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.

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.I sat down for a chat with Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, earlier this week to discuss issues in affiliate marketing as well as a preview of Affiliate [...]

Chicago, IL — March 10, 2006 — eComXpo, the world’s largest online and virtual tradeshow for eCommerce marketers, will be hosting their third event April 4-6th, 2006. The event will also feature 15 panel presentations from industry luminaries and daily keynote addresses from Anne Holland of MarketingSherpa.com, Bryan Eisenberg of Future Now, Inc and Geoff [...]

CafePress has rolled out a new affiliate link option that enables affiliates to better capitalize on breaking issues and trends.
The creative units are called TopicAds, and they are dynamic ads that use image tags to pull up relevant designs from CafePress Shopkeepers to display on the affiliate site.
According to CafePress, their TopicAds perform up to [...]

I was just chatting with Marty Fahncke as part of the Affiliate Summit 2006 Preview Conference Call Series.
After discussing the use of blogs by affiliates, Marty asked about some other ways that affiliates could promote their affiliate links. I touched on PPC arbitrage, loyalty sites, e-mail, data feeds, etc., I said I thought social networks [...]

How can I permanently delete an affiliate program cookie from my computer?
Let me start by saying that cookies for affiliate programs are not spyware, in the event that was your concern. They are simply tracking whether you perform a given transaction within a certain number of days, so that the person referring you can be [...]

There is a bill (A-1327) being introduced in the New Jersey Assembly that aims to require forums to collect and make available the legal names and physical addresses of all who post on the forums.
The bill aims to prevent “false or defamatory messages” from being protected by anonymity.
If signed into law, it would require that [...]

I wrote about the split between Toys “R” Us and Amazon the other day, and it led me to reminiscing about the days before the two companies got together.
After digging into a bin in my attic, I retrieved the Vol. 2, No. 25 issue of The Industry Standard magazine. The cover of that issue of [...]

If you are like most people, the error pages on your site are the default pages provided by your host. In the past, I’ve encouraged affiliates to customize these pages, but many affiliates have come back to ask how to get the error traffic to the customer error pages.
Error messages occur due to a [...]

Search engine optimization guru Brad Fallon has assembled a variety of niche affiliate programs for affiliates at his Smart Marketing Affiliates site.
Smart Marketing Affiliates specializes in the custom-design, manufacture and sale of a broad spectrum of niche content through multiple genre-specific sites.
The team includes full-time SEO experts and linking specialists, and it’s led [...]

Toys “R” Us and Amazon, who have been paired in an exclusive selling arrangement since 2000, are breaking up.
Since that time, Amazon has powered the Toys “R” Us site and affiliate program, but that’s changing with the ruling of the Chancery Court yesterday, which unties the companies.
It will be interesting to see how this all [...]