An example of affiliate marketing: today I tried to send email to a new colleague and hit his spamarrest block, where it required that I confirm that I'm a human (not a dog, i suppose!) by entering an obscured word on a Web page. Not a difficult task. When I was done the site announced Earn 50% signing up people to fight spam! through their affiliate program, so I opted to learn more. After all, spamarrest is offering something we all appreciate: a method of eliminating all the junk email in your mailbox.

It turns out that the spamarrest affiliate program is very interesting! The spamarrest affiliate program not only pays out for direct subscribers, but pays for second and third tier referrals too, along with a bonus for referring other affiliates. Pretty nice deal!

Click here to learn more about the spamarrest affiliate program.

What I like about affiliate programs like spamarrest is that I'm not trapped having to use their typical Web banners or graphics, but can incorporate the links into my own materials, sort of like "advertorial" content. Indeed, my link to spamarrest includes my affiliate ID too: it's not http://www.spamarrest.com/ but rather http://spamarrest.com/affl?1473907.

This means that, as with all good affiliate programs, I can easily include this link whever I'd like on my site, etc. And you could too: just sign up for an affiliate account and include their link on your site.

Whether or not you actually like spamarrest and their method of fighting spam (versus something like spamassassin and other filtering systems), having a link for people to use isn't too much work, and, after all, even if it's just $2/month that you earn, over the course of a year it's enough to buy a nice dinner. For 90 seconds of time. Not great, but not too bad. :-)

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