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Allowed Traffic Types

are email, search, contextual and onsite traffic. Email marketing includes newsletters, email lists and list management. Search traffic includes all paid traffic sources including search engines, content network and media buys. Contextual traffic involves Pay Per View traffic which involves promoting via pop ups or pop unders. Onsite placement is when affiliates own their own Continue reading

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Is it Really Crazy to Block Google?

After all is said and done Rupert Murdoch may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdoch's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing deal with Bing and delist itself from Google's search engine. However, what if Murdoch was really only talking about the Wall Street Journal and not all News Corp publications? Then the idea might actually make a lot of sense. According to Compete.com WSJ.com already receives the largest percentage of its traffic from Microsoft' (18.74%). This is contrary to many sites which typically receive the majority of their referrals from Google, often many times more than what Microsoft delivers. Yahoo provides another 6.3% and since Bing will likely be owning Yahoo's search business that means Microsoft is actually delivering 25% of the Wall Street Journals current traffic. Continue reading

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Is the Murdoch Bing Deal Really Just About the Wall Street Journal?

After all is said and done Rupert Murdoch may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdoch's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing deal with Bing and delist itself from Google's search engine. However, what if Murdoch was really only talking about the Wall Street Journal and not all News Corp publications? Then the idea might actually make a lot of sense. According to Compete.com WSJ.com already receives the largest percentage of its traffic from Microsoft' (18.74%). This is contrary to many sites which typically receive the majority of their referrals from Google, often many times more than what Microsoft delivers. Yahoo provides another 6.3% and since Bing will likely be owning Yahoo's search business that means Microsoft is actually delivering 25% of the Wall Street Journals current traffic. Continue reading

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Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region

Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region conducted a record 38.6 billion searches in September, with searchers averaging nearly 88 queries per person, according to a new report from comScore. Google sites ranked as the top search destination with nearly 17 billion searches on its sites during the month, representing a 44.1 percent share of all searches in the region. Baidu landed in the second spot with 8.2 billion searches (21.3% share), while Yahoo sites ranked third with 5.3 billion searches (13.8% share). South Korea's NHN Corporation, which owns search engine Naver, saw the most search usage among the top 10 destinations with an average of 81 searches per user. Searchers on Google sites averaged 59 searches per person, while searchers on Lycos sites averaged 51 queries. An analysis of the top search destinations across 10 individual markets in the Asia Pacific region found various search brand preferences across markets. Google sites were the most popular in six markets including Australia, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. Yahoo sites grabbed the majority share of searches in Hong Kong (58.9%) and Taiwan (65.4%). Continue reading

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