http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog a developer & affiliate speaks loudly! Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:12:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you PPC? 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/adwords-city-keyword-generator/ eBay has announced that they will now allow sellers to collect affiliate commissions on their own auctions!  Great news for sellers. Probably time to grab a copy of Affiliate Success: eBay (ASE) and throw up some pages on your website. Look for the news here on March 8, 2007. http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/uncategorized/ebay-updates-affiliate-program-for-sellers/ Affiliate Success: eBay 2.0 is now available for registered users. In addition to support for all Commission Junction eBay affiliate programs, ASE now has a much simplified process for requesting an eBay API server token. Just click a button, type your eBay ID, click a few more button, ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/affiliate-success-ebay-20-released/ Do you use Google Adwords? Yahoo Search Marketing? How about MSN AdCenter? 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? ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/affiliate-ppc-case-study/ The Rover update for Affiliate Success: eBay was mailed to all current ASE customers early this morning. I recommend installing the ASE Rover update soon. eBay's original cutoff for the old Commission Junction links was November 15, 2006, but they have extended that date to December 15, 2006. ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/rover-update-for-affiliate-success-ebay-released/ For current owners of ASE, I have released v1.30 which includes international support and automatic category downloads.  You can now build eBay listing sites using the DWG script that provide listings in any of the 22 eBay web service support country languages.  11 of the supported countries also provide Commission ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/affiliate-success-ebay-v130-released/ eBay provides support for 22 distinct countries within their web service API.  11 of these countries have affiliate programs supported by Commission Junction.  Are you getting your share of dollars and euros? The upcoming v1.30 release of ASE support all supported countries. eBay API Country Support http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/ebay-country-support-api/ Persistence pays. 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/turned-down-for-an-ebay-affiliate-program-try-again/ In case you hadn't noticed, eBay is rife with copyright infringement. If you're interested in monitoring eBay for your wares, have a look at SearchDigger. The key for free information providers is to restrict resale of their information. That won't stop everyone, but it does give you ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/ebay-your-content-for-sale/ Beginning July 1, 2006 eBay will raise affiliate commissions on the low end.  I can't tell if the move is revenue neutral - only eBay knows, but what is apparent is that they are very interesting in driving interest in their affiliate program with people new to the program.  New ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/ebay-ups-commissions/ So, I browsed over to sirius.com to have at look at the current radio options and I see this: and I click it and then I see this... "Always open, eh?" False advertising? http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/web/sirius-problems/ It's easy enough to browse over to eBay and buy something, but how about getting a good deal? Not so easy... 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. ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/web/ebay-buying-success/ From the Did You Know Department: 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... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/web/ebay-listing-delay/ I have thrown together several tactics to blunt the effectiveness of eBay bid snipers.  You can learn more here: eBay Bid Sniping http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/web/some-tactics-to-destroy-ebay-bid-snipers/ I am happy to announce Shrub Software's newest family member, SearchDigger. 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/shrubsoft-news/searchdigger-ebay-search/ The clowns are loose... a few April Fools collected by GoogleMat. 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/april-fools-watch-from-matt/ The sky is falling! You could see this coming a mile away... All you Adsense jokers better get busy replacing that revenue. 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/google-cancels-adsense-program/ Already have my copy and this is a real page turner! 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/the-affiliate-code-exposing-the-affiliate-networks/ Buzz aside, it looks pretty cool but it didn't successfully load my 3 page Word doc with a few embedded graphics. Not there yet... 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 ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/web/ajaxwrite-cool-infancy/ eBay has announced the winners of their Developer's Contest. The grand prize went to Unwired, an auction tracking and last minute bidding application but my vote goes to the first place winner, ctxbay. ctxbay displays contextual eBay listings in the same way that Google delivers Adsense to your website. It's ... http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/ebay-developers-program-congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-ebay-developer-challenge-2006/