Rosalind Gardner has a great blog entry about a note she received from an industry insider regarding an affiliate manager sending out a mailing with a hidden link in his HTML. The HTML was for use by his affiliates and included the following link:
I setup some new campaigns in AdWords yesterday and they are flatlined - all zeros. Google is not showing my ads. So, I went over to WebmasterWorld and had a look around in the Adwords forum and many other people are experiencing the same problem. Has the world come to an end? Is the freezing of hell imminent? What is an affiliate to do?
Choice is a great thing: Google, Yahoo, MSN (soon) and now Amazon? Ah, Chitika… I can’t forget Chitika. Amazon is talking to affiliates about joining its contextual ad beta. The problem seems to be that people are not willing to forego their Adsense revenue to give the Amazon program a try. Golden handcuffs and all that. Perhaps you would like to give the program a try?
The latest research indicates that email open rates are down with Friday being the best day to send your marketing materials using email. Tuesday follows as the next best day to send email marketing letters. Why did open rates drop by 29%? Email fatigue is the most likely culprit as email volumes jumped 50% in the same period (4Q 2005.)
In the better late than never department, eBay has announced a new API call report for members of the eBay Developer Program -
You know what I mean - you join a list or buy a product from some fine person. The list is useful or the product gets the job done and you are on your merry way until … the emails start flooding in. The guy must have the new products feed from ClickBank uploading directly into his email program! It seems like every new offer up on ClickBank has found its way into your mailbox. No, I am not interested in turning $10 into $10,000 in only one year using a new and novell HYIP. The flood of emails are unceasing. Really! I don’t need 150 prebuilt Adsense sites I can throw up instantly and make BIG MONEY along with 1,000 other people using the same content. It just doesn’t end and that’s a damn shame.
Sneaky and stealthy, the Google we all love. It seems Google has determined that their financial exposure was to great under the old terms of the Adsense Affiliate Program so they changed the terms but failed to let anyone know. Under the old terms there was no time limit on the amount of time a new publisher could take to reach $100 in earnings. Once a referred publisher reached $100, the referring affiliate collected his $100 referral commission. The new terms impose a 90 day time limit for the referred publisher to reach the $100 goal.
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