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Extra extra! Are you looking for up-to-date affiliate marketing statistics? Look no further, the 2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report is now open to the public! This year’s edition was released 2 months earlier than the 2009 report, providing us with plenty of time to digest all that data!

The report can be found at http://affstat.com/ and is available for viewing online or for download.

Affiliate Stats

The report features:

• Responses from over 1000+ key affiliates

• What affiliates look for in an affiliate program like cookie life, payment thresholds, EPC

• Information on current affiliate marketing trends, social media, search marketing, email, and more

• Resources for affiliate marketers

• Glossary of industry terms

• Suggested forums and blogs affiliates marketers should participate in

• Uncensored complaints, ideas, suggestions and opinions from affiliates about affiliate marketing

The material from the report is available for use in your blog posts, presentations, etc. You just need to reference that the information came from the 2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report.

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In the second part of our series on free affiliate marketing tools and website promotion strategies to get new affiliate marketers started, we look at a tool that gives you information on what sites are linking to yours. We’ll also look at a couple of free website promotion strategies for getting the word out about your site.

Backlink Watch

Want to know who is linking to your site? Are you curious about the value of the inbound links to your pages? Backlink Watch is a great free tool that can help you answer these questions.

If you link it, they will rank

Inbound links from high-ranking sites can really give your site a good kick start, and are a very important part of helping search engines to realize just how important your page is. If you can get some high ranking websites to link to your site, then search engines will start to see your site as being important as well.   For search engines, it touches on “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” so the more people you know, the better.

How valuable are the links?

To see whether or not any sites with high value, according to the search engines, are linking to your site, enter in the name of your site into the backlinks checker tool provided by Backlink Watch.

The report generated by this free affiliate marketing tool will provide you with the total number of backlinks directed towards your pages, the total number of outbound links on those specific pages (i.e. how many other pages are being linked to on those pages), whether or not there is a nofollow tag (an HTML device used to prevent search engines from using the link to influence your page’s ranking) and the quality of the page that is linking to you. You will also see the anchor text that is being used to direct visitors to your site.

Not perfect, but free

While the information you get is pretty extensive, the reports here stop at 1,000 links. If your site is on the blogroll of a site that posts regularly, the tool will view each blog post as a link, and you might end up with only that blog’s links on your report.

In addition, it can sometimes be unavailable due to bandwidth restrictions from their ISP. However, for those just starting out, this is a great starting point for finding out how you’re doing with backlinks.

Promoting Your Site: Blog Comments and Forum Posting

If you have a new website that nobody yet knows about, one of the ways to raise its profile is to start posting comments on blogs and in affiliate marketing forums.

Find blogs that are similar in nature to the site that you have, and get to know who is running that site by posting comments on their postings. Make sure that you’re actually adding value by posting your comments. We delete comments like “great post!” and “I found your blog on Google. Great site!” on a daily basis from our blog. People know that you’re just looking for a link, so make sure to provide as valuable a comment as you can.

The community aspect

Commenting on people’s blogs will give you a little bit of link juice and, once you have been commenting for a while, you might find people coming to your blog from those comments (you can use Google Analytics to track this [link to blog part 1]. Becoming a part of a community is a great way to get some exposure for your blog, and it is invaluable to the process of affiliate marketing. Making friends with other affiliate marketers can really help you, especially when you are first getting started.

Something to watch out for

As stated earlier, sites sometimes have nofollow added to their comments, so search engines will not see the link you leave when commenting on a blog post. Look for blogs that do not have this enabled. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t comment everywhere you can, though. Again, just getting involved in the conversation can go a long way in getting exposure for your site.

Forums

From the perspective of forums, one of the great parts of being an affiliate marketer is that there is such a tight-knit community, and other affiliates are often willing to look at your site and give you comments on ways that you can improve the site itself, and even your strategies. While there is a lot of competition out there, there is also no lack of friendly affiliate marketers who are willing to lend a hand.

As with commenting on blogs, getting involved in a community is a great way to start some relationships that could be very beneficial to you, moving forward. Make sure to add some value to the conversations and don’t just post in the forums just to be heard. Be friendly, respectful and kind, and you are sure to get some value out of the relationships you make.

In the next part of this series, we will look at some other great free tools to help build your business.

And if you missed part 1 of this series, check it out here.

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1. Free Affiliate Marketing Tools and Website Promotion Strategies for Newbies: Part 1
2. Affiliate Blogging Strategies 101
3. Merchant Checklist for Affiliate Recruitment Strategies

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These recent satellite images of Port-au-Prince, Haiti before and after Tuesday’s earthquake dramatically show the devastation caused by magnitude 7.0 trembler. Here are before-and-after screenshots of the National Palace and an area of Port-au-Prince:

In addition, Map Maker data has been made available to U.N. organizations and the team is working with the Map Your World Community to encourage Map Maker users with on the ground knowledge to help update the map of Haiti with disaster response data. We’ve received requests from relief organizations and our users to publish recent satellite imagery of the country. One of our imagery partners, GeoEye, has provided us with post-earthquake imagery from Haiti. You can check our Lat Long blog for further updates.

We’ve also reached out to the YouTube community for help. A Spotlight on the homepage drives traffic to videos from Oxfam and the American Red Cross, where you can make donations to relief efforts. We’re also keeping a running playlist of the video footage coming out of Haiti on Citizentube; you can find a broad collection of citizen reports, news wire clips and personal stories of some of the victims.

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We often hear the word Transparency in this industry, but it may not always be immediately apparent what that means. When we’re talking about transparency in regards to our affiliate marketing software, we’re talking about what we see as the very basis of the relationship between merchants and affiliates. What it means is that we allow merchants and affiliates to see what each other is doing, in an effort to make it simpler to track progress and tailor marketing campaigns.

Transparency is a word that we want to emphasize when we’re at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, coming up on January 17-19, 2010. We’ll be there to answer any of the questions that you might have about our software and how it can help your business grow.

Transparency is an integral part of the merchant-affiliate relationship. With this in mind, we have implemented tools that allow significant transparency in the dealings between merchants and affiliates. Our tracking and reporting features allow our partners to get the information that they need to make informed marketing choices to help them maximize their ROI. Having access to information that tracks the status of commissions provides the transparency that leads to greater trust and stronger relationships.

Our software is about more than just calculating commissions. The Share Results dashboard contains features that display these transactions in real time. This immediate transparency allows affiliates to analyze the performance of their campaigns and improve upon them, wherever necessary.

The Share Results affiliate marketing software solution was created with the goal of creating a balance in the partnerships between merchants and affiliates. Merchants typically have marketing departments whose job it is to research industry trends and develop creative that lead to the success of their marketing campaigns. Being able to share the results of their endeavours allows affiliates to take advantage of creative that can work to help them achieve higher volumes of sales.

With this in mind, our software allows merchants to give their affiliates instant access to creative. Through the high-level reports that all users of the system have access to, the successes of the campaigns can be tracked, and when it becomes apparent that a certain creative requires further effort, or is simply not working in a specific vertical, it can then be reworked or recreated until it is getting the return on investment that merchants and affiliates are seeking.

Data Tracking
Our software includes tools that track the entire range of actions taken on a website, from impressions all the way to sales. Seeing what actions are taken in respect to individual creative will allow merchants and affiliates to see which creative is performing best, as well as which ones might need to be improved upon.

Instant Access to Information
The information that affiliate managers and affiliates need when they log in to the system is instantly accessible on the dashboard. Anyone can see, at a glance, how their programs are performing as well as the commissions that have been earned. These reports can be further broken down into specific date ranges.

Frequent Reviews
We perform daily reviews of our software system to ensure that the data we are collecting is being tracked properly. Our dedicated affiliate managers look into tracking reports every day to check for any statistics that might be missing, or for any other anomalies. In addition, we perform external tracking tests for merchants, to ensure that all of the system activity is being reported accurately.

Status Alerts
Our software generates alerts that are viewable on the dashboard, for actions such as pending affiliate applications, pending transactions and fraud alerts. These allow merchants to see at a glance what is happening,, and allows them to more closely track the actions being performed, as soon as they happen. This provides transparency in all of the dealings between merchants and affiliates.

For more information about Transparency in the Share Results software solution, visit us at booth #413 at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas January 18th and 19th, or contact us for more information. And stay tuned for the next instalment in our series on Transparency.

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SpyFu is an incredibly powerful FREE tool
for spying on your PPC competitors.

It gives very detailed PPC information about your
competitors. All you have to do is enter the URL
you want to check out and SpyFu
does the rest.

Here’s some of the information provided about
your competitor:

• Daily ad budget
• Av. Cost per click
• Av. clicks per day
• Av. position in Google

Not only does it give the “organic keywords” indexed
for the site but also the “paid keywords” for the site.

In addition, it identifies the major competitors for
both organic keywords and paid keywords.

This is a very powerful tool for PPC marketing.

You can check it out here:
http://www.spyfu.com

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and provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate
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Subscribe to Ron’s free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
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Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

For information on Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
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For the second year, the U.S. and Canada are joining 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day today. As we explained last year, the lack of understanding about online data protection is a global issue. As increasing amounts of data get uploaded to the Internet every day, it becomes more and more important for people to understand the benefits and risks of online communications and to learn how to use available tools to control and manage the information they share online.

To mark this special day of awareness, we are supporting an event hosted by the Information Technology Association of America called “Data Privacy Day: Increasing Privacy Awareness and Trust.” We’ll join U.S. and European government officials and key members of the privacy community on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, to discuss how to increase public awareness about data privacy. This event is a part of our ongoing constructive dialogue with regulators and legislators, consumer and industry groups, and think tanks and privacy advocates to discuss how to protect user information.

Our efforts to raise data privacy awareness extend beyond the public policy arena; we aim to connect directly with our users, too. We’re committed to protecting users’ online privacy by following the principles of transparency and choice. We’re transparent about the data we collect, and we design products that give people control over the information they share. Earlier this year, we revamped our Privacy Center, where we offer information, tips, and videos that explain Google’s privacy practices and show people how they can control what data they share. The Privacy Center also includes a link to a series of blog posts about how we use data to improve our products and services for our users. We recently translated the Privacy Center into multiple languages so that we can better serve people all around the world. We’re also continuously working on innovative services and features that make information available to people in new ways, but with built-in privacy controls. For example, we introduced privacy-protective face-blurring for Street View earlier this year. And the launch of our browser, Google Chrome, included a feature for surfing the Internet in “incognito mode.”

For the coming year, we want to improve our privacy practices even more by engaging in further dialogue with people who use our products and services, offering up easier-to-understand policies, and providing more privacy tools and controls. We hope that you’ll take a few minutes on Data Privacy Day to explore our Privacy Center and learn about our commitment to this important issue.

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, and Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel

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(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)

We’ve always been committed to providing you the tools to have the best possible YouTube experience. Educating parents, teens, and families on how to stay safe on our site is a critical part of that commitment, so we can’t think of a more appropriate place to introduce our new Abuse and Safety Center than at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington, D.C., today.

The center features straightforward safety tips and multimedia resources from experts and prominent safety organizations. We are empowering people with the information and tools they need to help them deal with issues like cyberbullying, online harassment, and hateful content.

The new center also makes it easier for you to find our Help and Safety Tool, which lets you report concerns to us and gives you granular control over your channel, like the option of blocking comments from specific users or disabling the video comments feature on specific videos.

The Abuse and Safety Center is easy to find. Just look at the bottom of any YouTube page and click on the link titled “Abuse and Safety Center.” From phishing scams to just learning what it means to be a good YouTube citizen, you’ll find the information you need.

Finally, check out FOSI’s meeting page for more information about our presence at the conference, where Shantal Rands from Google’s legal team will receive a FOSI Award for Outstanding Achievement in advancing the goal of a safer Internet. Plus, Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s Director of Global Policy & Government Affairs, is speaking about “Protecting Kids and Free Speech Online,” and YouTube’s Policy Analyst Micah Schaffer will address online safety in social media.

We’ll continue to add new information and features to the center, so check back often.

Posted by The YouTube Team

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Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event that rallies blogs around the world to post about a common cause. This year’s issue up for discussion is poverty, so we wanted to take a look at the relationship between access to information and social and economic development. The right information at the right time in the hands of people has enormous power. As someone who works for Google, I see evidence of this everyday as people search and find information they need to create knowledge, grow their business, or access essential services. But that applies primarily to the rich world, where economies are built on knowledge and presume access to information. What about the poor and developing countries where people are offline more than online? How do they benefit from the power of information?

In much of Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, rates of economic growth over the last decade have exceeded 5% every year. Despite this trend, poverty in many countries has remained constant. In Kenya, for example, the official poverty rate was 48% in 1981 (World Bank, June 2008). According to the Kenya Poverty and Inequality Assessment released by the World Bank this year, 17 million Kenyans or 47% of the population were unable to meet the costs of food sufficient to fulfill basic daily caloric requirements. The vast majority of these people live in rural areas and have even less access to the information that impacts their daily life. Data on water quality, education and health budgets, and agricultural prices are nearly impossible to access.

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on providing basic public services like primary education, health, water, and sanitation to poor communities, poverty in much of Sub-Saharan Africa persists. Where does this money go, who gets it, and what are the results of the resources invested? That’s where we find a big black hole of information and a lack of basic accountability. How do inputs (dollars spent) turn into outputs (schools, clinics, and wells), and, more importantly, how do outputs translate into results (literate and healthy children, clean water, etc.)?

We simply don’t know the answers to most of these basic questions. But what if we could? What if a mother could find out how much money was budgeted for her daughter’s school each year and how much of it was received? What if she and other parents could report how often teachers are absent from school or whether health clinics have the medicines they are supposed to carry? What if citizens could access and report on basic information to determine value for money as tax payers?

The work of The Social Development Network (SODNET) in Kenya is illustrative. They are developing a simple budget-tracking tool that allows citizens to track the allocation, use, and ultimate result of government funds earmarked for infrastructure projects in their districts. The tool is intended to create transparency in the use of tax revenues and answer the simple question: Are resources reaching their intended beneficiaries? Using tools like maps, they are able to overlay information that begins to tell a compelling story.

Google.org’s role, through our partners in East Africa and India, is to support, catalyze, and widely disseminate this kind of information to public, private, and civil society stakeholders that can use it to see more clearly what’s working, what’s broken and what are potential solutions. Leveraging platforms like Google Earth and Google Maps can help organizations disseminate their content widely and let people see and understand what was once invisible. Once information is visible, widely known, and easy to understand, we are betting that governments and citizens will pay more attention to leakages in the service delivery pipeline and feel empowered to propose solutions.

You can’t change what you can’t see. The power to know plus the power to act on what you know is the surest way to achieve positive social change from the bottom up. And when we consider the magnitude of resources invested in delivering public services each year, a 10% improvement globally would exceed the value of all foreign aid. We believe that is a bet worth making.

(Cross-posted from the Google.org blog)

Posted by Aleem Walji, Head of Global Development Initiatives, Google.org

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As Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast, we’ve assembled some resources to keep people informed and, we hope, out of harm’s way. These include:

• Google meta-page to help recovery efforts and tracking: google.com/gustav_sept08.html
• Latest Gustav reports on Google News
  Special content in the Google Earth Weather folder (track Gustav’s progress and forecast, see the latest advisories from the National Hurricane Center, view Louisiana Live webcams)
• More info on our LatLong blog (we’ll continue to post additional info here)

Our thoughts are again with Gulf-region families as they struggle against the forces of nature.

Posted by Kate Hurowitz, Google Blog team

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Have you Googled your name recently? Today, more than ever, individuals are turning to the web to learn more about people they meet, interview, and simply want to know more about. With information being so pervasive, managing your reputation is more important than ever.

Fortunately, managing your reputation online isn’t all that difficult, but it does take work. Here are 7 basic steps you can take to ensure that your reputation doesn’t become negatively impacted by what’s being said about you online.

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New AdWords Book – Advanced AdWords Strategies andamp; Tactics.

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Affiliates, this product sells it self like creazy! we cant stop it

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The Rich Kids – Real Income Plan.

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A Recruiter Sheds Light On Job Searches, Career Management And How To Beat Other Job Searchers For The Job You Want!

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12 of the Worlds most successful Internet Marketers reveal their most valuable secrets in live interviews.

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Paper on 10 Ideas to Make a Million Dollars Online.

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