Launch Tree LIVE – July 23–25 in Las Vegas

On the Affiliate Classroom blog, Tennyson Rog is talking about the big Launch Tree live event that will take place in Las Vegas July 23-25. Tennyson has posted the schedule of events. This is one you don’t want to miss!

Squidoo Cracks Down on Overly Promotional Lenses
“Squidoo has marketers scrambling after announcing they are cracking down on spam, porn, junk topics, overly self promotional lenses and plagiarism.” That’s what Linda Buquet has posted on the 5 Star Affiliates blog. Interesting post…you should read it.

Google Cracks Down and Bans AdWords CPA Scams
On the 5 Star Affiliates blog, Linda Buquet is blogging about a new Google advertising wrinkle — and this is a biggie. Linda reports that the letter Google sent out to affiliates using the Google Money Tree scam read in part, “It’s come to our attention that you have submitted ads that promote Google Money Tree or ads that promote a misrepresented affiliation with Google.

Due to multiple complaints from our users and publishers, we’ve made the decision not to accept these ads.

“This is a notification that your account has been suspended due to the submission of these ads and your ads will no longer run on Google. Please note that future accounts you open will also be suspended.”

Affiliates Banned from Twitter?

On the Fish and Clicks website, Paul Wright is talking about how Twitter has “now taken steps to claw back commission from affiliates promoting their products via twitter.” Is everybody out to get us?

Trend Research for Affiliate Campaigns with Twittorati

Nope — Twittorati is NOT a typo. That’s really the (unfortunate) name of the new site launched by Technorati. Andrew Wee says it’s an attempt “to crawl back into relevance.” The idea of the new service is to bridge the worlds of blogging and Twitter. Check out Twittorati.