How to Grow a Profitable Affiliate Channel - eBay Interview

I got the opportunity to interview Caroline Malifaud from the eBay Affiliate team yesterday around how eBay has grown their affiliate channel into probably one of the largest affiliate channels in the world. I've met Caroline many times and she really knows her stuff - I thought it would be...

CJ Announces Web Services

We are on the dawn of a new era... I am sitting her at CJU and duing the keynote address, CJ has just announced that they are launching CJ Web Services. The potential for CJ to grow their business through web services is massive. We've been beta testing it for...

Commission Junction Establishes Publisher Advisory Board

I was fortunate enough to be invited to a Publisher Advisory Board that Commission Junction has established, this blog is probably the first public mention of it. This board will present a forum for a select group of publishers to understand the CJ strategy and provide feedback on initiatives within...

Search Agencies vs Search Affiliates

The question is : Do either agencies or search affiliates you cover every possible keyword relating to an online business? Probably not! So in that case, shouldn't you use both?! This post deals primarily with Paid Search Affiliates that direct link to the site, and use display URL's, something that...

Click Fraud Farm

I think I've seen it all now! This is crazy: http://www.clickmonkeys.com/ I'm not hyperlinking, because I really don't want to link to these guys. It looks like it could be a scam (I'm almost certain it is), but it could be real - does anyone know if this is real...

Google Click Fraud Report Released

The Google Blog has just announced that the report commissioned as part of the Lane's Gift settlement case, has been published. The blog post provides a link to the report. I still need to read it, before passing commentary....

eBay DevCon - Alan Lewis Interview

I also managed to corner Alan Lewis at this weekend's eBay Developers Conference in Las Vegas. Here's what he had to say: 1. Alan, what is your role at eBay? I am a developer evangelist at eBay. 2. What is the most requested feature that has not yet been developed?...

Defining Web 3.0

Ok, so seeing as O'Reilly are trying to trademark "Web 2.0", I thought that I'd take a swing at defining Web 3.0 and hence, would earn the trademark for it myself - so here are some predictions. Web 3.0 will begin to emerge in 2010, when major offline Business to...

Tim Villanueva Interview - eBay DevCon - Las Vegas

I managed to get a chance to interview Tim Villanueva, who is the General Manager of Paypal Platform & Developer Network. Paypal has just announced a new Developer Community Web site and Developer Hub, designed to provide merchants and developers with central access to all the resources that they might...