ABestWeb Thread
There’s been a problem reported over on ABW about Ask Jeeves messing with the ads being displayed on adsense.
Here are Affiliate Boards ads shown while viewing from Ask Jeeves:
Affiliate Boards - Framed In Ask Jeeves
I’m seeing ads for cold medicine, flooring, cough drops and homeopathics. Pretty targeted stuff!
When viewing Affiliate Boards directly:
Affiliate [...]
Today is February 9th and I haven’t had *one single sale* this month on CJ. I have a mix of encrypted links and non-encrypted links. Clicks seem to be tracking just fine. Zero sales.
My adwords campaigns pointing to pages mainly built on CJ are being paused as we speak. IMO something’s wrong somewhere and I’m [...]
Here’s a shopping directory a friend of mine just launched:
ShopShootah
It’s shopping related so submit all your aff sites and get them listed!
Directory is brand spanking new, so there’s no Google PR yet - but get in now to be at the top of the results (right now it’s bannerboxes loading - manually submitted sites [...]
Wow if you’ve ever wanted to try adding rss to your site, Carp is the way to go!
Carp - Free Download
I played with it a bit yesterday and couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up. I’ve added it to one content site and will be adding it to another right away.
The instructions are [...]
The Brand Futurist Nick Wreden has listed the
Hottest Branding Trends for 2005 on his blog.
Top 5:
1. Performance-based compensation
2. Enhanced customer connectivity
3. Social branding
4. Universe is the brand
5. Blogs, wikis and RSS
Fast-forward to the future: Keep an eye on podcasting, mososo and immersive communications. These won’t have much of an impact in 2005, but [...]
One of my new aff product sites just rocked with sales/conversions when I first launched it. Then it took a big nosedive. I thought it was just slowing down because of the time of year (beginning of January), but discovered a horrendous mess when I picked through the site.
Somehow the code got all messed up [...]
I can’t believe it, seems the time has finally come (or at least given a timeline now).
I just read this over at Affiliate Tip and seems I missed some big news.
Does anyone know just how long the wait has been for this to happen? And I wonder if they’ll use better glue on their envelopes [...]
Very interesting discussion going on over at affiliateboards here:
CPA vs. CPC
What we do as affs when creating websites that sell products and include our affiliate links is called CPA (Cost Per Action). We’re setting ourselves up to earn a commission from each *sale* made. That’s CPA.
What they’re talking about in this thread is building websites [...]
The hosting problems that happened with the blog yesterday were the least of my worries. I had opened four new hosting accounts for various projects this past week and only two activated my account right away (actually the host that’s hosting this blog and one other).
One host hasn’t responded to my account setup request [...]
Dr. Andy Williams from ezSEO makes a prediction for this year that sites using scripts and software to crank out hundreds or thousands of pages to spam the search engines with (ie. merchant datafeeds) are going to take a serious hit. He’s suggesting that Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines won’t even ’spider’ these [...]
