I just read a blog today that did an analysis of their conversion rates and ROI and Yahoo actually came it at #1, above Google.
We have lots of good free info - most of it's in our PPC forum.
(I moved this thread from the newbie forum here to the PPC forum.)
Have you read some of the threads here?
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5s...ons-ppc-forum/
Google really has some good free training and resources too.
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