FeedFront Magazine is now available on iPad. Now you can read the current issue of FeedFront and any of the past issues on an iPad, as well as online. Check out issue 17 (January 2012) of FeedFront on your computer or iPad. You can access all of the past issues of FeedFront at http://issuu.com/affiliatesummit/docs. The [...]
Affiliate Summit has created a dailymile Challenge where we will donate $1 to benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in support of Affiliate Marketers Give Back team for each mile cycled, run, swam, or walked (up to $5,000). dailymile syncs with Garmin (205, 305, 310xt, 405, 405cx), Nike+ device and iPhone app, as well [...]
Affiliates were asked “Do you cloak/redirect links?” for the 2011 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report. The majority of respondents, at 59%, said no, and the remaining 41% indicated they do cloak their links. I’ve been cloaking affiliate links for as long as I can remember – first through meta redirects, then via an .htaccess file, before [...]
Daniel M. Clark, Founder of QAQN, will be the Emcee at Affiliate Summit East 2012, which is taking place August 12-14, 2012 at the Hilton New York. Daniel M. Clark is a podcast production consultant and the founder of QAQN, a collection of informative and entertaining podcasts. A resident of the internet since 1992, he [...]
I’ve gotten questions from lots of folks in the past day who have donated or are thinking about donating to support me in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. They were all wondering whether the Avon Foundation for Women is affiliated with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The answer is no, according to a [...]
Affiliate Summit has incorporated games into the Affiliate Summit forum, where everybody can earn points for doing various things on the site. Just jump into the forum and participate to earn points for visiting, posting, etc. Along the way, you’ll accomplish achievements and be able to cash in points for rewards Details on the Affiliate [...]
Affiliates should be split testing their landing pages, but many I’ve asked have never bothered. For the uninitiated, split or A/B testing is a process where you serve up different versions of your page to different visitors to determine which is more effective. I’ve tried various ways in WordPress and found they were largely a [...]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talk about buying goofy stuff on Fiverr, a controversial ad promoting the return of Mad Med, Super Bowl commercials, and the increasing talk about Pinterest. They also talked about the Meet Market selling out for Affiliate Summit Central 2012, affiliate nexus tax news, [...]
Affiliate Summit has been giving away “Pay It Forward Scholarships” to up to 50 affiliates per conference, who could not otherwise afford to attend, for a couple years now. And now we’re starting up a “Pay it Forward Merchant Endowment” Program, where we will be sponsoring up to 8 merchants at Affiliate Summit East 2012 [...]