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Yesterday I received a call from an Affiliate Manager friend with an issue.  Affiliates running ads on reserved trademarks, coupons dominating, backend tracking getting more and more difficult and the workload it was causing.  Generally, my friend wasn’t having a good day.
So I suggested that we go through each item one by one and maybe [...]

With the realization that Facebook has decided to take on Google the challenge of SEO is the changing landscape itself.  And this changing landscape will help smart, aggressive, and forward thinking affiliates to grow their business.  And those stuck in the muck of the past will lose.
Before it was all Google, MSN, and then Yahoo.  [...]

It never seems to amaze me with the extent some will go to monitize their blogs.  Sure, there are exactly TWO (2) advertisements on this blog (rotating).  And they do fairly well.  But I digress….
I submit for your approval the following screenshot of an article aptly named “WhatYou Don’t Know About Affiliate Marketing” (Site Name [...]

I gave a webinar on this very subject last Sunday evening.  Basically I covered three points (each with their own subset of points).

Your Customers are Everywhere – Go where they are and bring them back to your site/store/blogs
Use automation to put routine updates in the locations you need in the formats best suited (via RSS)
Be [...]

Opportunity knocks in the strangest ways sometimes.  Being a big believer in Luck = Preperation + Opportunity I have retained several domain names over the years.  Mostly of places I’ve lived, activities I enjoy, etc.  And I maintain them mostly through automation and a brief posting every few weeks or so.
Then, over this past weekend..  [...]

Granted, the application of statistical analysis used in baseball (specifically, Sabermetrics, invented by Bill James) seems to be a little “out there”.  And it is, kind’ve.  But using the data available lets us do more than simply report the measurement of observations of our campaigns.  You can take these observations and apply the numbers in [...]

(Guest Post by Simon Gornick, CEO of Spotcher)
As the economy tightens, advertisers and their agencies are looking inward to discover the best way to deliver effective marketing messages.
The landscape is in a state of deep flux. There are a flood of new approaches out there, all competing for eyeballs. But there’s [...]

Amazon is doing the unthinkable over in the UK right now. Remember PPC going away in the US a few months ago? Well now they’re doing it in the UK and it does not bode well for US Affiliates (This Means You)!
In an article at SearchEngineLand they’ve quoted the UK Amazon letter ending [...]

The biggest headache with affiliate datafeeds is that every merchant has a different format.  Which has spawned an entire industry of various service providers that do nothing but transpose the datafeeds into a common format that makes it easier for an Affiliate Marketer to import.
But, paying big money just to have datafeeds isn’t economically smart [...]

TopSEOs ranked the Top Ten Affiliate Marketing Companies and it isn’t a suprise to see active AffSpot Forum members taking the top three positions!
Evan Weber’s Experience Advertising took #1 with Peter Bordes’ MediaTrust taking second and Heather Paulsons Paulson Management Group sitting at number 3.   And Michael Vorels VastPlanet is showing up at #9 on [...]