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.There’s an interesting story on CNET about 180solutions and the FTC. After efforts for online marketing to self police, it looks like the Feds are going to have to take care [...]

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From Affiliate Classroom Magazine, January 2006
What’s REALLY on the mind of today’s affiliate managers? And how do the issues that matter to merchants affect affiliates trying to get a foothold in the industry?
Now that Affiliate Summit West 2006 is over, we asked Anik Singal, CEO of Affiliate Classroom, what merchants were talking about at [...]

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I was watching an episode of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast with my youngest daughter, Kerrigan, recently. It was an episode where one of the characters would repeat whatever anybody else said.
This character was labeled a copycat by the others. Ever since then, whenever somebody does something annoying or naughty, little Kerrigan calls them a [...]

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My website is positioned extremely well in every search engine except Google. Google appears to have penalized it heavily because there are too many outbound affiliate links. Apart from reducing the number of outbound links do you have any other advice to rectify this? There is a lot of high quality original content on the [...]

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I was just reading Anik Singal’s new issue of Affiliate Classroom magazine and it’s got some gems in there.
He’s got the standard Janaury feature of new year’s resolutions, but the six resolutions featured have some good meat. Some of it is common sense, but it’s the sort of stuff like listing every marketing tool you [...]

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I was just checking my spam folder and came across a message from Alex Tew of Million Dollar Homepage fame. He’s the guy that sold pixels on his site and raised $1,037,100 for college in less than five months.
Anyhow, it seems the site was taken down for six days by a Denial of Service (DoS) [...]

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I came across an interesting affiliate program announcement today. The March of Dimes just launched their affiliate program on Kolimbo, and while they don’t pay commission as we’ve come to expect it, there is an opportunity for a sort of back door commission.
On the signup page, under special notes, it reads: While commissions are not [...]

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ROCHESTER, NY – January 19, 2006 – Adsertive, LLC. announced today the release of their new pay-for-performance affiliate system. This new affiliate network gives merchants and publishers a central place to connect, creating a dynamic Internet advertising marketplace.
Through this advertising network, merchants can get sales or leads for their product and services on a pay [...]

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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for January 2006. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
Topics in this issue:

Wayne Porter Honored with the Affiliate Summit Legend Award
Return on Affiliate - Social Networking for Affiliate Marketers
Affiliate Summit Presentations
Affiliate Program News
Make ClickBank Searchable with CBmall
Top 10 Affiliate [...]

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I’m big into info products, and often buy them on ClickBank. But they’ve got a problem there - it’s somewhat difficult to find what you want, because they don’t make their database of more than 10,000 products searchable.
Instead, ClickBank ranks the products by what they call their ‘productivity score,’ which is a measure of the [...]

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