5 Star Affiliate Blogs

Advertising Tax News Recap (Amazon Tax)

There is advertising tax news and some good new resources scattered around the web so I wanted to do a recap of the most recent updates.

MarketLeverage TV - Hot Offers and More

Watch MarketLeverage TV. Check out the Hot Offers of the Week, find out where the team has been and where they are going and catch the MarketLeverage Minute. If you have any questions about any of these offers or want to find out more about the Affiliate Summit Cruise party

Podcast - Amazon Won’t Pay Affiliates for Twitter Links

They will discuss Amazon.com’s recent decision NOT to pay commissions on sales that result from affiliate links on Twitter. It was Odmark who made this discovery recently and wrote about the experience at

Google Affiliate Network - New Affiliate Programs

New Programs - Inkjet Superstore.com, MadsenCycles.com, SLN Health & Wellness, Toolbarn.com, department56corner.com, MyVerbalAdvantage.com, BlindSaver.com, CoachesInstitute.com, OneLuckyDuck.com

Video - 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design

Discover the 7 deadly sins of landing page design and how to correct them to increase conversions. In the video he shows examples of common landing page mistakes, then goes on to offer solutions to make the pages work better toward the end goal of increasing conversions.

5 Unique Ways to Keep Affiliates Happy and Motivated

In this economy the last thing you need is a stagnant affiliate channel. Let's face it though, even in the best of times, it makes sense to take inventory to see if you are doing all you can to keep affiliate partners happy, loyal and motivated. Affiliates what do YOU think?

AffiliateBenchmarks - Take the Industry Survey

The survey results will gather best practices for several aspects of affiliate marketing, including how best to communicate with affiliates, what advertisers can do to optimize affiliate relationships, what tools and information affiliates crave, and what challenges they face. Results will be analyzed and used to identify marketing trends and projected changes

Google Affiliate Network - New Affiliate Programs

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network include: ideeli, Credentify, Hobobags, Golfdiscount and MyTeeSpot

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

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