by Mark Mason | May 30, 2008 | Blogging, Web Monitization
Affiliate link cloaking is the practice of disguising long, ugly affiliate URLs behind clean, branded links on your own domain. For example, instead of sharing a link like https://affiliateprogram.com/?ref=abc123&tracking=xyz, you would share something like...
by Mark Mason | May 26, 2008 | Blogging, Web Monitization
Link cloaking is one of those topics that has been debated in the internet marketing community since the earliest days of affiliate marketing. Some people swear by it, others think it is shady. The truth, as with most things, is that it depends entirely on how and why...
by Mark Mason | Mar 13, 2008 | Web Monitization
Every entrepreneur has projects that start with a spark of curiosity and turn into something real within a matter of hours. The Big World Project was one of those for me — a small experiment that taught me some valuable lessons about what a project launch...
by Mark Mason | Mar 12, 2008 | Web Monitization
In 2008, I was documenting the creation of my “Niche Super-Site” — an Elvis Presley fan site called HistoryOfElvis.com. The entire series was inspired by Caroline Middlebrook's free ebook on building niche sites with WordPress, and it covered...
by Mark Mason | Mar 7, 2008 | Web Monitization
In March 2008, I wrote a post about Caroline Middlebrook's StumbleUpon email course and my somewhat elaborate attempt to win her contest. I quoted Shakespeare, bought the word “stumble” from The Big Word Project and pointed it at her site, wrote a haiku...
by Mark Mason | Mar 6, 2008 | Web Monitization
Early in my niche site building journey, I was working on an Elvis memorabilia project and hit a wall. I had the site set up, the content was coming together, but I was unsure about my next steps for growth and monetization. So I reached out to a more experienced...
