Google Adwords Policy Change

this is quite important. if you use Adowrds to deliver trafifc to your affiliate programs please note the folloing from Google:

With this new affiliate policy, we will only display one ad per search query for affiliates and parent companies sharing the same URL. This way, users will have a more diverse sampling of advertisements to choose from. As always, your ad will be displayed based on its Ad Rank for given searches.

For instance, if a user searches for books on Google.co.uk or anywhere on the Google search and content networks, Google will take an inventory of ads running for the keyword books. If we find that two or more ads compete under the same URL, we will display the ad with the highest Ad Rank.

How this will affect you:

If you are an affiliate, this means that you no longer need to identify yourself as an affiliate in your ad text. However, your current ad text will continue to display your affiliate status until you change it.

Affiliates or advertisers using unique URLs in their ads will not be affected by this change. Please note that your Display URL must match the URL of your landing page, and you may not simply frame another site.

What you should do:

We recommend that you continue to monitor your ads' performance and optimise your ads as needed to ensure that they are bringing you the best results. Please visit our Optimisation Tips page for more information.

Hope this Helps!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to You! I hope Santa brought you lots of lovely pressies!

I have been up to my eyes in freebies over the last week. It is great getting access to thousands of free reports, guides and books but at some point you have to read them!

Anyways, I have about a thousand tips and tricks to test this year so we'll try them together. One of the Major things happening in the internet world today is linking.

Check out Priya Shah's Blog maniac sit. It is a good read and ful of useful things including:

Multi Linking From Blogs

Enjoy!

Google Algo Changes

One thing I am currently doing is trying to figure out this google algo change. Yesterday I pointed you to a dup content filter forum on Webmasterworld.

This could have been a knee jerk reaction on my behalf. I received a link to this today from Brad Fallon and it makes more sense:

http://www.bradfallon.com/2004/12/stomper-update-googles-new-link-trap-warning.html

To get a lot more sense from Brad why not invest in his Course Stomping the Search Engines. It is well worth it!

Good Luck!

Google Algo Changes

One thing I am currently fdoing is trying to figure out this google algo change. Yesterday I pointed you to a dup content filter forum on Webmasterworld.

This could have been a knee jerk reaction on my behalf. I received a link to this today from Brad Fallon and it makes more sense:

http://www.bradfallon.com/2004/12/stomper-update-googles-new-link-trap-warning.html

To ge a lot more sense from Brad why not invest in his Course Stomping the Search Engines. It is well worth it!

Good Luck!

Yahoo! It's Christmas

Major update at Yahoo has seen sites appear on page one for the first time in a long time!

Heres the lowdown:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum35/3009.htm

Good Luck!

Google Changes

Not sure if you have, but we have noticed a change in the way Google is ranking sites. We have dropped from first page to no page on some of our sites.

There are two main theries. One Google is penalizing non relevant inbound links? Can;t see how that would work.

Two, Google is applying a duplicate content filter. Check this post at WebmasterWorld:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27104.htm

It is long but page 40 odd I think talks about "&filter=0" which is what shows the difference in the rankings.

Check it out.

Goodd Luck!

Get some PR6 Links for FREE

You may or may not know that publishing articles on a topic is a great way of driving traffic and boosting YOUR PROFILE.

One of the best place is www.ezinearticles.com. For an initial FREE membership they allow you to submit 5 articles free of charge.

Most if not all of these articles will be presented on their own page. Google likes their site alot and they tend to get pages picked up real quick! Some of my articles are on here and they are all page rank 6 pages.

Why not take this up. You get some good links back to your site and you can boost your profile! Who knows you may even want to start writing a Blog!

Good Luck!

Stomping the Search Engines

One of the other things I have been doing over the last month is listening and implementing strategies to improve my search enigne rankins to get more traffic and hopefully more sales.

The techniques I am using are from a pack of CDs called "Stomping the Search Engines" by Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins

This system was created by 2 people who USE the system every day and have created an income that will reach into 7 figures in 2004.

Andy Jenkins, co-author of Online Store Profits has been making a comfortable living online since September 2000. His eBook is a best seller, and has been responsible for creating more successful eCommerce Store Owners than any other Home Based Business System per unit sold.

He own several successful eStores, and in total, over 40 income producing web site.

Brad Fallon, CEO of SEO Research used Andy's Online Store Profits to create an eStore that's already generated nearly half a million dollars in sales in the first 6 months of 2004. What's even more astonishing is that his store has only been open since January 4th, 2004.

SEO Research is a "Think Tank" of Search Engine Professionals that serve Fortune 1,000 companies.

In fact, their empirical style of Search Engine Optimization is so effective that one of their largest clients is a publicly held company with over $500 million dollars in annual revenue. You don't get to be the Search Engine Optimizer for a Half-a-Billion Dollar company because you "Think" you know about Search Engines...

Well, the proof is in the performance, and these 2 Guru's actually use examples from real, profitable web sites with TOP Search Engine Rankings.

Check this out right now: Stomping the Search Engines

You'll even get a free 50 minute interview with Brad to Listen to free of charge

Search Engine Optimisation Tips

If you are sick and tired of trying to get a number one listing on Google or Yahoo or MSN, you've read everything you can.

Maybe you should try something different. As I am typing this I am listening to Brad Fallon. Brad runs SEO Radio which can be found over at www.seoradio.com.

Brad interviews lots of people in the industry and you can listen in either live or download the archive pages

Check it out www.seoradio.com

Is Google still "King of the Hill"?

It appears we still all chase the #1 listing or first page listing in Google to the exclusion of everything else!

However, a new study has shonw this may not the case.

Recent studies show Google user loyalty is beginning to fade as the gap on search engine competition closes. According to Forrester analyst Charlene Li, more and more Google users are setting their browser homepages to Yahoo and MSN. In a separate study, Kirk Bannerman of http://www.business-at-home.us noted that the most popular engines over a 90-day period were:

Google: 33%
Yahoo: 31%
MSN: 23%
All others: 13%

Maybe its time to look at the Yahoo and the new MSN. It appears that you could be missing out on traffic.

It's been a while

I've been snowed under with managing change to the new FSA regulations for Loans, Mortgages and Insurance. This has meant lots of changes to my websites and affiliate programs

I'm back on track now and I have kept alot of stuff which I will be uploading today.

Affiliate Masters Course

You may or may not have heard of Ken Evoy and his SiteSell but it is an excellent way to build a good site without much in the way of technical skill and knowledge from the outset. Ken gives you more than enough help to get your e-business off the ground.

Some may say he gives you too much information!

If you are thinking about setting up and running an affiliate site then Ken 's knowledge would help you more than you would think. Also he has given this information to us for FREE!

If you want to become a high earning affiliate then this course if for you. Clicking on the link below will download a zip file with a 207 page affiliate masters:

Affiliate Masters Course

Linking Time

I have spend the best part of 4 hours now working on link exchanges. These are ALL from people contacting me and not the other way round. however, at some point this week I need to go look for links!

Todays links are all link realted and should give you a few ideas on where to get links:

How to get non Reciprocal Links
20 Sure-Fire Ways To Get People To Link To Your Web Site
Linking for Fun and Profit

Hope fully these will give you some ideas and motivate you!

Good Luck!