So you’ve built a following online and are ready to monetize your blog. There are many ways to make money online, but from my perspective, affiliate marketing is way #1. Why? Over 80% of brands and 84% of publishers use affiliate marketing. It’s a billion-dollar industry, and best of all, […]
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Note: This is a guest blog post by Shane Barker. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author. If you’ve been in the digital marketing industry for a while, you know that SEO and affiliate marketing have had a rocky history. The assumption is that affiliate links
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Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Enfroy (and excellent one, we must admit). The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author. The ecommerce industry is growing rapidly at a rate of 23% year-over-year. Yet, many ecommerce stores still lack the proper marketing strategy to build awareness and
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In this week’s Affiliate Marketing Tip of the Week we tackle a situation faced by countless affiliates and affiliate managers – that of competing with Amazon’s stellar search engine rankings. Amazon, the company whose affiliate marketing program is in many ways exemplary of leveraging affiliates for growing a business, is crushing
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Life isn’t easy for content marketers working to promote a brand online. There is a lot of suspicion surrounding many of the most popular business types associated with affiliate marketing – let’s take gambling as a key example. When you take a closer look at the perception of gambling on
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Semantic discord – situation where two (or more) parties are misaligned on definitions of key terms which formulate a concept. I am an active user of Google Alerts and a number of other tools for online content monitoring. One of the key phases that I monitor daily is “affiliate marketing”
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Note from Geno Prussakov: I am excited to welcome our newest guest blogger, UK-based Pete Campbell. Enjoy his first AM Navigator post below. Very few things in life are black and white (zebras and pianos are notable exceptions) and, more often than not, things fall into that difficult and morally ambiguous “grey area”.
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[The purpose of this post is to demonstrate a poor backlink “strategy” without bringing any particular brand into the spotlight. Therefore, all sensitive information is omitted.] Twelve days ago I received the following email: I am contacting on behalf of [hosting company’s name here] and firstly would like to thank
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Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by
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With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you
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