Have you ever searched for the latest gizmo on Google and seen a link to a relevant Amazon search page with the same Amazon Affiliate tag you saw the LAST time you were searching for a random gadget. Who the heck is googhydr-20? Is he some sort of super affiliate, raking in millions of dollars in commission revenue from the Amazon Affiliate program? Is it a bot made by Google that uses their own services to automatically generate links, and thus revenue, based on trending products? What could it be?

Well, to put it short, the Amazon Affiliate tag googhydr-20 is not owned by some sort of elite affiliate marketer, and it’s certainly not owned by Google. It actually belongs to Amazon itself. Whether they did it to effectively launder their own money (I doubt it) or to maintain control of how their brand is presented in paid search results (more likely, I think), I can’t tell you. But what I can tell you is that since the appearance of the infamous googhydr-20, Amazon has made it apparent that advertising direct affiliate links using PPC will warrant you no referrals for any sales made through those clicks, effectively discouraging anyone from purchasing PPC advertisement space directly linking to Amazon through their affiliate tag. (Which supports the second of my hypotheses.)

Anyways, fear no more, there is no super secret affiliate bot network that automatically generated Google AdWords campaigns with Amazon Affiliate links based on trending products; and if there was, they can’t make money any more.

So, sleep safe, and until next time, cheers!

Sorry for the alliteration, I just had to get it out of me. Anywho, here’s a couple freebies that might be really useful to anyone in the internet marketing field.

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Free Google AdWords Credits
Do a Google search for “free google adwords credits” and it’s the first organic link. Or, you can just click here.

I’ll be updating this as I find more super deals!

Another great strip by Ranked Hard, this comic depicts The Real Reason Your Site Dropped in Google.

Good thing I use AdWords!

Alot of people have bad experiences with Google’s AdWords program because they forget two very simple and effective options to tailor their Google AdWords campaign.

First, make sure you set your daily spending limit! Don’t jinx your traffic by paying for clicks you can’t afford, or even getting clicks that are not as valuable to you, because they are less targeted.

Which brings me to my second point, when setting up your campaign, uncheck the box that says “include in Google’s extended network” … displaying advertisements in the extended Google site network will place your ads on (relevant) websites that are running the AdSense program. You want your advertisments to display on the results index page relevant to your keywords, because that is as targeted as you are going to get.

So, don’t forget to save yourself time, money, and trouble by employing these AdWords techniques!