How to Fix Google: Ranking, Algorithm & Webmaster Policies

An in depth four part series on Google’s historical ranking and linking policies, and how the company can change such policies for the better.

The debate about paid links and possible penalties for sellers AND buyers by Google to safe their precious PageRank algorithm raises questions whether or not Google lost touch with webmasters and the real world realities at the same time.

And in the middle of it are the affiliate marketers who might become the first potential victims and casualties of this shift in Google’s policy.

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Reality Check – There Is No Such Thing As Easy Money, Also Not Online

Despite that some people, especially the expensive -get rich quick- eBooks selling ones, want to make believe otherwise, trust me when I say that there is no such thing as easy money and easy to gain fortunes. Also not on the Internet. You don’t believe me? Okay….

Here is reality check for all the people out there that still believe in the myth about how easy it is to gain fabulous riches and make huge fortunes on the internet without hard work. Stop chasing a ghost, start thinking for yourself and start working on realizing your dreams via hard work and persistence. Some tips to get on the way don’t hurt though.

Here are a list of a lot of down to earth and practical tips that actually make sense. No Blah blah, but the real deal.

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The Dark Side Of Affiliate Marketing – A Real Life Witch Hunt

A detailed report about a witch hunt to bring down some affiliate trackback spammers, the methods they used to disguise their origin and how they deceived users, affiliate networks and spam fighters alike.

Sneaky redirects, gambit like tactics with a scape goat in Asia and how scum seems to attract each other. Scumbags always seem to hunt in packs. But that means that when caught, casualties are high and not just single individuals what explains why the news ofter report of the dissolving of a criminal ring rather than the capture of a single criminal.

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Trackback Spammer Exploits Security Hole at Stanford.edu

Carsten Cumbrowski over at SearchEngineJournal.com shows and explains in great detail how a clever spammer exploits a security hole at the plato.stanford.edu website to trick bloggers via trackback spam that is almost undetectable, even by human eyes.

The Spammer was so clever that at it is impossible to determine that it is spam at first glance. It looks so real.
The exploits were not fixed by the affected sites yet, but the sites were contacted and take action hopefully very soon.

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Please, Digg — Spare My The North Cyprus Property Ads

Minor rant about Digg, AdSense, Cypress, British colonial politics and a free XBOX 360 for 5 “awkward” surveys to fill out which makes you think about how Google’s landing page quality score is being calculated in AdWords. Where was I? ….

Danny covers a lot of hot topics at his personal blog. It shows some flaws in the Google AdSense and AdWords system. Makes recommendations how to improve it. Warns you about an Internet Scam that became very popular over the last months plus teaches you about some European history and current events nobody wants to talk about and which are unknown to most people unless you have personal ties to the divided island in the mediterranean sea that still lives in a world that is known to most people only from the times when the Iron Curtain in Germany was still shiny without any rust on it.

Interesting read for marketers, consumers and people interested in politics and international affairs.

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Affiliate Marketing Organization Initiative

It is true, Affiliate Marketing is the only industry I know of that does not have any kind of Organization to represent it or the interest of people that do business in this industry.

We are not talking about a small industry here. Billions of dollars in sales are generated each year through affiliate marketing.

There used to be an organization once called iAfma which is long but dead.  Also efforts like the Affiliate Union is among other failed attempts to get some organization into the Industry.

Here is a new attempt to get something going. It looks serious If you can take the length of the post as indicator .  But seriously, the suggestions made sound actually doable even for an industry as controverse and unorganized as Affiliate Marketing.

We will see how this Initiative will go. Another failed experiment to discourage the few that tried and failed before even more or the small and humble start of something that will manage to survive and slowly grow into a respected Organization that can speak for the Industry, provides guidelines and standards and educates people that want to learn more about Affiliate Marketing.

The future will have have the answer. Until then, Good Luck!

Affiliates, Trademarks and Search Engine Result Pages

The Issue of Affiliates bidding on Merchant Trademarks at PPC Search Engines is discussed everywhere, but what about the same thing, only at organic Search Results?

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