5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

I have been reading with interest news about the possible purchase of Claria (formerly Gator) by Microsoft. See my “Gator” cartoon below. I applaud David Coursey, an Eweek writer for just plain laying it on the line…

We all know that content is king and affiliates that will succeed and prosper need to be adding value to avoid duplicate penalties by search engines. Google’s Spam Recognition Guide for Raters…

Some of my merchants are already asking me to help design their holiday contests. Ongoing contests and bonuses are always being discussed however, so I thought I would ask you. What types of contests and bonuses motivate you…

The 5 Star Affiliate Forums were developed due to popular demand by our blog readers and affiliates from other forums we mod… Posting Contests…. Win Cash…

No wonder consumers are confused about spyware, adware and cookies. This article just makes me see red! LEGIT Anti-spyware companies call a spade a spade and get sued over it…

Hot off the press. The courts just overturned the landmark ruling against adware maker WhenU that held it violated the trademarks of vision specialist 1-800-Contacts in the sale and distribution of pop-up advertising. This ruling does not bode well for our industry.

“Which is better - being a merchant or an affiliate?” Oh what a GREAT question! It came up recently at a private forum I belong to so I thought..

Top brands, names we all know, are helping to fan the flames of fear from already leary consumers..

Barry (Rusty Brick) just posted a great recap of the sessions, for anyone that wants to learn about some of the hot SEO topics that were covered at his event…

This is toooo funny. This little Google Ditty is by the Giant_Squid and ManWithUnderPantsOnHead. The singing is terrible but the flash video and the whole thing is a hoot…

Yes I still publish a monthly email newsletter and the content is totally different than this blog. For those that dont subscribe, I thought I would link to it here. This issue of the 5 Star News is filled…

Danny Sullivan just posted the agenda for Search Engine Strategies San Jose coming up August 8-11. This is the premiere event for search..

This latest cookie report is really disturbing and shows that wealthy and experienced Internet consumers are the MOST LIKELY to delete cookies, manually or with a cookie-deleting app.
This report out today…

I blogged about some motivational resources for affiliates and managers that work alone from home and often feel isolated. I posed the question “How do you stay Motivated when you work alone?” to some affiliate forums after I wrote the blog. I thought some of you would be interested to…

I have been asked many times by marketers on the forums if blogs really work in terms of helping SEO efforts by increasing inbound links, providing fresh content, boosting rankings and increasing traffic. Well for me and many others…

We are proud to announce the launch of 2 more brand new *5 Star* affiliate programs, managed by PartnerCentric…

No wonder consumers are running scared and distrustful of the Internet. They are plagued by adware, spyware, malware and browser hijackers. So they buy software to help rid their computers of this crap and many of these programs exploit their fear and just dump more crap on their computers. The info I just read at Spyware Warrior makes me see red!

Here is a great blog that’s all about link building. I discovered it over at Search Engine Roundtable…

Well there are the official event pics. You will be able to see a lot of the party pics here, as well as put a name with the faces of many of the affiliates, managers and service providers that were at the show…

In addition to the party commentary, I want to share some great party pics and a collage of our “All Star PartnerCentric Team.” We had a wild and crazy time as you can see…

I had a serious case of Internet withdrawal while I was at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas. So I thought I would share some red flags that may signal you too have a problem and may be an addict. You May Be Addicted To Affiliate Marketing If…

Overview of the sessions I attended. I think everyone would agree that the Keynote address was the most dynamic presentation of the show. Declan rocked the house with one clear message throughout his presentation. INTEGRITY!

Intermix said it agreed to pay $7.5 million to the state of New York over the next three years. It also agreed to permanently stop distributing its adware, redirect and toolbar programs, freeware that Intermix…

Just got back from Vegas after an overwhelmingly positive experience at the Affiliate Summit. I know “what happens in Vegas – stays in Vegas” but I will still spill! I am launching 2 new PartnerCentric affiliate programs today, so not much time to blog, so I plan to do a 3 part series …

I will gone until next Thusday. Going to the Affiliate Summit in Vegas, and will not be posting until then, so am leaving you with lots of fun goodies from the humor winners of the Webby Awards…

I have heard lots of affiliates say they wish there was an online version of the mag. I kind of like the print mag and leave it in my car for Dr. and Dentist appointments. Well the digital version is out - plus more scoop click…

The Affiliate Summit is right around the corner and I’m sure fraud, ethics and AM best practices will will be high on the hot topics list. Typo squatting, scrapers, cookie stuffers, parasites and other types of fraud are a sad fact of life in the affiliate marketing world. Considering our industry is…

I often see questions in the forums from both affiliates and affiliate managers asking about good RSS marketing applications and blog marketing opportunities. You can read a couple of great blogs about blog marketing at the”Make Money Blogging”section of the 5 Star blog…

Someone put THEIR Google Adsense ads on MY blog and I dont think I like it! Not sure Google would either. It’s a pretty cool trick actually to have your Adsense ads go out with your blog syndication, but is this against the Google TOS? One of the ads is for an MP3 Toolbar (probably full of spyware) and there are about a zillion Bloggers ads all over my page.

Discover more info about each of the companies exhibiting at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas. You can find me at the PartnerCentric Booth. Come say hi!

One of my goals when I started this blog was to offer motivational and success-conditioning resources to my readers. It never happened. I got caught up in all the affiliate, SEO, ad blocking, cooking eating, parasite issues that affect our industry. However, affiliates, SEO’s and many work at home affiliate managers face isolation…

Full-time affiliates sometimes forget how lucky they are that they don’t have to go to work at a J.O.B! If you are having a bad commission day and want to feel better - click below to see how lucky you really are. Afterall it could be worse. Instead of being an affiliate you could have a really…

Most that know me well, know how I feel about parasites feeding off the efforts of honest, hard working affiliates. This cartoon and caption says it all…

We are proud to announce the launch of a brand new *5 Star* affiliate program - DiamondStudsOnly.com. This one will be a strong winner in the PartnerCentric all star line-up, so we hope you jump on board today…

I’m so excited I can’t even type, so no commentary (yet!) Just want to share the GREAT news from Commission Junction’s “Network Quality Department”. No Parasites ALLOWED! Thanks CJ!!!