One of the hottest stories of the weekend without doubt was Armand Morin revealing that a Google Adwords rep had told one of his affiliates, in an email, that he needed to fix Armand’s site or remove it from the internet for unacceptable business practices, or remain with his Adwords account suspended.
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Andy Beal has taken a stab at estimating the market size for online reputation management.
As a niche marketer, considering the niche for promotion of various products, I thought I would take a closer look.
Today's news is that Overstock have decided that they are axing 3400 affiliates in the New York area because of the previously reported "Amazon Tax" – which Amazon are fighting.
I think Janet was the first to break the news of the Overstock changes
This is a story that both Linda at 5 Star Affiliate Programs and Shawn's Affiliate Blog have been covering in depth.
The New York Times also has coverage and been giving out some great links.
Techcrunch has a Scribd copy of the original Overstock posted letter (Shawn posted the email)
The New York Times reports that
It happens… even to the most accomplished SEO professionals.
Last August Dan Thies revealed the amazing story about how Brad Fallon, Stompernet founder and owner of MyWeddingFavors.com was kicked out of Google, because of people exploiting bugs in Google.
For many people the “proxy hacking” explanation was extremely complicated to understand (I struggled), but what wasn’t revealed was how Brad’s company survived (and grew) without his top Google listings.
It is now revealed, in a 54 minute video with typical (extraordinary) Stompernet style.
Earlier today I read about a new report on Yahoo Search Marketing's Panama over on Marketing Pilgrim, so I thought I would take a look.
The problem is that I am the curious type and tend to click around on the pages I visit, and noticed the Adwords book.
So I clicked through and noticed that the Adwords ebook had a number of bonuses offered, which included the new Yahoo book (which is spiral bound)
Even better, the Adwords ebook is sold through Clickbank – maybe that bonus is to an old ebook? The link is to the current sales page however.
http://XXXXaffiliatelinkXXXX.pagezero.hop.clickbank.net @ $75 ($14 cheaper)
I didn't use a real hoplink but that Clickbank link should work… but wait… I am not sure you would actually get a spiral wrapped book as a
Google Reader is one of the easiest to use RSS Readers currently available. The code is fairly light, thus allowing you to skim read 100s of RSS articles quickly. One of its many failings however, which I have pointed out previously was the lack of reporting subscriber counts to Feedburner.
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I have just added a free to use Adwords Keyword Formatter that I wrote some time ago for my old site. As I was playing around with generation scripts, I thought I would use it as a test for including PHP generators in a WordPress page, and it turned out fairly well.
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I use Google for a lot of searching every day, I am sure more than 95% of casual users. I am not talking about checking ranking, as things like that can be automated with Google’s APis and various tools. When I need to find information, I use Google Search.
I have seen Google suggest other related terms to try such as this, which appears at the bottom of a page when I search for “insurance”.
The Google Related terms normally look something like this:-
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