July 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs Archives

Boost Adwords ROI - New Free Google Campaign Optimizer

Could your Adwords campaigns use some help? Google just launched a new free tool that could help improve your Adwords performance and boost your ROI.

Affliate Marketing Gets a New Sticky Wiki

Shawn launched an Affiliate Wiki ithat died due to an underwhelming lack of interest by the affiliate marketers, overwhelming interest by spammers. But today a big new Affiliate Marketing Wiki launches that is team managed.

100 Resources for Making Money Online

There are other ways to make money online besides affiliate marketing? I didn’t know. ;-) There are things I wasn’t aware of like getting paid to be on user research panels for Google and Microsoft and getting paid to be on mock juries.

ShoeMoney Sells AuctionAds to Media Whiz

Media Whiz bought out the company that was jointly owned by ShoeMoney and Dillsmack. Congrats you two for a well deserved win and to Media Whiz for making another smart buy.

The Current State of our Marketing Cookies

Have not posted anything recently about the ever-evolving online landscape as it pertains to consumer’s views about cookies and their deletion patterns. There have been a couple recent studies and white papers on the issue.

eTailers - Use an Affiliate Program for Reputation Management?

…which isn’t really fair since affiliates don’t get paid for branding or link building. However if you don’t have an affiliate program yet and need another reason - besides sales - to start one, think of the reputation management benefits an affiliate channel can provide. WHAT???

More Google Slaps Coming - Super Affiliates Say Bring it ON!

Google slaps will continue coming and a good thing! Take advantage of advice from these Super affiliates and up your game. You’ll end up on the winning end.

CCI Corinthian Colleges - High Paying Education Affiliate Program

Cash in on the Lucrative Distance Learning & Online Education Market. Earn up to $25 per lead.

Watch a 3 Year Old Build Affiliate Site with PopShops

If a 3 year old can do it… so can you! Such a super viral video idea to use a cute kid to show how easy PopShops is.

PPC at the Speed of Light - SpeedPPC Works 72,500% Faster

I hate to even talk about a product pre-launch however since this one is backed by… Watch the video to see an 8,720 keyword campaign with 8,720 targeted landing pages, built in a flash! See month of work done in under 12 minutes.

New Tips and Tricks for your Niche Marketing Arsenal

Decided it’s time to add some new tips and resources to your niche marketing arsenal. I took some time today and brainstormed a list of tasks that I do when I create a niche or authority site.

Denver, Seattle, New York, Dallas Affiliate Meetings

Did you miss Summit OR did but didn’t get enough affiate schmoozing in? Several networking events coming up in Denver, Seattle, New York and Dallas.

Affiliate Pay-Per-Click Success

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is something most affiliate marketers know they should use in their marketing efforts. Unfortunately, some people are afraid to try it because they are afraid of the process, or have tried and wasted money with little or no success.

Super Affiliate Snapped Up by ValueClick for 352 Million

Even though the goal of the average one-man-shop affiliate site owner is probably not to grow the company so big that it gets acquired or goes public, it certainly legitimizes our industry to know that the affiliate model can scale to this level.

Tech Alert - Ecommerce Shopping Cart Built Right Into Banners

Theres a new banner technology that has eCommerce transaction capability built right in. This could revolutionize affiliate marketing if it takes off by letting consumers buy from merchants right on your site without having to leave your site and click off to the merchant.

New Social Network 4 SEOs & eMarketers - ThreadWatch Replacement

Looking for yet another place to do that social network thang??? If you are into SEO, PPC and Internet Marketing you just may want to take “Sphinn” for a SPIN. Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land just launched…

Affiliate Summit Miami Pictures, News and Videos

I have posted lots of Summit videos now. Google’s Product Manager, Rob Kniaz talks about the Summit and how affiliates can work with Google. Sam Harrelson talks about affiliates and Web 2.0.

Tale of an Affiliate IPO - Affiliate Site 1.9 BILLION Valuation

This affiliate site is doing an IPO valued at 1.9 BILLION. See how UGLY it was 4 years ago - which goes to show ANYONE can make it in this game. See what they are doing and why it WORKS!

Mortgage Affiliates - Earn More - Get Paid PER CLICK!

Pay per lead affiliate programs can be very lucrative and MORTGAGE affiliate programs are among the highest paying. But what if you could get paid for mortgage clicks?

White Label - Co-Brand - Niche Template Sites - How they Differ

Robert the CEO just posted this in the 5 Star forum… White Label Affiliate Programs, Co-Branded Sites, Niche Template offerings - do you know the difference? I’m sure for most affiliates the lines are quite blurred… apples to oranges…

Squidoo gets Google Slapped and Cracks Down

The lab has been investigating the recent drop in ranking for Squidoo lenses in Google’s search engine results. Squidoo has already implemented many new spam control measures that could impact you even if you are not a spammer../

FAILURE - An Affiliates Best Friend

FAILURE! This F word can be the catalyst to your success! Watch this VIDEO! SUPER affiliates in one way or another say that trial and error or past mistakes was the most important reason…

DoubleClick Performics Expands - Launches AffiliateDirect

Full-service affiliate marketing continues to be a core business for DoubleClick Performics, but now smaller advertisers and those with a dedicated affiliate manager can use our technology and access our affiliate network

Affiliates - In Case You Missed the Boat

I know some of you are busy multi-tasking and don’t get a chance…

$52 - $140 Commission - No PPC Restrictions - Great Affiliate Program

Today I’d like to highlight an affiliate program that does things right and bends over backwards to be affiliate-centric in all their marketing policies. $75 up to $140 per sale, no PPC restrictions, they have activation bonuses, first sale bonuses, free content… you name it!

New Ebay Free Classified Site - Competition for CraigsList

Craig is about to get competition. Ebay owns an overseas classified ad sites that some savvy affiliates have been capitalizing on. Well Ebay just launched a brand new US free classified ads site called…

Affiliate Datafeed Software - Webmerge Review

WebMerge, the program most affiliates use to turn merchant datafeeds into product-filled affiliate web stores. Webmerge is one of those tools, you wonder Where has this been all my life?

Funny Triple Star Audition Video - Next Internet Millionaire

Some great “Multiplicity” action here by Bill Reyes. He’s all 3 guys in the video and he sings a cool little rap.

Salute to Affiliate Independence Day

Are you thankful for your affiliate Independence? Take time to celebrate your independence - this wonderful country we live in - and this amazing opportunity called affiliate marketing. Freedom is a beautiful thing!

Affiliates - Start your own Niche White Label Dating Site

Why join dating affiliate programs when you can have your own private label, co-brand or white label dating service - for FREE? This is HOT!

Schlogg it or Flog it - Digg-like Shopping Cash from Chitika

Schlogg it or Flogg it! Good deals go social with Shlogging. Chitika just launched their Digg-like social shopping site to the public and they offers widgets and commissions for affiliates and bloggers.

Affiliate Marketing gets Sexier? Says Who?

Email and search engines are sexier than AM? Retailers are JUST discovering an affiliate program can be leveraged? Almost every etailer on the Internet Retailer Top 50 List has had an affiliate program for years, where have you guys been?