5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Ever wonder what the average affiliate manager makes? How much do they make on the high end? What about OPM’s? Most OPMs responded with over 10K a month.

Add These to Your Tool Belt (love this pic!) I ran into a few cool free Web 2.0 applications that could help affiliates or really any webmaster or online marketer more effectively manage their businesses.

Must See Video - Even if you are somewhat of a pro I guarantee you’ll get resources you didn’t know about. You know I LIVE affiliate marketing and blogging and I learned a couple new tricks. If you are a newbie this video will show you step by step exactly what to do.

Many keyword sources you could use to pull keywords for PPC or even for natural search provide data in a format that’s difficult to use - filler with extraneous characters or unwanted numbers.

I do numerous free consultations a month for merchants. I recommend the best tracking solution for their needs and refer them to the OPM that is the best fit for their specific situation.

Here is an extremely easy way to get 1 cent clicks on Adwords. Evidently some people have been using this trick for arbitrage and now they are sharing the info.

If you knew a little known way to advertise to thousands - on one of worlds biggest sites for a FULL MONTH for LESS than the cost of a CHEAP dinner out… Would you share the info, sell it or keep it all to yourself?

PERFECT example and hot tool for using video for affiliate marketing. This video ad is so effective it made me want to immediately buy it. Watch this video about “The Secret” (a product that was featured on Oprah last week) and see if the video pre-sells you the way it sold me.

EVEN IF the merchant gave you the banner, text link or ad copy - you could be responsible for showing proof those claims are valid. Lose “10 lbs the 1st month” - Prove IT! “Make a bazillion in your underwear with no work! ” You better have PROOF to back up that statement!

Hey affiliates, niche content creators, Adwords users and SEOs. How would you like to be able to immediately generate huge sortable keyword lists from any web page - on the FLY! This is so cool!

The blogs that are rated are not exclusively about affiliate marketing but include blogs that also concentrate on contextual advertising and other online revenue generation techniques. You may discover some interesting new blogs about generating income online.

Listen as Angel, affiliate manager for Onlineshoes (Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award finalist) shares his insights about cleaning up your program and the positive affect it can have on ROAS and revenues.

There are over 50 different health and beauty related products and sites to promote. If you’ve looked at this program before and didn’t join - look again and discover what you are missing!

Karen has announced new “Affiliate Famtours.” What’s a Famtour? That’s a free stay at the Wynn to let affiliates FEEL the Wynn experience 1st hand.

Offers ideas from working affiliates on how to increase conversions and sales plus ongoing series of tips straight from merchants and managers…

…goes into some methods that some affiliate managers may not know about including how to use Adwords and SpyFu to find and research good affiliates.

5 Star was just nominated again for Best Affiliate Marketing Blog 5 Star always gets nominated and never seems to win. Still, I love the extra attention and always appreciate being nominated. Just makes me want to try harder!

I’ve made several improvements over at Affiliate Marketing BUZZ, so wanted to give you all an update.

This pics for you - Since you are all so unique… Whether you are an affiliate, merchant, affiliate manager, network rep or “other” I value your readership and love pouring my heart into this blog!

There’s a certain powerful ease that comes with building a site around a topic you are passionate about. Then Ros shows that chasing the almighty dollar doesn’t always work.

I’ve had people ask me to share some examples of how this would work for affiliate marketing and meant to share this last week but never had time. Chris used a Gaiam video and just added captions and embeded links.

AffiliStore v1.0 Pro has just been released and includes a load of new features for affiliates lloking for an easy way to build datafeed sites

Attention shady affiliates that think you can use deceptive advertising and just fly under the radar. Sometimes it seems that the only time affiliate marketing makes the news is when something like this happens. And we wonder why AM has a bad rep!

Karen asked me to let you know that the professionally done individual photos from the Pure Imagination Party held at the Tryst Nightclub, are ready to view and pick up. Everyone can go to the gallery to see them. WOWSER!

Many bloggers shy away from affiliate marketing thinking it’s too complicated or afraid it will turn off their readers. Let’s look at how a couple top rated blogs are optimizing their online revenue with affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing, done right, can be a bloggers best friend

The event will bring together dozens of merchant affiliate program managers and potentially hundreds of affiliates in 1 webinar for 3 hours of learning and earning. Presenters include Chris Sanderson, Dan Salvaterra, Debbie Carney and more

Of course I picked up the story to read it because it sounded like it was about parasites or adware, the way it was written. Turns out it’s about a strong super affiliate just doing normal affiliate marketing, to the tune of 3 Million + a year

New API will appeal to affiligeeks that want to develop mobile apps or partner with TIVO. Also new Ebay contextual ads coming. Who makes 1 Million a month with Ebay?

Does affiliate marketing, “the oft unsung workhorse of online marketing” drive higher average order sizes and better converting traffic than other types of online sales channels…

Need more beta testers - download a free pre-release copy. The company gave out CDs of the new Keyword Manager at the Summit, got great feedback, new features are being implemented.

Heres one affiliate program that has launched a whole series of sales videos with affiliate links embedded. Watch one below and see how viral it is. When people use the share button to pass the video along your affiliate id gets passed on too.

What are some of the main reasons affiliates fail? We’ve all heard the saying - Do what you love and the money will follow. A super affiliate and an affiliate manager tell you the same principle applies to affiliate marketing…

How much do affiliates over inflate merchant’s PPC costs? Affiliates love finding keywords that allow for arbitrage of the CPC against the commission paid by merchants or lead-gen partners.

There is an informal survey going on where affiliates discuss their best methods for generating affiliate site traffic. Super affiliates share lots of good ideas and insight here.

Here is an interview Daron did with Todd Crawford of OneNetwork Direct during the Affiliate Summit West show in Las Vegas.