Is anyone else dragging from copious amounts of sunshine, fireworks and Dr. Pepper? I hope your 4th treated you well, and that you encountered plenty of hot dogs, burgers, 7-layer dips, double decker boats, wakeboards, and sunscreen, of course. Now, to the links we go!
Link: Traffic Drops and Site Architecture Issues
Love: myth busters. Google covers a couple [...]

This past July Apogee Search took part in Affiliate Summit Miami. Affiliate Summit was started in 2003 with the mission of providing educational sessions on the latest search engine marketing trends and fostering a productive networking environment for affiliate marketers. Throughout the 3 day event Apogee Search helped usher in more support and education for [...]

ClickZ:
In the next few months, Commission Junction will be switching from HTML based links to Java based links. While the change should be seemless for website users, it has the potential to be a nightmare for CJ Publishers, particularly the larger ones. Many large, successful affiliate sites have hundreds of links scattered through-out their entire [...]

MarketingVOX
A potential AdSense/affiliate alternative from Amazon.

E-Commerce Times
Good overview of the potential pitfalls of affiliate marketing.

Multichannel Merchant
While the advice is geared more generally towards affiliate marketing rather than SEM, it still is solid advice.