Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates
In one of the newly launched affiliate programs (where specific types of affiliate promotion are explicitly prohibited in a short and easy-to-read program agreement), we have observed that over 38% of affiliates who apply into this program do not read that agreement. Yes, there is a mandatory requirement to agree […]
38% of Affiliates Do Not Read Program Agreements Read More »
Many people come to my blog searching for “free affiliate tracking software”. There are a number of free (and inexpensive) scripts that merchants can install on their server to start an affiliate program. Here’s just a brief list: Affiliate Program Script Cosmic AffiliateClick SimpleAffiliate TigerTom’s Affiliate Program Software TWSC Affiliate
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Earlier this morning, Roxana Patrichi of Avangate published a list of 150+ negative keywords for software selling AdWords campaigns. This reminded me of one of the questions that I was asked in a recent interview to Affilorama. I was asked what advice I would give to newbie affiliates that are
Paid Search Advice & List of Negative Keywords Read More »
Contrary to a popular belief that couponing is the most effective affiliate marketing strategy, I believe otherwise (even though we are still in a recession). Judging by what I am seeing in the affiliate programs that we manage, content creation is actually significantly more effective (creates a different kind of
Most Effective Affiliate Marketing Strategy Read More »
When online businesses (in further text: merchants) just discover affiliate marketing, and get really excited about the way everything works, and the opportunities that open up, it is very common to witness some of them express interest in acting in the capacity of affiliates in addition to running their own
Affiliate Links on Merchant Websites Read More »
I have given an interview to the Affilorama affiliate training portal which operates out of Christchurch, New Zealand. We’ve had good chat with Chris who made sure the discussion was full of thought-provoking questions, and I thank him for structuring the interview the way he did. I really enjoyed it.
Affiliate Mistakes, Choosing Affiliate Programs, and more Read More »
I have just finished a quick Twitter analysis of 100 tweets with the word “affiliate” in them, and discovered that the two most popular topics “affiliate”-related people tweet about are: (i) tools, eBooks and technology that can make you a fortune overnight, and (ii) the “best affiliate program(s) on earth”.
93 Percent of "Affiliate" Tweets Are Junk Read More »
Earlier this morning I published an article on Econsultancy.com where I talked about the problem of parasitism in affiliate marketing, and channel cannibalization, and how it should not be viewed as a problem for affiliate marketers only, but be tackled on a much wider scale. As I was adding more
Programs on Multiple Networks: Parasites Hurt All Read More »
An affiliate wrote: I am one of your affiliates and have an affiliate link on my web site www.hisURLhere.com for your store. My site is new this month and I’m working on building traffic (which would benefit both of us) by getting others to link to my site. I was
SEO Link Building in Affiliate Marketing – Merchant's Perspective Read More »
Yesterday Yahoo! has launched a renewed website, Yahoo! Deals (where they feature “deals and online coupons from around the web”), and resurrected their Twitter account @yahoo_deals to push the coupon offers published on Yahoo! Deals [source]. I went to the Walmart coupons page (titles and meta tags of all pages
Yahoo! Deals – New Affiliate Coupons Aggregator Read More »