June 8, 2006 By

Illegal File Sharing on Rapidshare.de – How to get help

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There’s one thing that have made me really annoyed for the past week. An e-book I published have been circulating illegally on Rapidshare.de – and the worst part – it was almost impossible to get any help from Rapidshare.

They don’t list their contact numbers on the site. I had to whois them and even then there was no response. After several attempts I finally got to the right person. He was helpful and removed the files from being shared across the network.

If your files are being shared illegally on Rapidshare.de, please take note of the email address on the screenshot below. This is the correct email add to send your complaints to. Too bad they didn’t bother to put it on their website!

Illegal file sharing on Rapidshare.de

If you’re an information marketer, you probably realize that’s impossible to stop people from sharing your ebook, and there’s no reason why you should exert your time and enery on chasing or tracking them down.

But sharing your copyrighted information on a public network and giving out the URL in forums is a different matter altogether. It gets worse if others start to report the incident to you and you notice more reports each and every day.

To find if your product is being illegally distributed on Rapidshare, type this in Google:

[file name or keyword here] rapidshare.de/files

My 2.5 cents: Rapidshare may be one of the biggest file sharing networks around, but they have to take responsibility over the content shared by users. If they keep up their lousy reporting and complaints procedure they might just end up like Pirate Bay.

Filed Under: Ebook Marketing, Home Business
June 6, 2006 By

Choosing The Best Links in Commission Junction

If you’re a CJ affiliate (www.cj.com) here are a few tips on maximizing your affiliate revenue.

  1. Select affiliate programs with high network earnings – “Network Earnings” is the little green scale that shows how much this program has paid out to the entire CJ network on average. If the little green bar is full it means that this affiliate program converts well. Generally look for ones with higher network earnings.
  2. Select Links with High 3 Month EPC – EPC shows you how well a certain type of ad (banner ads, feeds, text ads, dynamic ads) are performing. 3-month EPC is more reliable than 7-day EPC.
  3. Read between the lines and convert higher – Don’t rely blindly on the stats, as some of them can be misleading. Read between the lines and you’ll find a better conversion rate.

The example below shows that a 486X60 banner converts the highest. If you have experience using banners, you’ll know that the CTR (click through rate) for banners is disgustingly low. So how come a banner ad converts the most for this ‘credit report’ affiliate program?

The answer – the landing page is what really converts. So it’s not about the banner, it’s about where the banner takes the visitor to.

CJ Stats

Here’s what you can do: Check the HTML code section for the banner and copy only the affiliate link used. See the “Destination Page” details on your CJ account manager. Then use this link in a text format in your email marketing or as part of editorial content on you website.

Text ads convert much better than banner ads. If the stats shows you that banner ads perform higher than text ads, something’s not right.

90% of the time, it’s because the text link and the banner links point to different landing pages, and it so happens that the landing pages used by the banners convert at a much higher rate.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Home Business