5 Star Affiliate Blogs

Friendly reminder – today is the last day to register and get the early bird special rate for WebMasterWorld in Vegas. I just registered and this will be my 1st Pubcon, so I’m excited to meet some affiliates in person that I have not…

A couple weeks ago news leaked that a fairly big player in our space was planning to launch a new affiliate forum that would give the industry yet another place to discuss affiliate marketing issues. I knew who is was a couple days ago, but was sworn to secrecy. The forum officially launched today so now I can talk about it

I still can’t believe more merchants aren’t offering datafeeds in RSS format for affiliates yet. CJ recently announced tips on exactly how to do it, so now merchants who have been afraid to take the plunge can…

Well as I suspected nmreport must have been leaking the news for Azoogle on purpose, probably to create some early rumor buzz – which I so willingly jumped on and helped them do. The nmreport that came out early this AM has a HUGE ad for MPORT, so I guess it’s no secret and officially launched…

I know Kellie Stevens, well known parasite hunter and the owner of Affiliatefairplay had to evacuate from the impending destruction of Hurricane Katrina. I’m sure there are other affiliates

I was just invited to be a syndicated blogger over at ThreadWatch – one of my favorite blogs. Here is a mini-series Darren wrote that includes 10 tips for using affiliate programs on your blog. Good stuff!

Who Else Wants To Be A Successful, Sought After, Internet Marketing Pimp? We all love those “Get Rich Quick” ebook sites with the LONG sales copy – right? Well here’s a bunch of parody sites that make fun of some of the top “Internet marketing gurus”

Today’s “Affiliate Industry Watch” newsletter includes a pretty good article with tips for building 3 types of affiliate landing pages. I strongly recommend the use of customer testimonials, which is not mentioned in this article, but you can…

Small-is-the-new-big! I keep hearing that phrase said by Declan Dunn at Affiliate Summit. Now I see it again in the article below. The new game is all about trust and…

This article goes in-depth into the ways that affiliate fraud hurts both merchants and affiliates and what the industry is doing about it. As some of you know I was recently a victim of affiliate fraud…

We have some good conversion improvement tips for you today. This article offers 5 conversion issues you should evaluate on your web site including checkout, content, security, access and visual cues that will help you achieve maximum profitability.

I just discovered the Affiliate Classroom Magazine – very nicely done I met Anik at Affiliate Summit so I knew about Affiliate Classroom, just didn’t realize they had produced a full blown industry magazine… Very impressive! Here’s a cover shot.

This is a crack-up! Anyone that has a forum and all of you that post in forums will appreciate it! I think all forums that have clueless newbies should have a link to this instructional flash video…

Well strike up the band! My newly redesigned 5 Star Affiliate Programs main site just went live last night. The developers did a beautiful job. The new site is so much…

When PingOMatic putters, sputters and times out – try Pingoat. It pings around 54 services – many more than Pingo and is fast as lighting! I get frustrated when I slave over my keyboard to get a quick blog out 1st thing in the AM and Pingomatic just putters – don’t you?

Now this is a very impressive new tool. Whether you are tracking your own site’s progress, spying on the competition, analyzing a potential new marketing client’s stats or evaluating a new site/domain for purchase – URLTrends has numerous quick stats at…

A little birdie told Nick at ThreadWatch, that the WebmasterWorld Search Conference will be announced today and will be held in Vegas on November…

I love Todd’s Stuntdubl site graphics, especially Mr. Ploppy. Do a roll over to see him explode after being shot with a banana. In all seriousness though – after you read the Affiliate Manager tips and resources below – do click over to see ALL of Mr. Ploppy’s SEO tools as well.

More cookies news. Looks like if everyone could agree on how big the problem is we could move forward with solutions. However all the articles I see are concerned with ad tracking cookies. No one ever seems to talk about our precious affiliate cookies…

The deal is done. See what people around the forums have to say about it. I didn’t know FastClick was across the street from Commission Junction. How convenient! I can see CPA and CPM…