Google Introduces AdWords Split Testing Tool

Yesterday Google introduced a new split testing tool for paid search marketers that use AdWords to try — the AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) tool [see original announcement here]. Google’s below video explains how the only way of handling split tests in PPC marketing before was to conduct a “before and […]

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3 Questions You've Never Thought of Asking an Affiliate Manager

A recent blog post by Logan Thompson made me think in the direction of “questions to ask your affiliate manager”, but in a slightly different way. Here are the 3 questions you may have not thought of asking your affiliate program manager: What’s your favorite drink? — Whether it is

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Intrinsically Motivated Math Genius Perelman Ignores $1m Prize

A Russian math genius, and arguably the smartest man on earth, who in 2006 declined to collect the mathematical world’s equivalent of a Nobel prize [more here], has done it again. After solving a problem which could not be solved over the past 1,000 years, yesterday afternoon Grigory Perelman “did

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Zappos Beta Testing Public API

In case you haven’t heard, the Zappos’ PATRON (Public API for Translating Request to Object Notation), originally announced two months ago, is already in early beta phase, and developers can start playing with it. Shopping APIs are great for affiliate marketers that are technologically capable of putting them to use,

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Microsoft Ceases Bing Cashback – Good News for Affiliates

Microsoft, the company which has quite possibly lost more money online than any other company (see the below chart published by the Business Insider in April of this year), has announced that they are closing Bing Cashback. Microsoft’s online services division lost over $710 Million dollars in the first quarter

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Social Media Marketers Must Follow 7 Twitter Accounts

Social Media has come into our lives quickly, beautifully, contagiously; and Social Media (SM) marketing followed almost immediately. Now very few marketers doubt that it has come into our world to stay. Our marketing methods and techniques will change to adapt to the emergence of new technologies and platforms, but

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Top 8 Innovative Affiliate Marketing Ideas (per Econsultancy)

Yesterday Econsultancy released its Innovation Report (focused on the UK digital marketing space, one that is always fun to follow). These reports are always great to read, as in them Econsultancy focuses on “innovative digital tactics” but does it not for the sake of merely listing the new developments, but

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