Here’s a question - If I did a review on the hypothetical affiliate site called “site.com”, and had a link that pointed to http://www.site.com/refer.php?id=XZ89FNOWND909; asking you to signup on that site, what are the chances of you actually clicking it?

My findings have shown me that people are often hesitant to click on affiliate links as such due to two reasons.

1. It looks really weird with the id numbers and so on.
2. People actually figure out it’s an affiliate link and directly go to the site because they just don’t want others earning a buck online.

Affiliate marketing is a million dollar industry and most of the time, affiliates tend to lose a lot of money because of their users not going through their affiliate link.

So, after running my most successful blog contest, I am ready to unveil the winners of the five contest prizes worth over $250! With more than 200 entries, here are the luck people who won the April contest!

The WINNERS

The blog traffic pack from TraffexOneClix.com worth $120 goes to:

Complete blog branding pack from ROCKFUSE worth $70 goes to:

Complete blog consultation report worth $60 goes to:

The two, above the fold 125×125 ads on this blog go to

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Claim your prizes

Congratulations to the winners.

Project Wonderful is a program that lets you sell advertising space off your blog to the advertisers directly. It operates in a way where advertisers have to bid for ad space and the winning bidder gets the ad space. If I bid for a banner ad space for $0.01, my ad will be displayed as long as anyone doesn’t bid for $0.02 or higher; under maximum time period of 24 hours. Yes, the advertising cost displayed for a certain ad space is the cost-per-day.

In their own words:

Project Wonderful is an online advertising broker with an innovative model that brings fairness, transparency, and profitability to the advertising process.

So, let’s cut to the chase:

Well, as you can see, I’ve spiced things up in here. Removed the traces of ‘MindBlogger’ and re-branded this whole blog to match it’s domain name - ROCKFUSE.com

As you may know, all of my social media accounts and outward appearance was in the name “MindBlogger” and everyone knows me by that name… So the initial choice was to move to a domain like MindBlogger.net or something since the MindBlogger.com domain was already taken. But then I would lose a lot. 500+ Yahoo Backlinks, Google PR, and I’d have to go through each and every account and change the URLs.

Recently, an article was published on Newsweek that said about “Badges of Secrecy“. The article profiled some badges used in the US military that were totally out-of-the-box and bizarre. Some of them had images of aliens on them, some of them had mythic characters. And in the article, the author, defined the meaning of almost all the badges. Some of them, according to him, were used for operations concerning extra-terrestrial beings (aliens). Some of them were used for Top Secret super-weapon experiments.

One of my friends was complaining the other day about how the spam comments are eating up her do-follow blog alive. She was manually moderating all the comments because of this issue, and she was getting frustrated more and more, day by day, as her spam blocker didn’t seem to adopt to the rapidly evolving spam comments.

Are you suffering from the same issue? They say the best way to get over mounting frustration is to develop some kind of appreciation for the cause of the frustration itself. So, I can try and make you develop some kind of appreciation towards spam.

I heard some celebrity(can’t remember who), sometime ago on MTV, saying that she’s not worried about paparazzi following her around and would be more worried if they didn’t follow her around.