الاثنين، 3 نوفمبر 2008

google affiliate reb.

Google rebranded its Performics affiliate network, which it acquired as part of Doubleclick, as "Google Affiliate Network," apparently sometime over the past few days.
I say "apparently" because I can't find any actual Google press release on the subject. It was blogounced, apparenty: Announced on Performics' blog, and possibly a few key blogs, like TC and a few others, were told about it, or possibly they just noticed that all of a sudden, Google had a page for the "Google Affiliate Network." Look, I love blogs, but we're not that good.
Interestingly, Danny at SEL has not weighed in. He'd be the first one I'd want to hear from if there was really news, given his deep understanding of the search-driven affiliate marketplace, which quite honestly is fascinating, but a saddled with the kind of kharmic weirdness often associated with the domain industry. (They are kissing cousins, in a way...)
Anyway, there's probably no official Google release because, as far as I can tell, there's nothing to talk about. This is a very quiet trial balloon. There's not word one about anything that might actually change in the Performics blog post. Well, OK, there's this:
Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand.
To call this a new coat of paint would be to overstate the facts.
Now, were it to decide it wanted to, could Google change the affiliate marketplace in ways untold? Heck yes, it could. Is it? Nope. Not yet anyway.

google affiliate reb.

Google rebranded its Performics affiliate network, which it acquired as part of Doubleclick, as "Google Affiliate Network," apparently sometime over the past few days.
I say "apparently" because I can't find any actual Google press release on the subject. It was blogounced, apparenty: Announced on Performics' blog, and possibly a few key blogs, like TC and a few others, were told about it, or possibly they just noticed that all of a sudden, Google had a page for the "Google Affiliate Network." Look, I love blogs, but we're not that good.
Interestingly, Danny at SEL has not weighed in. He'd be the first one I'd want to hear from if there was really news, given his deep understanding of the search-driven affiliate marketplace, which quite honestly is fascinating, but a saddled with the kind of kharmic weirdness often associated with the domain industry. (They are kissing cousins, in a way...)
Anyway, there's probably no official Google release because, as far as I can tell, there's nothing to talk about. This is a very quiet trial balloon. There's not word one about anything that might actually change in the Performics blog post. Well, OK, there's this:
Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand.
To call this a new coat of paint would be to overstate the facts.
Now, were it to decide it wanted to, could Google change the affiliate marketplace in ways untold? Heck yes, it could. Is it? Nope. Not yet anyway.

google has reached

Google has reached another milestone in integrating all the business units from its DoubleClick Acquisition with the launch of the Google Affiliate Network, a re-branded version of the Performics Ad Network.
From Google’s site:
As an advertiser using Google Affiliate Network, you’ll discover pre-screened publishers who can refer consumer traffic to you. As a publisher, you can market your site to advertisers in the network; if selected to participate in an advertiser’s program, you’ll earn a percent of sales or a referral bounty.
Sounds like any other affiliate network to me. I have yet to log in and check it out but we’ll be doing a thorough review this week to let everyone know how it ranks against the other big players in affiliate networking in the coming days.

what is it?

What is it? An ad network that pays publishers based on leads or sales -- "cost per action" -- not based on clicks or impressions.
Advertisers like this system because they only have to pay up when they make a sale. And publishers like it because of the variety of ad formats, including text-based links that can be included in editorial content. (It's also an easy way for a no-name publisher to get big-name ads on their site.)
"Amazon, watch out," is Erick Schonfeld's first take in TechCrunch's post about the relaunch. We're not sure what he's talking about: Amazon's (AMZN) affiliate program is handled in-house, without help from an outside network, so there's no overlap with Google's (GOOG) program. (Unless he's talking about the fact that Barnes & Noble is a Google customer. In which case, whatever.)
Who should watch out? Rival affiliate networks LinkShare, owned by Japan's Rakuten; and Commission Junction, owned by ValueClick (VCLK) -- who could easily lose their big clients, or attention/ad inventory from publishers. ValueClick is already down: In March, it lost a big account in eBay (EBAY), which took most of its affiliate ad program in-house.

money


There are almost an unlimited number of ways to make money online. Some people make money by creating products and marketing them. Others capitalize on selling other people's products and services through online affiliate programs.
Either of these is lucrative enough to sustain an online business, but from time to time, a company comes along that offers something of great value. When this happens, it is good to be able to offer it to others, both for the benefits that they will receive and for the commissions that we can earn.
Becoming a Google affiliate is one way in which you can have the best of both worlds. Not only do they have a great program for you to promote, if you are good at promoting it, you can walk away with some nice commissions.
What exactly is the Google affiliate program, how can you get involved and who would be interested in their services?
Many people consider the Google Adsense program to be their affiliate program. But in reality, while it is a means of making money (by putting contextual advertising on your website), it's not actually a bona fide affiliate program.
Google does offer an affiliate program in which you can promote some of their services, including Adsense. Some of the other products that you can promote include Picasa, Adwords and the Firefox web browser with the Google toolbar. Even though this is a separate program from the Adsense program, you still must be an Adsense publisher in order to participate.
In order to get involved in the Google affiliate program, you need to have an active Adsense account. Opening such an account is easy, but requires that you have a website or blog. Once you are in the program, you can begin promoting the Google affiliate programs almost right away.
As with any affiliate program, however, the services are most easily marketed and promoted to those that are especially interested in them. Who fits into this category?
For the most part, webmasters and those that fall within the Internet marketing niche will be interested in what the Google affiliate program has to offer. This is because it offers a way for them to either drive traffic to their websites or to monetize their existing traffic. There is also the free download of Picasa, a computer image organizer and viewer. If you have existing traffic that is interested in this program, you certainly can capitalize on it.
Although it may not be the most lucrative affiliate program on the Internet, having the ability to offer products that are offered by Google can help you to provide your website visitors with something of value. Not only that, you can attract the type of traffic that is interested in Google's services and walk away from the table a winner.
All in all, the Google affiliate program is a means of adding a dimension to your existing web advertising that is not available otherwise.
Kimberly Clay is an Internet marketer and business woman with over twenty years of experience and success to her credit. She is an entrepreneur with a passion for educating and helping others to develop online success and create wealth. Visit here for more information on how to make money online and build wealth or her Make Money Online Talk blog.
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google affiliate lunched


When Google launched their referral buttons, Darren over at Problogger.net raised a pretty interesting point. He speculated on whether Google’s link-up with Firefox marked the start of a range of affiliate products for publishers that Google were planning to roll out.
Now that the buttons have been around for a while, I have to say that I’d be pretty surprised if Google decided to try out any more.
I’m not aware of anyone making any serious money out of them. The ad units are great. The link units can do pretty well. The image ads not so much. And the referral buttons might buy someone a small coffee once a month... provided they have an audience which has never heard of Firefox.
The real problem with the referral buttons we were offered was that they just weren’t very competitive. There’s a whole range of different affiliate programs that we can sign up to online and the payment terms that Google was offering just didn’t beat what was out there -- a dollar for a download? One hundred dollars when someone you’ve signed up for AdSense breaks a century? You’ll probably do better sending people to some dating site or pushing books at Amazon.
The buttons don’t do any harm. But I don’t think anyone really expects them to do a great deal of good either.
The fact that we haven’t seen any additions to these programs suggests that Google has picked up the message that affiliate programs just aren’t their strong points. In fact, I don’t think AdSense has produced anything yet that beats the basic ad unit. That was a killer idea... and no one’s beaten it yet. We’ve had a few false starts when companies have brought out some attractive new products but the bottom line is that it’s still the good old AdSense ad unit that’s keeping those fat checks coming in.
That doesn’t mean that Google shouldn’t be looking for new ways to make us all a little richer. But they need to be original if they’re going to make it work, and do something that no one else has done.
Or they can just focus on rolling out new formats and adjusting the Smart Pricing so that my prices go up. I’d be happier if they just did that than offer more affiliate buttons.
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most google affiliate


Most Google affiliates do not know that curiosity is one of the strongest of human incentives. It has been used to sell countless products and services for centuries. This is the reason why you should ask yourself he question, is there enough curiosity at my Google affiliate site?
Curiosity will get you sales and it will certainly get you plenty of clicks on your Google affiliate sites. But how do you generate curiosity without making visitors to your site feel cheated? Or feel that you have not provided enough information? Actually there is nothing that can kill the popularity of a site faster than most visitors to a site getting either of these two sentiments towards a site.
Use Headlines To Generate Curiosity At Your Google Affiliate Sites
Do your Google affiliate headlines create enough curiosity? Or do they simply tell the whole story so that nobody bothers to click on them to read more? Headlines are critical to the amount of clicks that a person is able to achieve at their Google affiliate site. Firstly enough curiosity in a headline will get visitors in droves flocking at your site. Once they are there, chances of them clicking on any of your ads will heavily depend on how long they stick around. And how long they stick around will lean heavily on how much content they get to read while they are there.
Whether your Google affiliate site is a blog or website, it will have several headlines to your articles displayed on your home page. Most people are terribly busy and hurried when they are online. The truth is that there is too much to see and too little time available to see it. What this means is that visitors to your site will be extremely selective on what they end up clicking on.
The more curiosity you create in your headlines, the longer they will stay, and the more questions that will be created on their minds. The result of this will be many more clicks at your Google affiliate site.
Answer Questions Adequately but Ask Others To Generate Curiosity At Your Google Affiliate Sites
Give valuable useful information in your Google affiliate site content but make sure that in doing so, you create other questions and thus more curiosity in your readers and hunger for more information. Have you ever noticed that when you find some really valuable information on a subject, it encourages you to look for even more information? This puts visitors to a site in just the right mood to click on one or two interesting Adsense ads that they see.
Use Links To Other Sites To Generate Curiosity At Your Google Affiliate Sites
I have found that my Google affiliate sites, which have plenty of links leading to other sites, tend to achieve many more clicks, than those that are packed with only content and few or no links to other sites. It all comes down to the curiosity levels created by giving your content in the form of brief text and links rather than detailed content with no links.
Use text Links Within The Content To Generate Curiosity At Your Google Affiliate Sites
Text links buried deep inside interesting content work like a dream. The main reason is probably the fact that they do look like ads. But one of the reasons has to be the curiosity most of these text links tend to create in a reader. You can use these effective text links to get more traffic to your Google affiliate sites. More traffic to your content-packed but curiosity-filled Google affiliate sites will mean many more clicks at your Adsense ads displayed and much more cash generated for you.
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