5 Star Affiliate Blogs

I’ve been twitfollowing with interest as Wendy Piersall from eMomsatHome.com took her very popular blog through a complete metamorphosis. She not only rebranded the blog with a new name and redesign, but completely repositioned the site from a Mom blog into a resource for a diverse group of people who use the internet and technology to create flexible work for themselves – both parents and non parents.

Just discovered a nice little resource for affiliates and bloggers. Free SEO optimized WordPress themes. Also a dateless theme for sites that don’t look like blogs or sites where the date isn’t important and you just want to post and archive lots of articles.

The New York Times story line suggests bloggers blogged till they dropped. (Literally died). Now I don’t think blogging or Internet stress killed these guys or gave Om Malik his recent heart attack. After all Michael Arrington and Darren Rowse…

Think this program sounds too B2B for your site? Think again! You get paid for every FREE subscription you give away. The RevResponse Marketing Widget makes it easy to add a huge variety of offers to your site or blog in minutes.

I’m happy that the event organizers recognize affiliate marketing as part of the Web 2.0 mix, so I wanted to be sure to share the info with 5 Star readers. Sam, Lisa, Stephanie… will be discussing responsible affiliate marketing strategies in a web2.0 world.

The most self-limiting thing I see about bloggers trying to make money is a self-defeating approach… many bloggers seem pensive or apologetic about making money. That doesn’t work.
People buy from people who are confident, likable and unquestionably enthusiastic about what they’re selling.

If you are more focused on blogging and writing content than dealing with coding and affiliate links, this solution may be of interest. Trigget provides a super fast easy way to drop affiliate links, videos and ads into blog posts. WATCH VIDEO to see how fast and easy it is.

ThinkHost Web Hosting Affiliate Program pays a hefty $100 commission per sale – even on the $7.95 hosting plan! 10 year cookies + IP tracking. Pro support from a cool affiliate manager that gets it!

She writes one of my favorite affiliate blogs. She wrote an EXCELLENT tutorial about how to build an affiliate site with WordPress. This is an entry I’ve been wanting to share for awhile.

Facebook will be making a major ad-related announcement in New York at AdTech. A flurry of rumors say it could be a rival to Adsense and could provide contextual ad targeting on sites other than Facebook, using the demographic data offered up in personal profiles. Major buzz includes…

Since so much holiday revenue comes from kids gifts, I thought it may be helpful and fun, to get Holiday sales tips for affiliates from a top toy retailer. I’ve been working with Linkshare’s PR firm to get these great tips from eToys for our 5 Star readers.

Was there a time when you first started that you became despondent and thought about quitting? If so, what happened that gave you the confidence to keep going? This tip can make a difference.

New programs mean less competition. Some of these programs are VERY cool and NICHE! Also new improved 5 Star website and WordPress upgrade so we can turn COMMENTS back on.

Hot on the heels of the GoogTubeSense Video launch is Blinkx with a slightly different approach to monetizing videos.
So one of the major differences between GoogTubeSense and Blinkx is that Blinkx does a 2 way rev share (you, them) instead of 3 way (you, them, video producer.) The other difference is that instead of being limited

eComXpo starts tomorrow and it’s FREE. Here are some of the affiliate marketing educational sessions. A couple of our 5 Star Affiliate Program Managers will be speaking and/or moderating sessions.

FALL into the Holiday Season with these great new merchants that just launched on the ShareResults Affiliate Network. New programs mean less competition and there are some great high paying NICHE programs below.

Wow, Amazon just launched a bunch of cool marketing widgets including a product tag cloud widget (pictured left), a slideshow widget, video previewer widget and … The quick linker widget lets you easily auto-link within your content a variety of ways.

This thing just launched yesterday, I added the widget today and am getting LOTS of additional targeted traffic and it’s coming from high quality blogs like ShoeMoney!

I just saw the press release about their newly launched free turn-key affiliate stores and it sounds like an option worth checking into for newbie affiliates and bloggers that want to easily add shopping price comparison to their sites.

I’m in great company on Mark’s list and discovered some new blogs I’d not seen before. There were even a couple I’d never heard of in the top 10 above me. T fragmented my blog then accidentally deleted it so 5 Star was missing in action for a couple months.