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.ValueClick’s Commission Junction affiliate marketing division is expected to launch a new program today to reward top-performing affiliates, and to help its clients recruit those publishers into their programs.
Through the [...]

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What do the San Antonio Spurs, U2 and the Affiliate Summit conference have in common? Stumped? In the month of June 2005, scalpers sold tickets to all three on eBay. That’s right, Affiliate Summit 2005 passes went for as much as 50 percent over the face value of $1,495.
It’s certainly a healthy sign for affiliate [...]

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By Heather Paulson
The Affiliate Summit was an incredible show for those of us in the affiliate marketing industry that are interested in learning, growing and sharing with other industry professionals. The Affiliate Summit 2005 took place June 13-14, 2005 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The X10 Penthouse party on the evening [...]

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I recently chatted with a gentleman named Asif Malik who has released a new affiliate tool called GoldenCAN.
The premise of GoldenCAN is that sites with high traffic volume can easily add GoldenCAN Store Integration or GoldenCAN Coupon Integration to their site with just one line of code.
The result is that the site then [...]

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Every once so often, somebody comes along to declare that affiliate marketing is dead. The latest instance comes to us from Rick Aristotle Munarriz in an article on The Motley Fool.
The article begins with the question, “…if websites everywhere are taking to contextual ad blocks, doesn’t logic suggest that graphic banner ads and affiliate marketing [...]

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The days of building a Web site, slapping it on the Internet and expecting people to magically tune in are long gone for real estate companies and agents. With three quarters of home buyers starting their searches on the Web, online lead generation plans now require much more strategy.
One way of throwing a wide net [...]

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It was just two months ago that I hailed the announcement, ADBUMb to Ban Spyware & Spam Ads.
At the time, I’d held Pesach and company as a bastion of integrity in online marketing. I figured it was a good thing that they had discovered their collective conscience and were willing to sacrifice ad dollars.
So I [...]

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Adware purveyor WhenU raised $20 million in private equity through ABS Capital Partners, according to Red Herring. The firm said it would use the moneys to flesh out its marketing and distribution efforts, an effort it already had underway as part of its effort to distinguish itself from spyware companies.
The $20 million may be short [...]

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Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Wilson Internet Rocklin, CA
Editor: I’ve long encouraged merchants to have affiliate links point to their domains to raise PageRank for the site. But the situation isn’t so clear these days. Here is an excerpt from my Report on Affiliate Management Software 2005. You’ll see the complexity - some of this is [...]

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BY Fredrick Marckini
You’re probably familiar with the term “PageRank,” made famous by Google. And you probably know search engines consider the quality and quantity of links that point to your Web site to calculate your site’s ranking in search results. Still, a lot of confusion exists regarding how merchant sites should benefit from their affiliates’ [...]

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