Amazing, MSN is the first major search engine to devote time to working with an affiliate network, such as Tradedoubler. I received this mail a few days ago:

"Microsoft adCenter and TradeDoubler have teamed up to offer you an exclusive opportunity to work on an inside track with the Microsoft adCenter service and product! Mindful of the historic lack of communications, and recognition, other search providers have offered affiliates in the past, TradeDoubler moved quickly to help affiliates and Microsoft adCenter get off to the best possible start. During our discussions, it became quickly evident what affiliates bring to the search space"

This is the first time I've seen such a collaboration - and it's about time! With MSN playing catchup with Google & Yahoo, I think they're more willing (*desperate*) to focus on opportunities that the other players have ignore - ahh...the beauty of competition...

Thanks Adam! I feel honoured to take the spot of Todd Tweedy, who is also a legend in the affiliate marketing space! Todd & Adam have really grown GoYaMi into one of the must read blogs in the industry, so I'm excited to be a part of it, and will ensure that I make useful contributions here, and often.

For those of you who don't know me, I have been in Search Engine Marketing industry for over 5 years now, and my company Clicks2Customers is one of the Super Affiliates in the search marketing space. incuBeta is the parent company and also owns Synthasite, a website development platform. I also speak at various conferences on Affiliate Marketing & Search - from Affiliate Summit & PubCon to CJU & Search Engine Strategies.

I'm currently at the end of a long three week trip (currently in San Jose), and I'm heading back to my homebase, which is current Cape Town - I say currently, because I'm examing my options at this point!

I'm working on quite a few blog entries, so hopefully next week, I'll be able to something with some real meat! Until then, have a great weekend!