Google’s New Link Reading: Potential Problem for Affiliates?
For those of you not content with Google’s present level of omnipotence, here’s more for you to chew on: Google Blog Search Now Reads Links on Web Pages: “Today Google…
Search Results for: Links are dead
“…let him declare what he seeth…” or Apple vs the Web
…that Plato channeled through Heraclitus. Everything flows. Perceptions, marketing techniques, web technologies, app platforms. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Rather than believing the teacher that tells…
Redundancy is not helpful
…ponder which they should click. The more courageous users click on both links only to be disappointed when they discover that the links lead to the same page. Repetitive links…
Correction: So You Can Make Money With The Amazon Affiliate Program
…program. Looks like John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog found the sweet spot for making money with Amazon affiliate links… Who ever said blogging doesn’t pay? Last Tuesday, Daring Fireball blogger…
Performics Network Interface Improvements and the Usability Question
Performics has released a series of upgrades and usability improvements to its reporting platform, ConnectCommerce this week. Primarily, the updates focused on an improved links interface, advertiser profile interface, enhanced…
MyBlogLog, Widgets and the Future of Online Marketing
…My analytics have also shown me that since that time the number of page views, time spent on the site, links in from other blogs and the general word of…
American Allegory and The Middle
…internet in the mid-90’s as I stumbled upon bulletin boards of fellow seekers of Beatles writ and knowledge as well as The Grateful Dead and Nirvana. As I began my…
GeekCast Episode 6: Plugging the Right Holes
…and incomplete list of discussions this week: -Headset Tech – Analogue or USB? -Lisa’s Skype Troubles -Cable is Dead? -Super Bowl Twitter Friends -Paying to Play in UK Affiliate Networks…
My Grandfather’s Name
…his name when I get that silly “Who would you want to have an hour long conversation with if you could talk to any human – living or dead –…
Eyes of the World and The Spiritual Discipline of Paying Attention
…Anyone who has spent time listening to the Grateful Dead knows something about this kind of attention. Their music often unfolds slowly, building through long improvisations that only make sense…
Google is killing goo.gl and we’ll see more web rot
…and bit.ly etc for years to mask complex links and encourage sharing or easier verbal communication. But like all things having to do with the web, you should plan for…
Invalid Clicks: Whose Traffic Is It Anyway?
Adam Viener has an interesting post about CJ’s passing of expired links on to the merchant with no compensation for the affiliate, which differs from their previous practice of routing…
The LongTail and JCrew Coupons
…am not a fan of links. The fact that I’ve put three links into one sentence should alert you to the potency of the content that Shmuly is producing. Hell,…
Google Punishes PayPerPost Users
…of detecting paid links. Paid links that affect search engines (whether paid text links or a paid review) can cause a site to lose trust in Google.” So if you…
I’m Quitting Marketing
…Twitter links?” “Why does Google punish me for selling links when TechCrunch does the same thing?” “How much should I invest in my StumbleUpon account in order to drive 1,000…
Google’s Incentive and the Open Source Movement in Online Marketing
…fair and square. Consumers will begin to wonder why Vista restricts the application of certain handy software programs. Consumers will begin to wonder why Google doesn’t provide the best links…
Affiliate Marketing Mini-Manifesto
…the hubs and nodes of networks. 3. Affiliate Marketing Transcends Links Links hold affiliate marketing hostage. Just as Jeremiah wore a yoke around his neck to show the coming servitude…
Search, Advertising, Relevancy and Link Lattices
…on the lattices of links. For the past three years, we’ve been contained within this paradigm of shortened user attention, traffic patterns and have attempted to come to terms with…
MediaWhiz Buys Text Link Ads
…buy for MediaWhiz? Where are they looking to move with this buy? Text Link Ads doesn’t use “no follows” for their links, which has given the platform a good deal…
Widgets and the Future of Affiliate Marketing
…one stop shop beyond the context of just hyperlinks into the realm of customized and portable content is not hard to imagine. Would this be profitable? Yes. Would this encourage…