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.From Affiliate Classroom Magazine, January 2006
What’s REALLY on the mind of today’s affiliate managers? And how do the issues that matter to merchants affect affiliates trying to get a foothold in [...]

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Jay Weintraub, Director of Market Strategy for Revenue.net, wrote an interesting piece for Digital Moses on some data that came out of Affiliate Summit 2006:
In her opening keynote address at Affiliate Summit, Anne Holland of Marketing Sherpa, said that affiliate marketing bounties and commissions will reach $6.5 billion in 2006, or roughly 40% of projected [...]

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By Linda L. Goodman, Esq.
Recently, an e-mail marketer and its owners paid over $621,000.00 to settle a Federal Trade Commission Complaint that charged the Defendants and their affiliates with practices that violated federal laws.
The settlement included an injunction preventing the company and its affiliates from future violations of the CAN-SPAM Act and requires [...]

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A recently settled CAN-SPAM complaint underlines the liability of companies for the actions of their affiliates.
Backed by a U.S. District Court in Nevada, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring several porn sites keep detailed records on affiliate marketers.
The injunction order, filed in August, requires defendants obtain a name, address and working phone [...]

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The genesis of mainstream affiliate marketing was the CDnow buyweb program back in 1994, by most accounts. Back then, CDnow was focused on “looking for small sites to link to (them),” according to The CDnow Story.
What a difference a decade makes. In those early days of affiliate marketing, it was a simpler channel, or [...]

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Anik Singal has written an interesting article on proven strategies that can help affiliates improve their position on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).
He covers eight tips for maximizing PageRank through proper link tactics based on his own observations and analysis, discussions with experts from all over the world, and plain old trial and error.
The article [...]

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Think of banner ads as the spice in your affiliate diet. Sprinkle them around, but for a heartier helping of sales, you’ll need something more solid! Learn to give your visitors longer, more descriptive pre-sales text. Revamp your affiliate advertising using these simple steps:
Pull the Reader in
To convince your audience that your text is [...]

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By Anik Singal, Founder, Affiliate Classroom
Do you upsell? If you’re like most affiliates, you’re not. And that means you’re leaving money - a LOT of money - on the table. The right kind of upsell can generate 1200% more revenue from just one affiliate sale!
An upsell is one of the best “super-monetization” strategies [...]

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I just came across an old article that I wrote - it dates back to October 7, 1999. I wrote to encourage affiliates to try using GoTo (later Overture and now Yahoo! Search Marketing) to promote their affiliate links. Enjoy this walk down memory lane.
Do you feel like it takes too much work to earn [...]

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There are three certainties of life: death, taxes, and affiliate forums hating parasites.
But what is a parasite? It depends on whom you ask. According to DOXdesk, they coined the term “as a catch-all term to cover the range of unwelcome software” or “unsolicited commercial software.”
Generally, affiliates consider an attribute of a parasite to be an [...]

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