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Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com has an important update on a proposed settlement that has been reached in class action lawsuits against ValueClick/CJ brought by advertisers and publishers last year. I blogged about it here, if you’d like background details on the case.
Kellie reports that VCLK/CJ denies the allegations but agrees to a $1 Million settlement which will be split 30/70 with advertisers/publishers.

More importantly in my opinion, the company also agrees to implement extensive enhancements in detection, reporting and prevention of third party software or adware that forces or hijacks clicks on CJ.
Additionally the settlement includes an independent audit of CJ’s Network Quality practices and recommendations for improvement. Kellie has a comprehensive post with all the details and copies of the legal docs.
Proposed Settlement In ValueClick/CJ Adware Class Action Lawsuit

In the incredible irony department:
When it comes to these guys, I generally take a live and let live approach. What comes around goes around. But this just struck me as funny.

The red boxes are mine. Linkshare MUST be stealing commissions. That’s the only explanation.

The advertisement on this page was just icing on the cake. Pink icing at that. I don’t want to give them a link, but here’s where that ad goes, cookiestuffer.com.

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The following is a Public Service Announcement for the Affiliate Classroom Magazine - it’s free!

Networks play an instrumental role in the affiliate marketing industry, and the changes that they make or don’t make can affect many of us. The first article will help you understand why, and how, many of the networks make their key affiliate marketing decisions.

The article on the “Big-Brand Affiliate Networks” will help you decide if joining a particular network would benefit you. It’s a useful look at some of the big players in the field, what they offer, and what they don’t offer.

Then check out the list of “15 of the Best Specialty Networks.” You’ll find networks that specialize in some of the most profitable niches, and you might just discover a new merchant or two.

The last article takes a close look at ClickBank. You’ll find out the pros and cons of doing business with this well known and popular network, and why it’s so successful.

Whether you’re an aspiring super affiliate, a top earner, or a part-time affiliate looking to make a little extra each month, this issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine has plenty of networking ideas to help you improve your affiliate business. It’s a free PDF publication, so just go here to download it directly (no email address required): affiliateclassroom.com/magazine.php

If you were granted 3 wishes from the affiliate genie… what would they be?
Idea ‘borrowed’ from Lynn Terry at ClickNewz. Good one. Thanks Lynn!

Are you thankful for your affiliate independence? Think about it! We work in the most “free” country in the world. Plus affiliates and outsourced affiliate managers have the freedom to work from home and the independence to largely create their own destiny.

I hope you all take time to celebrate: your freedom and independence, this wonderful country we live in and this amazing opportunity we have called affiliate marketing.

Freedom is a beautiful thing!

Enjoy a day off with your family and Happy 4th of July!

If you are a newbie affiliate or even a newer affiliate that just wants to learn some new tricks of the trade, you may want to join the 30 Day Challenge. It starts August 1st and it’s FREE!
“In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $10 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime. The entire training program is free, and you won’t have to spend a thing to get your business started and begin making money. No credit card required.”

I know lots of affiliates that did the last challenge. I also have watched some of the videos myself and guess what? Even this old dog learned a few new tricks!

Pre-season training is on now, so you can just watch the training videos at your leisure. The pre-season videos so far give some good tips about how to use 2.0 tools like Friendfeed, Twirl, Flock, Google Reader tricks and more. Pre-season is just a warm up and the good stuff will start coming after the 30 day challenge kick-off August 1st. What I recommend, if you are not a totally green newbie who needs to do the challenge step-by-step, is just scan the free training videos for things you’d like to learn more.
Join the 30 Day Challenge here. OR scan the blog for the Pre-Season lessons that interest you. OR here’s the bonus tip for pros. Scan all the previous 30 day challenge videos to pick and choose the lessons that interest you. There really are some good nuggets of info in here.

Jeff Molander did a survey of affiliate managers and what they want and need. The questions are loaded and seem like market research for some new idea, but I’m not sure that’s the case. That’s just how it sounds to me.

Here is some of the feedback Jeff got from the survey: “Affiliate Managers Speak Out on Their Needs“
Here are a few of the questions Jeff asked in his original post and survey:
As an affiliate manager, do you want…
- Better recognition and respect internally among your superiors?
- Better tools to do your job?
- More autonomy — to be allowed by the boss to “get creative” occasionally, try something new?
- More budget to foster creativity?
- A better compensation structure?
- A place where I can go to learn from respected experts first, party second?
- A trusted, “go-to” resource on performance-based marketing of all flavors that’s up-to-date?
- Less whiners and negativity in our business — more doers, risk-takers and brotherhood?

So check out some of the responses he received over at Revenews and he says he’ll be sharing the complete survey results soon.

The rebranding of the Performics Connect Commerce Platform has begun. These guys don’t waste any time:

I’ll take this opportunity to call out my biggest annoyance with Performics. Anyone else get this warning on logging in? I appreciate the gesture guys, but we’re a commonly supressed domain? Maybe we’re on a blacklist somewhere. Dunno.

Anyway, things are progressing steadily over there at the new Google Affiliate Network. If they don’t stop at cosmetic changes, this will be fun.

Also, check out the interview that Chris Henger did with Angel…uh…D. over at Revenews.com. I’m glad to that Chris can maintain his outspokenness in light of the recent changes.

We all have started seeing more and more video ads from Adsense. They are venturing more and more into video. I received and email a while back that they wanted me to help test out their Adsense Video Distribution. This isn’t the normal video ads that appear in your Adsense, these are actual channels that you choose and separate code. Last week I got the email that the testing is active and I can run video ads now for the next 4 weeks. Here are my first thoughts on Google Adsense Distribution.

Setup:
You setup the video channel similarly to the way you do Adsense code except you get to choose a channel and only have one size to choose form (300×250). The nice part is they allowed it to be your 4th ad block if you already had 3 up. You have the following video channels to choose from (New ones will be added):
NBA
Tower of Rock
Only Hits
Fresh Clips of the Week
Hip-Hop Hustle
WSJ.com Video Channel
Pop Video Channel
Hip-Hop/R&B Channel
Epicurious Cooking Techniques
Style.com Fashion Channel
LX.TV Lifestyle TV

I chose to run the WSJ.com Video channel on a site geared towards investing and Fresh Clips of the Week on some general sites. Just copied the code and put it in just like normal adsense. Below is what the ad looked like for WSJ.com Video Channel.
Performance:
I tested the videos performance within the adsense setup as it is against adsense TOS to click on your on ads. I was please with the performance of the videos as in playing and clarity. More and more people are having broadband and these video channels started as soon as you clicked. The video was clear and the audio was crisp. I did not experience any hiccups.
Earnings:
I had high hopes for good earnings especially with it being a test run. The earnings were so great after 3 days, I removed them ALL! Yes you heard that correct they are no longer up on the sites. Maybe I have my sites so fine tuned to regular adsense that this medium didn’t perform well, but I doubt it. The per action for someone clicking on the video versus a regular adsense ad was pathetic. So I removed them all.

What sites this would be good for:
The only sites I think this avenue is good for is Myspace and Arcade type sites because most are earning so little off regular adsense this would be a step up and due to it being video and more people may click on it since it is different.

This is just my experiences if someone has had a different experience or the feel same about Google Adsense Video Distribution free to leave a comment.

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There Really is no better time then right NOW! Why do I say this, no not because the economy is the best, its not because there is soo much money to be made (even though there is), it is because if you don’t do it right now someone else just might.

Look at it this way so many of us get lists of the top performing offers or even those higher up in earnings we get first dibs on offers but how many times have i gotten that info and done nothing with it. Then 2 weeks later those offers are rocking on the network and then i am trying to play catchup against the competition when i could have been a front runner. So get it promoted right now.

Some tips to help you get new offers going right now!

1. Turn off your AIM, Gtalk, YIM etc… (yes turn it off till you get the new offer up)

2. Don’t check your email for 4 hours. (Yes this would kill some of us but honestly if it is that urgent you should have good enough connections with your AM they will call you)

3. Start doing research. Use all your free tools or paid tools to do other site research and keywords. (don’t let it stop here, I know at times i fizzle out after research and don’t push thru to get it live)

4. Get the page/site designed. If you have a designer start them working on designs while you do your research, if you do the designs yourself unless you are a quick designer find someone that can do the designs for cheaper than what it is costing you time wise (remember time is key).

5. Write 5 ads for the campaign. Do your ads blend in to the other ads or do they stand out?

6. Actually this should come up after your research, Get a domain name. Try for it to be one target and as short as possible.

7. Get the site design up and get your campaigns going.

8. Check back in about an hour or two how is the campaign going? make any tweaks.

9. Turn your IM’s back on feel free to check you email and know that you didn’t postpone and on offer that can make you some $$$.

I hope this helps some of you get more campaigns going. I know when i am struggling to launch new campaigns either cause i am too busy with other things or just because i have gotten lazy/complacent with earnings doing these things help a lot. Do you have any tips for getting new campaigns launch leave a comment.

I decided since Valentine’s Day is over things are getting back to more of a normal pace I would write a little bit on the benefits of working online.

1. Work from anywhere there is an internet connection. (it’s a rarity to go somewhere you can’t get internet)

2. The income doesn’t start and stop at 8 to 5. You can reach people 24/7

3. Set your own hours. I am not going to lie I put in more time than i ever did at my Engineering job, But I put in the time when and where i want to.

4. Startup costs are LOW!!! Compared to a B&M business it could cost you hundreds of thousands…. online, you don’t even have to buy a domain to make money online. (although i would reccomend buying a domain ($8) and hosting (under $10 month)).

5. It’s a Business Expense. No I am not cheating the system etc.. but you would be surprised what all you can write off as a business expense (Consult a good CPA or Tax Lawyer)

6. Cost of Expansion is low. Want to startup a 2nd website or marketing site Watch out its another whole $8.00…. because you can us same hosting account from before.

7. Even just surfing the internet for fun can be classified as ”Research & Developement”

8. You are your Boss!

9. Work in your Pajamas, shorts, or no clothes at all.

10. You literally can earn as much or as little as you want, only dependant on the time and effort you put into research, development, and promotion of your site or product.

So those are a few of the benefits of working online. Did you think of some benefits that i didn’t list leave a comment.

So last week I blogged about The Benefits of Working Online. so i figured I better give a real picture that it isn’t all roses and glory… but there are cons to working online. (but I Wouldn’t trade it for a normal 9 to 5)

1. Work from anywhere there is an internet connection. (this is also a con cause you just can’t seem to get away from your work… Even the cellphone I got it so i can do work and access my stats etc..)

2. Set your own hours. Yes this is a con… because you can so easily be LAZY…. I mean common yesterday I made $$,$$$ i should sleep in, ok sometimes i do… but if i got in that habit my earnings would tank over time.

3. You are Your own Boss. This is a con also because some people really need people breathing down their neck to be productive so you must be self motivating…

4. You work online so it’s is easy to get lost on Youtube searching for funny videos, myspace, facebook or reading stories that have nothing to do with your business growth.

5. Work in your Pajamas, shorts, or no clothes at all. This is a con only because it can drag on into RL (real life). I know many people that have made it online but if you were to meet them in person, they look like the slob down the street. Not saying you have to dress to the 9’s but you run a business somewhat dress like it.

6. Complaints or issues aren’t 8 to 5 they are 24/7. Your sites go down at 2am you lose money. Your ads stop running due to QS you are lossing money. Those PM’s about people spamming etc.. come 24/7.

7. Good, Dedicated, hard working designers and coders are hard to find. This is a major con online with sooo many freelancers… hence once i found good ones i held onto them.

8. No Google, MSN, YSM love can mean no or little money in your pocket.. The online business is very dependant on search engines… so when they don’t show you love your bottom line is effected.

9. A CPA offer gets pulled that was making you Big Money… Many cases there is nothing you can do but try to get another offer making money. Sometimes you get lucky and can work out a deal directly.

So there you have it some Cons to working online. As I stated before I would much rather do what i do online than go back to a normal 8 to 5. Any additional Cons I forgot?

I have gotten a few emails lately asking me why so many affiliate marketters mainly super affiliates end up doing ebooks, classes or setup private forums. The ultimate reason is a simple one. They do it for the money. They fall into two categories when they do this:

1. Desperate: They were a super affiliate made a ton of cash on a few select offers and that well dried up, so they are making a last ditch effort by offering their services at a cheap rate.

2. Bored: They are bored with affiliate marketing and want to try a different area of making money. Consulting is billion dollar industry, get paid to talk about what you know… sure why not as you have a captive audience.

I am not going to comment on any of the affiliates/super affiliates doing any of these things mainly because i haven’t used or tried their services because to ME it isn’t worth it. As in most cases taking the money you would spend on the ebook, private forum would be better spent testing out campaigns. As you have to realize the stuff they are putting in ebook, forum is all old news for the most part do you really think they will share their 100K a month maker, even Shoemoney admits one of the dumbest things he did was talk about ringtones, but he also states would he be who he is today without spilling the beans…. my thoughts are probably not but i bet he would have made a lot more off of ringtones.

IF any of affiliates/super affiliates read this, I am not bashing anyone that is trying their hand at other things just remember you will fall into one of the two categories and from my experience it is usually #1.

Tired of lame payouts? Get the bumps, Get the offers and utlimately get the cash! I will tell you how to get the best payout on any CPA offer.

1. Under promise over deliver on the offer. Don’t poke your manager for a BIG bump unless you can do something with the offer. Or if it is in a different niche you haven’t tried before tell the AM you will do the best you can and a bump would help. (I want to clarify on a big bump cause any offer you can ask for a bump and should get one of .05 to .10)

2. Get the best affiliate manager (AM) in the networks you can. If you are unhappy with your AM ask for another one. If it takes your AM to long to give you a bump or find out information on an offer ask for another one. Affiliate Managers can make or break you from being the best affiliate you can be (plus give you access to Private offers).

3. Find out which affiliate network has the offer direct. This is a little tougher but in general you can look at the base pay who has the highest start pay(this one isn’t full proof because sometimes networks set their margins low to attract more affiliates), also who can give you room to grow. Approach them and ask what they can pay you if you can do 500, 1000, or 5000 leads a day (the amount will vary depending on the type of offer).

4. Go Direct! If you are doing an offer with serious volume, why give the networks 5% to 20% as that can mean 1000’s left on the table. Hit up the company and see what they say, sometimes they don’t want to deal with you directly so be prepared to really sell yourself (remember it means more money in your pocket).

You have any additional tips you want to share about getting the best CPA offer Payout then leave a comment. Got a Question contact me or leave a comment and i will do my best to answer it.

I received an interesting call from Yahoo Search Marketing to talk about their “Quality Pricing”. What is interesting is they have no idea what kind of leads or revenue i am producing from an ad but yet they are some how Quality pricing the ads i am paying for based on where they come from. To my surprise without the quality pricing over the past week I would have spent more than 698 and some change on top of what my account showed. While I found this interesting, what was more concerning to me is I brought up that I am US target based but yet I still at times get more than 25% from foreign countries. From there the call went south as she doesn’t deal with that and gave me the generic we are working on it. I would think it is MUCH harder to try to guage a quality of source traffic than it is to just block foriegn traffic.

My overall thoughts to Yahoo Search Marketing:

1. Thanks for the courtesy call to let me know I would have spent more had they not introduce this “quality” system.
2. Thanks for the money back over this past month (X,XXX.XX) due to the foreign traffic you are sending me. (I had to file a click fraud report to receive the credit but well worth the time)
3. Common YSM country targeting isn’t that hard other Search Engines do it much better, even some third tier.
4. Get rid of minimum .10 bid some of the traffic isn’t even worth a few pennies let alone 10 cents.
5. Don’t just follow what Google does be proactive and make a HUGE difference in the Search engine world and you will capitalize more searchers.

That’s all i can think of now. What are yall thoughts… what can Yahoo change?

The UPS man dropped off a package today and to my delight it was from Yahoo Search Marketing. It is this years Christmas gift from Yahoo Search Marketing which is a slick looking Laptop Case. I really like the laptop case and it will get a good bit of use from me.

Pictures of the Yahoo Search Marketing Christmas Gift 2008 - Laptop Case
Laptop Case Open

“Microsoft Corp has made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google Inc in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger.”

You can read the full article here

So Microsoft is trying to buy more market share. Smart move on their part in my opinion.  To really compete with the big G this buyout will have to occur or Y! will have to make a counter offer to buyout MSN search side (not that likely IMO).

“Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday.”

Good news for those stock holders that took the dip earlier this week….  What will come of this only time will tell but honest i hope it happens and they take the best part of Y and MSN and make them into a powerhouse search!

What do you think?

So Yahoo has started rolling out there new minimum bid setup, which most people were hoping this would enable people to bid less than .10 on keywords… I have yet to see them, now i do have some keywords i bid .10 and pay less per click, but i have seen many keywords inflate to crazy amounts for a minimum bid. Expecting me to pay over .50 minimum bid on a term that is only worth .10 to me. While i understand its a new system and there will be things changing but I personnally only see one thing happening due to it, people advertising less thru YSM and people putting more money into MSN and Google. While Google’s quality score is annoying at times you aren’t going to be asked for a crazy amount if your site is an authority on a subject.  What is your take on the new YSM change?

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