Adwords and Commission Junction

Adwords is a fairly easy system to use. Generating traffic with Adwords is quick and simple and can be mind numbingly expensive. Commission Junction is an Affiliate Broker with a lot of Companies that want people to sell their products-though most are not all that Adwords friendly. The general idea is that you have a website about say, Cooking, and then you become an Affiliate for a company that sells pots and pans and the like. Running an Adwords campaign is one way to drive traffic to the site and hoepfully make some sales. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to whip…

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Ford and Google Ads

Search Engine Journal has a pretty good article about all those Adsense ads for Ford that mysteriously appeared on blogs over the past few weeks. Seems that Ford and Google made it Job 1 to spam the internet with Ford themed Adword ads, even though there was no mention of Ford, or Ford Products on said blogs.Since I added Adsense to my site, it has been a bit of fun to watch the ads that have popped up. Sometimes they have been off-base, but still made sense. If the post is brand new, the ads are often for blogging, but…

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Affiliate Millions-Does This Work For Anyone?

Anyone that has thought about making money online has likely run across a couple of slightly shady sounding ideas about how to do it. Two of the ones that I found interesting were GoogleCash and Adwords Arbitage. These are very similar in nature, in the Google Cash model you join an Affiliate program and use Adword ads to point at the Affiliates page-so long as you make more than the click cost to get them there, your in business. Adwords Arbitrage is a bit more complex, as it involves actually have a landing page of your own. The idea here…

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