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Google Adwords Editor - Come On Google, Get It Right!

So here I am, frantically PPC’ing my little affiliate heart out to catch up on my Christmas preparations. As I mentioned in a previous post I have 90,000 Adwords listings to upload.
So yesterday morning I proudly present my 90,000 listings lovingly created with affiliate blood, sweat, and tears. What does Google tell me?

WTF?
So […]

Surviving A Google Slap - An Affiliate’s Guide

So you’ve been Google slapped eh? You are not alone. I had some extremely lucrative landing pages Google slapped last week. They probably represent a good 40% of my income at the moment. Ow. There’ll be a few less strawberry daquaris in Vegas for myself and dear old Duncan I […]

No More E-bay Ads On Google. Handbags At Dawn?

Well, it seems that contrary to my speculation in my previous post, E-bay’s move to stop affiliates using Adwords paid search advertising had absolutely nothing to do with the auction giant looking to reduce costs on its in-house PPC by removing affiliates from the Adwords arena.
The two online giants are apparently having a bit of […]

New Google Landing Page Algo Change

There’s much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the American side of the pond this morning as several horrified Adwords advertisers wake up to discover they’ve been hit with a huge hike in their minimum bids. I’m not sure as yet if the UK has been similarly affected, cos noboby there has got up […]

Google Wins Adult Pictures Case

Teenage boys all over the world are breathing a sigh of relief today after Google won a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Perfect Ten. The lawsuit was taking Google to task over naughty images from their site being displayed in response to image searches.
Perfect Ten were apparently seeking to protect the images because they feared […]

Who’s Suing Google This Month?

I’ve read a couple of things on various blogs and forums recently regarding lawsuits brought by people who have the right royal hump with Google over one thing or another. I decided to go off on one of my random end-of-day internet searches to see just who is suing the great G-Meister this month, […]

Google Checkout UK - Affiliate Sales Not Tracking

In the last few days, Google has rolled out its GoogleCheckout service to UK merchants. On the face of things, it’s a great deal for UK E-commerce sites. It offers great fraud protection and promises to reduce costs by fighting chargebacks on behalf of the merchant and increasing conversion rates. It’s even offering consumers £10 […]