5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

I was just reading Google’s recommendations for placement of Adsense ads on blogs for the best click through and conversion rates. Everything they say applies to affiliate marketing

It’s that time of the year and affiliate tax questions are popping up all over… new ideas for dealing with business and tax issues…

“Every time customers initiate a search, they’re sniffing for scent. People hunting for data on the web behave remarkably like animals sniffing out prey. It’s the most effective means of finding a squirrel in a forest.

Friday Funnies - This commercial skit from Saturday Nite Live cracked me up. It illustrates how terribly wrong branding can go if you miss out on getting the right domain for your company. Buckle up and get ready to laugh out loud!

Some of my clients and top affiliate marketers are getting together in Canada. Brian from Shareasale, Chris AMWSO, James Martell, Connie Flamingo World, Jeff Molander, Linda Woods

I don’t work at all with Linkshare these days and I wonder if anyone else does since I have not seen anyone in the affiliate blogoshere talk much about

If you know the players and behind the scenes info - this could be pretty big… I could make some hunches about other moves

Backed by Google and Sun Micro and lead by Harvard and Oxford, another adware watch dog type site launches. Based on the antics from 180 Solutions lately

I purchased DevBlogs.org, a blog directory listed on Robin Good’s RSS Top55 List and re-launched the site as 5 Star Blogs.com. Promote your blog

Social networking, forums, consumer reviews, Web 2.o and the long tail. Add all these up and what do you get? Word of mouth advertising opportunities. There are lots of new opportunites opening up for smart marketers and I am researching several of them

For affiliate marketing how-tos, views, and news with a practical bent and plenty of food for thought, don’t miss this issue!

I have been looking for a blogging affiliate program to help monetize my new blog directory - 5 Star Blogs.com. Plus affiliates on the forums are looking for blog affiliate programs to promote

Microsoft recently attended the Affiliate Summit - rumour has it - for the purpose of researching options for a new affiliate program for MSN Shopping.

Any initiatives that help clean up the advertising industry will result in more long-term revenue for affiliate marketers. Restricting or eliminating Adware download apps

Monetize those 404 error pages by adding affiliate links. Also some good tips for monetizing unused domains.

I am pleased to announce the launch of the WorldSpace Satellite Radio Affiliate Program on the Linkshare Network. This program is pro-actively managed by AMWSO, a leading outsourced affiliate management company.

5 Star Affiliate Programs is proud to announce that Wynn Las Vegas - a globally recognized resort and entertainment brand and one of the most sought after luxury destinations in the world has launched a new affiliate program and is part of the 5 Star family of top rated affiliate programs.

Enjoy three days of affiliate affiliate marketing, search engine optimization and interactive marketing education and networking from your desktop. I guarantee your feet will not hurt at this tradeshow but your hands might

The Internet is for education - NO it’s for making money - NO it’s for porn! What a riot. Sit back, turn up your speakers, get ready to rock then hit play!

This month, to start off the New Year right, we have several exciting new programs for you to earn revenue from, in fact there are 7 that I know if so far and more in the works that will be ready to announce soon.

A report by Marketing Sherpa estimates affiliate commission payouts in 2006 will reach $6.5 billion. In the US advertisers spent $5.75 billion on search engine marketing

With all the talk about Google World Domination after the news about the new Google PC, Google Video Store and yesterdays story about a new Google online book store… well you just need to see the pics to understand

I hate those funky ebook type affiliate sales pages with a passion. But you know what? They convert like crazy! If you take some of these tips and apply them to high integrity affiliate sales pages, you could end up increasing

I’d like to turn you on to a FREE “blogging for dollars” tool. If you have a tech blog for instance, even if you are syndicating others content you could set it up so every instance of the word computer, digital camera, iPod, etc. goes to your Buy.com affiliate link.

Become a Travel Intelligence affiliate and provide your users access to over 3,500 special hideaways in far away places!

Affiliate Summit Blogs, News and Updates: I will be covering all the news and adding it to the 5 Star forum as I find good reports on blogs. So reading the 5 star forum will be almost as good as being at the event.

Discover a new a private label retailer concept with guaranteed cookie-less, parasite resistant tracking. Exciting new concept - like a co-brand plus drop shipping combo is free for 5 Star Affiliates.

Here are FF extensions that literally ROB affiliates and webmasters of revenue. One is just like Norton and blocks CJ and LinkShare. One Steals Amazon commission.

A new Internet Marketing TV channel is supposed to launch featuring on-demand video of interviews, workshops, seminars and webcasts from gurus like Declan Dunn, Alex Mandossian, Marlon Sanders, Johnathan Mizel and others.

Jeff Molander recently did a 5 Part Audio Series with Ben Edelman that covers almost every angle of the affiliate - adware - spyware issue.

YES I am still obsessed with cookies. Whether you do PPC or other types of advertising they are the foundation for tracking in the online marketing industry and I KNOW affiliates are missing out on lots of sales due to cookie issues. There has not been a big rash

Take a quick lesson about increasing CTR and better landing page design from Victoria’ Secret. This comes compliments of my favorite newsletter about increasing online conversion rates and marketing ROI

I just found this great resource that shows the top paying Adsense keywords and highest click through key words. These lists could be helpful for affiliate marketing and SEO in a variety of ways so I would encourage you to check them out

Looking at the hot holiday sellers for 2005 and top retail destinations could provide some clues about products affiliates may want to promote in 2006. Here are a couple hot lists I discovered that I thought may be helpful for affiliate marketers.