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.Religion, sex and politics are the three topics that are supposed to be off limits in business. However, I’ve seen increasing candor, for better or worse, on this trinity of topics [...]

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The March issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine focuses on writing – specifically how to write copy optimized for affiliate sales.
The cover story of this issue, “SEO With Real People In Mind,” discusses the conundrum of creating pages that appeal both to human visitors and the search engines.
There is also a piece on “Keyword Rich [...]

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I came across a really useful video tool for affiliate managers last month called WebVideoZone, and figured it was only a matter of time before more resources cropped up.
I’ve got a couple more video resources that affiliate managers and affiliates should check out: TubeMogul and Webmercial.
TubeMogul is a free service that provides viewership-related analytics for [...]

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For the past few years or so, LinkShare has had a couple security features in place at the login that have frustrated affiliates.
LinkShare had required that affiliates change their password every 90 days and enter the correct sequence of characters in a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) image [...]

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Ask Shawn Collins: ASOS and Affiliate Marketing
eComXpo, Web 2.0 and a video
Expansion and Implosion in the UK Affiliate Market
Affiliate Program News
AuctionAds Paying 100% of Revenue
Top 10 Affiliate Programs - February 2007

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I drive affiliate traffic through pay per click search engines straight to affiliate links without a landing page. How can I track which keywords are converting best?
It’s actually a fairly easy method. I’ll tell you what I do to track the effectiveness of my pay per click keywords in affiliate campaigns.
I use sub-IDs for each [...]

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The latest episode of Affiliate Thing features an interview with Andy Rodriguez, President of Andy Rodriguez Consulting. We discussed his partnership with UK affiliate network, Buy.at, as well as his upcoming Affiliate Management Best Practices seminar.
Also, some chatter about controversial comments from Nick Robertson, CEO of UK company ASOS, where he disparaged affiliates, and [...]

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ShoeMoneyMedia Group Inc. and MediaWhiz Holdings recently launched AuctionAds, a new way for affiliates to monetize their traffic by using the eBay affiliate program.
AuctionAds enables both international and domestic affiliates to display dynamic ads via the eBay affiliate program without any programming skills. It’s just a matter of copy and paste.
For the time being, AuctionAds [...]

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I’ve been monitoring the methods affiliates are using to promote ringtones, and came across an interesting example when searching for various terms on Yahoo.
In this instance, an affiliate is using the verboten word, free, to promote ringtone offers that are not free. When I searched for free realtone, one of the paid ads through Yahoo! [...]

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Affiliate marketing is a pretty broad umbrella. The term covers affiliate programs of all stripes, including traditional retail, gaming, adult, eBooks, and lead generation.
There is some friction among the different affiliate program types. I first noticed this back in 2001 on the Affiliate Force cruise. The crowd was largely composed of retail affiliates and merchants, [...]

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