Sam Harrelson broke the story over at ReveNews that Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has been confirmed as the keynote for this winter’s Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, NV (February 24 to 26, 2008 at the Rio Hotel and Casino). He must have received notice of that via email or twitter, because the official …
This is part two of the article: ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, …
One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Todd Malicott (Stuntduble), Todd Friesen (Oilman), Greg Boser (Web Guirilla) and Andy Baio (Upcoming.com). The panel started with a funny, but off-topic video by Matt Cutt’s and made it clear …
While I was in Miami at Affiliate Summit this July did I had some discussion via email with Andreas Reiffen from Marketing2null.de, about a post he did at his blog (in German) that looks into the pro and cons of changing Google’s paid search model from pay-per-click to CPA, also known as cost-per-action. It caught …
The market keeps opening up in the UK for internet businesses and marketers. Day in and day out websites from English entrepreneurs arise. The latest to come out from the UK as reported on Mashable is AdJug, “The company provides an ad marketplace that will initially focus on the UK market, with expansion into Europe. …
Google announced today via a press release that they expand the Google Pay-Per-Action beta program to include beta testers around the world. As of today are willing advertisers and publishers outside the United States able to participate and apply for a beta account. Quote: “Starting today, advertisers in the beta will see an alert in …
Here’s some advice to anybody who is silly enough to provide feedback to Yahoo! Services, keep it for something else or you might end up losing your account over it. In my opinion, they do not want being criticized, hear suggestions for how to improve things and know about bugs in their site. Send them …
Shawn Collins, co-Founder of Affiliate Summit was so kind to sponsor three exhibit hall passes ($299 value each) for the Affiliate Summit 2007 East – Affiliate Marketing Expo and Conference so I thought it would be a good idea to give them away to search marketers to get to know the affiliate marketing industry a …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 What to Make Out of It Some results should make the link being ignored completely and even reflect poorly on the webmaster (trust), some should get full voting …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 “Jagger” and “BidDaddy” Aftermath What came with the Jagger update [i] was something called “TrustRank [i]” and the “Google Sandbox Effect[ii]”. The “Sandbox” was a hot topic and …
