Ann Smarty has some great posts about Google Sitelinks. They are here (first post) and here (second post).
She summarizes about the benefits including:
More clicks for your listing
Your site seems more important
More brand interest
More internal page traffic
Amit Mehta posted about the Google Smack-down (Google Slap). Last week I posted about the UberAffiliate Blog post and comments.
Amit posts here about Landing Page Quality Score and what Google REALLY wants. It is a great post that should help you beginners and experts alike.
Ultimately he concludes (and yes this is obvious but still it seems some need to be reminded of it) that Google wants REAL sites, not gateway sites or portals or redirects or just landing pages. They want REAL sites with REAL content. They want you to offer the consumer something of VALUE, not just an affiliate landing page.
Read the full post here.
As you may have already noticed, the new site is live! Great thanks for our marketing and design team and our IT Department. Krista, Tony, Aaron, Terry, Melissa, Ed, Marcel, Ion, Erick, Mike, Melanie, and Marcus, you guys are the best!
You do not have to do anything, but I do encourage you to look around at the new banners and links.
And guess what? This is only the beginning! More new landing pages are coming soon!
Just a quick note that I will be out of town the rest of this week. Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!
If you are reading this right now and have been here before, you will notice that our blog got a facelift!
And there is more GREAT news coming tomorrow…but I will tell about that next Monday 
A new study published by Jupiter Research shows that affiliate marketing is growing…and growing!
Between now and 2012, affiliate marketing spending is expected to increase at an annual rate of 13%. That is incredible compared to other industries.
Will this apply to insurance? Of course! In fact, more so than many industries in this economic climate.
Currently affiliate marketing spending accounts for 9% of total online spending. That is expected to remain steady through 2012. The report was entitled “U.S. Online Affiliate Marketing Forecast, 2007 to 2012.”
Google is now offering local AdWords seminars.
These seminars are offered throughout the country and look to be very good.
They are very affordable ($250 per class) and you can write off the expense as a business expense. You also get AdWords credits and some other goodies from Google.
Check out more information here and sign-up today! If you are going, let me know and I might be able to join you
Also, let me know how it goes!
Just a quick post as I have been following the comments on the UberAffiliate Blog regarding the “Google Slap” on affiliates last week.
Here is the link to the post and the 34 (so far) comments on the subject.
| So this is a topic I should be expert on…I was a psychology major for almost a full semester in college! HAHA
Harry Maugans posts on the ShoeMoney blog about the psychological side of landing pages. There are some good tips in there…nothing “brand new” but still a good quick read! |
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Paul Bourque writes on the UberAffiliate blog about “Affiliate Marketing Mistakes I still make.”
Do you make any of them these:
Succumbing to Distractions
Campaign Overload
Laziness!
Neglecting Yahoo,MSN
Not Split Testing
The full post is a good quick read and maybe a wake-up call to some of us!
Here are some pictures of our company banquet. It was a great time and a wonderful way to celebrate our company’s past, present, and future!
Me speaking
Most of the staff
Ambrosha, Nick, Ron, Philip and Liz
Amanda, Dustin, Wayne, and Melanie
Our CFO Bob making a toast
Me toasting Bob and Hunter
Elaine, out first US employee and Hunter’s mom
I only post this one because I know I am going to get hell for it.
Happy Weekend!
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