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Aardvark is a service that lets you ask a question, then various forms of Social Media are queried to elicit a response from a person with the answer.  Basically, a social media powered search engine.  Founded by former Google employees (well, former, now employees again) Google bought the company about a month or so ago.  [...]

Amazon is doing the unthinkable over in the UK right now. Remember PPC going away in the US a few months ago? Well now they’re doing it in the UK and it does not bode well for US Affiliates (This Means You)!
In an article at SearchEngineLand they’ve quoted the UK Amazon letter ending [...]

Oh what a web we weave…  Google has GAN, but integrates Blogger with the Amazon Associates Program.  Which when you think about it is a pretty good idea for both companies…  and for Affiliate Marketers.  With just a few clicks you can now put Amazon offerings on a blogger page.  And Google will know who’s [...]

As usual I’ve been looking at SEO while coding up some programatic goodies for AffSpot.  And the world is about to get very interesting indeed.  For example, the bruhaha over Google Realtime Results and Security.
In a USA Today Article Rae Hoffman expounds (quite accurately) that giving Twitter results in realtime could be a big security [...]

There has been much ado about the new FTC Rules/Guidelines for online marketing this week.  And I’m very suprised that few (if any) have been putting this together with the AdSense moves by the Google Affiliate Network, Quality Scores on the Ebay Partner Network, and the “buzz” around the industry about overall “Quality”.
But it does [...]

In a strange twisted turn of events…  AffSpot is being actively web crawled by the Huffington Post.  What?  The Huffington Post has a web crawler?  Yeah, that’s what I said too.  And why do they have a crawler, and what are they crawling, and just what is up with that?
Like I’ve said in previous posts, [...]

Bing vs Google isn’t a new lawsuit (yet).  And it really isn’t about the difference in results between the two (although, we’re going to look at that too).  It’s about what happens if Bing gets more market share and how it will affect your sales and conversions as an affiliate marketer.
We’ve had a couple months [...]