the very first affiliate programs, and almost a decade later they are still innovating. An aStore is a customisable subset of Amazon, used to promote products that your audience might like. It is stored on an Amazon server, and is really easy to set up. Shawn Collins loves it, as do I.
For this end of the world, it is best suited to products that are not available here, otherwise shipping costs are a killer.