Linda Buquet of 5 Star Affiliates will be featured on the ShoeMoney Net Income Radio Show over at Webmaster Radio on Tuesday, Oct. 3rd at 6pm Eastern.

Can Shoemoney lure Linda to the Dark Hat Side? Tune in and find out!

Linda's looking to take some serious affiliate questions from you guys, so show up in the chatroom at Webmaster Radio and Shoe Her Some Luv!

Okay, I think this hilarious myself. I could have blogged about this under SEO topics, but at this point it's gone into the That's Too Funny category.

You guys know who the Rich Jerk is right? Well, maybe not who he is, but you know of him. In fact, Linda Buquet blogged about him not too long ago … http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/2006/09/11/rich-jerk-cj/

If you've been following the presentations put out recently by Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon (two SEO experts with good basic SEO tips for everyone), then you're in the know about the things they've been teaching. If you haven't been following, then here's a link to get started … http://www.stomperblog.com.

At any rate, Brady and Andy have released a few videos teaching some basic SEO, and I guess the Rich Jerk is taking all the credit for their SEO knowledge. And, apparently Rich Jerk is taking credit for Sydney Johnston's SEO rankings as well.

Sydney is the 63 year old woman who signed on with Brady and Andy with regard to her eBay business. I guess when she got wind of the Rich Jerk's comments … she made her own video.

I think it's pretty funny … gotta love a good cat fight amoungst the SEOers.

Here's the link to Sydney's video: http://www.convertlinks.com/smackdown.html

This thing is just heating up! Enjoy!!!

Ros Gardner caught my eye today with her post about Kanoodle changing names and modifying their business strategies. It figures huh, right after Google dances on their affiliates again … we go over to Kanoodle and join, paying the stinking $1 for them to process us … really to get our credit card info, which is suspect … and then, they make these changes without notifing us in a timely manner.

Way to go Kanoodle/Seevast !!! Way to win friends and influence people.

I've had the new Kanoodle ads running now for about a month. Yeah, I was ahead of the Google beating most took. I have to say I'm not all that impressed with Kanoodle … okay, I'm not impressed at all and here's why.

Their ads are not relevant to the information on the web page, not even close.

Half the time their JavaScript code doesn't work right. For example, on some of my three-tall skyscrapper ads … where I should be getting three text ads, it only feeds one. Yeah, that looks real nice on the page. I replaced the code several times with the same results. I'm guessing that Kanoodle (Pulse 360) are trying to get to a place of relevancy, so their system screws up and only feeds one ad … which wouldn't be as bad except that the ad isn't relevant either to the information on the page.

Okay, so those are my personal observations with the newer Kanoodle (Pulse 360) contextual ads service. I'd really like to hear some feedback on what others are expereiencing.

Anyhow, according to Ros…

On August 8th, Kanoodle announced that they will break out their content targeted sponsored links business from Kanoodle into a separate business called Pulse 360. ContextTarget, LocalTarget, BehaviorTarget, and BrightAds will move over to Pulse 360.

Kanoodle will continue to offer search targeted sponsored links through their KeywordTarget product.

Each of their companies will be held under a new parent company, Seevast.

The changes should be in effect by late September, if not sooner. Advertisers will be notified via email when any changes are required.

Affiliate Blogger launches a new performance marketing blog focused on performance based marketing and marketing that converts.

[ClickPress, Thu Aug 31 2006] Affiliate Blogger launches a new performance marketing blog focused on performance based marketing and marketing that converts.

Bobbie Grennier, widely known as the Affiliate Blogger (http://affiliate-blogger.com), is following on the heals of Jim Kukral (revenews.com/Forge) who recently announced the acquisition of BlogKits (blogkits.com).

"The shift into performance based marketing for bloggers looking to earn income through blogging has taken a big step forward," said Grennier. "I wanted to be an active voice in helping to shape this transformation within the blogsphere."

Bloggers spend hours each day researching and writing about their topics just as any copywriter or journalist does. The desire for bloggers to earn income from their efforts is growing, though there are divisions between those bloggers wanting to be paid to blog and others who prefer to earn income through affiliate programs or selling ad space on their popular blogs.

In a 2005 survey by BlogKits, 73% of bloggers acknowledged that using affiliate links on their blog was acceptable.

Bobbie Grennier brings a discerning eye to the affiliate space and now to the performance based marketing space. In addition to having years of experience as a media buyer and lead generation solutions provider, she has also racked up many years within the SEO/SEM search engine strategies side of marketing (http://www.seo-writing.com). Bobbie's SEO writing websites, blogs and articles consistently appear in the top ten natural search rankings in Google's search engine for "SEO writing" and "SEO writer" keywords.

The new performance based marketing blog will discuss such topics as media buys, multi-channel marketing, affiliate partners and publishers, search engine strategies, datafeed marketing, lead generation and marketing solutions that convert to sales.

About Bobbie Grennier:
As the Affiliate Blogger, Bobbie Grennier is the driving force behind the Affiliate Guild (http://affiliate-guild.com), an online free guild for affiliates to find a common bond, tools of their trade and an educational environment to learn and fine-tune their skills. Grennier is an Internet Strategist who often consults with merchants, helping them to develop SEO and affiliate marketing strategies, in addition to a focus on affiliate partner relationships through recruitment and management of affiliate programs. Bobbie's articles are widely published throughout the Internet and she offers free reprint articles at the Article Repository Directory (http://article-repository.com).

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/17552005cp.shtml