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.

The WidgetBucks ad network has launched a new ad optimization technology called YieldSense to help publishers maximize their earnings.
YieldSense will auto-analyze the highest earning WidgetBucks ad content for an affiliate’s site so they don’t have to worry about testing. The technology has been in beta for three months and WidgetBucks reports an average [...]

J.P. Morgan published a report earlier this month titled Nothing But Net, which was a “2009 Internet Investment Guide.”
It’s a bit of a monster that clocks in at 340 pages, but they cover tons of areas, including ad networks, e-commerce, social networks, cloud computing, and more.
A little peek into the report…

Potential search deal likely between [...]

Podcaster Scott Fox has joined the GeekCast.fm team with his show, the E-Commerce Success Show.
The first show from Scott on GeekCast.fm features Harry Brooks, Director of Search Marketing for Network Solutions.
Listen to Scott and other GeekCasters at http://geekcast.fm/. Also, be sure to subscribe to the GeekCast RSS feed or subscribe in iTunes.

I am taking a step back to a section of my blog I was maintaining up until about a year ago… affiliate fatblogging.
In late 2007 and early 2008, this was a regular installment where I would chronicle efforts to get healthier after so many years of being planted behind my desk for much of the [...]

buy.at is running a promotion with LeadBack.com for affiliates in the buy.at network to get free advertising through June 30th, 2009.
LeadBack.com advertises your site to people who have already viewed your web pages – bringing them back to you so you can generate more conversions.
LeadBack.com uses Advertising.com – the world’s largest online advertising network with [...]

LinkShare Symposium East is taking place on Tuesday, June 23 in New York City. And the annual Golden Links Award dinner is the night before – Monday, June 22.
This has been a “must attend” event to me for many years. LinkShare always brings in quality speakers and they provide lots of networking opportunities.

Keep an eye [...]

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Episode 49 of the GeekCast show gets into the announcement by Michael Arrington that he will be taking a leave of absence from TechCrunch after being spat upon in Davos Munich.
Also, we got into Gmail offline, smart phones, headaches with the FeedBurner migration, a lame social marketing reputation company, [...]

ShareASale has made a public call for participation in revising their policy on the use of toolbars in their network.
We will host a “Toolbar Roundtable” (possibly more than one) – with the first session coming on Tuesday February 3rd at 3pm Central. Depending on participation level and how far we get, we can schedule further [...]

The recently concluded LinkShare Symposium West revealed a recent study on a new online consumer personality, the “recession shopper.”
This type of shopper has emerged as the country’s economic outlook continues to be bleak. According to the study, these shoppers have said they will spend more money online, compared with their online spending last year, should [...]

Commission Junction UK has launched a blog to communicate news and issues with affiliates and merchants in the network.
They’re off to a good start with frequent, informative posts. Hopefully, Commission Junction in the US will follow with a blog of their own.
Visit the CJ UK blog at http://www.cjblog.co.uk/.