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Could your Adwords campaigns use some help? Google just launched a new free tool that could help improve your Adwords performance and boost your ROI.

Shawn launched an Affiliate Wiki ithat died due to an underwhelming lack of interest by the affiliate marketers, overwhelming interest by spammers. But today a big new Affiliate Marketing Wiki launches that is team managed.

There are other ways to make money online besides affiliate marketing? I didn’t know. There are things I wasn’t aware of like getting paid to be on user research panels for Google and Microsoft and getting paid to be on mock juries.

Media Whiz bought out the company that was jointly owned by ShoeMoney and Dillsmack. Congrats you two for a well deserved win and to Media Whiz for making another smart buy.

Have not posted anything recently about the ever-evolving online landscape as it pertains to consumer’s views about cookies and their deletion patterns. There have been a couple recent studies and white papers on the issue.

…which isn’t really fair since affiliates don’t get paid for branding or link building. However if you don’t have an affiliate program yet and need another reason – besides sales – to start one, think of the reputation management benefits an affiliate channel can provide. WHAT???

Google slaps will continue coming and a good thing! Take advantage of advice from these Super affiliates and up your game. You’ll end up on the winning end.

Cash in on the Lucrative Distance Learning & Online Education Market. Earn up to $25 per lead.

If a 3 year old can do it… so can you! Such a super viral video idea to use a cute kid to show how easy PopShops is.

I hate to even talk about a product pre-launch however since this one is backed by… Watch the video to see an 8,720 keyword campaign with 8,720 targeted landing pages, built in a flash! See month of work done in under 12 minutes.

Decided it’s time to add some new tips and resources to your niche marketing arsenal. I took some time today and brainstormed a list of tasks that I do when I create a niche or authority site.

Did you miss Summit OR did but didn’t get enough affiate schmoozing in? Several networking events coming up in Denver, Seattle, New York and Dallas.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is something most affiliate marketers know they should use in their marketing efforts. Unfortunately, some people are afraid to try it because they are afraid of the process, or have tried and wasted money with little or no success.

Even though the goal of the average one-man-shop affiliate site owner is probably not to grow the company so big that it gets acquired or goes public, it certainly legitimizes our industry to know that the affiliate model can scale to this level.

Theres a new banner technology that has eCommerce transaction capability built right in. This could revolutionize affiliate marketing if it takes off by letting consumers buy from merchants right on your site without having to leave your site and click off to the merchant.

Looking for yet another place to do that social network thang??? If you are into SEO, PPC and Internet Marketing you just may want to take “Sphinn” for a SPIN. Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land just launched…

I have posted lots of Summit videos now. Google’s Product Manager, Rob Kniaz talks about the Summit and how affiliates can work with Google. Sam Harrelson talks about affiliates and Web 2.0.

This affiliate site is doing an IPO valued at 1.9 BILLION. See how UGLY it was 4 years ago – which goes to show ANYONE can make it in this game. See what they are doing and why it WORKS!

Pay per lead affiliate programs can be very lucrative and MORTGAGE affiliate programs are among the highest paying. But what if you could get paid for mortgage clicks?

Robert the CEO just posted this in the 5 Star forum… White Label Affiliate Programs, Co-Branded Sites, Niche Template offerings – do you know the difference? I’m sure for most affiliates the lines are quite blurred… apples to oranges…