5 Star Affiliate Blogs

Great Insights from Super Affiliate Sugarrae - Rae Hoffman

You have been pushing hard for people to evolve the affiliate model and add value. What are some of the easiest ways affiliates can do that? What are some of the most creative and intensive things you have done to increase the quality and value of your sites?

Stiffing Your Affiliates Doesn’t Pay

It doesn't pay to stiff your affiliates. The damage it can do your reputation isn't worth it. Just think about that! In this day of blogging one upset affiliate can do your brand a world of hurt.

If You Twitter Affiliate Links - Amazon Won’t Pay

Amazon refused to pay commission on affiliate links placed on Twitter. They cite their terms and conditions that state affiliate links must be on your web site. Many merchants and networks prohibit affiliate links from being posted on forums or in blog comments and state links need to be on your own site.

Google Cracks Down and Bans Adwords CPA Scams

Google is cracking down on these scams and banningAdwords accounts that advertise them. I wonder if the networks are warning affiliates these programs can get them banned from Adwords. That could kill a lot of income for a lot of affiliates!

Squidoo Cracks Down on Overly Promotional Lenses

Squidoo has marketers scrambling after announcing they are cracking down on spam, porn, junk topics, overly self promotional lenses and plagiarism. If you do bum marketing or article marketing and use Squidoo, you'll want to be sure to read the link below.

Streamlining Your Affiliate Management Tasks

If you are an affiliate manager you know that there are a myriad of projects that need to be done every day to keep your affiliate program healthy and growing. Website Magazine has a good article by Geno Prussakov that offers some practical tips for making your management tasks more manageable.

Affiliates - The 3 Click Rule for Conversions

Maybe you are familiar with the 3 click rule of thumb. The goal is never put more than three clicks between your visitors and the product purchase page. Don't make them keep digging deeper and deeper into your site OR the merchant's site before they get to the buy button.

Freedom and Independence - Happy 4th of July

Are you thankful for your affiliate independence? Think about it! We work in the most "free" country in the world. Plus affiliates and outsourced affiliate managers have the freedom to work from home and the independence to largely create their own destiny.

How Affiliates can do Media Buys like the Big Boys

I see lots of affiliate ads on the big sites like MSNBC and Fox news. So how do affiliates play in a space usually reserved for Fortune 500 companies and big ad agencies?

Great News re CA and Hawaii Advertising Tax (Amazon Tax)

Schwarzenegger just committed - NO advertising tax in CA. Therefore Overstock overturned their decision to terminate affiliates! So that means Amazon and other companies won't have to cancel their affiliate agreements in the state either!

Google Affiliate Network - New Affiliate Programs

New advertisers launched this week: HockeyMonkey, Ebaby.com, Namco Games, Temple St. Clair and Acronis.

Leverage the Power of the MarketLeverage Affiliate Network

MarketLeverage provides Publishers access to hundreds of top-notch advertisements designed to maximize their online profits. We offer the industry’s highest paying rewards program, the industry’s best paying lifetime referral program, weekly payments sent via FedEx, and the industry's first affiliate Internet TV Program, MLTV.

Easy Way to Embed Affiliate Links in YouTube Videos

Just discovered a slick, free and easy way to embed overlay ads with live links onto YouTube videos. Let's say for instance one of your merchants has a video demo on YouTube. You can embed the YouTube video on your site and have a small ad with a link to the merchant right on top of the video.

Google Traffic Drops, Affiliate Links and Duplicate Content

When an affiliate has reduced search traffic or loses ranking, two of the 1st things they think of are that either duplicate content penalties or affiliate links are responsible. Official Google blog.

Amazon Drops North Carolina and Hawaii Affiliates

This morning North Carolina and Hawaii affiliates awoke to some really bad news. Ahead of pending advertising tax legislation Amazon took a preemptive strike by dropping affiliates effective immediately.

Surefire Tips for getting the Thumbs Up on Affiliate Applications

If you've ever had your affiliate application declined for a merchant you were raring to partner with… if you've ever had a great plan to promote a certain product and got turned down by the network - you know how very frustrating it can be.

Google Affiliate Network - New Affiliate Programs

New Google Affiliate Network programs include: 2mCCTV.com, Wysong Pet Store, Snowshack.com, SpiritHalloween.com, Threadsmith.com and Shortcovers.com

Affiliate Marketing: No Risk Channel - Need for Self Regulation

Today the IAB UK is having their affiliate marketing seminar which looks at the growth of our industry, the need for ROI, transparency and self regulation.

Bloggers, Affiliates, the FTC and Disclosure

Affiliate link disclosure is a hotly debated topic. Well now it looks like the FTC is planning to regulate disclosure. HOT TIP for how to disclose and have it be a selling benefit.

Ten Strategies to Launch and Manage an Affiliate Program

Podcast - If you are looking for a simple 10 step formula for how to launch and run an affiliate program, well here it is! Jay Berkowitz from TenGoldenRules.com recently did an interview with Shawn Collins.