Disclosure: This is a paid review. That being said I have read Shoemoney’s blog for a while and I can vouch for him. He is also a regular on a few webmasterradio.fm podcasts’s I listen to.

One of the problems with all of the SEO blogs popping up is an unusually high noise-to-signal ratio. It seems like everybody and there brother want to read a few of the original blogger’s sites and regurgitate everything they read.

Shoemoney, however, is not one of these bloggers. Jeremy Schoemaker (aka shoemoney) is a real internet marketer making serious money in affiliate marketing and (for some reason I don’t honestly understand) he loves to share information with other people.

Shoemoney is a staple in my blog reader because he’s actually been there and done it - so many self-proclaimed “SEO’s” have day jobs and make $10 or so per month on their sites - not shoe. Shoe makes serious money employing SEO and PPC tactics for his SEO sites.

Lately he has been sharing details of his aggressive approach to the ringtone industry - according to a recent post he was able to gross over $1M last year in the ringtone industry alone. Considering the low overhead associated with being an affiliate this is some serious cash.

Learn from somebody who knows what they’re talking about and is willing to share information freely - if you send shoemoney an email you’ll get a real response back, most likely with a really good answer if you take the time to ask an intelligent question.

Amazon drives me crazy sometime. So I setup a few affiliate sites about 8 months ago pointing to a bunch of cool stuff on Amazon. For the first four months or so everything was great - I started making a few sales per month and considering the relatively small upfront investment (setting up the site, writing some good unique content), I was happy.

Eight months later, however, it’s a different story. I noticed that my affiliate earnings dropped off the planet and finally did a little research. I found that most of my products were pointing to dead links.

OK, so I must be the unlucky affiliate marketer who added a bunch of products that got discontinued, huh? Nope - I still found the products on Amazon, the URL’s had just changed. These aren’t different products or anything like that - the same exact products, different URL’s.

Obviously this isn’t good for me and I can’t imagine it’s helping Amazon and it really sucks for my users so I don’t know what’s going on.

*sigh*