http://www.ianfernando.com/2007/build-a-niche-store-sells-itself-literally so this month I was concentrating on affilaite promotions and physical products and ebay - I did really well - the thing that was interesting is I made money on a product I did no promotion with the exception being at the bottom of my stores footer and I sold a few but that few was good and showed me that I didnt do no work to earn that specific income I was kinda of shock to see a clickbank check in my mail this month since I did not promote anything and yet I got paid
Sometimes links get picked up for few days in search engines and make money other times people find link and buy product even with out you promoting it.
even links that are cloaked? examples this would be the link ianfernando.com/suggests/bans that gets pick up by the search engine? and how so if the virtual store is not SEO friendly at all? I did use adwords to promote the store but I do not think that relates to the SEO of the link itself
yes cloaked link gets picked up by googlebot, but if your site is reported even though you did it unknowingly your site could get banned its best to put a nofollow in your robots.txt
coolin - yea i kinda figured it might have but was never sure - but I did have it within my robots text - thanks!