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FTC Brings Major ClickBank Changes for the Year 2010

A wind swept through affiliate marketing sites this fall as the FTC reiterated their standards for affiliate marketing and transparency. These rules had always been around but in the hell bent wild west of the Internet, many went unheeded until now.

Now more than ever you can expect more competition both as a product creator and an affiliate marketer on ClickBank. While this prediction might make you squirm a bit, consider it a beneficial forecast. A thriving marketplace attracts more consumers.

ClickBank just introduced three tutorial videos to help bring on German, French and Spanish speaking sellers and affiliates. This will help widen the global audience and your potential for sales.

They will be doing more handholding for the masses, training product creators to stay above the board and not spam or do unethical things, and training affiliates to utilize tools to make more sales. Read more on FTC Brings Major ClickBank Changes for the Year 2010…

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Google AdWords in 2010 Offers Stiffer Competition

Google of course is considered to be the 10,000 pound gorilla when it comes to search engine marketing. Don’t for get your options with Yahoo and Bing and if you are in a country outside of the USA, there are also country specific search engines that are doing very well, for instance in Russia and China.

In the Google Adwords blog, they recently posted about the 2010 New Year strategies that you’ll need to develop to succeed in their campaigns. The simple fact is, more competition is aware of Google AdWords than ever before.

Instead of just a handful of net savvy marketers leveraging this advertising powerhouse, brick and mortar businesses and everyday entrepreneurs are utilizing AdWords campaigns to get an upper hand on their competition.

In their blog, the AdWords team stressed the important of experimenting with your campaigns to get the ultimate optimization possible. That’s something far too many marketers fail at. Read more on Google AdWords in 2010 Offers Stiffer Competition…

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