Today Yahoo and Bing announced that the transition of Yahoo search ads to Bing is now complete. I noticed a nice increase in traffic on my Bing campaigns and am definitely looking forward to being able to manage both Yahoo and Bing campaigns all from 1 interface.
PPC
Like many affiliates in the past few weeks, I got the Google slap on a few of my top running PPC campaigns which felt like getting my faced kicked repeatedly from Chuck Norris wearing a football cleat. Being a bit upset over losing a big part of my income I had to step back and look at things differently than I have lately.
I’m always looking for good sources of traffic outside of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Facebook. Traffic can make or break an affiliate campaign I am always testing new sources. This past month I tested Quigo’s AdSonar platform (owned by AOL) to see how it performed and have mixed feelings on this platform.
Recently I have had the itch to try out advertising with social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace. If you’re like me, you have probably read other blog posts from people who have tried them out and either succeeded or failed horribly. One thing I have learned about affiliate marketing though is that you really need to try a lot of things out for yourself before forming an opinion. So to see if either of these advertising opportunities worked for me, I spent some time creating and tweaking a few ads and ventured into the world of social media advertising. Click to read more…
