Yesterday I received an email announcing that Google Affiliate Network had been launched, here is the email:

We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.

Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand. The platform will continue to be hosted at www.ConnectCommerce.com, but will eventually migrate to a google.com product url.

As noted in earlier communications, DoubleClick Performics’ Search operations are being spun off and sold to a third party. While many advertisers have relationships with both DoubleClick Performics’ Affiliate and Search, there have always been separate account teams and product-specific specialists servicing clients’ search and affiliate programs. These teams remain intact. While the formal separation will occur when the Search business is sold, the businesses are functionally separate today.

We are proud of what we achieved as Performics and this name change signals a new milestone. Google provides world-class resources and enables us to continue to attract the best talent to support our advertisers and publishers. Now as part of Google we have an exciting and unprecedented opportunity to advance our industry.  We remain committed to ensuring you receive the quality service you have come to expect from us.

We appreciate your business and look forward to doing great things together.

Sincerely,

Chris Henger

Group Product Manager
Google Affiliate Network

In fact, Google doesn’t launch it till now, it has been launched for years, it was called Performics, but not Google rebrands Performics.

Now you can join it and begin earn bucks.

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Nowadays web 2.0 technology is more and more popular, and more and more social sites being launched based on web 2.0. Using social sites to drive traffic becomes a very hot topic now. Of course you must have known social networking like Myspace, Facebook and social bookmarking like Digg, Delicious, but you may have known a gold mire, it is Thoughts.com.

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As an SEO, you must know the importance of keyword, in fact, search engine is all about keyword. Here is a list of keyword tools, they are very useful for your SEO, make good use of them:

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Shows search volume and competition for a given keyword and related keywords.

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