Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

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Photo Album from Affiliate [...]

As he did last year for Affiliate Summit 2004, James Martell put together a short video of his time at Affiliate Summit 2005.
See the video of James’ adventures in Las Vegas with his students and associates.

I am a merchant and am setting up an affiliate program right now. I have read that 468×60 is the standard banner size, but I was wondering if you can give me some idea of other popular sizes and (better still) their popularity ranking.
Yes, 468×60 is one of sixteen standard banner sizes per the IAB [...]

ValueClick’s Commission Junction affiliate marketing division is expected to launch a new program today to reward top-performing affiliates, and to help its clients recruit those publishers into their programs.
Through the CJ Performer program, top-performing publishers get access to enhanced support and resources, and recognition within Commission Junction’s network as a premier publisher. The company [...]

Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing are used by a great many affiliates to drive traffic to their sites, as well as by affiliate managers to recruit new affiliates.
But if my own experience on both sides is typical, the testing could be tremendously better. Generally, I run a couple versions of an ad and pick [...]

The following is what Ian Larsen of the PartnerCentric had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
I believe improvements could be made with every aspect of affiliate marketing, but the first things that should be addressed are the most serious.
The unethical and [...]

More and more affiliates are using blogs to promote their affiliate links. Conventional wisdom is that blogs should be syndicated by RSS (Really Simple Syndication).
RSS enables folks interested in your site to subscribe to your RSS feed and read your posts through the RSS reader of their choice. But this assumes everybody knows how [...]

I would like to ask you if a weekly newsletter is a common thing to affiliates? Usually, I don’t send mail to my affiliates. I usually post them personally.
No, weekly newsletters are something of a rarity for affiliate programs, though somewhat popular for CPA networks (because they constanly roll out fresh offers).
Monthly affiliate newsletters are [...]

Cape Coral, FL — July 6, 2005 — GoldenCAN.com announces the launch of its revolutionary new Internet marketing solution for affiliate marketers and merchants, available online at www.GoldenCAN.com . For the first time, GoldenCAN.com’s Store Integration Program provides affiliate marketers with data feeds, coupons, recent price drops and product searches provided by hundreds of merchants [...]

For the second year in a row, I’ve had the pleasure to work with Missy and Shawn on their internet marketing lovechild, Affiliate Summit.
This year’s Summit was the biggest to date, with over 500 attendees, an exhibition hall, and breakout sessions during both days.
Just like a child, with growth comes responsibilities [...]