Confessions Of A Super Duper AffiliateAffiliate marketing information, help, reviews, and tips.

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzLocal.com, a leader in local search engine marketing. He can be reached at dennis@blitzlocal.com if you have any questions. We went to the Google Spring Training together in San Fran and he was nice enough to write a guest post on what was covered. He’s done some [...]

I haven’t really written an article on how I’ve been dealing with Google lately, and PPC ad networks in general. My progression of where I advertise has been pretty simple :

Four Months Ago – 70% Facebook / 30% Google
Two Months Ago – 40% Facebook / 60% Google
Two Weeks Ago – 0% Facebook / 100% [...]

Just a heads up it looks like almighty Adwords changed something.
When you create a new campaign, the default targeting is now United States AND Canada. I think it used to just be US, so now if you’re running a US only offer, make sure to un-check those bloody Canadians. Oh also…
Dear Google,
When [...]

Just going to do a quick think out loud session here right now with myself and you guys.
Now maybe it’s just me (but it’s most likely not), but if I have a good Adwords campaign running (meaning good volume) and I pause it for a little while, a lot of times when I restart it [...]

So apparently yesterday Google went through and did one of their mega slaps on affiliates. I was fortunate enough to have no idea it happened, because none of my sites were slapped. All my QS held up as great and I actually saw much greater profit margins because many affiliates were slapped, ads [...]