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Google Affiliate Network

Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Apr 8, 2009

I just realized that, though I’ve mentioned them, I’ve never talked about the Google Affiliate Network, though I’ve used them for years. I guess it’s about time; what a bad internet marketer I am!

They started out as Connect Commerce, and I joined them initially so I could market books from them through my newsletters, and example of which, titled Sports And Leadership Lessons, can be seen here. I didn’t want to go through Amazon, like everyone else does, mainly because everyone else does. I wanted to go through Barnes And Noble, because I love B&N stores, especially my favorite cookie; by now, y’all know I love cookies (no wonder I’m a “bad” diabetic).

Anyway, when I first signed up, B&N was one of only 5 companies they were promoting; since that time, they’ve grown a lot, to the point where Google decided to buy them out and change the name; just how it goes, right? And they promote some big names and some names that aren’t as big, but still fairly prominent, such as AllState Motor Club, Under Armour, and Motorola.

In a way, they’re a lot like Commission Junction, only CJ has way more advertisers. Also, CJ automatically creates the template for buying, like you see on the left with the books, while GAN (yeah, I’m calling it that for now) doesn’t; those books, by the way, come through either my own creation or through GAN; I just borrowed the template. Most of the advertises don’t have as many choices of banners as CJ has, which can be daunting when you’re looking for a specific size and they didn’t create one. One final thing is that fewer GAN advertisers actually let you search for products to market for yourself; they’d rather you drive people to their site via text or banner links, which works fine for the most part.

Unlike CJ, I’ve yet to earn enough to receive a check from them, but it’s not because I haven’t made any sales. The books sell the most, but, like Amazon, the commission on books and movies and CDs isn’t all that high, unless I get lucky one day and have someone buy one of those big compendium collections of TV shows or movies; we can all dream, right? Still, I think it’s worth your while to at least take a look at Google Affiliate Networks, because you might find some things you believe in to market; kind of like the banner ad below:

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Dennis Edell:

As odd as it may be, the one hing that caught my eye is Britannica still alive. I wonder how many folks still by real live hard cover encyclopedias.

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Mitch Reply:
April 8th, 2009 at 8:57 PM

Brittanica has moved beyond paper volumes, but they still have them on DVD, plus they offer online access to their information as well.

almir Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 6:00 PM

first Dennis I’m sorry I need to point this out the word thing is misspelled. But about Britannica I don’t really know if anyone still uses the hard top encyclopedias anymore as it’s really outdated, and that the internet is the better source of information that people ontinue to use.

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Mitch Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 6:43 PM

The thing is that some people actually do still use the real thing, whereas some people want to subscribe to the online encyclopedias. Truthfully, you really can’t find out everything you might want to just by searching on the internet. You can only find what someone else might have put up. That’s the beauty of encyclopedias in the first place; they’ll give you real detail that you might not get elsewhere, and you can trust it, not like Wikipedia, which isn’t bad, but sometimes the information is suspect.

April 8th, 2009 | 8:03 PM
WDW:

Its about time you talked about GAN! lol, great post mate

Mitch Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 5:09 AM

Thanks. I’ll usually get around to everything eventually.

April 8th, 2009 | 11:52 PM
almir:

I never knew that Google had its own Affiliate Network, but if they do what is it that they promote or sell Mitch?

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Mitch Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 6:45 PM

It used to be known so Commerce Connect, or something like that, until Google bought them; heck, it might have also been Doubleclick, for all I know. And they market name brand products just like Commission Junction. Matter of fact, the two books you see on the left that I didn’t write are at Barnes & Noble, which is a GAN advertiser.

May 6th, 2009 | 6:04 PM