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This year’s Holiday contest will give away over $35,000 in cold hard cash, trips and prizes. You need to register to enter.

Many have asked why I’m not going to Affiliate Summit in January - well here’s why. I’m having a baby punkin!

I want to extend a very heart-felt thanks to all the 5 Star members, our 5 Star Super Mods and especially Larwee (Larry) our Administrator for helping us to get where we are today.

Find out how to leverage CPA campaigns for niche websites. Discover Web 2.0 and Social gizmos that can help you do niche market research.

This tool helps Affiliates dynamically generate product daily deals on their website. Options include dynamic text, banner and html ads or dynamic RSS feeds

If you are like me, you sometimes forget about optimizing for any of the search engines except Google. Y likes a keyword density of 7% and Y still likes meta keywords

AzoogleAds 2.0 is just around the corner. Tons of new tools plus NEED TO CHANGE YOUR LINKS!

The 8-week curriculum will be delivered online one evening per week for eight weeks, with each “night-school” style class dedicated to one of the eight steps outlined in Martell’s top-selling downloadable Affiliate Marketer’s Handbook

Affiliate Classroom just launched a search engine that will only search websites in the Affiliate Marketing niche. Using new technology released by Google

Now with more streamlined segmentation and affiliates having years of strong niche marketing experience under their belts, affiliates have become the savviest of online marketers.

All those who aid or abet an online gambling website that is in violation of Section 5363 and 5366 are punishable as if they were the online gambling Website

The balance of power is shifting in affiliate marketing, creating a new generation of affiliate marketers that will further change the industry, said PartnerCentric President Linda Woods during a panel discussion today as part of the eComXpo virtual conference

Watch this video and see Markus talk about how he makes around 10K a day in Google Adsense income

Affiliate Strategies and Content Strategies is a panel discussion that will feature
David Rivero - JoeBucks, Matt Tuens - InfoSearchMedia, Greg Niland - GoodROI Consulting, Vinny Lingham - IncuBeta, Elisabeth Archambault - Buckworks, John Coronella - Online Marketer.

I know some affiliates that are great videographers. I know LOTS of affiliates that will do ANYTHING for a buck! So here’s a pretty cool contest from Yahoo that’s paying out $50,000 to the winner.

FastServers just launched on CJ. They pay affiliates the full first months service fees which run from 200 - 5,000!

Listen as Matt answers questions like - Does Google Consider SEO a Bad Thing. Also Affiliate Marketing show and more SEO

Chris Sanderson from AMWSO just announced in the 5 Star forum, the official launch of his new site which features affiliate bonuses from numerous affiliate programs. Bonuses are sorted by industry, network and bonus type to make it easy for affiliates to track down a bonus based on your specific need and interest.

So why not let your affiliates create their OWN bonus program. Crazy? Well Mike Payne from zZounds is doing just that and I think it’s BRILLIANT!

The BUZZ is a news aggregation site that features the top affiliate marketing blogs ALL in ONE place. Also includes affiliate forum scanner and affiliate marketing jobs.

Here is a picture of one of Rosalind Gardner’s main affiliate sites, with a big Zang0 ad for Adult FriendFinder popping over her site. She now realizes thats why she has lost revenue on this site.

Great tips, tricks and news. Topics include CJ for Sale Rumors, several really good WordPress Tips for Blogging Affiliates, New Amazon Affiliate tools and more.

Affiliates and managers are concerned about gambling affiliates invading the retail affiliate space and creating stiff competition for traditional affiliates, due to the legislation outlawing U.S. web gambling.

Jeff Molander just launched a new weekly audio program called Weekly Insight featuring the latest news and gossip on the Internet and affiliate marketing front. The audio programs will include participants like

eComXpo provides all the benefits of a top tradeshow without the cost, travel or hassle normally associated with traditional events. The event is 100% online, virtual and free. Are you registered yet?

Nominate your favorite affiliate manager, merchant, blogs and affiliate in the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards. Nominations are currently being accepted for the following categories:

I have finalized the 5 Star Affiliate Summit Contests. We have 14 Affiliate Summit Tickets to give away to 14 lucky winners. Will you be one of them?

The title of this article is designed to prove (in an SEO kind of way) the very point that Dale Carnegie was making when he wrote one of the most influential business books of all times

Anik convinced Ros to share her favorite traffic generation strategy. I’m a pretty savvy blogger and I ordered it. We can all learn new tricks and it’s FREE!

Following is a good comparison study that was just done using 4 different industries so you can get a cross reference of performance by market type. The study documents number of clicks, number of actions, conversions and cost per action.

Want to go to the Summit for Free? I will be giving away 2 full pass tickets to Affiliate Summit and a DOZEN expo passes over at the 5 Star forums. One of the contests will center around a question that goes something like this

This is a crazy time for merchants to communicate with their affiliates. Affiliates are already starting to get so bombarded with holiday offers and contests that many don’t even have time to check all their email.

Why call it a MEGA program? You can earn top commissions for most of the major carriers WITHOUT having to join each program separately. Sometimes you get a HIGHER commission with PhoneDog than you would through the direct affiliate program.

Brandon blogged about cookie stuffing and said “many of the worlds best affiliate marketers know this dirty little secret.” Rob does a great job of explaining why it’s wrong.

In a shock move the US has passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act over the weekend. It could be that nobody goes to jail, but that some affiliates livelihoods are ruined