The closure of Google Affiliate Network (GAN) will create a lot of work for affiliate marketers. More important was channel conflict, as Google began to compete directly with affiliate marketers via its product listings, which usually appear at the...
Feedly, the Google Reader alternative, adds Amazon affiliate ads – Andrew RH GirdwoodAfter adding 3 million+ new users, Feedly looking to make money. Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers – Bloomberg BusinessweekFacebook and...
Similar analysis can be done by looking at specific source of traffic (paid, natural, affiliate) or specific page types (product, category, search pages etc. Happy customers make for happy marketers. Online marketers frequently spend considerable...
If you're an affiliate who has done well without having to have loads of content and you've never done anything to violate Google's guidelines, what are your thoughts on their new issue with "thin affiliate" sites?
Can I add affiliate links for you? Like many marketers, we've used a range of content brokers and freelance platforms with mixed results. And with the recent rollouts of Panda and Penguin, this meme is truer now more than ever.
Should You NoFollow Affiliate Links? He realizes it’s not good for marketers, but secured search is better for users, Cutts said. Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, you must first use as many keywords as possible; the...
The difference between paid inclusion and affiliate marketing is that displaying paid placements is straight-up advertising, while affiliate marketers use their influence - whether by way of a mailing list, website, or in this case, a search...
Reality check: Take a long, hard look at your current web strategy, evaluating your traffic sources and examining areas of opportunity you may not be using to their full benefit, such as social or affiliate marketing.
It's sad that a tech journalist and his publication would paint all SEOs, info marketers, digital advertising agencies, social media marketers, small business owners trying to survive online, affiliate marketers, and others who sell in the online...
The Touchpoints component gives marketers the ability to optimize the customer experience across channels and create consistency in messaging across customer touchpoints including email, social, search, display, affiliate and other inbound channels.
He points to rubbish content designed to generate ad clicks and affiliate income as a growing plague. Marketers who engage in fake reviews, falsified comments, puppet accounts and misleading tactics don't just hurt the consumers they may fool, they...
Depending on your role in the company (media buyer, content creator, channel partner/affiliate manager, etc.this kind of data ideally improves how and where you spend your time and money. As digital marketers, we’re frequently reminded magic...
They’re evolving quickly to serve the needs of professional blogs, and now, with the most recent feature of CPC prices for AdSense, InboundWriter also appeals to affiliate marketers,” Rangen said. Eightfold Logic has added a new feature that...
My last piece of advice to the old affiliate marketers: just pick one thing and stick to it. If it isn’t quite clear that traditional (old) affiliate marketing is dead, then you've been living under a rock the last year.
Thin affiliate sites that only exist to make money, identified by checkout on a different domain, image properties showing origination at another URL, lack of original content, different WhoIs registrants of the two domains in question
Since Google migrated PLAs from the Affiliate Network to AdWords in the fall of 2010, Mark Ballard, Senior Research Analyst at RKG, says they’ve been widely adopted by clients. RKG is looking for a strong Q4, cautioning that marketers carefully...
Affiliate marketers once had to decide who received the credit - the first or last referring site. Some affiliate marketers couldn't differentiate between visitors, depending on the time frame. One of the biggest challenges in analyzing conversions...
California is the leading state for affiliate marketers. If you're an affiliate marketer living in California you could be losing a lot of your vendors, as Governor Jerry Brown has signed the state's budget, which includes the affiliate nexus tax.
I walked out of that session having cleansed my SEO soul with two confessions under my belt from my affiliate marketing days and a bunch of very interesting things to think about. How much would it cost to sit down with 4 or 5 of the top Internet...
The Performance Marketing Association challenged the constitutionality of the Illinois law taxing products sold by affiliate marketers residing in the state, filing a lawsuit claiming it violates federal law; as the California State Assembly...
