Arbitrage is a word that gets bandied about freely these days; it’s an activity that has transcended the financial world where it began to become the de-facto means for making money online. At its core, the activity describes the absorption of…

MSN recently introduced MSN adCenter, what they call “the next generation online advertising platform from Microsoft…” The first product offering from adCenter is the MSN Paid Search solution, encroaching further on Yahoo! and Google’s PPC cash cow.

Online Advertising Leader AzoogleAds Grew More Than 100 Percent in the First Half of 2005, Dramatically Outpacing the Overall Growth of the Industry.

Affiliate Motivation! While working on the philosophy that you need to create an attractive Program that Affiliates will want to join, put yourself in your Affiliate’s shoes and think about what an Affiliate will want from your Program.

Internal search engine marketing teams and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Firms using PPC (Pay per click marketing) may be adversely hurting affiliating marketing. The uphill battle for affiliates and their managers is consistently growing as search…

This week’s Digital Thoughts uses a wide brush to cover the evolution and segmentation of arbitrage activity online. In it we touch upon one of the major arbitrage activities, lead generation. It’s an industry that, regardless of how they buy…

Dogpile.com recently collaborated with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University to measure how much overlap and differences in ranking there are between search companies MSN, Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves.

Behind the scenes of the online lead generation industry, there is a battle going on. Some may even say it is a battle of good and evil. I say it is a battle for survival.

Affiliate marketing depends on several factors to be successful. Mainly, an experienced affiliate wants to influence the visitor to click on the banner or text link they have placed to refer traffic to the merchant’s site.

Last week, I lamented the fact that no major acquisitions occurred. No sooner had those thoughts left the keypad then news of ClassesUSA’s sale to Experian became public. While Rupert Murdoch’s entry into the online space made headlines…