Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates
Over the past few years, the investment attractiveness of Russia and its markets have improved, but there’s still a lot of room to grow. Yesterday (on March 30, 2011), the President of the country proposed a 10-step plan on how to improve Russia’s investment climate [tweeting about it as well], […]
Medvedev, Russia's Investment Climate and Affiliate Marketing Read More »
On Saturday my Google Alerts notified me of an article at lexology.com which talked about a merchant agreeing to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), having “signed a consent agreement and agreed to pay $250,000 for deceptively representing that endorsements … that were posted on blogs or other websites
Merchant to Pay FTC $250,000 Over Missing Affiliate Disclosures Read More »
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
Should Bloggers Worry About Google's "Farmer" Algorithm Update? Read More »
While I strongly disagree that the highest affiliate program “payout” is the best criteria for choosing an affiliate program (because the actual payout you’ll get will always be determined by a combination of the affiliate program’s commissions, conversion rate, and reversal rate), today I’d like to address a question that
How To Find Out Affiliate Program's Highest Pay (Commissions) Read More »
It’s great to see affiliate networks developing. Last week ShareASale launched their new merchant interface. A couple days after that Google Affiliate Network announced product APIs for affiliates. Yesterday Shawn Collins wrote about buy.at‘s new product search feature for affiliates. Today I’d like to bring to you another network-related news
LinkShare Mobile Publisher Dashboard: Announcement & How-To Read More »
Yesterday as I was adding new coupons for a ShareASale-based affiliate program I have noticed a little (but a very significant) addition to one of the fields you can fill out when adding a coupon/deal to the network. They now have a field for special commission to be applied on
ShareASale — Affiliate Network That Cares About Affiliates Read More »
Yesterday Matt Swan of Affiliate Window has published an Econsultancy.com post with some interesting data on the changes in affiliate promotional methods they’ve registered at Affiliate Window apparently predominantly in the UK. Having analyzed the top 20 affiliates in their affiliate network, and relying on affiliate self-categorization, they have noticed
Primary Affiliate Promotional Methods in the USA Read More »
There has been much talk and worry about the ‘Do Not Track’ legislation proposed by Federal Trade Commission in early December 2010, and now that Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox both have plugins/features to block certain types of third party cookies (and we also know that Internet Explorer 9 is
Will FTC's 'Do Not Track' Proposal Affect Affiliate Marketing? Read More »
A couple of days ago I’ve learned about LuckyLocal.com. They position themselves as a local shopping API solution for affiliates. Similar to datafeed-import tools/services like GoldenCAN and PopShops, but with a local twist. Here’s my brief look at how it works for affiliates: You open an account with them, and
Local Shopping API for Affiliates is Here Read More »
Yesterday Josh Braaten, an Online Marketing Manager at Rasmussen College who also writes about SEO and web analytics on Big Picture Web tweeted: His tweet was a part of our brief conversation on how some of the online marketing-related professions are being misunderstood by people, but the wording of it
5 Reasons Why SEO Experts Curse Affiliates Read More »