My good friend Anik revealing how to start a $126,000/Year business in a $3.3 Billion industry. There is
a huge opportunity – if nothing else, wait ’tilyou see the STATS we found…

http://blog.affiliateclassroom.com/120k-business

Let’s grow and become pro affiliates.

Many of you have experienced difficulties with your websites’ quality ratings being downgraded by Google, or your AdWords account being shut down or suspended recently, in what has come to be known as the Google Slap. We have been approached by a number of affiliates asking for further information on what may have caused this and what can be done to have their sites’
quality ratings restored or
their AdWords accounts re-activated. Therefore, we are providing below the information provided by Google, in the hope that this will be helpful to you.

1. Duplicate Mini-sites
The issue is often that affiliates create sites for the purpose of circumventing Google’s affiliate link policy. This policy states: “We’ll only display one ad per search query for advertisers sharing the same top-level domain in the display URL. This means that if you’re an affiliate advertiser, your ad may not show for a query because another affiliate or the website that runs the affiliate program also has ads using the same (or a similar) domain in the display URL.”
(http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14844)
When one site is essentially the same site as another, while the product is fine, promoting it with different domains is against the rules. It violates the requirement that a site’s content be unique.

2. Use of trademarked terms in the Ad text:
AdWords ads will not show if they’re using a trademarked term (e.g.
Photoshop) in the ad text and
the landing page does not provide a reasonable amount of information about this product. Please make sure that the landing page provide enough information about the trade-marked term, so that it is not a ruse to attract visitors to the page but offers valuable information.

3. Squeeze Pages to obtain visitor names and email addresses:
Landing pages that act as squeeze pages to obtain visitors’ names and email addresses are often rated poorly on landing page quality. This is usually because the landing page is a data harvesting site that only contains a form. A site of this nature could most likely be advertised successfully if the user was taken to the page that describes the product and lets them buy it. Asking the users to provide a name and email before they can learn more about the product is not considered a good user experience and will be discouraged. If users are being asked for their name and email, then there should be some value that is provided to the user.

4. Thin reviews:
Review sites that contain short one paragraph reviews of products are considered thin reviews by Google and are not rated highly. If the review is a short abstract, and a link is provided to a more detailed version of the same review, then that review is considered by Google to be more valuable to the user and is therefore rated more highly. Google values reviews where the basis for arriving at the recommendation or the rating of the product is disclosed in the review, as it delivers a better user experience.

In general Google suggests the following practices to ensure a high rating on their search results:

- Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
- Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
- Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
- Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
- If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value.
- Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.
- When in doubt consult Google’s webmaster guidelines for more general information.

I hope this information was useful to you. Make it a prosper year in 2010.

Cheers!

Andy Huang

As you may have heard…

Mike Filsaime is leaving the GURU business to focus
on other cool stuff in Internet Marketing like software
and services.

So…

…what does that mean to YOU and why should YOU care?

It means you can get his $1297.00 Home Study Course
The 7 Figure Code for Free if you act fast!

Mike he has decided to give ONLY Lucky 10,000 people
the course for FREE (Instant Access) as well as send
you some free bonuses just for the s&h

http://enroll.the7figurecode.com

And in case you are wondering, there is no catch to the
offer.

Well, unless you consider the 10,000 a “catch”

So take note:

- Over 100,000 people know about this.

- 25,000 + People are on the VIP list.

- Millions of emails are going out today…

and… he is only giving this offer to the first 10,000 people.

So let me do some math for you.

This current product ($1297) sold to 2500 people in just 1 week
so you can imagine that for FREE 10,000 people will jump on this
very fast

(so don’t yell at me if it is CLOSED if you get there late, I
am doing my best to let you know about this and I hope this
notice reached you in time.)

http://enroll.the7figurecode.com

So HURRY over to the site right now and get access to
The 7 Figure Code, one of the best home study courses
for serious Internet Marketers not looking to be “Newbies”
forever and get access now and get your bonuses shipped
to you as well.

http://enroll.the7figurecode.com

Thanks

Andy Huang
PS – Remember, only 10,000 people get access and this could
sell out (or be gone).

Just saw my friend Rosalind Gardner shared the AffiliateBenchmarks affiliate marketing survey on her blog. I took a look at it and it’s a very well-constructed survey to determine 2009 affiliate practices. I want to share this with you as well.

All affiliates who participate and complete this survey will receive a free copy.

Here’s the press release:

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 8, 2009 — AffiliateBenchmarks, a research division of outsourced affiliate management agency NETexponent, has released an affiliate marketing survey to be completed by affiliates and website publishers by July 31st 2009. The survey results will gather best practices for several aspects of affiliate marketing, including how best to communicate with affiliates, what advertisers can do to optimize affiliate relationships, what tools and information affiliates crave, and what challenges they face. Results will be analyzed and used to identify marketing trends and projected changes. Affiliates who complete the survey will receive a free copy of the results and others will have the option to buy a copy once released.

We were very proud of last years effort and the industry’s response but knew we had room for improvement This year survey is not only bigger and better but it also has the support of major affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, LinkShare, PepperJam, Shareasale, and Media Trust. Thanks to the support of these major networks we have been able to optimize our study and significantly increase the number of respondents.
AffiliateBenchmarks produced their first study in 2008 and the research report was met with an extremely positive response from the online marketing community. The positive response from last years research report and continued need for industry benchmarks prompted AffiliateBenchmarks to produce the 2009 survey. This year the AffiliateBenchmarks survey has been significantly expanded and improved based on the knowledge and feedback from the industry leaders. The 2009 survey includes a wide range of questions about topics such as affiliates’ experiences with different types of ad performance, site visitor demographics, technology and communication preferences, motivations for joining an affiliate program, experiences with emerging technology, and more.

“We were very proud of last years effort and the industry’s response but knew we had room for improvement,” said Peter Figueredo, CEO & Co-Founder of NETexponent. “This year survey is not only bigger and better but it also has the support of major affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, LinkShare, PepperJam, Shareasale, and Media Trust. Thanks to the support of these major networks we have been able to optimize our study and significantly increase the number of respondents.”

If you are an affiliate/publisher and are interested in benchmarking your success by completing this survey, we will send you a copy of the results. Your time and input is greatly appreciated. Be sure to complete the survey before July 31, 2009. Affiliate Benchmarks respects the privacy of affiliates and only aggregate information will be shared.

AffiliateBenchmarks is the affiliate research division of NETexponent. AffiliateBenchmarks designs and executes affiliate marketing research with the purpose of increasing industry education and providing useful data and statistics to the affiliate community. We focus on the benefit of the affiliate marketing industry as a whole, and strive to provide reliable information that is interesting and useful to a wide range of people involved with affiliate marketing. Follow us on Twitter @AffBenchmarks.

NETexponent is an online performance based marketing agency located in New York that specializes in outsourced affiliate and search marketing management, growth, and optimization. Founded in January of 2001, the metrics-driven firm leverages nearly a decade of management experience in structuring win-win, performance based deals with its clients. The agency focuses on efficiently acquiring the most valuable customers for each advertiser they work with, while always delivering the highest level of client service. NETexponent is committed to being the industry’s leading performance online marketing agency, continually evolving to address changing market conditions and client needs. Follow us on Twitter @NETexponent.

Take the survey.

To your continual success!

Andy

Hello from Las Vegas Hilton Convention Center where I spent 3 days at PPC Classroom Live 3.

Hats off to Anik Singal as not only a good friend, but someone who really ecellerated my career in Pay Per Click Affiliate Marketing.

I remember the first PPC Classroom Live in Las Vegas, where I made a comittment to come learn from Anik & the rest of the speakers. It only seems like it was yesterday. These guys definiately have come a long way to bring more than 18,000 people into the training, 500 people at this event to network and share their success stories.

The first day begun where the brought up the coaches on stage. At PPC Classroom Live 2, Anik had asked me to come on board and help train the students as a VIP Coach.

Amit Metha, David Ford, Stephanie Houstan, Vikas Bhatia, Andy Huang, Adrienne Devita

After working with the student for over 6 months, it is a great honor to finally meet some of them in person. So we started the 1st day by introducing the VIP coaches on stage so students can come to us during the event to help answer any questions they might have.

What I really enjoy is to really spend some face time with students to help review their current strategies as well as share what tactics I applied for my own business.

It was great to be part of the panel to help answer questions in the VIP session. I actually had caught a flu last week in Texas. I was glad I was able to make it through the event that day.

Day 2 was great when I was up on stage presenting with my business partner Simon Leung. We went into more detail in terms of the strategies we deploy as an agency as well as training materials we used to train our team in China.

Sharing our actual results of a success campaign. $1.2 Million in gross sales revenue with less than $9,000 adspent.

It was a great to be able to spent sometimes not only with the students, but the support staff of Lurn who are behind PPC Classroom that is teaching the 10s of 1000s of entrepreneurs worldwide.

David & Andy Huang

Andy Huang & Mark Roth my mentor of CPA network ( Offervalut.com)

We had a surpised guest from Beverly Hills to see Simon & I. Blake Mallen, CMO and Co-founder of ViSalus.

Blake Mallen, Andy Huang and Carol Yang

After the 3 Days of intensive work Anik treated all the coaches and staff to a nice steak dinner at TJ Steak house inside of Las Vegas Hilton

Andy Huang, Anik Singal, Carol Yang

David DiNucci & Andy Huang

Of course, with every success event, there is the after party. We were invited by Blake Mallen to join his crew at the Wynn hotel.

Inside shot of Tryst at Wynn Hotel

Carol Yang, Andy Huang, David

Look forward to the next PPC Classroom Live 4, and hope to see you there.

To your continual success!

Andy Huag

In the world of internet marketing, there’s a new product that is launched every week (maybe even every day). I know you know about it because you get the e-mails. I’m not saying that all or even any of these products are bad.

Most are probably great in their own light. But, here’s one thing that really bothers me about ALL these products.

So, the goal of the product is to teach “US” how to make money, right? Yet, they sell the products based on how much that “GURU” is earning?

Again, I’m not saying that the guru doesn’t make that much money, I’m sure he/she does. However, how does that help “me?”

Just because someone is good at making money does NOT mean they’re good at TEACHING us how to do it. I’m always shocked at how none of them talk about what their “students”make.

Crappy Testimonials…

To top it off, a lot of testimonials are general and just say “Oh yea, this course is great…” and most of time the testimonials are just from their “buddies” – I think
these hardly carry any value!

How about sharing the “exact” amount that the students are now making 100% thanks to the course that they’re trying to sell us?

Anyways, that was my rant. The reason I thought about it was because, yes, there is yet another course being “re” launched soon. Trust me, if you haven’t heard about it you will.

But I can honestly say, it’s refreshing to see that THIS one is different.

I was REALLY impressed with what I’m seeing so far. They’re ACTUALLY proving to us that this course works!

The course is called

PPC Classroom

and it’s being released by Anik Singal and Amit Mehta (Amit is the author). They released
this course back in October of 2008 and it was a blockbuster.

Rumor has it that they had over 7,000 students come into the system and I’ve never (even once) seen a bad review ANYWHERE (even on Warrior forum) about the course.

Well, it turns out that this course actually works! Just in the last 3 months…

• Students have quit their day jobs…
  
• A student actually saved himself from getting EVICTED
  
• Students went from making $30 a day to $3,000 a DAY…
  

All in all, the students now earn, $4,234,789/Year. Very impressive.

I have gotton Anik and Amit well enough , as well as working with the many of the top student knowing their results..

FINALLY, actual proof.

Well, I know they’re getting ready to re-open the classroom on February 24^th

But, they keep saying there is a BIG surprise coming out on the 23^rd (not sure what that is).

Anyways, I just finished reading an excellent report they have released for free, definitely worth reading – it really proves that they know what they’re doing.

Click here to download the report…

See you when inside when the course re-open.

To your continual success.

Andy

Hello from the Hyatt Regency in Orange County as my good friend Anik Singal & Amit Mehta kicked off a 3 day of intensive PPC Classroom Live with a full line up of great search  marketing experts for the students of PPC Classroom live.

Since the venue was so close to home, I attended to support Anik & Amit as well as some of the VIP students from PPC Classroom.

Amit Mehta & Anik Singal

I am really suprised on how organized and structured this event has been, probably one of the most professional event I have been to this year. The team brought in several corporate sponsors such as revenuewire.com, markethealth.com as well as other affiliate networks to provide the student personal face time to interact and discuss their needs with the affiliate manager of each program platform.

Here is a picture of sponsor area before the event opened

Anik & Amit Opening the event

The speaker lined up for this event was truly amazing. A lot of great PPC expert came and shared their search marketing expertised with the PPC Classroom students.

Here are some of the speaker profiles:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vinny Lingham of SynthaSite.com

Vinny is one of the most brilliant marketers we have ever met. He has one COUNTLESS awards around the world and has made MILLIONS from PPC (while running the business from South Africa)!

Today, Vinny runs a company that is worth over $50 MILLION, based in San Francisco. He uses PPC to drive in over 2,000 users a day to his new service.

Kirt Christensen (The Ad Thief!)

For the first time in my life, I was BOO’d last year at my OWN event when I had to kick Kirt off the stage for being 20 minutes over his time! Kirt is definitely back by popular demand…

Kirt will share his best “PPC tools” – these are the tools that he literally uses to SPY and steal from his top competition without them ever knowing what hit them…

Kirt is one of the most well respected marketers in the world and one our top advisors.

Dr. Mike (The Lead Gangsta!)

Dr. Mike is one crazy guy, but when it comes to getting leads, he can throw anyone under the bus. Dr. Mike is the first person all the top marketers in the world go to when they need to generate leads using CPC.

Making money without ever selling a darn thing…

How does that sound? Just get someone to fill in their ZIP code and Dr. Mike will show you how to get paid up to $5 for the ZIP Code!

Gauher Chaudhry (Coming To A Cell Phone Near Your…)

The author of what’s still considered the BEST course on CPA PPC marketing ever written – years after it has been taken off the market.

Gauher is onto his next earth-shattering strategy that he has NEVER spoken about publicly…

PPC Classroom LIVE 2008 is the first time he has discuss this strategy in DETAIL.

Mike Reining (PPC Whiz Flying In From Malaysia!)

Mike is the co-founder of MindValley, arguably the most respected PPC tool developer in existence.

Mike started his business with just $500 and today runs a Multi-Million dollar company in multiple niches.

Mike shared the BEST keyword strategies he has – things he used to create his “Word Butler” software – these tips have NEVER been shared before!

Of course, with all successful internet marketing event, a cocktail networking party is required.

Raffle drawing at Revenue Wired Sponsored cocktail

Lucky Apple TV Winner showing off

Of course, after 3 days of intensive workshop, we headed to downtown disney with several of the speakers and VIP for a special dinner reception to celebrate the success of PPC Classroom Live 2008.

Carol, Andy, Amit, Anik at VIP Dinner

I look forward being a part of Anik & Amit’s big success in 2009 as PPC Classroom relaunch again on Feb 17th. So look for my announcement before the door close again.

Till next time, to your continual success!

Andy