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.AdMob has announced that they have hit a major milestone by serving 20 billion mobile ads, more than any other mobile ad company worldwide.
The graph below displays their growth. They have [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk, star of Wine Library TV and Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ, will keynote Affiliate Summit 2009 West.
Based on the success of his Wine Library TV show, he’s been featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Nightline.
Gary’s love affair with wine began at a young [...]

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I was optimistic when Eliot Spitzer was ousted from being Governor of New York that his plan to collect taxes for all Internet transactions by residents of New York would fizzle.
But it looks like his scandal plagued successor, David Paterson, wants to move forward with the proposal to require out-of-state companies to charge New York [...]

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Q: I recently got the Link Capture to help recruit affiliates, but I can’t figure out how to use it. I know how to do a search on the software, but I don’t know how to find affiliates that make sense for me.
A: I am sure there a lot of different ways you could use [...]

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The Google AdSense blog has shared a couple of guideline reminders when optimizing your AdSense placements.

Ads shouldn’t be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads.
Ads should be easily distinguishable from surrounding content.

This brings us back to recent revival of talks about affiliate link disclosure, [...]

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LinkShare Flex Links are being used in a neat way by Beatport, a digital music store with DJ-quality club music, who is enabling affiliates to put music their sites.
The Denver-based company has developed a widget that’s embedded with via LinkShare’s Flex Link technology.
Affiliates can post the widgets on their website, blog, [...]

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Sam Harrelson has started up a new series via audio and video to chronicle how he is creating a new affiliate site, SciFiTales.
The site is a blog where Sam will go over how he creates content, drives traffic, chooses ads, lays out the page, etc.
If you’re just getting into affiliate marketing, be sure to follow [...]

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Affiliate Summit is five years old, and I have searched around my various external hard drives and computers for the pictures I’ve got from each of the past nine events.
There are all now up on the Affiliate Summit account on Flickr.

The second Affiliate Summit, June 2004 on a cruise from New York City to Halifax, [...]

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Q: I want to embed video on my site without it having any logo or bug in the bottom, right area of the screen. I also have a problem when I paste the code for four videos on a page where the videos don’t all show all the time.
A: As far as the different companies [...]

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The March 26, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing features guest co-host Sam Harrelson, since Lisa Picarille was under the weather.
Sam and Shawn were joined by Will Martin-Gill, senior manager of Internet marketing for eBay, to discuss eBay migrating their affiliate program from Commission Junction to in-house.
Also, they cover a new CAN-SPAM ruling, death [...]

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