Internet Marketing Notes

I just received an email from Peter Gavin of Text-Link-Ads.com (TLA) notifying that my site (not this one) has been pre-approved at the newly launched Reviewme.com.
The email message goes like this:

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At present, Google AdSense does not support ads in password-protected areas. There is hope however that this limitation or restriction would go away.
According to Dave Taylor, the AdSense team is testing out a new capability called Site Authentication. A colleague of his received this invitation from the AdSense team:

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MySpace is coming down hard on members exploiting it for commercial purposes as highlighted in Allan Gardyne’s latest issue of his newsletter.
So, if you’re considering making money blogging on MySpace, you better now ditch that idea or rather, be very subtle about your marketing endeavor.
This will be bad news for affiliate marketers who had been […]

Wow! Contextual advertising over podcast? Is this a rumor?
A little over month ago, Jennifer Slegg (a.k.a. JenSense) stumbled upon an interesting job posting in Google. The position advertised is for Strategic Partner Development Manager for AdSense for Audio.
Some digging revealed that AdSense for Audio was originally slated for Q3 release, but it’s apparently […]

If you are both a Google Analytics and Google AdSense user, Google is seeking your feedback on the following:

Which Google Analytics reports do you use most often in conjunction with your AdSense account?
Which reports or metrics would you most like to see added to Google Analytics to help you succeed with AdSense?

Google has created a […]

I came across Barry Schwartz’s post saying that the recently released Firefox 2.0 is currently not supported by Google AdSense Firefox Referrals program.
Google AdSense program pays $1 per download of Firefox plus Google Toolbar from a referral. At this time, the referrals program only covers Firefox 1.5.

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If you are using regular affiliate links to promote an affiliate program, chances are you are missing out on traffic and commissions. You might want to use redirection links instead.
Here’s how a direct affiliate link and a redirection link look like:
Direct affiliate link: http://www.example.com?id=123 (where 123 is your affiliate ID)
Redirection link: […]

Google has just unveiled the Google Co-op Custom Search Engine. Well, Custom Search Engine allows you to:
Create a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. Place it on your website and, using our AdSense for Search program, make money from the resulting traffic.
With Google Custom Search Engine, you can restrict […]

AdSense guru Joel Comm is making big waves on Amazon.com with his 260-page book, The AdSense Code.
The book has been recently ranked as high as #56 of all books sold on Amazon.com and #1 in the Computers & Internet category.

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