Regardless of what you may hear about affiliate marketing being an untapped goldmine waiting for you to become the Internet’s next millionaire, you gotta be careful. Campaigns where as an affiliate you are remunerated for performance only require (i) a careful and educated approach, and (ii) taking it easy. Otherwise, your affiliate role may end [...]
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I’ve blogged about multiple things during the past days (sometimes more than once a day), but naturally wasn’t able to cover, or react to everything that I personally have found to be of interest. There really is an abundance of great content being produced on a weekly basis, and to highlight some of the posts [...]
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Nine months ago, when I blogged my 5-step advice for paid search affiliates, I wrote:
Use negative keywords (or keywords for which you do not want your ad to show in paid search results, as they are unlikely to convert into the desirable action)
Using negative keywords not only helps you improve the clickthrough rate (CTR) and [...]
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Yesterday Google introduced a new split testing tool for paid search marketers that use AdWords to try — the AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) tool [see original announcement here].
Google’s below video explains how the only way of handling split tests in PPC marketing before was to conduct a “before and after analysis” where you would compare [...]
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Following the example of Amazon.com and Amazon.ca, Amazon UK has just notified its affiliates/associates that DTM (direct-to-merchant) linking will be prohibited starting from February 1, 2010. Unlike their North American counterparts, Amazon.co.uk is explicit that they are against direct linking of both paid search ads and organic SE results. Those that do not comply [...]
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A friend, and fellow affiliate marketer tweeted:
If you are looking for tool to monitor affiliate (and competitor) bidding on your trademark, AdGooroo does seem to have a free option offering a “24/7 monitoring of 6 search engines in 20 countries” with a “deep analysis of over 155 ad servers and affiliate networks” [more here].
You can [...]
Continue reading about Free Tool to Monitor Paid Search Trademark Violations
While parasitism in affiliate marketing frequently being synonymized only with downloadable applications that intrude with the end user’s shopping experience with a purpose of facilitating cookie setting/swap on the customer’s machine, the term should really include everyone who is extracting wealth from merchants/advertisers without assisting them in any way to produce it. Trademark poaching is [...]
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Earlier this morning, Roxana Patrichi of Avangate published a list of 150+ negative keywords for software selling AdWords campaigns. This reminded me of one of the questions that I was asked in a recent interview to Affilorama. I was asked what advice I would give to newbie affiliates that are getting involved in paid search. [...]
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…at least to a degree (and this is good to see).
Back in May of this year when Google Suggest got links to the main/official websites added to the lists of suggested search phrases, I am pretty positive they did not have affiliate marketing in mind. The feature was certainly mainly geared towards to the end [...]
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Amazon has announced earlier today that they starting from May 1 2009 they are prohibiting affiliates from engaging in direct-to-merchant (DTM) paid search campaigns. The exact wording of the letter is as follows:
After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to [...]
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