You Suck At Affiliate Marketing When….

You need to try and hire someone to drive sales and conversions for you lol..

Do not bid unless you have experience at creating, and have created super affiliates!! I don’t care how much website traffic you claim you can bring me as most traffic is fake and or poor quality, I CARE ABOUT SALES AND CONVERSIONS!! If you cannot make top tested proven products like this:bigcashmama.com
bigmoneykid.com
strikeitwealthy.com

sell then this project is not for you. I will not chose your bid unless you show me happy satisfied clients or proof that you have created and brought super affiliates at least 50-100 sales per day!!

Top affiliates are earning well over $100,000 per month with the above mentioned high converting programs. If you can’t get me there then you are not the ideal candidate for this project.

The funniest part is the brilliant person behind this wants someone who can make him $100,000.00 only to bid on his project and the schmuck wants to pay 1% of what he will earn…..

LOL

I have tired of reading all of the problems in Afghanistan till today when I read this article.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/26/sports/skate.1-415677.php?page=1

I loved to skate as a kid and there were a few skate parks where I lived at the time and found a lot of freedom there. This takes that to a level that cannot be reached, I laughed at the site of the children and found hope in them as well.

Now if I could figure out how to help this guy I will and hope others will as well.

Peace!

Indexing Web Pages & Discovery

I wrote a comment to Ann at SearchEngineJournal.com about her article on ensuring Google is indexing pages of your site found at the link below

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-get-google-to-index-your-site-deeper/7566/#comment-1084520

Ann seems to think there is a scientific method to having pages indexed. This is fine but SEO is not really a rocket science form of advertising online.

When I wrote one needs only to submit a valid xml sitemap to the search engines various Webmaster offerings to have your site or blogs pages indexed, Ann replied that a sitemap only helps with discovery, and not indexing.

I would like to explain to Ann and others that may be reading, that discovery and indexing go hand in hand with one another, as they are part & parcel.

In order to index a sites pages, those pages must be discovered. Once discovered, the pages would then be indexed. Pages that are discovered and not indexed are typically due to html errors, otherwise once discovered the page would be indexed. In fact it may be indexed many times especially if the content is changed and the sitemap has the proper settings to ensure continual crawling.

However pages cannot be indexed that are not discovered. If the page is not discovered, then there would be no way possible to have it indexed within the constraints of logic.

Hence it is best to submit a valid xml sitemap. Build a sitemap for your users as well, and then send high PR one way links from other relevant sites to your visitor sitemap page, and pass PR to your internals.

Made For Affiliates, By Affiliates. Pepperjam Network.

One of my favorite things is seeing others succeed. I like seeing others who started an online business quite a few years ago truly succeed and grow, and it is great to see a business near your own have great success so its great to see another Pennsylvania based business being recognized. Another is sitting on the Small Business Council of the company that recoginizes business achievement Fortune Inc.

Kris Jones President & CEO is the man who built his company into a Fortune 500 company. Pepperjam is a multi faceted company offering marketing services combines with technology services to assist businesses in meeting their online marketing goals.

Pepperjam has been featured on The Inc 500s fastest growing company list for the last three years and it is fun to see them on this list. What is amazing is the list is for 2007 and as such does not include earnings from 2008 and the launch of the PepperJam Network.

PepperJam Network brings together an impressive list of Advertisers with top quality publishers bringing the Internet community fantastic offers that people want. Top name brands turn to PepperJam to build their Internet business.

As an affiliate marketer and having websites built that feature many of the PepperJam Networks offer. PepperJam has top quality backend that is easy to navigate and feature todays hot Advertisers so your offers will convert and make you money. I encourage everyone to hook onto the rising star that is PepperJam.

Join Pepperjam Network today!

Introduction to Google Ranking -From GoogleBlog by Amit Singhal

Everyone who is interested in SEO should be salivating at the mouth on this news as Amit is part of the search rankings team and is blogging how Google determines which pages deserve to be at the top of the organic SERPs. Google says they are going to give us the information as to how they determine good webpages for upper results rankings in the Google SERPs.

Amit is a Google Fellow who has been working within the Search a.k.a. Information Retrieval (or IR) field for over 18 years. He has been with Google since 2000 and knows a great deal about how their search algorithms work.

Understanding how the Google Algoritm works has allowed me to dominate Google Front Page results and as such I feel it is a competitive edge that I have over other SEOs.

So if you want to compete in the SEO field it is critical you read what Amit has to offer and learn as much as you can about algorithms.

Today Amit covers three topics

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention

I have written about each of these concepts myself and am glad to see that Google is going to touch on them as well.

I will run down my thoughts as to how each affects your search results and goals.

1. Best local results served internationally is really quite simple, I am in Italy and search Google.com for ‘Italian Pizza’ Google will typically know I am looking for a place to order pizza in Italy and serve me the most relevant local establishments first followed by regional results then national and then international.

2. Keep It Simple - Not much to go on about here - it is a derivative of Keep It Simple, Stupid! Google the term if you have further questions.

3. No Manual Intervention - No hand bans - I have said this a few times over the years, 1,000,000,000s of webpages prevents the company from manually placing sites at the top or other such non-sense accusing Google employees of nepotism.

Again it would be a logistical nightmare to manually try to manage the SERPs. Google seems to have a hard enough time keeping the Paid Search side under control.

They can hand ban those sites caught doing malicious or illegal acts. enough said.

So make sure to stay tuned to Googles Blog for the next installment.

Google Affiliate Network

I just received an E-mail from DoubleClick Performics that they are now Google Affiliate Network.

This should really be interesting as many affiliate marketers will want to join Google now as another way to further earn revenues.

Here is the E-mail

We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.

Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand. The platform will continue to be hosted at www.ConnectCommerce.com, but will eventually migrate to a google.com product url.

As noted in earlier communications, DoubleClick Performics’ Search operations are being spun off and sold to a third party. While many advertisers have relationships with both DoubleClick Performics’ Affiliate and Search, there have always been separate account teams and product-specific specialists servicing clients’ search and affiliate programs. These teams remain intact. While the formal separation will occur when the Search business is sold, the businesses are functionally separate today.

We are proud of what we achieved as Performics and this name change signals a new milestone. Google provides world-class resources and enables us to continue to attract the best talent to support our advertisers and publishers. Now as part of Google we have an exciting and unprecedented opportunity to advance our industry. We remain committed to ensuring you receive the quality service you have come to expect from us.

We appreciate your business and look forward to doing great

To say the least this definitely gives food for thought as to what can be accomplished once all the pieces are in place!

I would really like to see comments on this and what others think of the new Network!

Microsoft has reported that talks with Yahoo are over and there will be no formal merger. Microsoft wanted to buy only Yahoo Search in the latest round of discussions.

The Yahoo Board of Directors felt that this was not the best deal for it’s shareholders and rejected the idea of selling off only the Search side of their business.

There are also reports of Microsoft wanting to have regulators look at the Yahoo Google search deal that has been stuck, based on Anti Trust laws.
Microsoft took this same tactic with Google / DoubleClick which only extended the timeline to get the deal done with the Government looking into the deal a bit more.

Ballmer is beginning to look like a baby with his actions.

More to come!

Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo!

Microsoft on Sunday posted an announcement that it will continue to explore and pursue alternatives to improve & grow their online services and advertising business.
Microsoft is has reached out to Yahoo! With what they consider an alternative that would involve deal with Yahoo. This would not be an acquisition of Yahoo but rather an agreement to incorporate parts of Yahoo into the Microsoft family.

While it is not considering a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo! they are reserving the right to reconsider an alternative which will depend on other future developments and / or discussions that might take place with Yahoo. This could also include discussion with shareholders of Yahoo, Microsoft or with other third parties.

Other third parties would seem to indicate Carl Icahn who has a great amount of money and has begun buying Yahoo shares to try to throw out Yahoos board but who does not have enough money or power to make a serious play by himself.

Joining Ballmer was almost cast in stone!

Microsoft Drops Hostile Takeover Bid!
Steve Ballmer & Microsoft have packed up their bags and gone and let the building or bidding!Microsofts boss yesterday decided to abandon his $42 billion takeover of Yahoo! After initially raising their offer by $5 billion Friday to $33 a share - and having it rejected again by the Internet icon’s CEO, Jerry Yang. Jerry denied the initial bid of $29.00 as well.

“Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer,” Ballmer said in a letter to the Yahoo! CEO.

“After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal.”

Negotiations over the price of a possible deal began Friday between the two companies, sources said. Ballmer indicated that he was willing to pay $33 a share but Yang insisted his company was worth $37 a share, or nearly $5 billion more.

Sources have stated that Ballmer had contemplated dropping the bid since early last month after being rejected twice by Jerry Yang & Yahoo’s board of directors.

Most investment analysts and shareholders believed that there was little chance that Microsoft would walk away from the offer and Yahoo! shares traded up nearly 10 percent Friday to $29.70 in anticipation of a deal over the weekend.

The move may be terrible for Yahoo which stands to lose more than $15 billion in market value when the stock markets open tomorrow. Some large investors including hedge funds, were discussing throwing out the Yahoo! board themselves and trying to sell the company to Microsoft.

Many see this as a daring move if Microsoft is really gone for good. “There is no way that Yahoo! gets away with this,” said one large shareholder. “Yang is toast.”

Bt dropping Microsoft’s attempted takeover, Ballmer, decided not to pursue a hostile takeover of Yahoo!, something the CEO had promised when the Yahoo! board missed Ballmer’s deadline eight days ago.

Ballmer said Yahoo!’s promise to enter into a search agreement with Google, the No. 1 search company, would have made Yahoo! “undesirable as an acquisition for Microsoft.”

The deal, which would allow Yahoo! to carry Google ads, “would fundamentally undermine Yahoo!’s own strategy and long-term viability by encouraging advertisers to use Google as opposed to your Panama paid search system,” Ballmer said in the letter.

“This would also fragment your search advertising and display advertising strategies and the ecosystem surrounding them,” Ballmer added. “This would undermine the reliance on your display advertising business to fuel future growth.”

The takeover, had it been successful, would have recast the power structure of the Internet by forming a more formidable rival to Google, the leader of the $41 billion paid search business.

Yahoo! had hoped its new search technology, called Panama, would help shrink the gap between Google and itself, the No. 2 company in search. But Panama was a disappointment and Google’s dominance over Internet advertising remains.

Yahoo Becomes an Adsense Publisher For Two Weeks!

Good morning readers - One of the first to have the announcement MediaViper.com notes that Yahoo said Wednesday, that they will begin a test running Google ads alongside Yahoo.com’s organic search results.

The two-week trial run of Google’s AdSense for Search service will be limited to no more than 3% of Yahoo search queries, & will not include the company’s network of affiliate or premium publisher partners.

The move leads to speculation that Yahoo is trying to forge a stronger alliance with Google.com which Yahoo hopes will increase efforts to resist Microsoft’s hostile takeover attempt. The move was made following discussion the two companies held about Yahoo potentially outsourcing search ad sales to Google.

Yahoo basically becomes a publisher of Google Adsense yet unlike the rest of us Adsense publishers, likely to earn a majority of the revenue generated within any arrangement.

In announcing the ad test with Google Wednesday, Yahoo re-stated that thier board members are continuing to review their options to maximize stockholder value, including exploration of potential commercial business ventures.

Yahoo also went on to say “the testing does not necessarily mean that Yahoo will join the AdSense for Search program, or that any further commercial relationship with Google will result.” Yahoo also said it would not comment further on the nature or timing of any potential relationship.

Microsoft, just a week ago warned that it would lower its offer price if Yahoo didn’t come to an agreement on the proposed merger, within three weeks time, and immediately raised antitrust questions about Yahoo’s ad test with Google.

“Any agreement between Google & Yahoo would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands,” said Microsoft in a statement. “This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo.”

U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, voiced his thoughts on the Yahoo - Google venture, further vindicating Microsofts stance.

“We will be following closely the results of the short-term test alliance between Yahoo and Google,” he said in a statement. “Should there be moves to make this agreement permanent, we will examine it closely in the Antitrust Subcommittee to ensure that it does not harm competition.”

Yahoo’s board of directors has rejected Microsoft’s $31-a-share offer as “substantially undervaluing” the company, in its response Monday to Microsoft’s ultimatum. In exploring alternatives to a Microsoft acquisition, Yahoo has had discussions about a possible deal with companies including News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.

Two sources, paidContent and Silicon Alley Insider were reporting late week that Yahoo is in serious talks with Time Warner, which may see a Yahoo-AOL merger agreement which could be announced as soon as next week. A Yahoo-Google search partnership would only sweeten the deal, with Google already owning a 5% stake in AOL. Whether that deal will actually come together remains unclear.

Yahoo could possibly see its’ ad trial with Google, will push Microsoft to boost its offer price. Earlier on Wednesday, a large Yahoo investor criticized Microsoft for threatening to lower its bid.