AbeBooks UK Affiliates Blog

Getting Traffic to your new site

More traffic is something everyone wants.  Kieron over at here.org.uk breaks it down plane and simple, take a look a his post  Beginners Guide: How to get to traffic to a new site.  I think it is a great post, and Kieron mentions one important thing, which is not to get caught up in all the little stuff.

Hiding Affiliate Links

I recently had an affiliate contact us, they were concerned about their affiliate id being over written by malware, spyware and other bots on the net.  This can happen very easily with Commission Junction HTML links.  In the past lots of affiliates have had problems with this issue.  To prevent your links from being over written I suggest you do a Google search for "Hide Affiliate Links' there a ton of ideas on how to hide your affiliate id and prevent this from happening.

Have Your Say In Improving Affiliates4U

The team over at A4U opened a post last week for suggestions on how they can improve A4U.  Take a look and add your ideas on how A4U can improve, there are some great ideas already!

Google Changes trademark Policy

It appears Google is looking to increase their revenues again, here are the latest changes to the trademark bidding policy in Google Adwords.  Just so everyone is clear, we do not promote our affiliates to bid on competitors trademarked names.

https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92877&hl=en_GB

If anyone is unclear about the AbeBooks policy, please see the AbeBooks UK Keyword bidding policy