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.Since we’re working on the World Wide Web, it stands to reason that we should be targeting different regions with appropriate offers.
For instance, if a person from Boston hits your [...]

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How do I, in becoming actively involved as an affiliate to another website, technically speaking, actually place the affiliate ad on my website usually. Do I need to be knowledgeable as a computer technician? I need an example of how to technically, on my computer screen, become an affileate. Is there only one way involving [...]

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It may seem like a very basic suggestion, but you would be surprised how many people upload affiliate code that is accidentally corrupted.
Case in point - one of my top ten ’super affiliates’ was recently running bad links.
It’s essential for you to test, because you deserve to be paid for every referral you [...]

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What is the best way to handle affiliates who don’t obey the rules; i.e., bid on trademarked terms, don’t update datafeeds for years, etc.? These people make decent sales, so I don’t want to drop them, but repeated emails aren’t working! Any suggestions?
This can be a big problem. As I mentioned recently in an article [...]

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I need to know what to look at to check that affiliates aren’t engaging in cookie stuffing and other problem behaviors. How is this done?
I’d like to preface this by saying that I am not an expert in sleuthing for cookie stuffing. I know some things about it, but one of the main ways that [...]

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I would like to publicly thank (most of) the affiliate managers out there, because your lack of communication with affiliates makes me stand out.
To those of you who can’t be bothered with responding to emails from your affiliates, who publish those one-paragraph newsletters, and who don’t bother to keep in touch with your top [...]

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By Shawn Collins
iMediaConnection
There are many ways to make your affiliate program stand out and get noticed by affiliates. But some affiliate programs stand out for the wrong reasons. You see, it’s good to be a diaper dandy of affiliate marketing, but not so good to stand out as a red diaper baby. But enough of [...]

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I’m thinking of starting a member rewards site where members get rewards for banners, etc they click. Do you know if advertisers which pay good $ / click (like eBay) actually like this idea? Is is important that you tell them before you sign up that your website is an incentive based website?
There are a [...]

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So, the boss has been reading all of the great things about affiliate marketing, and the next thing you know, you’ve been anointed as the affiliate manager. You pick a solution provider and things are ready to roll, right?
Not exactly. If you are going to run a successful affiliate program, it is vital that [...]

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What can you do/give besides increasing commission to make affiliates happy?
There isn’t one solution for every affiliate program, so the first thing I would suggest would be to ask your affiliates what they want.
As far as components of your affiliate program that will make affiliates happy, and increase the chances that they will actively promote [...]

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