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Yazing Reaches 50k Members!

Yazing, the influencer monetization and cashback shopping platform, launched by Adam Viener in 2015, recently announced that they have reached 50k members after a record breaking year in 2020.  Yazing now has over 3,600 brands on that platform that any member can instantly start promoting and earning cash rewards for generating sales.  Members have generated nearly $4 million dollars in commissions on the platform.

“Companies have long offered affiliate programs, but these deals can be difficult to navigate and out of reach for the average individual, influencer or blogger.” said Adam Viener, Founder of Yazing. “I believe that EVERYONE has influence and deserves to be compensated for the sales they help generate. I launched Yazing in 2015 with the goal of making these often elusive opportunities accessible to anyone looking to earn some extra money from home promoting and supporting the brands they love.”

Anyone with an email address and the ability to receive payments via PayPal is welcome to join Yazing for free and start earning money.

KaChing - Turning your Passion into Profits - Joel Comm does it Again!

I have been a big fan of Joel Comm for a long time.  For me, it started with his AdSense Secrets Book. He showed me how ANYONE could make extra money with your websites using the power of Google's AdSense program.  I had known about AdSense, and had even toyed with it on some of my sites, but it wasn't until I read his first eBook that I started to really understand how to optimize the placement of the ads and really generate good money from these contextual ads.

Since his first eBooks, Joel Comm has gone on to become a New York Times Best-Selling author.

Joel and I have become friends, since then.  We often see each other at the Affiliate Summit conference in Vegas and enjoy getting lunch and catching up.

So I was intrigued at Christmas time when I got this box with a Green "Easy Button" that goes KaChing every time I press it.  (It also goes KaChing every time my kids go by my desk).  Perfect for me as for some time the "KaChing" sound was my AIM tone.  What better sound for an Internet Marketer?

The Kaching Button was just a teaser.  The other day I received his latest Book, "KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays"

What I like about KaChing, is that it brings me back to when I first started IMWave.  For me it wasn't about making millions of dollars online, it was about taking this $1,000 debit card my employer had given me and seeing if I could turn it into $2,000.  Once I had done that it became about seeing if I could earn enough each month to cover my car payment, then my mortgage, then replace my Salary.  These incremental goals lead me to building IMWave into the Inc 5000 company that it is today.

Joel's book will walk you though what it takes to build a website that brings in an extra $500-$1000 per month. With the skills he provides, you can then determine how you want to apply them.  Think about it, What does an extra $500 - $1000 per month mean to your lifestyle?

When you couple the great book with all the extra bonuses that Joel has been able to "squeeze" out of his internet marketing colleagues, it turns buying his book into a no-brainer.  Once you have purchased, visit his site and fill out the form to claim the extra rewards and gain access to his member area!

Take a look at his video and learn more!

Parking Options for your Unused Domains

Last November, I posted a story on Revenews about how I was testing a new strategy of taking a few of the domains I had parked on Sedo Pro and testing them on Amazon's aStore sites.

The results were bad.  Not only did the sites not convert, but Amazon's tracking was horrible.  I think Amazon only showed traffic that clicked through from the site ultimately to Amazon's site, not the traffic on the site.

So I switched these domains back to Sedo Pro parking, one of my favorite parking services.  (email me or comment here if you need an endorsement code to try their service).

Today I learned about Chitka's new Domain Store Parking Service, and decided to move these 3 names over there to give it a shot.

• GPSOnline.net - A GPS Superstore
• WCWineCellars.com - Wine Cellars & Wine Accessories
• MamasGiftBaskets.com - A Great Selection of Gift Baskets Online

As of this post, the names haven't propogated yet, but I will let you know how they do there.

Chitka's new service (Links: Signup | Domain Parking Details), gives you q quick and easy way to create a store, provide keywords to pull products from their catalog of millions of products, and then get paid on a CPC basis (as opposed to aStore's conversion basis).

I'll let you know how they work.

Google Search Results (Behind the Scenes)

Affiliates spend a lot of time trying to understand Google's search results, no matter if you have a site you are trying to build rankings for or if you are a paid search publisher like my self bidding on millions of keywords every day. 

Today I ran across some internal screen shots originally posted by Zorgblob (English translated page) and further reported by Vallywag.  This is what internal googlers see when they are looking at search results:

So what do these internal fields mean?  There has been some speculation about the Adv (Yes | No) field.  Vallywag seems to think it might be an internal tool for sales reps to identify and recruit advertisers.  I find that highly unlikely.  There have been some rumors and speculation in the past about if buying advertising helps your internal search rankings.  I have noticed in the past for a friend I was doing search for that before we started his PPC campaign he was showing up as a top local listing for his area hotel, when the PPC started and he got a top PPC listing for his paid ads, these local "on results" listings disappeared.  The only thing we could attribute that to was his paid listings.

Google has always said that they are very concerned about the quality of their search results, and don't want one site taking up a majority of the space, my guess is this field helps with that.

I do find it interesting that they appear to be placing some kind of monetary value on the organic listings with the GG Score.  I wonder if they look at how much each page of SERPs make and try to balance quality results (getting people to the right information) vs profit per page from ads.  I would think that optimizing both would be important for their business.

I also find it very interesting that they are trying to place each ad into a vertical market, almost directory style.  Maybe that is how they build the Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/).

People seem to think the PVs field stands for Page Views, I wonder if that is calculating times that listing has been viewed in Google across keyword terms, or times the site has been clicked on?

I think it's odd that the lower ad in the screen shot has lower scores across the board, so these don't appear to be fields that Google is sorting the search results on.

What do you think of these internal numbers?  Have you heard anything more?