Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.Affiliate programs are online, but the promotion of your affiliate links doesn’t have to be. There are a number of ways that you can promote your affiliate links offline - one [...]

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Sites based entirely on frames are a no-no. You cannot bookmark the current page and return to it (the bookmark points to another version of the frameset), printouts become difficult, etc.
Yeah, frames stink when you consider them to be a foundation for site design. But they are a great tool for affiliate marketing.
The [...]

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I received the following email today from KowaBunga. There was also a version of the letter to KB clients that currently have 180 Solutions in their program.
Great to see more folks in the industry taking a stand.
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Dear Merchant,
We at KowaBunga!, in a continued effort to ensure our merchants are running the most profitable [...]

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This month:
1. AffiliateTip.com Blog Launches
2. Affiliate Tip: White List Your Affiliate Manager’s Email
3. Top 10 Affiliate Programs
4. Affiliate Tip: Location Targeting with Google AdWords
5. Affiliate Program News
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1. AffiliateTip.com Blog Launches
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I’ve launched a blog at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
to keep you up to date on the happenings in affiliate
marketing.
If you would like to receive the updates as they [...]

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There are certain things that all affiliates should do to increase their chances of earning commissions from affiliate programs.
Get a Domain Name
You should have your own domain name. This gives your site better visibility with the search engines and directories, as well as credibility and recognition that comes with your own URL (web address) [...]

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Do you want to disguise your affiliate links? Some people don’t like to click on an affiliate link, because they think the page was created as a thinly veiled attempt to drive targeted traffic to an affiliate link. When they see an affiliate link on your site, as opposed to an altruistic link that does [...]

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If you have a pop-up window on your site, it opens every time visitors come back. This is annoying (not that you don’t know that).
But if you use cookies, you can make it so you only open a new window on their first visit to the page. The next time they come back, the [...]

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Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for July 2004 as tracked by the AffiliateTip.com Affiliate Program Directory.
The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received on AffiliateTip.com.
1. ClubMom
2. CPAEmpire.com
3. CoverClicks
4. AllPosters.com
5. Snapfish
6. MaxBounty.com
7. DriveWerks
8. iTixx
9. FastFind.com
10. Lightspeed Research
Disclaimer: While we attempt to include only legitimate programs in [...]

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