5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

The Industry has been buzzing about the Affiliate Black Book thats filled with secret affiliate network stats, promises to reveal other controversial and private industry info

4 of the top marketing analysts at Forrester Research just launched a new blog that promises to offer lots of insight and ideas into the world of technology and marketing.

When you do a Google search for a product, or information about a product, how do you feel when some nonsensical page crops up in the top ten results?
No matter how hard you try or what search terms you use, you cannot find the information that you’re looking for.
Lynn Terry wrote a wake up […]

In what’s termed in the press release as a big industry shake-up, Forge Corporation woos 2 of the top people away from Kowabunga.

Glad to see so many local affiliate events spring up all over. For so many affiliates, this biz is one of isolation and there is nothing like meeting with peers and brainstorming face-to-face to get the old creative juices flowing.

I have CTS and most of you who work online full-time either already have severe wrist pain or will someday… even Matt Cutts from Google weighed in about the special mouse he uses to try to combat CTS pain.

So whats considered REALLY big affiliate money? $400,000 a month? $1.3 million a month? Which affiliate programs are cutting checks this big?

PubCon 2006 in Boston was a smash hit (considering it was my first time attending), and the information one was able to pull from it was amazing.
While attending the Affiliate Site Strategies and Optimization session, Elisabeth Archambault offered some great down to earth advice for optimizing an affiliate website.
Make sure it’s accessible. The rationale being […]

Sorry, I forgot to promote this UK affiliate event sooner. Hopefully anyone across the pond already knows about it. There are 500 registered and they are about to sellout.

Matt DeAngelis over at the Affiliate Blog has done some nice calculations about the top 25 CJ programs.

Well initially I thought this may be good data to point out to affiliates for keyword and industry targeting info. Ebay, Vonage and ShopZilla gaming the engines?

I assume these guys were affiliates since they were paid a commission for selling this bogus anti-spyware software.

You know all those spammy sites that are only made to earn Adsense revenue

I’ll be on light blogging duty the next few days as I prepare to move from the OC to sunny San Diego. All affiliate managers know that it can be a challenge to communicate with affiliates

WOM has been getting more buzz lately - look at the graph… similarities the WOM model has in common with affiliate marketing. Ideas brewing

Incentive programs are the often the target of criticism for robbing honest affiliates… 50 people laid off

We have an exciting announcement, several important program updates and a $200 forum posting contest for you. Hope you are showered with all the big commission checks you deserve.

Want to work a company that treats you right and goes WAY beyond others in rewarding their partners and keeping them informed? Wynn Las Vegas offers FREE FAM Tours for their affiliates.

I have seen a few affiliates to use videos on their site successfully to boost conversion rates. It’s not for every affiliate or type of product, but when you explore the application below you will understand how it could quadruple conversion rates for this affiliate.

Chicago affiliate marketers! Lets party… great mix of affiliates and merchants registered including a couple of my 5 Star clients: Mike from zZounds and a new client, an outsourced affiliate management company, that will be coming aboard as a 5 Star program in May

I’m proud to announce that AzoogleAds, a new 5 Star client, has raised the bar again in the fight against adware… recently parted ways with 180 Solutions, eXact advertising and Direct Revenue now more…

Linda Woods from PartnerCentric and Chris Sanderson from AMWSO have finally tied the knot! The 2 “featured” 5 Star Affiliate Programs at the top of my site are joining forces.

New traffic hole just discovered. Are your SERPs being redirected because an attacker has compromised your DNS and is now stealing your traffic? Test your site!

I always hear affiliates talking about finding that ever-elusive niche. Well this is a pretty big “niche” in my opinion that does not seem to be covered very well by the affiliate marketing industry. Most affiliates, merchants and SEO’s just have not focused on the Hispanic market very much. Out of the 50 Affiliate Programs I represent…

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I’m at the ecomXpo all day again today plus at the same time trying to blog, mod the forum, give free phone consultations to merchants and have conference calls with existing clients. Thats the beauty of an online trade-show. You can multi-task and still be at the show. Well at least my avatar is there most of the time, even if I’m not.

After all these years, search must finally be a REAL business… offline magazine to read in planes, at the Drs. office or in the “can” you can get a free subscription through the end of April.

Procrastination, apathy, feeling stuck can all be signs of SLOTH or laziness. However sometimes these are signs of fear. Affiliates work alone typically, so staying motivated and busy is key to success. If you are not getting important things done on your sites, then sloth may be one of the sins you have been tempted by

I’m a Yahoo Advertiser and also EXTREMELY anti-parasite and anti-adware. So it really upsets me that 180 solutions and other slimeballs are serving my Yahoo ads and generating bogus clicks that cost me money! WARNING - Watch your PPC accounts. Ben Edelman reports…

The Affiliate Marketing Sweetie is a strong affiliate and also recently did an affiliate manager training call. She has a great 2 part blog regarding her experience on the affiliate side of a DE-motivating DE-activation campaign. Affiliate managers would do well to walk in an affiliate’s shoes…