5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

A new Social Network just hit the scene today for affiliate marketers and merchants who want to connect in more meaningful ways. The 1st affiliate social network

Are you an affiliate? Do you have a blog? If you can wrap your brain around some innovative out of the box thinking - then this may be an idea you want to try.

Many advertising related affiliate programs pay you commission for either ad buyers or new publisher referrals - TextLinkAds pays you generous commissions for both!

Weekend news about 180 Solutions, my favorite Adware company to talk about. Ben Edelman feud - AzoogleAds drops 180

Piss me off! Thanks to Buckworks over at AffiliateBoards for alerting me… targeting only small, home-based CafePress Affiliates and Marketers in this lawsuit because they know they can’t afford to fight back

For those of you who have never met Ian Lee, Chris Sanderson or Linda Woods in person, you are in for a treat - almost as good as being there live

Promoted 2 of my favorite 5 Star Forum members so my Mod Squad just grew again. They were just featured in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times

I’ve been considering the new MSN AdCenter for advertising, so have been curious to find out more about how it’s doing. First Public Demo of MSN adCenter 3.0

This new offering from Google has some pretty hot implications for affiliate marketers. This quick easy page builder hosted by Google has some very nice templates which you can see at Matt’s

I know lots of affiliates and other online marketers are into dating affiliate programs. Some super affiliates like Rosalind Gardner have made lots of money in this lucative space, so tuning into WebmasterRadio

In-depth info and resources regarding the 8 most popular methods of monetizing your blog - plus how to calculate how much revenue your blog could/should earn

Affiliates - wrap your brain around this for your site niche and think of the possibilities! Getting a link back from PRWeb could mean extra targeted traffic from people who are reading the type of PR that you would want to blog about.

This question comes up for me frequently at affiliate forums I moderate and I just don’t have the right answer. I’m always really leery of changing ANY affiliate links at all, for fear they won’t track properly

Intrigued by the recent posts here and on Site Point about super affiliates making huge money in the UK? Then you’ll want to download this month’s issue

Interesting take on the Affiliate Marketing game and how it fits into the overall SEM strategy. Can’t say I agree

Don’t auto manufacturers know that Affiliate Marketing is typically the best ROI marketing online? None of the major automakers have an affiliate program and they are seriously missing the boat!

DMNews today has an interesting slant on WebSideStory’s index. AOL 6.17 percent conversion rates - Google only 3.83 percent.

Undiscovered non-competitive niches that have high consumer interest, searches and buyers are VERY hard to find! So lets talk about tightening your focus and creating a “niche” out of big markets that are already very competitive

How many of you have heard of or currently work with MPORT? In case you haven’t heard the news…

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From the 5 Star Affiliate Programs Team to You! […]

The dissemination of harmful, unremovable programs that frustrate consumers’ ability to control their own computers is digital carjacking, and we intend to vigorously prosecute it

I’ll show you mine - if you’ll show me yours! Bank deposit slips and CJ stats that is! You want to learn to generate big money? Follow the biggest money bag!

I have done some consulting in the past for Performancing and Nick asked me to Beta test the 1st version of Performancing for Firefox, but

One of them is a very big, yet relatively new affiliate network and the other is a well known ad network that is launching a very compelling affiliate program. Here are the newest programs we have just launched

Is it OK to serve full page pop unders of CJ links? NO. It’s considered cookie-stuffing or setting forced clicks - besides that it’s bad for our industry - Why???

Warning :Norton just caught the W32.Mytob.V@mm worm which is rated HIGH risk in an email that came from newsletter@linkshare.com

Post your CJ Account screenshot showing balance due $81,332 and then generously offer to share advice on how others can learn to generate that kind of revenue

I am doing consulting for a major affiliate network who’s name I have not announced. One thing we will be working on is RSS datafeeds for affiliates

I was reading with interest over the weekend reports that Amazon is planning to come out with a contextual advertising program to compete with Google Adsense.

For those of you that missed the last Affiliate Summit, I just discovered a series of videos that cover some of the main sessions.

The 5 Star Affiliate Forum has a new section for webmaster related article submissions… wanted to share one that was just added today

New way to get more buzz for your marketing buck through press releases combined with the power of RSS advertising

Stats from Shawn Collins’ annual AffStat report. 18% of merchants surveyed have cut single affiliate checks for over 20K and more

You’ve heard of the 95/5 rule of affiliate marketing right? 5% of affiliates make 95% of the sales. Well here is an in-depth study of what one company did to make that number grow to an amazing 50%.