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Well the guys and girls at Buy.at kindly invited me to come down to their get together in London yesterday. They held a discussion about issues in affiliate marketing and had some merchants/agencies/affiliates on panels to talk about things. Alas prior to the event I had been to lunch with (read more)

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We are not worthy, we are not worthy, we are not worthy.....repeat. It appears that CJ are thinking of relocating to the midlands to be closer to me. Now I know Carl White, the ValueClick European MD is from the midlands and an avid fan of Birmingham City: (read more)

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Contents and links is all you need to rank - rubbish!!!! It may work now but it can't work much longer. Content auto generation is now just too easy.........or employ really cheap Indians or old people Putting links on blogs/articles/etc automatically is now just too easy.... Whats next? Doug

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Following on from my post about who is stealing your affiliate cookies. Who should be attributed for any sales can be really complicated, but hey don't worry we have some really ethical "fat guy" affiliate networks and "fat guy" online agencies advising merchants what they should (read more)

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From physics: POWER = WORK/TIME We all know: TIME = MONEY and KNOWLEDGE = POWER Therefore: KNOWLEDGE = WORK / TIME Therefore KNOWLEDGE = WORK / MONEY Therefore MONEY = WORK / KNOWLEDGE The less you know the more you make. Doug trying to be stupid:)

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I recently switched all my electric use to Green Energy , not an affiliate link:) This is a photo of the wind farms near Tarifa in Spain. A strange view the first time you see it. Doug windy

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My head really is starting to hurt now:) A visitor can do lots of visits before making a sale, so who should be attributed for the sale Affiliate content site Affiliate ppc campaigns Brand Bidding Group PPC campaigns Merchants PPC campaigns Merchants organic site Cashback site Banner display So if you are a merchant who you going to pay (read more)

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Following on more from the brand bidding groups thread I feel in my head I have opened up even more of a bag of worms. Most brand bidding traffic does not actually go to the brand bidding affiliate, but actually straight to the merchant. Now many merchants will overwrite (read more)

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Answer: No idea The more I think about this the more it feels not right. I feel these groups effectively steal the sale from content affiliates or generic bidding affiliates. If a merchant is going to allow brand bidding them please make it open to everyone. My view now is quite simple, (read more)

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This is a quick snippet of a great post over at the Moose, all about Brand Bidding Groups: Search for “Sky TV” on Google and you’ll see about 5 ads, a couple of which have sky in the bought domain (hmm). Most of which if not all of them (read more)

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