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Amazon has announced that affiliates can now earn 10% on Unbox referrals. There is no limit to the number of items on which referral fees are earned. Building links to Amazon Unbox downloads is the same as linking other products on Amazon. Below is a description of Unbox from Amazon:

Amazon Unbox allows you and your site visitors to purchase or rent your favorite movies and TV shows to download and watch on your PC – all in DVD quality. High-quality video downloads are the next big thing and Amazon Associates can be a part of this exciting innovation.

Seems to me that Amazon is a bit late in the game as the Apple iTunes store has been doing the tv downloads for a while now. Apple also offers an affiliate program for iTunes, not sure how well it does though.

See, I told you AGLOCO is real! Scoble from PodTech.net interviews two of the founders from AGLOCO.

You’ve heard of PayPerPost, which is a company that pays you to write posts on your blog. Here we hear from Agloco, which takes that idea a little further. If you’re interested in taking advertising on your blogs, this is a good conversation to listen in on.

You can check out the podcast here: PodTech.net : AGLOCO Interview

** Update ** Google has re-included ThemeiPhone.com back into its index. Thanks Google!

So the past week I had been doing some research regarding domain names with the word “iPhone” in them. I just wanted to see what people were registering and what kind of sites where going up. So I wasn’t surprised to see that every variation with the word “iPhone” in them had been taken. I am guessing that Apple (or Cisco?) may have also found this out, and has contacted Google and other search engines to have those sites deleted from their index. So back to my story, when I found out that you can change the wallpaper on the iPhone I had immediately registered themeiphone.com to add to my portfolio of sites which are also wallpaper specific. Last night I checked my SERPS for themeiphone.com and I was #2 for the keyword “iphone wallpapers” on Google. Below my site were a few others which were also going to be iPhone wallpaper sites. Fair enough, I have always liked competitors in this space.

So today I go to check my SERPS for themeiphone.com and it has been deleted from Google’s index! Now I know for a fact that I was not violating Google’s TOS because the site only had a landing page which says “Coming Soon!”. No doorway pages, 301 redirects to that domain, nothing. So I checked on the other sites which were going to be doing wallpapers and they have also been deleted:

Others include:

Your search - site:iphonelive.org - did not match any documents.

Your search - site:themeiphone.com - did not match any documents.

Your search - site:iphonewallpapers.net - did not match any documents.

Your search - site:iphonewallpapers.com - did not match any documents.

So I guess the point of my post is that save your cash and do not register any domain names with the word “iphone” in them. Now I know people are going to say, well you shouldn’t buy domain names with a trademarked word in them. Yes this is true, but most companies dont care if all you are doing is promoting the product in a good way.

I have had a few people, and reporters ask me what browser is used most to hit my site?  Well believe it or not, Internet Explorer outnumbered Firefox by almost 10%.  This really surprises me because I thought more savvy people came to my site for information, but I guess thats not true.  Also I guess its worth mentioning that 92.55% are IE6, and  5.41% were IE7.  As for Firefox 22.71% were version 1.5.0.1, 10.76% version 1.0.7 and 4.27% were version 2.0.

Below are stats for the entire year of 2006.

Below are stats for December of 2006.  As you can see, IE and Firefox are almost at 50/50.

So if you are using Internet Explorer, or any other browser I would suggest you install Firefox not only for security reasons but for an overall better Internet experience!  These stats were taken from Google Analytics.

Bitten by the Google Spider : Google is working on cracking down on arbitrage sites which are using Google AdWords to send traffic to there affiliate sites. I really have to agree with Shoemoney on this, because it is going to be impossible to stop arbitrage. The only way Google will be able to stop it is getting rid of AdWords all together, because they are going to have a hard time deleting the sites out of the index.