Here is a profile screenshot for an affiliate who has applied into one of the affiliate programs I know: This application got declined on the following 5 reasons. These are the things that are very frequently happening with affiliate applications, and I think it is important to devote my today’s […]
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Ever since the day it was published, the What Size Banners Should an Affiliate Program Have? post has been one of the most frequently demanded ones in my blog. However, while I did cover the most popular banner sizes in it, I made no mention of the banner file size
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An excellent question was posed by Eric Alexander earlier this morning: Does it [the passing of the new Federal Trade Commission’s disclosure rules for “endorsements and testimonials”] only affect product or service endorsements or even all affiliate links, banners, etc that a website may publish? I’ve just given the Guides
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Some time ago I joined an affiliate program. I do this frequently — to analyze the styles and approaches of various affiliate program managers. I am not doing this to make money on (or promote) the merchants who run these affiliate programs. However, out of hundreds of affiliate programs who
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On October 27, 2009 LinkShare launched a Twitter tool for affiliates to use. Almost simultaneously with the LinkShare’s announcement, Amazitter (an iPhone app for tweeting Amazon affiliate links) came out. The wave continued, and yesterday Amazon has changed its policy from no affiliate links on Twitter to let’s “Share on
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When a new affiliate asks me what they should focus on while starting on their path as an affiliate marketer, I always recommend looking inside themselves, and spotting the topic they are really passionate about. That’s the place you always want to start! If, for example, you hate cooking, but
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Earlier today Janet Meiners Thaeler (aka NewspaperGirl) tweeted: CMP.ly is said to have been born “in response to a continued push for transparency and honesty in blogging and within social media and digital communications”. This solution seeks to address the problem of “no established structure or format for disclosures to
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So you have decided to start an affiliate program. One of the very first question that you will have to deal with is what to set the program’s commission rate at. There are various opinions on how to calculate it. My short advice is this: a) Calculate the maximum that
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Twitter has just added a new feature — Twitter Lists. You can now create your own lists of Twitter users that you wish to follow. The cool part is that to add someone to the lists you actually do not need to follow them. Your list can be private or
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An red flag has been raised by Melanie Seery of Affiliate Advocacy this morning. Her alert brings some worrying news about a new state considering going in the direction of the Internet tax. This time it is the State of Florida, and now the main reason behind the initiative is
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