Thoughts for Affiliates

Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates

What People Think Affiliate Marketers Do

Starting from the beginning of this month a “What I Really Do” meme has been going around (spread especially actively via Facebook), reflecting “a range of preconceptions associated with” various fields of “occupation or expertise” — from photographers and graphic designers to directors and entrepreneurs [more here]. So I’ve decided […]

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7 Affiliate Marketing Education and Training Opportunities

Between numerous affiliate marketing blogs, podcasts, forums and magazine publications, there certainly is no lack of online affiliate marketing education out there. However, when it comes to structured (or even face-to-face) learning, the real opportunities aren’t that many. Today I’d like to bring you seven that deserve attention. Whether we

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7 Reasons Why People (and Companies) Fail at Affiliate Marketing

Quality is never an accident …it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution –William A. Foster If you’ve attended Affiliate Summit West 2012 (or are subscribed to the magazine) you have a copy of the latest FeedFront. For those of you who don’t

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10 Affiliate Marketing Bloggers to Keep an Eye On in 2012

It’s been some time since my Top 20 Affiliate Marketing Bloggers to Watch in 2011 post. And besides the fact that one of these twenty has claimed her Affiliate Summit’s best blogger award (Tricia Meyer, who is now inspired to reach new blogging heights, and, of course, belongs on my

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4 Affiliate Marketing News You Should Be Aware Of

Several things — important to affiliates, and affiliate marketing industry as a whole — have happened in the course of the past few days, unfortunately not all good, and today I’d like to draw your attention to the following four: 1. Pennsylvania Enacts Affiliate Nexus Tax law — Late last night

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How To Make Money Online in Affiliate Marketing: 10 Free Resources

While every once in a while I do blog about things that are useful for affiliates, my blog is more advertiser/merchant- and affiliate program manager-oriented. However, nearly every day I have people contacting me for “affiliate marketing tips” and “advice” on how to make money as an affiliate. Since the

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Is Affiliate Link Cloaking Okay with Google?

If you’ve seen summaries (like this one, for example) of Matt Cutts’ yesterday’s video on cloaking, you may have read that cloaking is always in violation of Google’s quality guidelines and there is “no such thing as white hat cloaking”. Yes, he actually did say that no “white hat cloaking”

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The War Against Affiliate Marketing?

On Friday last week, Susan Payton has published an interesting (and important) article at Small Business Trends, entitling it The War Against Affiliate Marketing Continues. She started it with: “it seems to keep getting harder to run your business, thanks to companies that don’t want to support affiliate marketers”, and

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