Author: 
BrettSchaefer
Posted on: 20th October 2008
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Affiliate Spam - Users Beware!
The modern variation of the practice of paying finder’s-fees for the introduction of new clients to a business, is a popular method of promoting Internet businesses called, ’affiliate marketing’. An affiliate marketer is paid for every visitor, subscriber, or customer provided to an Internet business because of his efforts. There are several ways to generate money in affiliate marketing, for example, they can use any of the following: Pay per Click (PPC), Pay per Lead (registrant) or by commission from sales Pay per Sale.
You can see where an affiliate marketer would be sorely tempted to send out emails advertising the products he already promotes and makes money on. SPAM was the result from this, contributing to the deciding factor to the anti-spam laws passed to help prevent it. There is a strict fine to spammers and in addition to this, there is now a penalty for any merchant that is associated with spammers, making them accountable too. Now, merchants need to be very careful because of this.
Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to their online sales channel, should research the different technological solutions available to them. Now that affiliate marketing has grown, a good number of affiliate merchants now have updated their terms and contracts to safeguard against spamming. There are several types of affiliate marketing management resources available, such as: hosted services, standalone software, shopping carts with affiliate features and even affiliate third party networks.
People whose intention is to create web pages that will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the listing of their website, put their page close to the top of the search engine lists or to influence the way they are assigned in a category is called, ’Spamdexing’.
Right now there is a lot of debate about the affiliate practice of Spamdexing and many affiliates have converted from sending email spam to creating large volumes of automatically generated web pages, each devoted to different niche keywords as a way of using the search engine optimize their sites. This is sometimes referred to as spamming the search engine results. Spam is the biggest threat to organic Search Engines whose goal is to provide quality search results for keywords or phrases entered by their users.
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