Picture this: you’ve had AdSense on your site for about 6 months now. Things have been going well. You’ve tweaked your display units a bit, and you’re making about $50 a day – way more than enough to cover hosting and domain costs. Everything is cool, and then you check your email one morning and see this email, totally out of left field: Hello, After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers. Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the effectiveness of Google’s advertising system, particularly the advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing
4 Essential Research Tips On Keywords For SEO And PPC
When you’re optimizing for your SEO campaign (or PPC campaign), keyword research should be one of the top priorities to take care of before embarking on your quest for niche domination. Not doing proper keyword research can make or break your campaign. What if that keyword you thought was getting 500,000 searches a month was only getting 1,000 searches a month – would you go back to the drawing board? Keyword research will clear up issues like these and paint a much clearer picture for you. If you aren’t exactly sure what keyword research is, the folks from Market Samurai do a fantastic job of explaining Keyword research. Here are four tips on doing keyword research: 1. Top 10 Competition on Google SERPs The top 10 competitors will often give you a true idea of just how competitive a niche is. Pay attention to how many links a particular page … Continue reading
The Perfect Last Minute Date
Whether you want to celebrate it or not, today is Valentine’s Day, and you might be required to do something nice for your significant other. I know this day is typically looked at as a cliché, Hallmark holiday, but if you don’t take that stance, and you need to plan a date in five minutes, this blog post is for you. This first online tool has been around for about a decade now, but I think it has really become more mainstream in the last few years. This website has created an app, and has developed a very user friendly website. When users log on they can search through almost every restaurant in their area by entering a specific zip code, choosing a type of food or requesting a restaurant by name. My top choice to help couples in a hurry would be OpenTable.com. This website offers rewards for frequent … Continue reading
10 Ways to Not Be Spammy on Facebook & an AffCon Miami 2010 update
This past Dec 8th-11th was spent in Miami Beach, FL at the 2010 AffCon Affiliate Conference. Here are several takeaways and a blog I wrote on the flight home about how NOT to be spammy on Facebook… because the two are so related (well, some affiliates have attempted to and even succeeded in spamming Facebook so maybe!). Some AffCon 2010 Miami Takeaways: Re: Online Gaming & Apps and end user costs… 1) The future of this space is making ALL the apps entirely free to the end user, but with simply making them download ‘add-on’s to remove the ads. The entire app is FREE and everything in it is free, but it has ads. If you want to get the ‘AD FREE’ version, then you need to simply download the ‘ad free pack’ which does that. By doing this ’3rd party download’, the ads go away and some monetary amount … Continue reading
New Tools That Make A Difference
In the near future, deforestation could lead to our last white Christmas. This is true because leveling our carbon absorbing forests is the number one contributor to green house gas build up. This growing problem is a top priority for tropical countries around the world, and because of the immense size of this issue people and companies from around the world are contributing time and money to the cause. One company that can handle the amount of data that needs to be compiled and reviewed constantly in order to keep track of our changing forests is Google. Through a new program called Google Earth Engine users can stay up to the moment with current changes and long term trends of global deforestation. This blog will be covering the tools scientists around the world are using to help perserve our rain forests and a few other recently release tools that you … Continue reading
Optimize Your Shopping Experience
Free time is hard to come by these days, so getting a chance to shop or find a great deal is something that can only happen on my lunch break. Lately though, a few new websites have made shopping online and finding a wide variety of deals more convenient even if you only have a minute. In this blog I will be connecting you with the easiest way to save money and the most interesting ways to find the hottest new trends, before they even get off the runway. Chances are you are logged into Facebook as you are reading this, and throughout the day Facebook will consume a considerably large amount of your bandwidth. Companies are more than aware of this, they are taking advantage of the fact that a large majority of their potential clientele is all grouped together in one area. While you are checking out fan … Continue reading