This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (July 31, 2009)
Posted by Kathy Jackson in Affiliate Marketing Sunday, 2 August 2009 00:22 3 Comments
On Twitter, Spammers Perish
In an interesting post on the ClickZ blog, the writer says, "That question was being chirped this morning by scores of people using Twitter after the social network said it's "correcting follower and following counts."
According to a post on Twitter's "Status" blog: "In particular, those with large followings may see significant changes as we correct for spam accounts and data inconsistencies."
Experience Advertising - Expert Affiliate Management Professionals
Evan, posting on the Cost Per News website, says, "Running an affiliate marketing program for your ecommerce or lead generation website is one of the best ways to increase both your traffic and sales dramatically. Your affiliate program should grow consistently over time and be part of your overall long-term online marketing strategy." He goes on to discuss the concept in greater detail.
Category vs. Product Pages: Which One Tests Better? (You Might Be Surprised)
Posting on the 5StarAffiliates blog, Minstrel talks about the test run by Al Scillitani. The category landing page won, but you'll have to read the entire article HERE to find out why.
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal: This Is Not a Merger
According to an article posted on the PCmag.com website by author Chloe Albanesius, the "non-exclusive" agreement allowing Yahoo access to Google's AdSense for search and content advertising programs in the U.S. and Canada was announced. This is a 10-year deal. An intial four-year term is followed by two successive optional three-year renewal periods.
AT&T Gets in the Small Business Help Game
On his blog, Jim Kukral touched on the new AT&T small business site. Jim says, "Now AT&T is launching a new Web portal geared and targeted to small business owners (people like me)." He's pretty excited about what's being offered.
I wonder what percent of twitter followers have turned out to be spam accounts. I am guessing my loss to be in the neighborhood of 20 percent. Is that typical in everyone else’s experience?
I have noticed lately that there is an increase in abuse, and not using for what it was intended.
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