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.Joel Comm launched AdSense Secrets 4.0 last week to fanfare and a subsequent firestorm.
The day after the release of AdSense Secrets 4.0, Mark Wielgus posted a video at 45n5.com, Adsense Secrets [...]

The April 2008 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is now available and it covers content creation and article writing.
There is an article, “The Anatomy of a Pre-Sales Article”, that explains the process of deciding what to write about and the proper organization of an article.
The affiliate manager perspective in “How To Be Understood by [...]

Q: I have this idea, but I don’t know if I can pull it off - legally especially. I love Oprah and I bet a lot of other women love Oprah, too. I buy pretty much anything she endorses. I subscribe to Oprah magazine and there are a lot of products featured in each issue. [...]

There is a lot of buzz lately about New York’s “Amazon Tax,” and how it will impact affiliates, but one facet has been overlooked in the coverage I’ve read.
Retailers doing less than $10,000 a year through affiliate sales are exempt from the law, according to Internet Retailer.
So, I guess that establishes the point where a [...]

The monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics report has been released with data from March 2008.
A couple observations from the March data:

Network impressions increased 10.0% (2,553,018,899 for March vs. 2,321,477,067 for February).
Requests increased 11.8% (2,865,167,969 for March vs. 2,562,527,510 for February).
24.5% of ad requests in their network worldwide were from Smartphones.

Read the full report at www.admob.com/metrics.

I just returned from doing some business in San Antonio. While I was there, I dropped by the Alamo and the Battle of the Alamo resonated with me.
It reminded me of some battles going on lately in the affiliate marketing space regarding Twitter Me This.
Some folks wonder why I would criticize a popular game on [...]

The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.
Listen in to the Asymmetric Warfare: Battling Fraudulent Affiliates session.
Session description: A few bad apples can seriously undermine an otherwise successful affiliate program. Stop playing Whack a Mole. Advanced, hands-on techniques to combat these rogues en masse will be presented. [...]

The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.
Listen in to the Social Media Strategies in Affiliate Marketing session.
Session description: With almost 50% of Internet users now creating and sharing their own content, this new medium is changing how markets operate and how companies communicate with consumers.

Sam [...]

I’ve been using Magnify.net to create video communities for over a year (example at affiliatetip.tv), and they’ve regularly released new features, but one thing stayed the same for a while.
The player - I love the company, but the player was a little clunky and heinous.
Well, I’m glad to report that the Magnify player has gotten [...]

The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.
Listen in to the ABestWeb: Loved or Hated, but Never Ignored session.
Session description: ABestWeb, the largest affiliate marketing forum, has legions of raging fans and detractors. Join owner Haiko de Poel and moderators from ABW for an open discussion on [...]