Spam, New Contact Form, Aweber and Email Updates!
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New Contact Us Form
Seems that some idiots felt they had the right to add my email into their autoresponder just for using the form. So my response to this is to REMOVE the Aweber form in place of a regular Spam free contact form. I also want to alert everyone to the fact that my main email address has been officially TERMINATED!
I have used that email address since the launch of this website way back in 2002. However even with the aid of MailWasherPro to automatically filter out the “crap”, the level of Spam has grown to such ridiculous level that I had to get rid of my main contact email address once and for all!
Now once again I have taken back control of my inbox. I really loathe support systems so for now I steered way from that option. I know I works well for some but I want to keep things simple on this website.
Ticket Support Systems
One thing I do like about support tickets is the built in feature where you can enter the most frequently asked question so before people send in their questions they can check the pre-written answers before continuing with their enquiry.
For instance Rosalind Gardner’s support system is set up nicely. She has very competent virtual assistant who will answer questions promptly and courtesy in good time.
Well I’m not a famous as young Ros :wink: but I can understand how the support ticket system sets her free from inundated with emails. Plus give her more time to spend in her pool eh!
So be good and DO NOT enter my email address into your hosted autoresponder systems because I will continue to report people for this. I only wish these people used Aweber they would lose their accounts in a blink of an eye. 
Contact Via Skype
Regular subscribers and visitors have always been courteous. In fact the best way to contact me is via Skype.
I’ve used Yahoo Messenger and Google Chat but now I’m a die hard fan of Skype. Especially as I can keep in contact with friends and family members outside of the UK and not have to worry about long distance phone calls. All toll free chats with other registered Skype users.
I even spoke with my Floridian buddy during the early hours of the morning to catch up on our latest endeavors all for free.
So you can be sure I will get all text messages as soon as I log in.
Love Skype, Love Broadband, Love the Internet!
Feedback
Thanks to several regular and new customers from New York who contacted me by phone to let me know that one of my emails bounced. This can be a warning sign that there is a potential scam. You buy a product and then cannot contact the seller if there is a problem. I called him back to assure him that I had changed emails and regularly changed download links and made an error copying the new destination URL which resulted in him getting nothing but a 404 error page. I also emailed him the download link and waited until he had his product. Not many people would do that for a customer but I was able to reassure him and develop trust and a lasting friendship. Thanks also for joining the newsletter too!
See the new “Contact Us Page“!
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Nancy P Redford
Besides there would be no point wring a book about the Top 30 Scams and Shams if I myself were not legit. :shock:
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What Is Reverse Marketing
You send and someone subscribe to your newsletter to get your email address and then they send you their ads or links to a business opportunity. But do you think this would tarnish your reputation, especially as you have not established a relationship prior to contacting the list owner?
Some people have even gone as far as to make phone call to leave a message like
“Want to earn $10,000 this month then call me on …”
Hmm I would reply with something like $10,000 is not enough. You obviously cannot help me. Ha-ha
But really I cannot be bothered to waste my time to respond to their messages.
I have heard from several of my network marketing friends who are becoming frustrated with these tactics. They have even gone as far as to call them back to give them a verbal showdown. But why waste your phone bill and time.
Scraping Webmaster Emails Into Autoresponders
One thing I have been personally plagued with early this year is people scraping my contact email from my website and adding me to their self hosted autoresponder. Now this gets my attention but not in a positive way. I contact the person, who is stupid enough to not only be representing a home business program [where these kinds of tactics would get them kicked off the program immediately] but they also have their picture on their web page and HTML email messages.
So they have made it very easy for me to report them and display their picture on a wall of shame web page if I desired.
So far a short return email informing them that they subscribed me WITHOUT my express permission and I would be sending copies of all offending email to the program owners has prompted them to CEASE and DESIST! 
So much for FTC rules and good email marketing practices.
This only gives me the stark impression that they have no clue how to market to get willing opt-ins and that they are so desperate that they risk losing their PAID business over their stupidity.
Responding To Spam
Now I’ve been told that some sales can be made from responding to spam messages with your own offers and services but do you really want to let people know your email address is LIVE and risk even further bombardment with unsolicited email messages?
Worse still they may turn around and report YOU for spamming them!
Subscribing With Your Autoresponder
Oh boy!
What can I say. In these dark ages we have to tell people not to use an autoresponder when filling out web forms. However some people think this is perfectly acceptable and continues to mess up your newsletter subscriptions.
Conclusion
It seems to me that some people enjoy chasing their tail and going round and round in circles. Just the thought of some of these kind of time wasting tactics makes me dizzy. Don’t spend time responding unless you need to remove your email from their autoresponder, use my tip as above if they are marketing an affiliate program.
Hit the good old “DELETE” button and get on with your daily tasks. If the reverse marketer is on your autoresponder and is persistent simply “UNSUBSCRIBE” their email address manually. Be sure to use software like MailWasher Pro to scan your email messages on your server before downloading to your inbox.
There are some people who truly understand what it means to NETWORK and may contact you to genuinely exchange ideas and network with you. Maybe even form a lasting business relationship and engage in a Joint Venture so don’t be too hasty until you’ve worked out their TRUE intentions.
Do you use these kind of reverse marketing tactics and if so what do you hope to gain from it?
Do you have any other tips to deal with reverse marketing or experiences you would like to share? You are welcome to add your comments.
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eBay Cracks Down On Ebook and Digital Product Sellers
STOP and desist orders have literally been issued on eBay sellers!
According to news from 5Star Affiliate Programs owner, Linda Buquet as from March 31st eBay listings cannot contain digital downloads of any kind. The only place sellers can list their information products is within the eBay classifieds section. This could be viewed as an early April Fool’s prank but it appears to be very serious.
Top Tips
1. Burn your information products onto CD for shipping
2. Use your “About Me Page” to link to your website where you can sell ebooks and information products direct.
3. Add your digital products as back end to sales in your thank you emails.
The Benefits of Selling Information Products
- No postage costs
- No physical inventory
- Can be set up to deliver to buyers automatically
Disadvantages of Selling Digital Information Products
- People can request refunds and keep your product
- Files can easily be shared amongst other non buyers meaning rapid depreciation in value
How do you feel about being cast away to eBay classifieds?
Could this be a ploy to get more people to use eBay classifieds and further boost eBay’s incoming traffic?
Or is this a blatant crack down on information products? Maybe due to feedback from customers or the new management making radical changes!
I’m sure there are some more innovative ideas to keep you in business. Share them with other readers by leaving your feedback via the comments.
Spam, Scams and Autoresponder Nightmares!
How to choose an autoresponder that won’t get you banned, anger your customers and drag your credibility down the toilet!
How long would you consider reasonable for a list owner to manually remove your email address from their mailing list?
How about 24 hours or within a few days or so. Maybe they’ve been away from their computer so a week or two at the most should be reasonable enough.
Well how about NEVER!
I’ve unsubscribed myself from several affiliate programs over time mainly because I decided not to promote their products or the conversion rates were unsatisfactory. Anyway to cut a long story short I have been trying to unsubscribe from a credit card affiliate program email updates. I received a personal message from their admin that my email address had been manually removed and I kept all reply messages just in case. Yet more than 7 months later I find yet another unwanted email from them.
What is up with them?
The reason I dropped this company is because I was actively promoting my affiliate link and when I sent an email to make an enquiry into the location of the statistics page I received a “Page Not Found” error message so naturally I sent an email to the Affiliate Manager for answers.
The reply back was that they had changed the affiliate tracking system and had issued new links. Frthermore I would receive ZERO credit for any sign ups generated from the old links, even though they were still redirecting as normal to their product pages.
I was then instructed to sign up again with their new system.
I wrote back and told them to forget about it and that I don’t want to be affiliated with the company any longer. I also instructed them to remove my name, email address and personal details from their mailing list.
They obviously did not remove my email address and do not remove ANY BOUNCED MESSAGES because that I have set up MailWasherPro to bounce all messages from their domain months ago!
With all of the talk about FTC and email practices what does this kind of blatant spamming. Yes, I could change my email address but I have had enough of doing this over and over again.
Unsubscribe Me Now
Their emails to not have an unsubscribe link in them at all forcing you to contact them direct in hope that they will remove you.
They give me the distinct impression that they have absolutely NO INTENTION
of removing me. I hadn’t even noticed their messages because of my email settings. MailWasherPro automatically remembers my preferences for Spam messages plugging cheap prescription drugs, replica watches and so on. Leaving my real messages, “friends” in plain view.
I’ll be taking the matter further letting them know that I am contacting the FTC with copies of all their apparent reassurances that they have removed my email address from their autoresponder. I’m sure they will miraculously remove me or better still ban my email address from receiving their messages permanently.
What a complete waste of time.
Another Email Dilemma
A well known marketer sent out their apologies to their entire list for their in-house mailing list scripts not removing unsubscribe requests. Now I’m not going to preach here but Autoreponder Plus is a good script that I have been subscribed to on many Marketer’s lists and unsubscribed with no problems. However if you have web server has issues or a glitch somewhere that creates errors with your mailing lists script then you’re to be held fully responsible. This could ruin your credibility and relationship with your subscribers. Do you think it is really worth the problems you will have by saving a few nickels and dimes for a monthly or annual subscription.
Third Party Professional Autoresponders Services
I personally use Aweber because they can manage all bounces, subscriptions, unsubscriptions and have unlimited autoresponder capabilities. Plus…
- No Hosted Script Issues
- No Spam complaints that will stick
- No Bounce Management Issues
Build trust with your subscribers when they see you are using a professional autoresponder company with long term good standing. Let the autoresponder service deal with establishing “whitelisting” for their domain with the major email providers like Yahoo, Gmail etc.
Hosted scripts may seem like a good cost effective means to manage your mailing list but unless you have a dedicated server or have good programming knowledge to sort out any scripting issues then I highly recommend using a third party service.
There are many professionally third party autoresponder services to choose from. More and more savvy Internet Marketers are using and switching to Aweber after using their own hosted scripts. So that should give you a good idea that professional third party autoreponder services is the best way to go. When it comes to mailing lists it really does go without saying…
“YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR”
You also have a better chance of thwarting Spam complaints using a third party service than one hosted on your own domain. Remember people are human and can easily forget they have subscribed to your list out of many others. People are TOO QUICK to cry ‘Spam’ and ‘Scam’ before they double check to see if they DID actually subscribe to receive further information from you. Its just plain human nature to be forgetful. At least with a recognized autoresponder service like Aweber under your belt you can be sure that any Spam complaints will be dealt with in your favor because they have very strict rules to abide. You will also have details of each subscribers data showing:
- Name
- Email Address
- Date Subscribed
- IP Address
- URL subscribed etc
All logged and recorded in you Aweber account. No more hairs at the back of your neck standing up on end. These kinds of dilemmas are more than likely some of the reasons that disusade people from starting a mailing list in the first place!
Does this include you?
Alternatives For Bloggers
If you only have blogs then you’re best course of action is to use services like FeedBurner, FeedBlitz as they will manage all of your RSS and Email subscription for you on autopilot. FeedBurner costs $0.00 has high deliverability rates and is one of the most trusted email delivery systems. Try bombarding them with Spam complaints. :oops:
Freebie Alternative - Well Sort Of!
An excellent way to build a mailing list WITHOUT having to deal with mailing list scripts of ANY KIND can be found with Web 2.0 social network sites. Just use the in-built mailing list service, within the user terms of course. Contact your friends as and when the system allows and build credibility and trust. A good tip is to GIVE to people. Warm them up to you and share your knowledge with others first and foremost. People will appreciate your generosity and may well sign up to receive more details about your business thereafter.
What mailing list script do you use?
If you use a hosted script have you experienced any Spam complaints?
And if their was a problem with the script do you have the skills to fix it yourself or would you have to contact the script developer and wait for them to get things sorted on your behalf?
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Our Top WordPress Plugins
I’ve been meaning to write up about the WordPress plugins I use for my blogs for some time now. Well this is another task from ‘things to do’ that I can mark off for today. 
AdRotator
AdRotator wil rotate any size banners to display one at a time each time page is loaded. Currently used in our header file.
AdSense Deluxe
AdSense Deluxe allows you to insert code into your posts from a drop down menu button on the edit post page conveniently positioned below the default WordPress edit buttons. Use the ‘Options’ in your admin panel to cut and paste your own collection of AdSense Codes, giving them a name and description for easy reference. Once this is set up you can use the drop down menu to insert AdSense ads anywhere you desire in your posts.
Askimet
To use Askimet you just need an API key which you can get free from WordPress.com. This captures the time almost all incoming Spam message dead in its track. On a few occasions REAL comments may accidentally end up in the Spam list, however you can ‘Select’ and click on the ‘De-spam marked comments’ button to send misdirected valid comments to your moderated comments list. Life would be another thousand more clicks a week or more of manually deleting Spam WITHOUT Askimet!
Bumpzee
Adds the Bumpzee widget to your blog with your unique Bumpzee code. You can see mine located at the footer/end of this blog.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Now managed by Google and originally created by Steve Smith. This plugin will automatically redirect your default RSS feeds to your FeedBurner feed URL. So you will not lose any of your valuable subscribers. This is another gem of a plugin I don’t think I could live without.
Get Recent Comments
With this plugin you can display the most recent comments or trackbacks on you blog.
Google XML Sitemaps
A simple and practical way to build a ’search engine friendly’ sitemap for your blog. Currently supports Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Updates automatically after new posts are published.
Got Banners
Got Banners is a simple plugin for rotating banners such as the popular 125 x 125 pixel banners on your site displaying a series of banners that make random changes in disdplay order with each page view. Helps to combat ad blindness as the ads appear in different places and grab your attention in the process.
Jerome’s Keywords
Easily add essential keywords to each blog post. You can also use this plugin to create tag clouds, meta tags, site tags or make create Technorati tags.
ShareThis
An easy way for your visitors to ‘share‘ your posts with others by posting to social bookmarking sites and sends your post to a friend via email.
Simple Yearly Archive
As the title suggests the Simple Yearly Archive plugin will lists your archives by year. Ideally I would prefer to use Compact Monthly Archive for its ergonomic user-friendly format which looks so INCREDIBLY well organized down at ProBlogger. Hat’s off to the programmer for creating such a cool streamlined plugin.
Sociable
Adds social bookmarking icons below each post for people to share with others.
Subscribe To Comments
Allows one click subscription to comments on any particular post by sending you an email announcement whenever additional comments are made. Once installed and activates you don’t have to do anything. Very good for people who do not want to subscribe to comments through a feed and can access exact posts that are of personal interest to them.
What Would Seth Godin Do
Built on the principles of Seth Godin’s ideas to use cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site. A customized welcome message is shown to new visitors based on their cookie inviting them to subscribe to your RSS feed an email updates. A great way to get a High Profile A-List Blogger to check you out!
WP Grins
Adds fun smilies to your post with just one click. After activating this plugin you’ll find a variety of smilies in a row just under your edit screen. Smilies also appear on the comments section for your use by your visitors who leave a comment.
OnlyWire AutoSubmitter
I’ve saved the best for last!
I regularly use OnlyWire to submit to Social Bookmarking sites and wondered if there was a better way. So I did a quick search and found this genius plugin which will automatically login and submit to my OnlyWire account for each post I publish. OnlyWire Auto Submitter should save me a lot of time posting to 22 social bookmarking sites. This is a new addition to my currently plugin inventory so I need to personally test it out to check if it really does submit to OnlyWire with little or no problems. If anyone else has used this plugin your feeback would be appreciated.
WordPress 2.0+ Benefits
WordPress has grown up and finally taken into account the changing face of the Web 2.0 and widget mania. With an abundance of widget themes being designed and the amazing value all for free from programmers and the help from people at the WordPress Community Forums who provide mostly lightening fast responses to any problems you may come across.
Many blogger’s have revamped their blogs with a huge preference for wider layout, wigetized sidebars making adding images, link etc a breeze. No more searching through code to edit your template anymore which is the surest ways to screw things up if you forget to save the original unedited PHP files.
Arggggh no more!
WordPress have developed the 2.0+ series to incorporate ‘tags’ into the default script which they have taken from Jerome’s Keywords .
Remember they do not get paid per download unless on the rare occasion the plugin requires pre-purchase. Whereas the majority of WordPress plugins are completely free to use. Donations and tips are present on the download sites but I wonder how many of us have given a contribution to express our appreciation for the benefits they have given us through their hard work!
I have noted that some plgins once installed display a ‘Reward the Author’ link when you go to view or edit from the admin panel.
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Yikes!
This would be just as difficult and cumbersome as going into admin and manually changing every post to a redirect in my HTACCESS file. The result of which would seriously slow down my sites page load times. Imagine making just one typo error, my whole domain would go down. For those who don’t know, just one mistake or missed typed url (htp:// instead of http://) URL or character in a HTACCESS file can bring your whole site OFFLINE.
Now with WordPress version 2.2+ redirection of changed Permalinks is BUILT-IN to the blogging software.
Phew!
This new feature came just in time as not too long ago I changed my Permalink structure (during November 2007) from the default setting to POSTID and POSTNAME.
Default settings => http://www.miriadz.com/blog/?p=39
Using the default Permalinks structure your potential web site visitors have absolutely no clue as to what the article content would entail so after considerable thought I elected the postname and post number.
I know many people have opted to use “Postname” only Permalinks for their WordPress blogs but after reading the literature from the codex:
Using only %postname%
“If you use postname as the only element in your permalinks to create a structure such as example.com/post-title, the rewrite rules may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar format) or the /wp-admin/ folder [is this true in Wordpress 2.0+ versions?]. It’s best to include some numeric data (e.g. the post ID or date) in the permalink to prevent this from happening. Additionally, WordPress v1.2.x requires the use of a date structure in order for some features, such as the calendar, to function properly. /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ is always a good start.”
Source: WordPress Codex
I just didn’t want to tempt fate. Best to be safe than sorry in a few months time or so!
WordPress Database BackUp
I just log into my web hosting account to use CPanel and quickly back up all of my databases for WordPress and other scripts now so I am not going to install this plugin. I know that after Skippy moved away from WordPress to other venture there has is a new plugin, BackUpWordPress.
Conclusion
Overall I’m glad I chose WordPress as a blogging platform but this hasn’t always been the case. With past upgrade issues and having to remove so many plugins due to compatibility issues or the authors leaving ship as they have had enough from the barrage of upgrades, theme break issues to name a few. Well I’ve done my fair share of cursing the day I installed a blog let alone several blogs I and my family use. However I do appreciate the automatic updates that appear in admin to let you know about the latest version of any plugin.
I haven’t personally tried this yet but I will for the next upgrade. At least that way there shouldn’t be too much disruption to site visitors. But as you already know with upgrading you never know what may happen!!
Take good note of the few listed plugins that are compatible with each other, in other words, when they are both activated there will be problems. Deleted old files that are no longer compatible or I don’t any more. It has been known that old or obsolete version of WordPress could make your blog or site vulnerable open to hacker acttacks.
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How To Do Blog Marketing With Trackbacks
Many people start up blogs believing that just being online will send them hoards of visitors and instant success. But the truth is there is much more to blogging than this myth suggests. On the issue of linking and ‘trackbacks‘ a lot of people do not fully understand the power of trackbacks.
Trackbacks are when you Write up a post and place a link to another blog from your site, or comment on a blog that link back to each other. As long as trackbacks are enabled on the
destination blog your link will be viewed by the webmaster or editor and they will decide whether to accept or delete your link. Just think of trackbacks as an instant notification between web sites for which link backs are produced.
Done correctly your links to another webmasters blog will become a permanent link back
to your site!
To help you understand more about how to do Blog Marketing With Trackbacks take a look at Jack Humphries video below or at YouTube.
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Top Tips
Don’t use Spam as you’ll be wasting your time posting links that will more than
often be irrelevant to the post your link will show up on.
Visit the web site to have a look at the content to see whether you can add a
‘comment of value’ or appreciation of the subject matter.
Never put a long list of your sites with no content with the objective of getting link backs. Not that any sane editor will approve your link anyway!
Use common sense, get to know the webmasters style of writing and make regular
comments to get noticed and gain their respect. Frantic requests displaying words like ‘Please check out my site’ will be deleted!
Besides the majority savvy of bloggers use Askimet to nuke 
those automated Spam message in the bud before they hit the blogosphere. So these messages NEVER get seen by a human being!
I’m sure you can think of many more tips to help you with your linking strategies. Feel free to suggest some more.
Merchants Face Lawsuits Due To Affiliate Misconduct
I want to point to an online video where Dr Ralph F. Wilson talks candidly with Dr Dozier on the subject of the rise in lawsuits against merchants because of affiliate malpractice.
If you run an affiliate program or are an affiliate currently promoting goods and services then you need to be aware of the legal implications for you and your business.
In general it is good practice to screen affiliates before acceptance especially if you are using affiliate networks. Especially as you as a merchant will be held responsible for any problems.
Take a look at the video presented on the 5 Star Affiliate blog.
Want to ‘Fire Your Boss’ Join LinkShare and begin affiliate marketing.
Can Proxy Hacking Remove Your Site From Search Engine Results?
I wasn’t going to do a write up about this article when I first read it.
Little did I know that my own site homepage had recently been hijacked!
I did a search for sites linking to my homepage and found the culprit.
Well it looks like it doesn’t matter what site you have whether you think it is popular or otherwise you really need to look into this.
I have gone through the advice and tips and will be looking into implementing the code but I would prefer a professional script with support as I am not that savvy with recoding technical scripts.
After having a superb time in Paris where I promised my boys that I would not be spending time online so that I could RELAX I am all fired up now.
I have been on a rampage of contacting affiliate networks associated with the webmaster in question.
I have also sent copies of several other web sites that have been compromised so that they are made aware of the problem and can follow up, if they choose, in their own way.
After all if these people seek to make a profit from stealing YOUR HOMEPAGE to serve ads via pop ups then once you TAKE AWAY their source of income then that may be the ONLY WAY to fight back.
However, I can hardly imagine that anyone could find each and every CULPRIT.
My sincere thanks go to Brad Fallon for revealing this major problem to me as a subscriber to his lists. You can read a detailed article by Dan Thies on the subject (which incidentally is not new) to find out how the web site MyWeddingFavors.com was affected by ‘Proxy Hacking’. Even though at first I was somewhat confused and how this could be possible. I have read some more information and now have a much greater understanding and awareness of the problem.
I haven’t printed the URL mainly because I seriously doubt whether their site will be live after they lose their AdSense and affiliate revenue. However if you want to view the URL in question just contact me by leaving a comment.
Here’s some quick links to some fixes. However if you’re not competent with code you should consult a professional to help you out.
How To Guide: Prevent Google Proxy Hacking
THE CODE
http://www.seoegghead.com
Only hope this problem isn’t too widespread and more IMPORTANTLY there will be an easy to implement fix for non technical people like me and the major search engines crack down this activity altogether.
How To Lose Your Credit Card Affiliate Commissions!
Looks like a lot of credit card affiliate program managers are paying out more in affiliate commissions than they are making themselves!
Why do I say this?
Well if you’re an active affiliate for any of the major credit card companies you will find that they have been cracking down on the KEYWORDS used in advertising. I personally believe the problem is that WE AFFILIATES are making good commissions and not just because of trademark or copyright issues.
I received an update from my credit card affiliate program administrative department with the following:
“…Please comply with this request immediately as we will be conducting audits in the coming days of our entire network. Non-compliance will result in withheld commissions.”
Sincerely,
The MakeMoneyWithCreditCards Team
The credit card industry is forever growing billion dollar industry and there are NO SIGNS of slowing down.
I can understand and feel it is reasonable to be prohibited from using the credit card companies domain name and even using a brand name before the words “credit card” is prohibited!
Well at least we can STILL use those two KEYWORDS, better not say that too loud, or else.
Being the owner of a membership site that gives practical information about securing the best 3rd party merchant accounts with many credible PayPal alternatives. I strongly emphasize how IMPORTANT it is to ensure that you keep well informed of all agreements and program policies so that you DO NOT breach your contractual agreement. This could lose your relationship with the company and worse still forfeit your entire earnings.
This is also the case with many credit card affiliate programs who many affiliates feel they are making it more difficult for affiliates to sustain their present referral income as they have to rethink and restructure their PPC marketing campaigns.
One way around this is to write articles with compelling content and a like back to your affiliate web site or a squeeze page so that you have way to follow up with potential customers. Again be very careful of the words you use in the body of your article.
If there is anything you are unsure of contact your affiliate manger and get it APPROVED first. Better to be well informed and maintain your affiliate status than to stand to lose all of your hard earned cash.
Has your PPC campaigns been affected by theses changes?
Share your experiences and any details of how you worked it out by adding your comments.
Seven Dollar Script and PayPal’s Response
Hi everyone,
I found it!
After looking through the stockpile of email in my inbox and I’ve finally found the official response to my post below:
Seven Dollars Got My PayPal Account Closed
Here’s a copy of the reply I received from PayPal
Response received June 8th 2007
“Dear Nancy P Redford,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. I am
happy to assist you further.
Regarding your query Ms. Redford about the use of your PayPal account to
receive payments from an affiliate product where the user would get 100%
commissions and after reviewing the example website you kindly provided
us (http://www.mycontactstation.com), we came to the conclusion that it
is not against our Acceptable Use Policy.
The reselling of this particular product does not fall into any form of
multi-level marketing programs, matrix, pyramid schemes (including,
without limitation, online payment randomizers), “Ponzi” schemes, “get
rich quick” schemes, “Autosurf” programs, High Yield Investment Programs
(HYIP), or other similar trading schemes.
Please let us know if you need further assistance.
Sincerely,
Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company”
So that should be a clear indication that the amazing clever Seven Dollar script launched by Jonathan Ledger is ‘A OK’ to use. So people You’re good to go! 
Just send PayPal a message or phone them to check that all is well with any program you need approved and WAIT for their official response BEFORE adding payment buttons to your site. When you have written and verbal confirmation to go ahead.
Another dubious area people get confused about with the use of PayPal is for home business type programs. It is acceptable to use PayPal for the sale of products and services but you should not use it to receive enrollment charges for new members to your team. PayPal will most certainly close your account for this. Regardless if your program is not MLM based. This is yet another dubious subject which can easily conflict with your business. Better to be safe than sorry.
Remember just because someone else is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s OK. Stay informed and protect your own assets and integrity first. Besides you’re way beyond the age for playing “follow my leader” 
Stay safe online and keep on making money without risking termination of your credit card merchant accounts.
All the best,
Nancy P Redford
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