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50 Cent Story Gets Affiliate to Yahoo’s Homepage

Posted by Matthew Berman On May - 27 - 2010

2nd UPDATE: The page has been removed and the writer has been deleted.
UPDATE: I looked through all of this writer’s articles and they all contain shady affiliate links. Yahoo, you are stupid.

This must be the most ridiculous thing I have seen in a while. Either a writer at Yahoo! Shine’s account got hacked by an affiliate or someone at Yahoo got tricked into posting this article with affiliate links.

Using 50′s images (shown here) and a story about how 50 cent lost a bunch of weight for a movie, an affiliate marketer was able to get 2 of his affiliate links to weight loss products to the Yahoo homepage. Someone is definitely making a lot of money on this. Someone at Yahoo really messed up on this one. This is one of the shadiest (and funniest) affiliate marketing plays I’ve seen in my time.

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4 Comments »

Comment by Jonathan Volk
2010-05-28 13:28:08

Do you have a screenshot of the article?

Comment by Matthew Berman
2010-05-30 22:26:56

I don’t…but it was so clearly an affiliate play…the article was crap and had 2 affiliate links and associated the products with 50 cent….super illegal

 
 
Comment by Erik
2010-07-15 01:28:29

Wait, it’s still up. I clicked it and its there?

It’s that Acia Berry trial scam!

 
Comment by leo
2010-07-16 20:45:44

omg! that is the funniest thing ive seen in a minute! lol great post!

 
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