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Just in case you have missed them, pop up screens are little windows that pop up when you enter or leave a site with a banner in. Using this method in order to try to earn money can create the opposite effect. Pop up windows are considered to be quite annoying lately and more and more people buy pop up blockers to prevent these screens from popping up.

Does this mean you cannot use a pop up? Well, not really of course, just as with everything, don’t exaggerate: Firing 5 pop ups on the screen of your visitor will only cause discontentment and may result in the visitor abandoning your site. Of course this is not what you are looking for so go slow on these intrusive kinds of advertising. A good rule of thumb is to limit you to one pop up per session.

RSS and Data Feeds and Affiliate Marketing

One of the newest trends, also in affiliate marketing are data feeds: the principle is quite simple: the merchant offers you a feed with his products which you can upload directly in your database. Obviously all of the items are automatically linked to your affiliate login. I