Two interesting things have happened over the past few days — not in any way interconnected, but both related to the topic of monetizing consumer interest in certain types of services. Google Bought an Affiliate Website Acquisitions of affiliate websites by larger corporations don’t occur every month (the last large one that I remember of [...]
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When running an affiliate program on a tight budget you inevitably face a challenging reality: good tools normally cost good money. You, on the other hand, may not necessarily have enough to invest into all of the paid tools you may need. Do not despair! There is a number of great tools out there that [...]
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It’s been a few months since — after an overwhelming success of a 60 second Super Bowl ad “made simply with a few Google searches and a little music” — Google has launched its Search Stories Video Creator (for YouTube). I have finally gotten to creating one of my own, entitling it a Search Story [...]
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The launch of Google Instant (a new way of searching the Internet via Google, which is meant to save the end user between 2 and 5 seconds on each search) has produced a wide resonance which has touched nearly every area of digital marketing, but especially everything that is immediately influenced by search (paid or [...]
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Only a couple of hours have passed since Google’s introduction and announcement of Google Instant, but the digital marketing world is already quite stirred up over it; and the palette range goes all the way from concern to amazement… Affiliate marketers are obviously directly affected as well. But how exactly? Matthew Wood, the founder of [...]
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According to comScore’s data, quoted at SearchEngineLand.com a few hours ago, an affiliate website (TheFind) has beaten Yahoo! Shopping “in terms of average daily users”, and 2 out of the top 4 comparison shopping engines (TheFind and Shopzilla) are active affiliates. Here’s that data (highlighting mine): More in the above-quoted Google Is Top Shopping Site, [...]
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It looks like something is definitely cooking… I’ve logged into my Facebook account earlier this morning to find this notification: Facebook is certainly broadening the scope of their interests, and no wonder why the area of questions and answers got their attention. First of all there is a huge demand for this service. Remember Aardvark [...]
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Having analyzed the growth of the global search market in the month of December 2009 compared to the search landscape in December 2008, comScore has registered a 46% increase in online search demand globally. The U.S. “represented the largest individual search market in the world” accounting for some 17% (or 22.7 billion searches total) of [...]
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Being a linguist, I have always been fascinated by this phenomenon in the development of language(s) — when a proper name becomes a common noun (or even a verb). By definition nouns name people, places, and things. There are two classes of nouns: common and proper. Common nouns name general items, while proper nouns name [...]
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