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The underbelly of affiliate marketing has scammy ways to try to game the system and are giving the industry a huge black eye. Millions of CL users (consumers) are now going to link the word ‘affiliate’ to the word ’scammer’. They tell how to get affiliates commission pulled.

Looking for ways to kick your PPC campaigns up a notch for the Holidays? Are you having challenges with the Google Adwords quality score? Do you ever get stuck in a rut with your PPC campaigns? Are you using the same old PPC strategies?

Google Affiliate Network has more new Affiliate Programs for your linking pleasure. Lots of great niches to target just in time for the Holidays. Check them all out here.

I wanted to report today on several new initiatives that are being undertaken in an attempt to fight affiliate fraud. Yesterday a Performance Marketing Leadership Summit was held and the focus was on Affiliate Fraud Prevention and Affiliate Screening.

Exciting news from Amazon. They just expanded their social networking features by launching direct integration with Twitter. Now affiliates can instantly and easily post their favorite products on Twitter.

Adfinity is recommended by affiliates because we make affiliate marketing success attainable! We offer the highest payouts, better tracking than most other CPA networks, timely payments (weekly available) and a management team ready to help day and night.

Pubcon 2009 hits Las Vegas next week and I know lots of affiliates that are going. I’m happy to see there are plenty of affiliate topics this year. Below are a few of the affiliate marketing sessions that look good.

Google Affiliate Network has several more New Affiliate Programs for your linking pleasure. Lots of great niches. Check them all out here.

The blog post suggested a marketing ploy that is dangerous, unethical and illegal. He suggested affiliates try to sell various herbal products by saying they will ‘prevent’ the swine flu. The FDA and FTC are cracking down and asking the public to report this fraud.

When established CPA networks start to get complaints due to lack of support or slow payments, affiliates start looking for other options. With so many new networks popping up all the time, it’s easy to think that new network that keeps promising to do it better, is just the ticket. This post will give you some insights about working with CPA networks and points out how new networks, even those with the best intentions, can go downhill fast when things get out of control.

Thou shall not be annoying – Annoying affiliate managers make me want to either kill myself or kill them. In all seriousness being annoying is not a virtue. Unless I have a close relationship with you as an affiliate manager I do not want to hear from you on the phone……EVER!

ShareASale just announced a fun little Holiday contest they have going for affiliates. The grand prize is a trip for two to Chicago, where ShareASale is based and air fare plus hotel is included. They say they have some other fun activities planned for the lucky winner!

If you spend time making lots of affiliate landing pages or spend money outsourcing, here are a couple new tools I recently discovered that could make your life easier. The 1st tool is for building Wordpress landing pages.

This publisher achieved $1,128,000. An incredible feat by any means but what is truly remarkable is that he’s only 21 years old, has been in the business for a year and was working from the hospital on his laptop. Whats his key to success

Saveology Network is an authorized dealer for the nation’s most recognized brands in home services and technology and offers a competitive advantage in this growing market. High commission, great support.

I was reading a couple of disturbing threads at AbestWeb over the weekend. Members there have discovered that AVG, the #1 free antivirus program, is totally blocking all Linkshare affiliate links and is also blocking CJ links on one of their domains.

What better time to spice up your copy or add some new keyword rich content than right before the Holidays – the biggest selling season of the year! We all know that content is king and COMPELLING content sells, so take some time to learn how to improve on the sales copy you have already written to make a bigger impact on Q4 sales. Yes, there is still time, just do it!

Google Affiliate Network has several more New Affiliate Programs for your linking pleasure. Lots of great niches. Check them all out here.

There was controversy recently about Amazon refusing to pay commission on Twitter links. This piece retracts that and was written with the help of Amazon as a GUIDE to social media marketing for affiliates and lays out the ground rules that they assume will also be acceptable for most other affiliate programs, although you should always check each program’s TOS.

Tapping into international traffic can be relatively inexpensive because few affiliates and merchants know how to best capitalize on it. There are large, identifiable international markets to target online that aren’t nearly as competitive as the US market is.