Now have all your email accounts managed from one email account provided from Google’s Gmail. If you are like me and have over 200+ websites and a few domains for each of those websites you have a lot of email accounts to check every day! With Gmails new account features you can add more user accounts to your gmail account allowing you to send/receive emails from your other domain email accounts from one central gmail account. What is great is that it automatically can reply from the email address the email was sent to.

Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you use Gmail to send messages with another of your email addresses listed as the sender in place of your Gmail address. This feature makes it easier to manage multiple accounts from the Gmail interface.

Learn more about Adding a custom ‘From’ address

Note: When you’re sending with a different ‘From:’ address, your Gmail address will still be included in your email header’s sender field, to help prevent your mail from being marked as spam. Most email clients don’t display the sender field, though some versions of Microsoft Outlook may display “From yourusername@gmail.com on behalf of customaddress@mydomain.com.”

DirectCPV Opens Category Targeting with New Contextual Pop System
Tuesday May 5, 2009, 3:22 pm EDT

IRVINE, CA – DirectCPV ( www.DirectCPV.com ) has launched a brand new category targeting system designed to allow advertisers to target specific traffic categories with contextual ads. With over 2 milloini opt-in users, this type of targeting will increase the reach for advertisers. As consumers become increasingly resistant to advertising, only the best targeted ads with well matched consumers will continue to be productive.

“With DirectCPV, our clients can target ads with unsurpassed accuracy and get region-specific or international traffic, dramatically increasing conversion ratios and ROI on ad buys. It really is the most targeted type of contextual traffic that you can purchase on the internet today,” said Theng Kuoch, VP of Strategic Partnerships at DirectCPV. “Opening up our contextual pop system to include category specific traffic targeting in addition to URL and keyword bidding makes our platform a unique method for marketers to reach exactly the audience they seek to monetize.”

The advanced CPV bidding system allows marketers to access consumers at a starting auction bid price of only $0.004 for Run of Network Ads and allows even more targeted bids by URL, Keyword or Category starting at $0.01 USD on a CPV basis. When you factor in the savings you get from working with a dedicated support team of experts who help you get the best results from each ad buy, streamline your ad spending and fine-tune your marketing campaigns, working with DirectCPV becomes an even more obvious bargain for advertisers.

DirectCPV has developed a new keyword caching technology and a proprietary category matching system designed to maximize the benefits of using the new contextual popup system. The power of the DirectCPV comes from the fact that it utilizes a pool of opt-in consumers and provides them with ads for products they are already interested in finding out more about.

For more information about DirectCPV and the revolutionary Targeted Contextual Advertising system, please visit www.DirectCPV.com.

The days of being able to bid for search engine ad placements for spots 1,2,3,4,ect. are over. I miss the days when they showed you who was first and what bid it would take to be #1. You could bid for the spots. Now its just 1.1, 1.9,..blah blah they just try to bleed you out to be #1 by paying way more per click then normal.

It used to be like this:

Then all you had to do was raise you bid to $1.99 and you would be in the first spot. It was fun, simple, and easy.

Which do you prefer Google or Yahoo for search marketing? I like yahoo because in my experience the keyword bids have been cheaper. Its just been so tough lately trying to knock out the spam, crap sites that just click on ads to make money. I have tried Microsoft AdCenter but had problems with them in the past (When they where in beta stage) and lost a lot of money. But thats another story found here.

If you where like the other thousands of people online the other day you might of come across Dominos Free Pizza Coupon (found here). Users where told to enter coupon code bailout for a free pizza. I was lucky to be one of the few that was able to get a free pizza before they removed the coupon. Here is the news report from the The Associated Press.

‘Bailout’ hits Domino’s for 11,000 free pizzas

19 hours ago

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Domino’s pizza chain has given away nearly 11,000 free pizzas because of a never-used promotion that a Web customer stumbled upon. Tim McIntyre, spokesman for Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Domino’s, said Wednesday that the company had prepared an Internet coupon for an ad campaign that was considered in December but never activated.

McIntyre said somebody discovered that the code word “bailout” was good for a free medium pizza ordered online. The information quickly spread Monday night on the Web, until the code was deactivated Tuesday morning.

The owner of 14 Domino’s locations in the Cincinnati area says his stores gave away more than 600 pies. Owner John Glass told The Cincinnati Enquirer that Domino’s promised to reimburse him for the pizzas.

Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Does Google Hate WordPress and Other Blog Platforms? I have talked with other site owners who use Wordpress as a blog or CMS and they too have had similar problems. High ranking in Yahoo Search Engine and other smaller search engines but no ranking in Google Search Engine.

Why is this?

I am not sure, there is no reason stated on Google’s help pages and I have not yet received a response from Google as to why this is happening. One conclusion I have is that Google marks “Blogs” and removes them from general search listings, only to show up under Google’s Blog Search.

Examples

The first couple search results for “Unmastered Affiliate” in the Google search engine get results for our Unmastered Affiliate Series on ezinearticles.com. As you can see our main website is no where to be found. It’s not even on the second page.

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But when you search “Unmastered Affiliate” in Yahoo Search Engine the results are different:

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As you can see we are ranked #1 in Yahoo Search Engine.

Conclusion

So far this is a mystery to me and other site owners who use Wordpress. It really does kill your traffic coming from Google. If you are interested in learning more or want to find out more information on the outcome of my search, please reply or email me at bill :at: unmasteredaffiliate :dot: com.

Before I give my list of CPA network myths, let me just say that CPA networks are indeed not for all affiliates. If you run content loaded websites, you might find little success with CPA and would be better suited to stick with CPM or Adsense style advertising. (Message boards, blogs, articles). If your website is specifically geared to send surfers to the sponsor (loyalty programs, free stuff websites, etc), CPA is probably best for you. If you run a website which pushes a catalog of products from a variety of sponsors, going with an Affiliate Network is probably your best bet. From 9 years of experience in this business, I can say that usually these affiliate types don’t mesh well. An affiliate doing well on CPA won’t touch shopping cart affiliate programs, and those who see fantastic results with product-catalog type merchants balk at how horrible CPA networks are. You can ask if CPA in general is bad on boards like ABW, but you’ll usually only see one side of the affiliate coin… from people who honestly have little experience dealing with CPA networks… and repeat what they’ve heard and not what they know. Your best bet is to match your sponsorship to the type of website you run.

MYTH: CPA networks are just middle men and you should just work through an affiliate program instead.

TRUTH: Most affiliate programs are run though a network, be it LinkShare, CJ, or elsewhere. These networks charge the advertiser fees, 30% in the case of CJ. Most CPA networks make deals with these merchants outside of their affiliate network, outside CJ if you will, and avoid these 30% fees. The CPA network will keep a margin too, but it’s usually significantly lower than 30%. This is part of the reason why CPA networks can give you a higher payout than doing “direct” through the affiliate network. You can in theory go outside of the affiliate network and work direct yourself, be like a CPA network, but most affiliates don’t command the volume needed for direct deals.

MYTH: CPA networks only deal with spammers

TRUTH: Like it or not, email marketing is a legit business. The gov’t passed the CanSpam law a couple years ago which defined how affiliates could use email marketing, set rules in place to follow, and if the marketer follows these rules, he’s not a spammer. Most CPA networks do not tolerate real spam. Beyond whether it’s right or wrong, doing business with spammers will get your ISP shut down, risk litigation, and cause all kinds of nightmares. True spam, the Viagra and porn stuff, don’t follow any of the CanSpam rules and you’ll notice don’t run through CPA networks. There are of course exceptions to the rules, some networks are more gray area than others, but they are the exception. So how did CPA networks get this bad reputation? Most CPA network, ourselves included, are run by companies that started out in email marketing. Like anything, there are exceptions, like networks with bad histories in email, but most were/are legit email marketing companies. Unfortunately some unlearned affiliates label all commercial email as spam.

MYTH: CPA network are just a front for adware.

TRUTH: Adware is problem for everyone, be it a CPA network or an affiliate network. There is as much adware in big affiliate networks as elsewhere. The sad honest truth is that these adware companies are so big now, command so much traffic, most strike direct deals with the end merchants and don’t use any networks at all, be it CPA network or otherwise. Again, there are exceptions, but most affiliates in CPA networks are just normal publishers earning via their website/newsletter/search engine marketing, small businessmen just trying to run a legit business.

MYTH: The merchant would rather you join his affiliate program.

TRUTH: While this is sometimes true, it’s not always the case. MANY merchants run an affiliate program as an afterthought and would rather not deal with individual publishers. They start their program on a big network like CJ simply to access CJ’s large pool of existing affiliates, not out of a want to run an affiliate program, and have no interest in dealing with individual affiliates. They set their program on auto-approve, and do nothing other than let traffic roll in. It’s far easier to manage working with 5 CPA networks who have a total of 10,000 affiliates than working with those 10,000 affiliates direct in an affiliate program. In many cases, it’s no work at all for the merchant to run with a CPA network. They just give the network a landing URL and watch traffic come in. At the end of the day, most merchants just want as much traffic as possible, be it from their affiliate program or a CPA network… or most usually a combination of both.

Just checked the mail today and inside was a post card size card from Google and Vista Print with a $100 Google Adwords promo code. So make sure you check your mail today (snail mail, not email). I probably got this because I stopped using adwords because of the cost per click raise that I couldn’t afford it. Here are some pictures of what to look for: (Click Photos to Enlarge)

myFICO.com is offering a Free Fico Credit Score to anybody who logs into their Message Board / Forum. The Credit Score is from Equifax. Details are at the following site:

FICO

At the top right in the ‘Announcements‘ section you’ll see the following:

“Free FICO scores for logged-in FICO Forums members!! If you’re not already a FICO Forums member, click Sign in and then the Sign up button to create a Forums logon. Get your Free FICO score now!”

It’s available to the first 10,000 people.

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