Do you do local PPC?

If you’ve ever needed to generate a list of city/city, state keyword combos for a PPC engine then you’re now in luck!  Jon Leger has thrown together a little tool that will do exactly that.

Say you want to target the keyword phrase dental insurance for all cities in Arizona.  Jon’s tools will spit out a nice list like this:

[dental insurance Phoenix]
[dental insurance New River]
[dental insurance Mesa]
[dental insurance Apache Junction]

The tool handles broad match, exact match, and phrase match.  And best of all, it’s free.

Look for the news here on March 8, 2007.

Do you market affiliate products?

Then I have just what you need! I recently completed a case study detailing 2 amazing affiliate PPC campaigns I ran in late 2006. What does the case study get you? A huge step up if you’re new to affiliate PPC (ala GoogleCash) and some solid techniques if you currently practice affiliate PPC. Whatever your level of sophistication, there’s something in my new case study.

Many people pooh pooh affiliate PPC. They’re probably the ones secretly earning cash like I did in this landmark case study - over $100 a day.

Learn more here:  Affiliate PPC Case Study

In any case, you will find the new Rover eBay affiliate links are dramatically faster than the old CJ link system and this will probably translate into a few more completed transactions. Nothing magical probably, but every sale counts.

For more information, see:  Affiliate Success: eBay.

The upcoming v1.30 release of ASE support all supported countries.

eBay API Country Support

Several months ago I signed up for several of the eBay affiliate programs on Commission Junction and I was turned down for no apparent reason by eBay Canada. Perhaps they don’t like my name or the fact that I prefer cats over dogs. In any case, I needed to be in the Canada program so I waited several weeks and applied again - and they turned me down again…

OK. So call me bull-headed, but I applied again. And this time they accepted me. Why? I dunno… I changed nothing. Same me, same websites, and I suppose I was a few weeks older , but I can’t claim new wisdom.

So, if one of the eBay affiliate programs turns you down just keep applying every 4 or 5 weeks until you get a thumbs up.

Ars Technica, the popular technology site for PC enthusiasts, hosts a well-known free PlayStation 2 Repair Guide that instructs users how to deal with minor disk read errors. Dave Childs, the owner of ILoveJackDaniels.com, hosts a collection of equally free programming “cheat sheets” that help new programmers remember the commands of their chosen language.

Both sites were surprised to find out that not only was their content being plagiarized, but repackaged and resold on Ebay.

Sadly, though Ebay has become one of the greatest markets for selling legitimate electronic books (eBooks), its also become one of the most common methods for plagiarists to take freely available content, and package it for an easy dollar. Worse still, as scraping continues to fall out of favor with spammers, ebook plagiarism could become a greater and greater problem for Webmasters.

(Quoted: Ebay: Your Content for Sale Via Plagiarism Today.)

What is significant is that prior to this change you needed to drive $25,000 - $49,999.99 of fee winning bids to get 50% of eBay’s auction fees.  The affiliate rake quickly levels out from this point and the incremental commission increases inch up from here to 65%.  In the old program, commissions in the top tier paid as high as 70%.

eBay has been aggressively upping the commission ante over the past year.  Under the old program active over a year ago referred bids earned a dime.  These changes can increase an affiliates earnings as much as 8 - 10 times.

and I click it and then I see this…

“Always open, eh?” False advertising?

I have thrown together an email ecourse that shares my tactics and strategies for finding and winning auctions on eBay and saving as much as 50% in the process. If you are interested in destroying your buying competition, winning the listings you want, and becoming an eBay Power Buyer sign-up below. It’s free and you’ll thank me later… (send gifts… it’s hard to spend goodwill and kudos!)

Your email address is safe with me - I won’t share or sell it.

I have been monitoring quite a few auctions lately and I have determined that new eBay auction listings seem to appear in the XML web service approximately 4 hours and 10 minutes after being listed by an eBay user.  Strange…

eBay Bid Sniping

If you have always wanted to know the secret to finding and winning those dirt-cheap eBay auctions that you hear about, but never seem to be able to find, then SearchDigger was developed just for you. SearchDigger was designed from the ground up to find and deliver awesome bargains to you saving you as much as 20-50% and more. SearchDigger does this work behind the scenes on your Windows PC while you do other things like play games, IM you friends, and enjoy yourself. Plus, with SearchDigger you become the guy that gets all those awesome bargains everyone is always talking about, but can never find. SearchDigger uses the eBay web service, stealth, and speed to deliver rock-bottom prices to you using its laser-guided search technology and best of all, SearchDigger is dirt-cheap just like the bargains it will deliver to you day after day, week after week, and year after year.

SearchDigger is will absolutely destroy your buying competition on eBay.

Have a look at SearchDigger now.

Adotas mentions new AdSense unit sizes of 1×1 pixel and 2560×1920 pixels. What about people with bigger screens than that though?

How the heck did the Sydney Morning Herald find out about Google’s quantum-based spam filtering?

Philipp notices Google’s new room search prototype.

Ask introduces RhymeRank, which lets you find related queries that rhyme with your original query. It may only work in English, but that’s okay: it’s in gamma release.

(Quoted: April Fools Watch Via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO.)

In a stunning announcement today, Google reported that it is shutting down its Adsense advertising program - effective immediately.

(Quoted: Rosalind Gardner’s Affiliate Marketing Blog » Program Cancellation Stuns Affiliates Via .)

Rosalind Gardner

The Affiliate Code (available 4.1.06 at all major bookstores) tells the story of a California technology company that will do anything to bring in the big publishers and advertisers to their network.

(Quoted: The Affiliate Code - Exposing the Affiliate Networks Via Affiliate Networks Exposed!.)

AjaxWrite is a new service offering a free version, of what is being compared to, Microsoft Word. AjaxWrite was released yesterday and was introduced by Michael Robertson who started things off saying, “What if there was alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? And oh yeah, it was FREE so consumers didn’t have to pay $499 for Microsoft Office. I’m excited to announce that day is here.” The buzz has been amazing and the service has been having server issues on and off all day because of the amount of attention it has been receiving.

(Quoted: Online Word Processing with AjaxWrite » Solution Watch Via Solution Watch.)

Congratulations to our winners of the eBay Developer Challenge 2006!
We’re down here in beautiful San Diego, CA with our Grand Prize and First Place winners, who won US $5,000 and US $1,000 respectively, at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.

Grand Prize Winner: Unwired Buyer developed by Eric Smith (Developer gnumber2) Calls you three minutes before an auction closes — and lets you bid over your cell phone

First Place Winner: ctxbay by Aleksandar Stankovic (Developer astankovic79)
Analyizes Web page context and serves up contextual affiliate links to eBay.

(Quoted: eBay Developers Program: Congratulations to the Winners of the eBay Developer Challenge 2006 Via eBay Developer’s Blog.)