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Affiliate Marketing

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Kicked To The Affiliate Curb By A Commission Junction Advertiser

Tweet One of our favorite advertisers on Commission Junction (CJ) booted us out of their affiliate program. They said we were “expired” because of our low sales volume with them. I suppose that’s understandable but it’s still disappointing. We actually did generate some sales for them. It wasn’t a lot of sales (a tad under […]

Yahoo Search Marketing Allows Direct Affiliate Links Now

Tweet Commission Junction sent out a pretty exciting email last night. It said Yahoo Search Marketing changed their editorial policy to allow direct links. Well, happy Valentine’s Day to affiliate marketers! Apparently, CJ got the exclusive scoop on this because they drove this change. Second, you heard it here first – YSM has asked us […]

Affiliate Managers Hold The Keys To The Kingdom

Tweet We got the most amazing email about making money online a couple of weeks ago. Since we are doing some PPC and adding affiliate product links to a few of our sites, we signed up for a bunch of affiliate programs like AzoogleAds, Commission Junction, Neverblue Ads, and Amazon Associates. Needless to say, we […]

Facebook Blocks Specific Words In Ads

Tweet I opened a Facebook account for the sole purpose of advertising a few weeks ago. No, pwning them was not my intent. Ethics aside, I am such a newbie that I would screw it up anyway. I just heard rumors of $0.05 clicks and we started doing PPC recently. I figured the scholarship offer […]

How Accurate Is Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool?

Tweet We started using Google AdWords in addition to Yahoo Search Marketing for our small PPC campaigns. I like Google’s Keyword Tool a lot for doing niche market research but its estimates are way, WAY off compared to one of our real-life campaigns. The tool says our ads should show up in position 4-6 in […]