5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Some affiliates were afraid that if they used Tracking202, the team could potentially steal their data and mine their best keywords. So this one is self hosted. Unbelievably, just like Tracking202, Prosper202 is FREE.

He wrote a good one this weekend regarding the pros and cons of direct linking vs landing pages vs landing sites. He includes some good info on why and when to use each one.

Enter keyword, and it shows you the predicted demographics of who might be searching for this term. Important info for targeting your campaigns. Next tool shows other KW entries that co-occur within the same user session. You can adjust your hop levels…

I left a big long post on Zacs blog about a resource thats 10 times hotter, but his spam filter must have eaten my comment. You guys are gonna love this…

SEObook just launched a new Firefox Rank Checker tool that looks pretty hot! I can’t believe no one has come up with a tool like this til now. Here’s the video, and full details complete with screen shots.

When you are doing BH techniques, there is a whole army of people out working against you trying to shut you down. Usually well funded and smart (like Google). On the other hand, when you are doing WH, you have a whole…

This SEL article calls it theft and asks not only if this is a crime the affiliate could be prosecuted for, but whether Yahoo could be considered complicit in any potential crime as well, because they allow public editing of the search results.

About a 19 year old that went from $0 to around $500,000 a month income in one year. If you’re curious about how Paul reached ‘Affiliate Superstardom’ so quickly, here’s how he did it!

Thought some of our 5 Star Readers that are PPC affiliates may be interested. I’ve been too swamped to even get over there and take a peek, so if you do, comment below and let us know what you think.

The newest version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines have surfaced. Please realize, the reason I share this is to help ETHICAL affiliates learn to rise up to Google’s standards or at least understand what they are - not to help unethical affiliates learn to be better spammers.

Say you are scanning Google hot trends or Yahoo Buzz for new niches. Just highlight a phrase to see if there is a domain available. Warning: Dont use late at night when you’ve been drinking or you’ll wake up with more domains than you know what to do with!

Lots of great landing page resources in the following categories: Articles, How-to Guides, Tips, Landing Page Related Blogs, Landing Page Tools, Conversion Consultants and Books.

I wonder what effect if any this will have on the Performics? I predict there will be an even greater increase in brand name merchants and possibly a huge shift in power between the top affiliate networks, after the deal is done. Could number 3 become 1?

If you are new to PPC/CPA marketing and trying to figure out the best way to get started, this is a must-read. If you are an old pro I can almost guarantee you will discover some new tricks you haven’t thought of before - especially in post #4 below.

Are you competing head-on with your ffiliates in the search space? Are you struggling to maximize revenue without cannibalizing your own search campaigns or threatening affiliate-generated sales? Learn how to scale up CPA affiliate marketing without compromising paid search

Are you a CPA affiliate? Ever wish you could shop and compare all the network offers without having to join, log-in and search through each network one at a time? Well now you can. Two new (similar? competing?) solutions to this problem are rolling out at Affiliate Summit. Both are free!
I’m not a […]

Thank you for your participation in the adCenter Affiliate program. Unfortunately, the adCenter offer will no longer be available after February 29th, 2008.

Amit just blogged about Efficient PPC, a new tool for building huge PPC campaigns quickly. Costs much less than Speed PPC. I just watched the video - this looks pretty good.

This FREE 60 minute tele-event helps e-commerce professionals find solutions to everyday problems through candid advice from peers and industry experts… this call will feature a debate on how to balance paid search & affiliate marketing strategies.

There was a guy with the pseudonym Diorex that once had a blog that grew a pretty strong following. The blog is now gone and no one can find him, but here is a really good blog post he wrote about how to scale an affiliate marketing campaign. He offers some unique advice about how […]

He’s giving it away now FREE no strings! Here’s the link. Essentially he’s changing his entire business model, moving away from info marketing and moving toward community driven affiliate marketing education.

I’m going to put this great affiliate PPC question out to the Super Affiliate blogosphere and see if we can get some of the PROS to share their expertise. I’ll do a shout out to 4 PPC super affiliates see if they’ll do a little Q&A on their blog.

Weekly flagship show called GeekCast Gang on various issues in online marketing, video, affiliate marketing, search, etc. They will feature videos and postcasts from AffiliateThing, AffiliateFortuneCookies, Jim Kukral’s Daily Flip and more.

5 Star launched the MSN adCenter Affiliate Program a week before Xmas. Bad but unavoidable timing. So here’s more info and a video overview about the program. Thanks to all of you that have already joined and gotten active! Pretty exciting!

One of my very favorite SUPER Affiliate blogs these days is Uber Affiliate. It’s written by a 19 year old named Paul Bourque that makes $200,000 PLUS a month. What’s amazing is not only that Paul is only 19 - but he just got started in affiliate marketing about a year ago! Paul shares openly, […]

Google just released a PRETTY cool tool affiliates may find useful. It shows ACTUAL product sales/revenue volume. So instead of only knowing what products were searched for, you can see what products were bought, view product comparison data or seasonal buying trends.

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!

I hope by now everyone knows about the Microsoft adCenter Affiliate Program we helped launch in December. I know lots of affiliates use PPC find that adCenter converts better. Here’s an in-depth how-to guide for adCenter.

Affiliates are busy and many have not kept up with all the SEO changes as they should. What helped a site rank yesterday can suddenly cause it to get penalized. Here are 7 ways that Google changed the SEO world in 2007…

The voting is open for the Best Search Blog Awards. There are 19 blog categories. The 5 Star Affiliate Blog is proud to be one of only 5 finalists for the Best Affiliate Marketing Blog Award.

As 2007 draws to a close, I thought it would be great if we could aggregate some of the best blog posts and most helpful affiliate tips of the year. Please add your most popular blog post or you can list a post someone else wrote.

If you wanted to make MarketingSherpa’s Landing Page Handbook seminar yesterday, but missed it - I have some good news. Here are some great landing page tips from the webinar that could help to boost your conversion rates.

I know it’s a little late in the season to announce a new program. However with the high commission, conversions and average order - combined with low competition because this program is brand new - I think some of you could make some quick Holiday sales.

How do you know which keywords are converting on your PPC or natural search campaigns? Is there a way find out what KWs sell WITHOUT having the merchant add special tracking code in their cart for you, which most won’t do anyway? Yep!

2 DoubleClick stories today: The Google/DoubleClick deal and DoubleClick being accused of allowing trojans and malware to propagate through their ad serving system.