On one of the forums I frequent I came across this post. Apparently Google is taking away account managers from affiliates.

While I certainly don’t spend enough to warrant one anyway, It’s still a little disturbing to me. With the “leaked” ranking guide and now this, it seems Google really has it in for affiliates.

Here is the gist of the post…

“This afternoon I got a rather disturbing phone call from my team manager at Google. As from April the 1st Google is changing their Account manager policies, and affiliates are not longer entitled to an account manager. Google is pulling back their account managers from all affiliate accounts. Doesn’t matter if you do direct linking or through comparison.

My team was in Dublin (Ireland) and I am spending about 20k USD a day.”

I don’t really use AdWords all that much. I spend a little but that’s it. It’s just a little scary to think that the Google has declared war on affiliates.

Guess it’s time to start concentrating on Yahoo!

A really interesting story about a guy that built his $100 Mil per year company entirely on PPC Arbitrage.

A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over.

You can read the whole story here.

262 Links to Affiliate Marketing Resources

In my travels through the affiliate making web, I’ve come across a lot of lists. Everyone seems to have a list of their favorite tools. So here is my list. It’s not a list of my favorites, but a compilation of the other lists I’ve found. Some of these tools are free, some are not.

I’ve never used the bulk of these so always do your due diligence when deciding whether or not to pay for a service. Don’t come screaming at me if you sign up for something and are not happy or feel you’ve been scammed. There are no affiliate links here (well just 1) so I gain nothing by posting these.

There are too many sources to list but the major source of this list was the wickedfire forum and some other miscellaneous blogs that I can’t honestly remember.

So click on the read more link to see the whole big long list. Enjoy!
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Well my blog isn’t completely set up yet but I’ll work on that over the next few days.

In the mean time, I thought I’d start off by beating a dead horse. I’ve seen this kind of stuff posted everywhere. Mainly because I’ve been searching trying to figure this mess out.

It seems no matter what I do, no matter my history on Adwords, I can’t get away from the poor rating from the Google Quality Score. Now I don’t know how accurate these SEO tools are but I always use seoworkers tool to check my pages. Here is what I got…

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