A good question came to me in the email yesterday: Is there a certain metric you use to predict revenue potential for a site? I have a potential client with a blog that gets as many as 75k uniques and close to 200k pageviews per month… He can’t understand that […]
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A few days ago Clarke Duncan, one of the co-founders of Paid On Results UK affiliate network, sent me the following tweet: Paid On Results (POR) were the first affiliate network to create a deep-linking tool for affiliates, and this was back in 2005 [see the way it used to
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<!”It is interesting that we do not see much written on affiliate marketing analytics, whereas if there is one industry that relies on analytical data especially heavily it is affiliate marketing” — this is how my newest article starts. It is one of the feature articles in the Summer 2010
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One of my favorite affiliate networks, AvantLink, has just announced the launch of a mobile phone application – AvantLink Mobile: AvantLink Mobile allows both affiliates and merchants check their stats on the go (right from their mobile). Affiliate program managers can also review and make decisions on pending affiliate applications,
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It is no secret that in affiliate marketing text links generally convert significantly better than banner links. Also, when it comes to text links, it is easy for an affiliate to split-test different text variations (improving conversions) on their end without getting the merchant involved in the process at all.
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A few days ago Russia celebrated Christmas, and while choosing a movie to watch yesterday night my attention was naturally drawn to a new film by Pavel Lungin — “Tsar” [more here and here | it’s also available in the U.S. with English subtitles]. It is not an easy movie
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An affiliate wrote: Could you please explain how affiliate marketing works for someone living in Eastern Europe. How exactly is payment handled? Good question. Whether you live in Western or Eastern Europe cashing a USD check (the universal payment method utilized by all affiliate networks) always entails a fee. In
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It is always a pleasure to see affiliate networks adding new tools and functions for merchants to use. A month ago I blogged about a new technology by buy.at to help prevent the stealing of exclusive affiliate coupons [more here]. Today I’d like to draw merchants’ and affiliate networks’ attention
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Earlier this morning I have been listening to Shawn Collins’ and Missy Ward’s InBound Marketing Summit presentation entitled “Five Successful Strategies for Monetizing Blogs”, and Shawn has mentioned some interesting statistics. Apparently, out of the 100 online retailers ranked by Internet Retailer as the “Hot 100 Retail Web Sites”, 75
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There are numerous affiliate networks out there, and when one is shopping around for the best fit, many factors come into play. Having worked in affiliate marketing for longer than many affiliate networks have been around, we put together the below table – for you to compare the main North
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