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Ya all know I love datafeed tools. A cool new datafeed app - affiliates can use it for free. This tool offers several things that are unique compared to the other datafeed creation tools out there.

Amazon is launching a brand new beta contextual word links program and has invited a select few top Amazon Associates to participate. I’m not talking about the Omakase program, this is new and different. It sounds to me like it will be sort of a hybrid between the way Kontera contextual links and Chitika product type ads work.

Are you ready for Christmas? Are all your affiliate sites ready? Well I sure hope so. Jeremy Palmer and Rosalind Gardner held a Holiday Shopping Teleseminar on Black Friday to help affiliate marketers ensure that their sites are ready for the busy holiday season ahead.

Wishing everyone the best of sales for the Holidays. Even though CyberMonday will kick things off for the season and may be the highest traffic day, it probably will not be the biggest sale day.

I’m glad to see Darren over at ProBlogger focusing so much of this great series on affiliate marketing. This week he adds a couple more affiliate articles to this series about “How to Fine Tune your Blog for Christmas

Can you think of 9 reasons or more to be thankful for Affiliate Marketing? Helen Montgomery of AffiliateClassroom can. She wrote about being thankful in a way that touched my heart and reminded me of everything I have to be grateful for in this business.

I sincerely wish you and your family the best Thanksgiving ever. Now for a little Turkey Day humor. I posted this past year, but for those that missed it, it’s a hoot. Hope it brings a smile to your face too. Watch it, then pass it on.

Jeremy Palmer, the “million-dollar affiliate” recently joined CJ to help host the Affiliate Marketing Today radio show. Here’s the holiday selling season tips for affiliates audio archive…

Jeremy Palmer, the “million-dollar affiliate” and Ros Gardner, super affiliate will be putting on a special FREE teleseminar on Black Friday

Tangible Products - if you’re thinking of optimizing your blog for Christmas you’ll have much more success in promoting actual physical products rather than products such as e-books. While e-books can be quite good programs to promote - they are not really Christmassy.

Maybe if more and more affiliates get busted and are held accountable it will curb the scourge of spyware affiliates that plague our industry. 2 recent news stories I hope will give download affiliates a reason to drop those programs.

What do you get when you combine digital automation with word of mouth? Viral Marketing. Also learn how to generate extra buzz with viral videos

With all the uproar about the new Google Adwords algo changes this cartoon about a kids MFA scraper sites, fit right into the conversation

Clearly, there is great value in affiliate marketing. Yet there is also an urgent need to respond to the lack of accountability and abuse that characterizes the industry. A failure to act will surely lead advertisers to reject the risks inherent in affiliate marketing

Affiliates are always looking for niches. Well here’s one I bet you never thought of - a service that harvests stem cells from baby teeth.

Jake Baillie moderated the panel which included Elisabeth Archambault aka Buckworks, David Rivero - JoeBucks, Matt Tuens - CKMG and John Coronella.

The Affiliate Manager Boot Camp is coming up on January 24. Take Your Affiliate Program To The Next Level! Over 6 Expert Speakers

Here are some excellent ideas for both affiliates and merchants regarding conversion testing you can do even during the hectic Holiday selling season.

cyn.in Partner Program is targeted at Software Resellers, Systems Integrators, Bloggers, IT consultants or Independent Software Developers, Webmasters, Super Affiliates, ISPs, ASPs, and Web hosting companies.

Cyber Monday is right around the corner. Affiliates and eTailers are preparing themselves. Cyber Monday is a term that was coined last year and refers to the…

The step by step guide of how to get a good affiliate to run for the hills and risk your entire organic search engine marketing plan in the process.

The Holiday contest season has started and our merchants have over 40,000 in prizes and bonuses for you. Plus we have some more great new 5 Star programs for your earning pleasure.

Turn sounds like it will attempt to merge the best of all online ad mediums. For publishers it will be as easy as placing Adsense code and it’s contextual, yet it’s CPA. For advertisers there is no concern about click fraud

Topics include Brand-bidding, Landing Pages, Merchant-affiliate collaboration and communication, Integrated Campaigns and Hybrid Deals

Looking for a smart way to get more traffic at reasonable prices? The network features over 1200 top blogs and I’ve gotten some amazing ad buys.

PartnerCentric was just featured on Good Morning America and dressed up for the occasion by launching their brand new beautiful web site.

One of our 5 star clients, Text-Link-Ads, is being acquired by MediaWhiz - who owns the Filinet affiliate network and will in the future be adding CPA and CPM to the mix.

Google is tightening the quality control reigns again and this new algo comes just in time for the Christmas shopping rush. Affiliate landing pages will be hit harder than ever it seems

Advertisers should all be ramping up their PPC campaigns for the Holidays - new software, tips and step by step methods for generating thousands of keyword combinations - easily and quickly.

What is a mashup and why should affiliates care? Techy affiliates are really going to want to check out the links in this blog.

SMO is more than SEO in that it aims to bring traffic from a variety of sources beyond search engines. SEOs have been promoting this idea for quite some time and now the idea has a name and an acronym we can all rally around. It’s never a good idea to rely on one source for your traffic and thus your revenue.

Similar to the the four stages of marketing - Awareness, interest, desire and action - when you are developing your affiliate partners the relationship builds through 4 stages too.

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