New JavaScript Link Types at Commission Junction

If you are a CJ publisher, you might want to take a look at this.

New JavaScript Link Types at Commission Junction

kidmercury over at threadwatch.org writes

Jeff Molander chimes in on the topic, suggesting that this is in response to search engines dislike of affiliate links, and their desire to create solid and direct relationships with advertisers — many of whom already have tenuous relationships with affiliate publishers due to their effect on brands and their competition for search results.

Will other affiliate networks follow in Commission Junction’s footsteps? What are the implications for affiliate marketing if this is the case?

Top Ten SEO Mistakes

Are you doing any of these SEO mistakes without ever realizing it?

• No Marketing Plan - if you don’t know who your market is, and what they want, rankings will not help you. They’ll just help chew bandwidth and raise your opportunity cost.

• Selecting Keyword Terms Based Only On Traffic Volume - you need to be number #1 for “cars”, because the term “cars” recieves a lot of search queries and you sell “cars”? That won’t do you a lot of good if you only sell cars in Fiji. See #1.

What were your Adsense expectations?

There’s an interesting discussion running over at Digital Point forum. A member starts off the topic by asking what your expectations were when you started using Adsense.

He writes:

Did you “hear from someone” who heard from someone else that it was easy money, that you wouldn’t have to work hard at all? Or did you come in with practical expectations that you’d have to work hard to build up a valuable site and start earning slowly?

Find Out If A Site From SERPs Is Safe Before You Click

ScanSafe unveils a search service called Scandoo that analyzes links from SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) for malicious code, virus, spyware and other offensive or illegal content.

Currently it lets you search using either Google’s or MSN’s engine while Yahoo’s and Ask.com’s will be made available soon.

Scandoo works by displaying colour coded icons in green, yellow or red and black bug next to each search result to note safe, questionable and hazardous sites before you click the link.

There’s noting to install in order to use this service as it’s accessible directly via your browser.

Search Champ Google Loses To Rivals In Portal Services

This doesn’t come as a surprise since most of Google services are very young. What they need is time to build up their user base.

For the week ending May 13, Google dominated online search, accounting for 47 percent of all queries, compared with 16 percent and 12 percent for Yahoo and MSN, respectively, according to Web metrics firm Hitwise. But in comparing the rivals in terms of some of the most popular portal services, Yahoo is the clear winner in terms of total visits.

Find Out How Much Your Domain Name Is Worth

Here’s a fun service from LeapFish.com where you can find out how much your domain name is worth.

The evaluation is based on factors such as domain name length, Top Level Domain (.com, .net, .org etc), whether or not the domain is a dictionary word, historical archive etc.

I entered the several of my domains and it came up with some interesting values

Sabahan.com
Estimated Base Value: $522.00
Estimated Actual Value: $45,414.00

AbsolutelyFreebies.com
Estimated Base Value: $1,347.00
Estimated Actual Value: $302,402.00

LeapFish even points out that

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Is Available For Download

Microsoft has posted links on the Office website where you can download Office 2007 Beta or order a DVD containing the 2007 bundle.

Depending on the suite components you choose, you could be downloading anywhere between 75MB to 1GB of the suite or you can request a DVD from Microsoft.

While the download is free, the DVD will cost you $4.95 plus $2 postage in the US.

To download Beta 2 or order a DVD, users must register with a Windows Live ID (formerly Passport) username and password.

Check Your Blog/Site For Detectable Spamming Tricks

Here’s a tool to help you find out if your blog /site is spamming the search engine.

The tool currently only detects keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text and it’s unable to recognize every method including Javascript or CSS tricks.

Check out Search engin SPAM detector

[found via GoogleScoped]

Join the Class Action Settlement Against Google or Not?

I haven’t decided this myself, have you?

Some people think the settlement is unfair and want more from Google.

I personally think that my AdWords campaigns have not been seriously affected by the click fraud problem. This is because the terms that I bid on attract low search volume - but in no way are they the cheapest per click. So any abnormality arising from any click fraud activities which could have seriously affected my conversion rates would be easily noticeable to me.

Or may be I didn’t look hard enough.

Google AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads

Google has sent out an email to all publishers notifying them that Google will change the default colour palette from Seaside (formerly known as Mother Earth) to Open Air. For some reason I haven’t received that email.

Anyway, here’s how it’ll look like before and after the change:

They say many publishers prefer the cleaner look and they have also seen that a blended colour palette performs better for the publishers.

The new changes won’t affect me since I’ve been using borderless ads for a while.

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