Affiliate Marketing. Partying. My Life

A few weeks ago MySpace started their self-serve advertising platform. I was thrilled. Finally, thousands of not-so tech-savy users to advertise upon! But nope, it seemed that you’d need to live in the US, the UK or Canada to get your ads on that platform.

Lets admit it, Affiliate Marketing may not look like hard work when you compare it to the amount of work a construction worker needs to put in. But I think it does a lot more mental strenght to keep things straight in your head and body while you’re on your Affiliate Marketing trip.

So I’ve sat and networked around here for a few hours at Somesso Zurich 2008. I’ve been looking at some pretty interesting stuff. If you’re looking to start an social network, you should join in at Somesso London in 2009 for sure, it’s worth the money.

Soooo… I know 1 month ago I was messing around #cakes and asking everyone if they were going to ad:tech while looking for a good deal to ad:tech. Well, it ain’t happening. I’m not going to ad:tech.

Everyone’s talking about the financial crisis. Blah here, blah there. Stocks go up, stocks come down. The world we knew looks considerable different today compared to a few months ago. Online marketing though, is still in it’s golden era.

This is another post from the experience I’ve been having in the last months with European- and US-based affiliate networks.
What makes European Affiliate Networks less attractive to Search Engine Marketers than US-Networks?

I don’t get it. There are groups on Facebook for people who complain about having hangovers on friday, “plz disable iPhone Autocorrection, Steve” groups and even a group hating on the Internet Explorer 6.
But hey, I found an even better one!

Yahoo Search Marketing added minimum bids for paid search ads and Google implemented the Landing Page loading time in their Quality Score algo a few weeks ago. Now Google is doing the complete opposite by removing the infamous minimum-bid and the “inactive for search” mark.

I honestly at this moment do not believe in easy moneymaking on Facebook’s social ad platform. Their new released ad-regulations are outrageous. Even though they seem to have increased the number of ad blocks displaying on sites like your own profile page, I don’t hear about the CTR going up.