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Google’s Merchant Search – killing insurance, loan and credit card comparison affiliate sites

Now this new merchant search feature by Google is going to scare the hell out of a LOT of people, including several of my own clients. According to insiderview they are trialling this for secured loans only (in the UK only) but will target more financial services like loans, credit cards and insurance are highly [...]

eBay Affiliate tracking broken for 2+ weeks

eBays Affiliate tracking mechanism was broken April 7 – still to be fixed on April 23 !

LinkShare UK started

LinkShare started their UK network today

Adsense click spam via compromised affiliate network

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Google’s New Affiliate Network – CPA instead of CPC

Now if this is not a bogus message, then it is hot !

Google announced a new product to select publishers today, indicating a move away from their Adsense CPC network.

The new Google advertising program shall be called the Content Referral Network and will pay webmasters when a user completes a specific action – see definition of CPA campaigns

So this differs from Adsense where the only thing necessary for a webmaster to earn money was to have someone click … now they need to buy or fill out a signup form or whatever…

It is easy to fake a click. It is much more difficult to fake a sale.

What does this mean for web publishers?

  • the average spam scraper webmaster will have a hard time to get people to by stuff with his non-credible sites
  • those with professional visitors, traffic that might be in buying mood could be winners…

[via Monetize]:

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LinkShare sold to Rakuten

LinkShare sold to Japan’s Rakuten

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