Thanks Google, thanks for March Madness. For those of you not hit, or slapped, by the mighty G this month with elevated, outrageous $10+ minimum bids for your precious keywords, you can stop reading. If you know what I’m talking about, good luck.

Every so often Google updates their Adwords quality score algorithm and in doing so crushes the campaigns of many an affiliate marketer by finding fault in their method, and forcing them to pay 10 to 20 times their current bid to remain active.

Unfortunately, looks like The G ran another such update last week wiping out a few …

Direct linking to your merchant’s affiliate is back in vogue again. The lazy man’s method to making (or trying to make) a quick buck, linking directly to a merchant site from a paid ad on search engines, was disallowed by the likes of Google and Yahoo.

Well, not anymore. Yahoo Search Marketing (YSM) announced last week that it will now allow publishers on its network to direct link to their merchants without the need of any landing page.

From the February 14 Commission Junction Newsletter:
“After more than six months in the making and much customer feedback and testing, we are …

If you are an advanced user of the Web and you’re looking for a new revenue source one place to explore is affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is not for everyone, but if you know how to design webpages and you have a decent understanding of sales, advertising and marketing techniques it may be worth looking into.

For the most part Affiliate Marketing is simply selling other people’s products and earning a commission for each sale. The commission you get paid depends on the product/service you’re selling and who your are selling for. For many Affiliate Marketers the key is driving the …