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Topics in this issue:
- Affiliate Summit 2008 West Speaker Submission Deadline
- Google AdSense Video Unit Trials and Tribulations
- Will Work for Affiliate Summit Pass
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- SMX Social Media - Next Week in NYC
After the deadline, proposals will be turned over to the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board, which is a representative group of 27 people in the industry, to select the presentations.
A complimentary full-conference registration is provided to speakers as well. Travel and hotel are not included.
Affiliate Summit 2008 West is taking place February 24-26, 2008 in Las Vegas.
Accepted speakers will be notified no later than November 16, 2007. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not notify applicants if they have not been accepted. Therefore, if you have not been contacted by November 16, 2007, your proposal was not accepted.
Note: Affiliates and merchants will receive preference over agencies for speaking roles. Also, there is a limit of one person per company on the speaker roster. No exceptions.
Submit proposals at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/08w_speakers.php.
How are speaker submissions selected?
The speaker submissions are reviewed by the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board and selected on a number of factors, including speaking experience, industry reputation, and attention to detail (failure to follow instructions on the form will count against you), etc.
What topics are preferred?
Submit a proposal based on your expertise, not what you think we want to see.
Proposals should be of an advanced nature. We are not interested in introductory material.
After going into the Video Unit area and agreeing to the terms, I had to link up my AdSense account to my Google account.
Then, I was able to create my New AdSense Player from within YouTube. There are a handful of options to configure the player. I had to name and describe the player, select a color theme, and then a layout size (400 x 415, 500 x 510, and 780 x 560).
Next up, there are two options to determine the content displayed in the videos on your site: Automatic Content or Choose by Category / Provider.
If you go with Automatic Content, “YouTube will automatically target the most relevant videos for your website.” They give an option to refine the targeting by entering some keywords.
The alternative is to Choose by Category / Provider, where you can pick from one of the twelve categories on YouTube or specify a particular YouTube partner like AskTheBuilder or LisaNova.
Then, you get to generate code for the Google AdSense Video Unit.
This is where I hit a pothole. When I pasted the code provided to this blog (WordPress 2.2.2, theme: K2 0.9.6), there was no player to be seen.
Just the phrase, “Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com,” which was linked to http://www.youtube.com/browse. OK, so that’s lame.
So I went and created a new, static page with an article I wrote years ago on the history of affiliate marketing, and placed the AdSense video code in there.
I chose to have a video from LockerGnome, since I think Chris Pirillo’s content is pretty relevant to my visitors.
See http://www.affiliatetip.com/history-of-affiliate-marketing.php for a live example of Google AdSense Video Units.
Now I’ve got to start tinkering around to see if the upgraded version of WordPress will enable the video player to work. Maybe it’s my theme?
I don’t know. It’s annoying, since I’m able to embed regular YouTube videos and Google AdSense code on my blog without a problem. Mix them together and something funny happens.
In exchange for staffing the Affiliate Summit booth for the two days when the exhibit hall is open at ad:tech, we’ll give you a full conference pass for Affiliate Summit 2008 West.
It’s pretty light duty - handing out Affiliate Summit literature, draft beers, and USB hubs, as well as answering questions about the conference.
The exhibit hall is going to be open Monday, November 5: 10:00am - 6:00pm and Tuesday, November 6: 10:00am - 5:00pm.
Anybody interested should send a note to us at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/contact.php - we just need a few people, so the first people to contact are in.
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Lots of interesting content covering linkbait, social news sites, social bookmarking and tagging, and much more.
Conference chair Danny Sullivan put together great Search Engine Strategies shows in the past, and I expect his Midas touch to continue here.
I just saw over at the NLC Internet Marketing Blog that SMX Social Media is nearly sold out, so register now and let’s hook up for a drink there.
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