Track PDF Downloads With Google Analytics

Google Analytics now has ‘Event’ tracking functionality enabled (yes I realise I’m a bit late to the party here, its been a busy year) so you can track specific events that occur on your landing pages – for example the number of times a video is played or a file is downloaded. So how do [...]

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Xtranormal video: The googleban

Love this, sums up nicely what life is like dealing with google adwords as an affiliate:

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Even Hitler gets Slapped by Google

Extremely funny video of Hitler/Third Reich suffering the pain that Affiliate Marketers feel daily – the google ‘slap’: I think the original clip is taken from a movie called ‘The Downfall’ by the way. Enjoy

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Procrastination flowchart & Adwords parody

Found this very funny procrastination flowchart a while back and saved it meaning to post it up…forgot all about it and have just found it on my other laptop, so here it is at last. Brilliantly accurate as all of us who love to procrastinate about everything will know and appreciate. *cough* Ryan *cough*. Click [...]

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Useful list of online advertising platforms

Anyone marketing anything online, particularly in the affiliate marketing space, needs a good variety of PPC/CPM/PPV traffic sources to work with especially since google is becoming increasingly unreasonable in its attitude. So I thought I’d post up a hopefully useful list of advertising platforms and traffic sources that I have steadily added to over the [...]

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Google adwords policy change

Just got an email from the big G this afternoon about a change in their policy for ads – body of email below: We’re writing to let you know about a change to Google’s advertising policies that could affect your AdWords account. Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote Unacceptable [...]

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Facebook ads clickfraud problem grows

Just read an interesting article on TechCrunch about the problems advertisers are experiencing with Facebook’s self-serve ad platform and increasing click fraud. Interesting, because the issue is being brought out into more mainstream attention. This actually isn’t ‘new’ news, the issue has been growing for weeks in a thread on Failbook ads over at Wickedfire. [...]

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Cloaking to get affiliate ads approved

Thought it was about time I wrote something on my long-neglected blog – it’s been a really busy last few months one way and another, but I currently have some time on my hands as I’m having a month off and currently staying in Toronto but more about that later. Just a quick and hopefully [...]

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