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.‘Communication is VERY important. With many programs to promote, it’s not possible to check everyone’s site for current promotions etc.
I love when affiliate managers email me letting me know what [...]

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If you are running affiliate banners on your site, it’s essential that you keep things fresh and rotate the banners.
Otherwise, you risk banner burnout with your visitors. When you rotate the banners, you will increase your click-throughs and revenues, since you can serve a variety of banners to every visitor.
Get the free OpenAds [...]

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I was just reading the blog of iGive.com Founder & CEO, Rob Grosshandler, and was intrigued to see a soft launch announcement of eComXpo.
According to Rob, eComXpo will be a place where ‘a bunch of folks’ attempt to create a “big-tent” event for the affiliate marketing industry: a single, independent venue where all involved in [...]

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According to a press release from the Internet Media Review, Bookreporter.com is the Best Online Book Marketer.
Bookreporter.com is an Amazon affiliate, and the site won the IMR Business Strategy Award 2004 for using best strategies and practices to make money selling other people’s books online.
Among the key metrics studied by IMR were: having a [...]

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I was reading a thread in a marketing forum recently, and somebody asked which affiliate programs permit pay per click search engine advertising.
I replied that whenever you are in doubt, you should read the affiliate agreement, since some programs forbid PPC bidding for their trademarked name(s) and/or certain terms, and if the affiliate is caught, [...]

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Affiliate marketing has a language all its own. Below is a collection of the frequently used terms.
Above the Fold: part of a web page that is visible once the page has loaded, normally it is the top part of a web page. This term is derived from the newspaper industry, referring to the portion [...]

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Any good affiliate manager will consider their affiliate partners to be their sales team on the Web. And a successful affiliate takes advantage of the tools and support at their disposal. But all too often, the tools, updates, and mission critical information from affiliate manager to affiliate are not getting through.
The culprit here is [...]

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‘I would have to say that things that make me happy as an affiliate are having great updates, wide range of linking options, and direct product links. Please have an EASY way to make product links.
Currently, CJ is my best product link maker. There are a couple of programs, like Irv’s Luggage, that offer [...]

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I am generally skeptical about ebooks hyping the mysterious secrets to affiliate marketing, and I downloaded Super Affiliate Confessions with a weary eye.
But I’ve got to say that author Codrut Turcanu does a nice job with interviews of twelve “super affiliates”.
Granted, the only name among the twelve that I recognized was Allan Gardyne of AssociatePrograms.com, [...]

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Many affiliates use Google AdWords to drive traffic to their sites or through their affiliate links. It’s a great strategy if done correctly.
The problem is that many affiliates are making a big error when setting up a new campaign. You see, the first step in setting up a campaign is to ‘Choose your language [...]

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