It is almost frightening how many amazing tools are coming out now that allow online marketers to do an amazing job monitoring their competitors and affiliates. Founded by Leon Krishnayana, iSpionage.com offers competitive paid search intelligence on your competitors and affiliates…

This concept is in my head for far beyond 2 1/2 years and I admit to myself that I am not going to do anything with it myself anytime soon. I outlined the general idea to several companies and people,…

We live in a world of quiet wars. A world where affiliates are assaulted by merchants, cut out of innovative deals with portals by networks. These are just a few examples. There are many other similar wars going on and many…

Changes happen fast in the affiliate industry. It is the nature of being online. So when Rakuten snapped up LinkShare back in September 2005 many expected the acquisitions of other affiliate networks to soon follow. Perhaps the only surprise is…

What’s the secret sauce of Threadless.com — one of the country’s most innovative small companies? Read on! Inc. Magazine says it best: The Customer Is the Company. Congratulations to my Chicago brothers in customer empowerment!

If affiliate and search marketing…

Yesterday I did read following post at Linda Buqets 5 Star Affiliate Programs Forums in the Newbies forum.

Hello Linda,I am yet to be making $100 per day. I am still very far from it. Could you, please, let us into some of those…

I received an interesting call on Friday from our rep at Outrider. It seems that Yahoo thinks that AnyCoupons sends SPAM. To be perfectly clear: I hate SPAM. I hate it to the point that my company does too little…

On Jul. 23, 2007 Barry Schwartz a blogger at Search Engine Land posted an incredible article as reference to personalized ad words ads being served based on previous search query’s, he cited a few references with screen shots – including a great…

It has been almost a year since Google announced that it plans to acquire the advertising giant DoubleClick for 3.1 billion US Dollars. While the government was started to look into whether or not this acquisition will put Google in a quasi-monopoly…

I guess I should call this the Search Engine Litmus Test, but Google is still the king of search, so we will focus on Google and whether Jason Calacanis, who said affiliates were at the bottom of the food chain,…