First of all, in case you are checking out The Smartest Search for the first time, what is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate Marketing is an online marketing channel that puts merchants in charge of an online marketing sales force. This effort is beneficial to both the merchant and the affiliate’s website for a number of reasons.

This is an awesome flow-chart of trademark complaints origins and where they go, who they effect and so on…

Great Article from PPC Hero on Outsourcing PPC efforts. This ties in well to what Brendan was preaching during his presentation and what The Smartest Search believes is the model that works best for publishers and merchants alike.

The Smartest Search had it’s first industry speaking engagement on Sunday at Affiliate Summit West in Vegas!

For those of us in the industry, we know that internet marketing is the fastest growing type of sales method. Everyday more and more people are doing their shopping online. Everyday more people are getting smart phones. So as the sector grows it is no surprise that some of the networks agencies and publishers responsible for the growth are showing up on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies…