This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille discuss the upcoming action at Pubcon and SXSW, Jersey Shore, and Jim Kukral heading up local affiliate marketing meetups in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.

Also, brick and mortar affiliate programs target Amazon and Overstock exiles, sites beaten down by the Google Farmer update, and Wil Reynolds keynoting Affiliate Summit East 2011.

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• Submit for an Affiliate Site Review
• Jersey Shore
• Free, Local Meetups for Affiliate Marketers
• Texas HB 1317 Advertising Tax Referred to Ways & Means
• Amazon and Overstock Affiliates Being Seduced by Competitors
• Sears dangles carrot to Amazon’s skittish affiliates
• Mahalo, Business.com, Article Aggregators Hardest Hit By Google Update
• Wil Reynolds to Keynote Affiliate Summit East 2011
• Does affiliate marketing require a community?
• ClickBank Sees Significant Growth in eBook Sales
• PMA Member Spotlight: ClickBank

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille discuss the best and worst Super Bowl commercials, working at home vs. an office, and videos from Affiliate Summit West 2011.

Aaron Rodgers, Super Bowl MVP (photo by Mike Collins)

Also, Illinois House Bill 3659, AOL pays a lot for Huffington Post, PubCon Austin, and the story behind the FeedFront name.

Show Links

• Brass Monkey
• Bud Light Dog Sitter Commercial
• Doritos House Sitter Commercial
• Chrysler Eminem Commercial
• Groupon Tibet Commercial
• Watch Out Danica Patrick! Network Solutions has Hottie Cloris Leachman and Her “Sisters”
• Search Engine Optimization 101 with Wil Reynolds
• Working from home vs. an office
• AOL Buys Huffington Post: Is It Crazy?
• Video of Drew Eric Whitman Keynote at Affiliate Summit West 2011
• Submit Your Affiliate Summit East 2011 Speaking Proposal
• Illinois House Bill 3659 Stomps on Small Businesses
• How You Can Use Twitter to Create a Million Dollar Business
• CJ PayPerCall Converts at 20-50%
• The Story Behind the Name of FeedFront Magazine

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Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive has been the most popular speaker at Affiliate Summit for years, and I recently chatted with him for the Unguru.me interview series about universal search on Google, local search, benefits of posting images to Flickr vs. self-hosted photographs, tools he uses for SEO, and more.

About Wil Reynolds
Over the past 13 years, Wil Reynolds has dedicated himself to doing two things well: driving traffic to sites from search engines and analyzing the impact that traffic has on the bottom line of companies. Wil’s career began at a web marketing agency in 1999, where he spearheaded the SEO strategies for companies like Barnes & Noble, Disney, Harman Kardon, Debeers, Doubleclick, Hotjobs, and Mercedes Benz USA. For the last 6 years, Wil and the team of search professionals at SEER Interactive have been assisting clients in maximizing their visibility and sales using search engines in both SEO and SEM. You can catch Wil speaking with anyone who wants to learn about search, whether it is in a coffee shop or a major conference, it just runs through the veins! His goal at every speaking engagement is simple: Make sure everyone walks out with at least 1 new piece of information or perspective on an SEO topic.

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This session took place at Affiliate Summit East 2007 in July 2007.

SEO Site Critiques

Not sure if you are targeting the right keywords or using SEO best practices? Get the straight answers on how you can walk out of the door and improve your site.

* Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive

Video: Affiliate Summit East 2007 – SEO Site Critiques

This session took place at Affiliate Summit West 2007 in January 2007.

Debunking SEO Myths

- Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive

Is the conflicting advice you are getting on SEO keeping you from success? Attending this session will help you get straight answers on the SEO issues keeping you from the top of the search engines.

Video: Affiliate Summit West 2007 – Debunking SEO Myths

Straight Talk on Search Engine Optimization presentation from Affiliate Summit East 2006, which took place July 9-11, 2006 in Orlando, FL.

• Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive

Brief presentation on Search Engine Optimization with a heavy focus on Q&A. A very open, honest and straight to the point discussion about search engines that covers some common myths and will leave you with some information and action items as it relates to search and your business.

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: Straight Talk on Search Engine Optimization

This session, Whitehat Linkbuilding Strategies: Beginner to Advanced, took place Monday, January 12, 2009 at Affiliate Summit West 2009.

Session description:

It’s no secret, links matter. We’ll present everything from basic directory linkbuilding to advanced tactics like .edu & authority linkbuilding. Discussion will include all above board, clean tactics.

• Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive

More Affiliate Summit West 2009 audio is available at http://geekcast.fm/archives/category/affiliate-summit/.

This session, My 5 Favorite SEO Strategies Exposed, took place Monday, August 11, 2008 at Affiliate Summit East 2008.

Session description:

In this session we’ll share the tools that we use daily to get great results for clients. Expect to learn a lot in a quick exchange of tools to help you evaluate opportunities and optimize your sites.

Presenter: Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive

More Affiliate Summit East 2008 audio is available at http://geekcast.fm/archives/category/affiliate-summit/ and video is at http://www.affiliatesummit.tv.

The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.

Listen in to the How to Futureproof Your SEO Efforts session and view the slides.

Session description: This session will help people develop strategies that will work for the long haul, so they can avoid some of the ups and downs of SEO.

• Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive