Yahoo Search Marketing is now live, so is the supporting blog. Read more by going here.

Connection.

It’s what you need between you and your customers/prospective customers. Connection — to the products and people that help you market through Yahoo! — is also what we intend to provide to you in this blog.

We’ll connect you to the people and products that can help you make sense of the ever-changing world of digital marketing, and take advantage of everything that Yahoo! has to offer. While we’re not the first blog in the Yahoo! family (see the Blogroll to the right), we are no less excited about launching ours, because we believe it is the ideal method for informally communicating with our customers and other influencers.

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“Digging for dollars

Rumors have it that Digg, the social bookmarking Web site, has engaged in acquisition conversations with none other than Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Speculated sale price is around $150 million. As the service is free, valuation is most likely based on the size and loyalty of the claimed 20 million unique Digg users.”

From DM News marketing Buzz Newsletter

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AffiliateNewReview is also available from the Squidoo Lens technology. Just click on the link above.

Affiliate Marketing Deal of the Day Technology Available from AvantLink

AvantLink, the network that’s provided several firsts in Affiliate tools, has done it again with the release of the first and only generalized, easy to use Deal Of The Day tool. This tool helps Affiliates dynamically generate product content for daily deals on their website(s).

Park City, UT (PRWEB via PRWeb) October 30, 2006 — AvantLink.com announced this week a powerful upgrade to its existing industry-leading Affiliate tool center. The upgrade includes an addition of the first ever Deal Of The Day dynamic web publishing product, provided as a fully integrated and standardized network tool.

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Google is planning to make it easier to utilize different types of ads (CPC, CPM, CPA, etc) over all media channels – search, mobile, video, audio, etc. This puts the likes of Feedburner, Meebo, edgeio and Commission Junction squarely in Google’s sights as potential acquisitions.

read more | digg story

Registrar Moniker.com is hosting what is being billed as the worlds first live domain auction, and domain #14 of a total 312 being auctioned right now just sold for $1,500,000 – cameras.com

read more | digg story

Announcing the addition of theJaw Affiliate Program to AvantLink! theJaw is a brand new, hip, edgy, snowboard, surf, and skate site that targets the younger customer by offering amazing deals on the most sought after brands like Quiksilver, Billabong & DC Shoes. theJaw is powered by Moosejaw, which has a reputation in the industry as “owning the younger demographic.”

theJaw offers free shipping on orders over $49 and they are the only outdoor retailer with a free rewards program for your customers. You will also enjoy a generous 9% flat commission, which is one of the highest baseline Affiliate payouts in the outdoor category. A few other benefits include:

Average order size $140
Site-wide conversion 4%
theJaw Madness creates cult-like loyalty
theJaw price matches
Datafeeds (raw data or custom solutions)
theJaw is Parasite FREE

If you’re already an AvantLink Affiliate, you can sign-up for this program by following these steps:

Login to your Affiliate account at www.AvantLink.com
Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
Locate ‘theJaw’ in the merchant list
Click to their detail page and then ‘Apply to this Program’

If you’re interested in applying to the AvantLink network and this program, please use URL: https://www.avantlink.com/affiliate_app.php

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting theJaw. Feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink or theJaw AM Jeffrey, affiliates[at]moosejaw.com.

Announcement for the addition of thaLowdown to AvantLink!
( http://www.avantlink.com/merchant_details/10088/thalowdown.html )

What the heck is thaLowdown you ask? thaLowdown is a clearance site featuring thousands of outdoor apparel and equipment products from companies like The North Face & Patagonia – ALL ON SALE! And now the best part: Each night at 11PM EST, thaLowdown features one deal that creates a savage buying frenzy.

What does this mean for you? It means that by using AvantLink’s new Deal Of The Day* (DOTD) tool, you’ll be able to dynamically feature daily deals from thaLowdown on your site. This dynamic tool outputs the product name, product description, thumb image and price savings details. This is the secret sauce folks. Grab the Deal Of The Day creative from thaLowdown and you’ll convert like mad with it.

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Google launches customized search engine

Google Inc. has launched a custom search engine that enables users to choose which pages they want to include in their index, how the content should be prioritized, whether others can contribute to their index, and what the search results page will look like.

To use the Google Customer Search Engine, organizations or individuals must go to Google.com/coop/cse and select the web sites or pages they’d like to include in their search index. Users can choose to restrict their search results to include only those pages and sites, or they can give those pages and sites higher priority and ranking within the larger Google index for their site. Users can then customize the look, feel and functionality of their search engine.

For the balance of the article at internetRetailer.com, click here.

Lobster Gram Holiday Affiliate Newsletter

Just wanted to send a note to get you to start thinking about the approaching Holiday season and also how you can blog your way to profits as well.

Lobster and Holidays – They go together like Surf & Turf

It’s not too late. Here is what happened last year.

Last year, in Q4 2005, some of our affiliates saw their commission revenue increase by over 2600%.
For all affiliates who had sales for the 4th Quarter of 2005 saw an average % increase in commission revenue of over 1300%.
One of our affiliates saw an 8800% increase in his sales commissions (which made for a very nice Holiday check!).
The point is you need to start promoting Lobster Gram today! Don’t wait, get those links up. We want to help you sell and have committed to making several improvements that will enhance your sales this Holiday. I will be sending you regular e-mails to let you know of these changes.

NOTE: It would help greatly if I had your regular e-mail address to reach you as CJ’s e-mail system isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Please send me an e-mail to affiliate[at]livelob.com and let me know who you are so I can help you really maximize sales this Holiday.

Start promoting Lobster Gram’s high price point gourmet delicacies such as Live Maine Lobster, Frozen Lobster Tails, and Restaurant Quality Filet Mignons to your audience and you will see your commissions go up, in some cases WAY UP! OK, enough of the hype, if you are smart you’ll start promoting Lobster Gram today so you can cash in on the commissions.