Author: Shock Marketer

  • How to Hide Affiliate Links

    These are essentially a few ways to make it look like you are not an affiliate to the average visitor. If you ask a person on the street, if they know what affiliate marketing is, they will most likely have no idea what you are talking about. However, your links are likely to look strange…

  • Marketing & Psychology of the “Neg” Theory

    This has been used on purpose by copywriters for a long period of time to drive more sales.  It works based on admitting imperfection and appearing to show disqualification. Marketing a product/service as being the best or perfect is ridiculous.  And, most consumers know this, but it’s continually done by brands and marketers.  Admitting imperfections…

  • Deceptive Internet Marketing

    In case you’re wondering, this post is not going to be a rant on Acai berry rebills.  This is going to be more about how marketers are channeling a customer’s motivation or knowledge to buy a certain product in a deceptive way. Barack Obama – example 1 Okay, a simple search for “barack obama” reveals…

  • The Perfect Affiliate Network Anti-Scrubbing Script

    Yes, a very long title, indeed. Disclaimer: You’re not alone if you have to read this post 2-5 times to fully understand it. After I posted about how I was split-testing networks, I immediately switch all of my traffic over to an affiliate network (for one particular offer). However, after I switched, my conversions continuously…

  • SEO Copywriting and Its Importance

    As others start to determine that Google ranks on more of user-action (specifically bounce-rate), an SEO is no longer just going to be focusing on the science of organic rankings, but also its art. As we know, Google cannot be studied as an artform; it is a computer and entirely inanimate.  However, if its algorithm…