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.Adimpact.com, the company that powers ads in DHTML Layers (pop-ups that don’t get blocked) has launched functionality that allows AdSense publishers to run AdSense creatives through Adimpact.com.
The technology from Adimpact.com is [...]

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I’ve been looking into zanox recently, and their model of multichannel-commerce has me pretty intrigued.
If you’re not familiar with zanox, they are a big player in the European affiliate marketing space, and they are expanding all over the globe.
They’re currently working with over 800 multinational merchants such as P&G, Daimler Chrysler, BMW, Samsung, Lycos, Staples, [...]

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Last week, Commission Junction announced their Link Management Initiative, Phase I. A notice in the Advertiser side of things at CJ.com indicated that this is “a program which will make it easier for you to get the most out of your publisher relationships.”
According to the announcement, this initiative will be released in multiple phases, with [...]

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I wrote about some Google News a couple of days ago - it seems Google is spelling out to affiliates which sorts of “common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior” to avoid if they hope to be indexed.
The whole issue comes down to whether an affiliate adds value to the Google search results.
Anyhow, I’ve [...]

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Do you think that affiliate programs must have 24/7 support? And if so, what is the biggest benefit for the ones that do, for the ones that don’t?
I was not aware that any affiliate programs were offering 24/7 support to affiliates. In fact, I don’t recall any e-commerce sites (they may well be some) that [...]

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It was nearly a year ago the AssociatePrograms.com newsletter shared a report indicating that Google employs people at a rate of $10 to $20 an hour to check search results at Google every day.
Back then, it was big news that Google apparently had a criteria guide which identified some sites in their results as “Thin [...]

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There is a new service from See Fusion Search Marketing that enables eBay affiliates to put up ads on their site that relate to the content on their pages.
Think eBay meets Google AdSense.
The contextual advertising system is called fyiAds, and according to Winston Williams, President of See Fusion Search Marketing, “fyiAds is like putting the [...]

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Eric Mattson is an American marketer living is Stockholm, Sweden, and he has a big plan. He’s planning to conduct 1,000 podcasted interviews of marketers, innovators, entrepreneurs and other interesting people.
I was the subject of his 25th podcast, and naturally we chatted about affiliate marketing.
My conversation with Eric covered how the affiliate business has [...]

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Toys “R” Us will be terminating its e-commerce and merchandising agreement with Amazon.com by June 30 of this year. Then on July 1, they start up a multi-year deal with GSI Commerce.
This has affiliate marketing pundits guessing which affiliate network will be the new home for the Toys “R” Us affiliate program.
Earlier this month, Scott [...]

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The million dollar question for any affiliate is “how much can I make putting ads in different areas of my site”?
Text Link Ads has the answer, at least in terms of selling text links, with their new Text Link Ads Calculator.

The Text Link Ads Calculator will calculate an estimate of market prices for text ads [...]

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