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il on Jan 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Woot's take on affiliate marketing

Go to any mainstream web site frequented by an older, less tech-savvy audience like weather.com. Take a look at the text ads on the right side and the landing pages they link to.

There's your crash course in the current state of the affiliate marketing industry.

codexon on Jan 26, 2011 [–]

I see one that is disguised like a news article. Isn't this just like the infomercials in magazines like time?

The other ad is just a plain landing page.

il on Jan 26, 2011 | [–]

In that case, you might have a bright future in affiliate marketing ahead of you.

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