It’s pointless opening another AdWords Account if you’re just advertising the same website.

Amazon UK follows the lead of Amazon USA (from April 2009) and suspends keyword bidding and paid search (direct linking) for affiliates from February 1st 2010.
This has been entirely expected for almost a year.
Read the related post about “The Death of Direct Linking”
Here’s the story on Amazon’s link

The Google Affiliate Takedown of 2009: is Direct Linking now too “parasitical” for Google, and is this resulting in banned AdWords accounts?
Warning and Disclaimer: the following is the thoughts and opinions of the author only.
In April 2009, Amazon.com in North America effectively “fired” part of their affiliate community by terminating commission payments resulting from direct [...]

I’ve been using free AVG for years as virus protection, with nothing but praise for a great program which renders paid-for software like Norton, MacAfee and the like unnecessary.
I did try the paid upgrade to AVG earlier in the year with the belief that the extra levels of protection it could provide would be worthwhile.
However, [...]

Product "Plus Box" in Google Sponsored Links
 

Google Search Engineer David shows a neat feature on some of our Sponsored Links that gives you additional information about their products.
For E-Commerce product website owners only: how to add multiple images, descriptions and pricing information to your AdWords advertising campaigns – limited UK availability commencing January 2010 by application [...]

Being in safe hands with a Google Agency Partner.

Breaking the 6 rules of landing page design.

AdWords is a big system, full of moving parts. And it’s getting bigger, more complicated, and wider-reaching all the time.

Most advertisers would kill for a Conversion Rate of almost 15%

So what do they know that you don’t?

It’s all about results…

Three Strikes, a Final Warning, and You’re Out – Permanently.

Google gets tough on landing page Quality Scores.

AdWords ads are seen whenever your keywords (and those of your competitors, both directly and indirectly) cause your ads to "enter the ad auction".
This auction is triggered whenever a keyword search is carried out, or a browser refresh.
The resulting ads delivering impressions (being shown on your device screen) can vary widely depending on a number [...]

What is the AdWords Daily Budget, how does it work, how much do I pay – and how much will I earn?
Every campaign is governed by it’s own Daily Budget, an amount of money you are willing to spend with Google every day the campaign runs.
There is no minimum amount, although it’s sensible to buy [...]

More visitors, more sales, lower advertising costs, and increased profits – Enhanced Product Advertising Using the New Google AdWords PlusBox.
If you own an ecommerce store selling retail products using Google AdWords, you want to maximise your opportunities of being seen when people look for you on Google.
You also want to increase the likelihood of people [...]

And how can you use it to legitimately "steal" an extra, precious, line of ad space in your AdWords ads?
Many advertisers will set up their campaigns by using multiple locations they wish to target in their keyword lists, like
- care homes in Houston
- care homes in (district of Houston)
- care homes in (another district of [...]

Introduction to the Google Ad Auction

Our Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains the AdWords Ad Auction and how your max CPC bid and quality score determine how much you pay for a click on Google.com.
So you put your AdWords bids up to raise your Ad position, and your AdRank (position) actually falls – what’s going on?
Google’s [...]

How to tell at a glance how much competition there is for your keyword search terms.
The answer: "It Depends"
Some marketplaces are fiercely competetive, like the "make money online" example above, with over 4,000 people slugging it out to make some kind of a sale – you don’t want to try and play in that game [...]

AdWords – otherwise you just wasted money and time trying to get traffic for untested keywords, and on an untested website.
Everybody seems to think that getting "free" traffic from natural or organic rankings in Google, by using Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques is the best thing to do.
Yet nothing could be further from the truth. [...]

"I notice that some adwords ads have bold words in their headings. How do I achieve that?"
a good question with an easy answer – include your keywords in the headline.
In fact, without overdoing it, it’s very important to include keywords wherever possible and appropriate in your ad.
They are then bolded and invite a higher response [...]

AdWords Bid Management Made Easy – My Story
How I Discovered a Simple 3-Step, Copy and Paste System Using Only a Spreadsheet and the FREE AdWords Editor, which Adjusts ALL Your Individual Keyword Bid Prices to Save You Money and Get More Clicks.
With this fast, easy, and automated system, you can now rapidly set all your [...]

Google has finally become the first Search Engine to provide a keyword suggestion tool for Mobile campaigns.
I was alerted to this by my Account Manager’s recent Agency update, rather than stumbling across it on my own.
When you are in an ad group which contains a mobile ad, click the link for keyword tool there, as [...]