5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

I love this picture of Jason! The interview is good - actually it’s really fun to read too. Just thought I would pass it on.

We all know we can’t live by free search traffic alone. Here is an advanced webinar about the multi-channel approach to customer acquisition and retention. Sounds ideal for merchants but some high end savvy affiliates that use multiple ad mediums may also benefit. I’m thinking of attending as well.

I’m speaking at Search Engine Watch Forums LIVE at the DisneyLand Hotel tomorrow. I used to do public speaking all the time, typically a half day seminar. It’s funny but

Brian Livingston just came out with another great article about new initiatives CJ is taking to fight affiliate hijinks and clean the network up. Cookie stuffing, forced clicks and security exploits are the 3 three kinds of prohibited behaviors CJ just hired

Hope everyone is all geared up for a big holiday shopping season. Growth indicators all point to a nice upward swing in online spending and gift shopping this year. Consumers are also starting to shop online earlier than ever

An article about the Dark Side? Are we going to talk about Parasites and Adware again? Nope, this time it’s an article about the big money and big risks associated with

AffiliatePrograms.com Newsletter just came out, which is written by my friend… There’s a good article by Rosalind - titled: “Affiliates: 10 Ways to Improve Your Credibility and Conversions”.

Chitika, Chitika, Chitika! I have not seen this much buzz on the forums about a new affiliate program or contextual advertising program since Google Adsense hit the scene. Reports that I have read

Looking for an infusion of creative monetization ideas that can boost your revenues - and make affiliate marketing exciting again? This issue is so jam packed with great info it’s hard to know where to begin

Reminder to SoCal affiliates and SEO types. Search Engine Watch is doing an event in Anaheim next Thursday. Danny Sullivan and some of your favorite SEW Mods like: JenSense, Nacho, Joseph Morin, Lex, Marcia and “Yours Truly”

Brian Livingston does a more in-depth report about ShopatHomeSelect and CJ and parasitic bahavior in general. Ben Edelman says As with its prior terminations of 180solutions, Direct Revenue, and eXact Advertising, CJ

Are you in compliance? Do you have a privacy policy, cookie disclosure and cookie removal instructions up on all your sites? Some affiliates have said they are dropping CJ over the new PSA, others say they already have. Many are wondering what CJ will do come Thursday if their sites are not in compliance…

Here are some important tips to consider when you are designing affiliate pages or writing ad campaigns for specific products. This is good info for merchants as well to help increase conversions and help your hard working affiliates earn more.

AussieWebmaster shared a couple great Google editorial cartoons ealier this week that I have been saving for the Friday funnies. The forum software over there blocked out the swear word in 1st link, but I know don’t think my readers will mind..

Yes dear, we still publish an old fashioned email newsletter, you can read it conveniently online. This issue is filled with info to help you be successful and increase revenue! We just added several new programs, including a new affiliate training program and free monthly affiliate magazine…

Patrice Colancecco calls Jeff Molander down on his own blog, where she is a featured blogger. 1st Jeff does a blog on ThoughtShapers about the InternetRetailer study on affiliate marketing… He basically says affiliate marketing is shrinking in some markets. Patrice refutes…

Everyone wants to look younger and smile brighter these days, so the Always White professional teeth whitening system is one of the hottest offers on the net! Last year the American public spent over One Billion Dollars on whitening their teeth

Just discovered some enlightening surveys about blog revenue. The graphs are great and the info is interesting. Most bloggers only make $20 a month? Note: affiliate programs are not even mentioned as a revenue source, only AdSense and some other blog ad type networks.

Yea! Another company is starting to get into this game. I keep saying there’s a big need for affiliate datafeed to RSS conversion and I’ve found a couple of solutions so far but none are ideal. Grouper could pull it off, although so far they only have Amazon, Shopping.com AllPosters…

According to a recent study 83% out of 400 top retailers don’t have sites that are well optimized for natural search traffic. No wonder companies need affiliates so much

PCWorld has just published a very long and enlightening article about Adware and Spyware and how it’s used by some of the big brand companies. The trouble is the frequent use of the word affiliate - which could make it sound to the average consumer that ALL affiliates are bad

This cartoon is pretty funny! It’s from my friends over at the Digital Moses newsletter. I write weekly affiliate tips for them and just got the latest newsletter today which includes their new cartoon series. The cartoon is more from the “CPA Offer - Email Spam” side of the affiliate

These guys contribute to the growing need for more consumers to buy anti-spyware to protect themselves. Many of these programs block honest marketers links or delete affiliate cookies. The ClientMan Spyware software that was distributed also hijacked search engine requests

I think this blog about the AdAge article IS BUZZ MARKETING ILLEGAL may be stretching things a bit… If it does then since I’m such a big “Affiliate Buzzer” I could be in real trouble…

How do you ask for a link? Asking for a link is about asking if you can do business with somebody. Links are much like currency on the web: If you don’t have a value proposition then don’t bother…

Marketingsherpa & KowaBunga! are offering a free seminar titled: ‘Search Engine PPC Benchmarks for Affiliate Marketers’ on Wednesday

I’m a big Declan Dunn fan. Who could hear him speak at Affiliate Summit about “Marketing with Integrity” and not be inspired! In his new audio blog he is talking about the need to merge Affiliate marketing and CPA networks…

What really gets your goat in AM? This question was recently asked over at the UK affiliate forum and a good discussion has started. Some of the things mentioned by affiliates that merchants and networks should take note of were:

“Will it be long before mortgage lead generators (affiliate marketers) will have to submit to security audits and/or get “certified?”

Now this is what I call a SMART marketing idea. Coupons delivered contextually by in-line keyword matching - “Concordance, allows Web Publishers and Advertisers to provide consumers with money-saving offers directly related to the content of particular web pages…