I'm presenting this week at Commission Junction's CJU in a session titled, "Site Lab: Designing Effective Landing Pages". I'm actually co-presenting with Pedro Sostre. Pedro, being the creative designer type, and I being a geek an engineer/developer, we split our presentation along those lines. We'll be looking ...
Let's talk about something other than CJ Javascript links for a bit...
Recently, Google updated their Webmaster Quality Guidelines to add a second bullet aimed toward affiliates. Peter Figueredo at Revenues writes that Google Only Wants Affiliates Who "Add Value" and talks about this change (second bullet, bold added):
Avoid "doorway" ...
First reported by Greg Boser on his SEO Rockstars radio show, it seems that Google's Media-Partner bot is now being used for feeding the index.
Word out of the presently-running WebmasterWorld conference is that Matt Cutts of Google confirms that this is the case. Shoemoney reports that "Matt said it ...
Finally and hopefully we can see some significant competition for Google Adsense. Yahoo has launched the Beta of their Yahoo Publisher Network, YPN, yesterday August 3rd.
Google has owned the publisher contextual ad space for more than two years now. There have been a number of companies who have ...
According to this MarketWatch story, the world is going blog-crazy.
Technorati.com says it's tracking almost 14 million blogs. But which of them really matter, have opinions or information that people find useful?
For the love of Pete, that's a lot of blogs.
But is anybody reading the random ramblings?
An analysis posted ...
Google is relaunching their affiliate program, sorry, referral program, offering $20 for a referred advertiser or publisher.
The Google referral program (beta) is for businesses whose customers and visitors include small to medium-sized businesses, and who want to help those companies become more successful by running Google AdWords, or serving ...
Google has launched their Adwords API Beta Program.
The API promises to allow "developers engineer computer programs that interact directly with the AdWords server. With the applications created, advertisers and third parties can more efficiently - and creatively - manage their large AdWords accounts and campaigns."
Interesting timing of ...
The Internet Marketing / Webmaster community is all aflutter about the recent Search Engine industry move to elminate comment spam. MSN, Yahoo and Google have all jumped on board by announcing their support for a standard method to allow webmasters to say, “Oh my! I have no way of ...
January 12th has come and gone. I spent some time yesterday with some tapped-in industry friends and they heard nothing yesterday. I guess it's just "any day now".
Adam Viener of Goyami is a refreshingly unique combination of connected and outspoken as he demonstrates in his publication of a ...
As I wrote about last month, Google has officially modified their policy on affiliates' use of PPC advertising on Adsense.
Here's the change as described in their email:
With this new affiliate policy, we'll only display one ad per search query for affiliates and parent companies sharing the same URL. This way, ...
