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	<title>Monetize</title>
	<link>http://merged.ca/monetize</link>
	<description>Making your site make more money in the minimum amount of time</description>
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		<title>One Hermit&#8217;s Review of Web Directions North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the last industry conference I went to was SIGGRAPH in 1997. It was about the same time that I was learning the magic of &#60;tables&#62; and 1-pixel gifs. So I&#8217;ve been to a conference or two in the distant past, but in recent years I&#8217;ve hermited myself away in my own little corner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2007_02_10/one-users-review-of-web-directions-north/</link>
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		<title>CJ: Is Tracking Off or Just Reporting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two advertisers have confirmed it via email. Lead reporting through Commission Junction has been negatively affected by recent changes.
From LowerMyBills.com:
On Friday our analysts discovered a discrepancy between the leads generated for our Home Equity product and the leads being tracked in CJ.
From Savings.com:
As many of you already know, CJ has been experiencing technical problems post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_28/cj-is-tracking-off-or-just-reporting/</link>
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		<title>What All Affiliate Managers Should Know About CJ&#8217;s Javascript Links and the Link Management Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at Revenews, Beth Kirsch outlines Commission Junction&#8217;s Link Management Initiative specifically for Affiliate Managers. She is head of the affiliate program for LowerMyBills.com, a highly successful CJ merchant, and has so far reserved judgment on the switch to Javascript as the network&#8217;s default link format. In today&#8217;s post she asks the critical question of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_26/what-all-affiliate-managers-should-know-about-cjs-javascript-links/</link>
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		<title>Can Your Site Survive a Digg?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At its peak, a front page story on Digg will send dozens of visitors per second to your website. Is it ready for the traffic?
Having a link on the front page of Digg.com presents websites with one of the fastest influxes of traffic possible. Similar waves of traffic might come from Slashdot.org or a national [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_24/will-your-website-survive-a-digg/</link>
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		<title>CJ: It Wasn&#8217;t Broken and It Isn&#8217;t Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since there is no longer an official Commission Junction forum, this post will serve as a central collection point for issues raised by the introduction of LMI and Javascript links. This entry will change as new issues appear so be sure to refresh the page on each visit.
LMI: Things That Will Never Be Fixed
• Users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_23/cj-it-wasnt-broken-and-it-isnt-fixed/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s New Ad Network: CPA Affiliate Sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google announced a new product to select publishers today, indicating a move away from their trouble-laden CPC network, Adsense. The new Google advertising program, called the Content Referral Network, will pay webmasters when a user completes a specific action, such as purchasing a product or completing a lead form. This differs from Adsense where the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_21/googles-new-ad-network-cpa-affiliate-sales/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Data Push&#8221; Affecting Alexa, Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to the 7 billion page spammer, Google PR reps responded that only a fraction of the billions of pages were actually indexed, and that there is a problem with the site: search operator. If the spammer did not have so many pages indexed, how did he achieve an Alexa rank as the 700th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_20/googles-bad-data-push-must-have-been-affecting-alexa-too/</link>
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		<title>Search Engines Can&#8217;t Tell Shit From Shinola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one lesson to be learned from the recent exposure of the spammy underbelly of large search engines it is that original content is now deemed worthless.
Any attempt to build traffic to your website by publishing unique opinions or interesting reading material is being discouraged; you cannot compete with a computer script that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_20/search-engines-cant-tell-shit-from-shinola/</link>
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		<title>Proof: Spammer with Billions of Indexed Pages Moves Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s outing of the 7 billion page spammer has generated an enormous amount of interest. Enough interest that a Google PR rep posted on Digg that this was all part of a &#8220;bad data push&#8221; and that the error wasn&#8217;t with the index, but with the site: operator:
Our engineers recently noticed that our site: queries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_18/proof-spammer-with-billions-of-indexed-pages-moves-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Step-by-Step: How to Get BILLIONS of Pages Indexed by Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most SEOs know, MSN loves the subdomains. You can make hundreds of keyworded subdomains and MSN will think quite highly of the pages. Same goes for blogspot and other blogs&#8211; they do very well on MSN and sometimes on Yahoo. Now Google and the new BigDaddy crawler is showing an even more idiotic preference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merged.ca/monetize/2006_06_17/step-by-step-how-to-get-billions-of-pages-indexed-by-google/</link>
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