5 Star Affiliate Marketing 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…

We all hang in forums and know the stereotype posters when we see them - BUT you have not seen what they REALLY look like until you check out these PRICELESS cartoons!

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…

This issue of the 5 Star News is filled with info to help you be successful and increase revenue! Find out about SoCal networking parties in OC/LA and also at CJU. The 5 Star Affiliate Forum $400 posting contest is heating up and we have lots of other big affiliate contests.

Well one of the “parasites” I was ranting about yesterday in my Parasites, Adware and Spyware blog has been exposed - again! How can the affiliate networks let companies like this continue their tricks for clicks after reading THIS?

Can you increase the cost of affiliate software from $50 to $2000 per month and still get people to buy it? According to Jeff Molander you sure can! MYAP from Kowabunga, which I consider to be the top affiliate tracking software on the market just raised their prices…

An affiliate manager on a forum I frequent asked for advice and the pros and cons of approving 2 affiliates for his program that are considered to be “parasites” but have high EPC rankings. There were lots of good comments that I wish I could quote - but I can’t. However, since it stirred up such a reaction…

Scott Jangro used to be with BeFree and was directly involved in the creation of the “Affiliate Code of Conduct” which is how the afsrc=1 parameter was born in order to help protect affiliate commissions from parasitic marketers…

Howard Stern and others are suing Google over Adwords Budget Limits…

Barry (RustyBrick) will be covering all the search engine, blog marketing and other seminars at SES. Live updates and overviews of each session will be post in this thread over at Search Engine Watch. (Don’t forget, I mod the Affiliate Issues forum there, so come by and say hi!)

MSN Shopping Beta now features user-driven RSS feeds. I think it’s a first for shopping portals. Merchants need to start offering dynamically customizable RSS product feeds for affiliates. NOT for consumer use, but…

I see many forum posts about site scrapers and what a PITA they are. This article says scrapers are “good” for you and compares them to the movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”…

Someone is Googling me again. Who could it be? A potential client? An old boyfriend? Here’s a cartoon that shows you how I feel. Discovered the searches in my logs - again! Someone is always Googling me. Makes me paranoid…

Click Pimping? It’s the new word for Keyword Arbitrage dontcha know? Well one affiliate says that Google is clamping down now on affiliates that are using AdWords landing pages…

Tired of the networks? Bored with promoting mortgages and kitchenware? Let zZounds, a trusted Indie put the excitement back into affiliate marketing–and big commission and contest checks in your pocket! Here’s what the zZounds Affiliate Program has in store for the Holidays…

Been busy collecting some of the hottest YPN buzz for you this AM so you can read all the best info, all in one place - HERE! Even have some samples of different Y ad formats for you to see…

Out of all the cookie deletion articles I have read or blogged about recently, I like this one the best, as it starts to address various solutions that the online ad industry can take to try to counteract this growing trend…