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Can Affiliate Programs Exist Alongside Paid Search Marketing?

<!”If a merchant is running their own paid search campaigns, and also has an affiliate program, how can they ensure that the latter doesn’t cannibalize but compliment the other?” — this is the question that nearly every merchant wonders a few months into running their affiliate program. Some end up …

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Bing Allows Anything for Display URL?

Remember my PPC Display URLs and Affiliate Direct Linking Are Interconnected post two months ago? In it — being guided by Google AdWords policy — I argued: Permitting “direct linking” (or Direct-To-Merchant (DTM) paid search bidding), however, implies that affiliates are allowed to link their paid search ads (through their …

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Mispositioned Paid Search Ads: Silly or Subtle?

I typed in “worldcup” in Google, hit the search button, and got what I was looking for: a quick snapshot of the most recent scores, as well as the starting times of the upcoming matches. Then I also glanced over the paid search results and saw one that was completely …

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