5 Star Affiliate Blogs

May the coming year bring you and your loved ones health, happiness and success!
All of us at 5 Star wish all of you a very prosperous and Happy New Year.

Since I got a terrible bug for Christmas and am not feeling much like blogging, today I’m just going to link to TWO REALLY HOT NEW WEB 2.0 TRICKS for affiliate marketers.

What will the future hold for affiliate marketing in 2007? Free teleseminar. Pros look into their crystal ball and make their 2007 predictions.

Jeremy Palmer created a very simple to understand video tutorial explaining how to do link cloaking. He’s had lots of people ask him about it in his forum. I get the question often at 5 Star too, so am glad to have a good resource to point people to.

We know you worked hard to build up to this most festive and lucrative shopping season. All of us here at 5 Star want to let you know how much we appreciate your partnership and loyalty over the past year

Thanks for nominating 5 Star for the top Affiliate Marketing Blog. I’m up against some stiff competition. I would never think of asking for your vote, but do encourage you to head over and vote for your favs. You just might find some great SEO, Link Building and Social Media Optimization Blogs you didn’t know about, that could help you in your business next year.

Every newbie affiliate and even old pros that want greater success in the coming year need to read this, learn from it and then set your own goals for 2007.

One of the biggest affiliate programs changed their TOS which will result in lost revenue for affiliates, the other company closed their program and bailed without paying affiliates.

Gene Kavner is the former World-Wide Director of the Amazon Associate Program and is the moderator of our new Amazon Affiliate Forum.

Blog tag is whipping through the affiliate marketing community. Bloggers have to share five things about themselves that most readers wouldn’t know, and then tag five other bloggers to be “it.”

Are YOU the Perfect Affiliate? What does the perfect affiliate look like? What do they do that makes them so special? Debi wants to know…

Blogkits is an excellent solution for bloggers that aren’t marketers and don’t want to be. Today I want to focus on n00b affiliates and how Blogkits is a great solution…

The blogosphere is buzzing about a story in the Washington Post that has people thinking that the FTC will kill affiliate marketing as we know it.

Even affiliates can benefit from this information as they think about new and better ways to increase conversions in 2007. Video demonstrations, well in fact all type of online video, social networking and interactive customer reviews are some of the hot apps that winning online retailers are utilizing to boost sales.

We appreciate that Kyle, Google Product Manager for Checkout, worked on a tacking solution and posted an update for us at the 5 Star forum.

The Affiliate Jam Session and Sing-a-Long, sponsored by ShareASale, will be a live music karaoke and networking party. All proceeds will go directly to Big Brothers and Big Sisters

What happens if you are doing PPC for a merchant and don’t realize their site is down? Money down the drain, that can never be reclaimed. What happens if the program you are promoting switches to a new payment processor (like the recent Checkout debacle)? You could be sending traffic that won’t be tracked and credited.

Coined a new phrase… The 7 deadly sins of affiliate marketing book, he came up with his own. 7 Brilliant Ideas on dealing with affiliates intelligently.

Yesterday I blogged about a huge issue that is impacting affiliates this Holiday season. Since then I have done more digging came up with new information.

Affiliates – Merry Christmas from Google! By now I’m sure you’ve read about the problem. This is a serious leak. So check with your merchants to see if they offer Checkout.