5 Star Affiliate Blogs

Host Linda Woods welcomes Mike Allen of Shopping-Bargains to the Affiliate Marketing Insider radio show. Shopping-Bargains began in 1999 as a hobby. 2008 – finalist for the Affiliate of the Year in the Affiliate Summit Awards. 2005 – finalist for the LinkShare Merchants Choice Award.

I blogged last week that Brian would be starting a series of posts on copywriting strategies for affiliate marketing. The 1st in the series and it’s really well done and info-rich. 3 Killer Content Strategies for Building Affiliate Marketing Assets…

Should Merchants Use Multiple Affiliate Networks? It’s a multi-dimensional issue and there is not a single answer that’s right for every affiliate program. Industry veterans answered. Affiliates – what do you think?

In my virtual journeys this AM I noticed Shareasale has a new look. I think the new design just launched today. Since a pic is worth 1,000 words I’ll just show you the before and after. What do you think?

Information Week had a good article about the affiliate marketing session at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Always great to see our industry get positive play in mainstream media. I blogged earlier about

Some affiliates were afraid that if they used Tracking202, the team could potentially steal their data and mine their best keywords. So this one is self hosted. Unbelievably, just like Tracking202, Prosper202 is FREE.

A few months ago I was interviewed by Revenue Magazine for a feature about recruiting affiliates. The article titled: Looking for a Few Good Affiliates was published in the January/February issue and was just added to the web site, so even non-subscribers can read it.
The 3 page article is filled with great tips from [...]

For affiliates who have always wanted to go to Affiliate Summit, but cannot afford it, here’s your chance! Affiliate Summit will be giving away a free, full conference pass to Affiliate Summit 2008 East every Monday through June 30th.
All you have to do to enter is to follow Affiliate Summit on Twitter and submit [...]

Brian Clark, the copywriting guru, will be starting a series of posts on content and copywriting strategies for affiliate marketing, over at Copyblogger. I’m a regular reader of his blog which always has great tips about writing copy that sells, so I’m happy to see him do a series that focuses on affiliate marketing.

I’m sure some of the merchants that provide the content and the affiliates that end up using it, wonder about duplicate content filters and potential penalties. Here is some detailed insight and suggestions.

He wrote a good one this weekend regarding the pros and cons of direct linking vs landing pages vs landing sites. He includes some good info on why and when to use each one.

DoubleClick Performics continues to attract lots of great new merchants. Here are some of their newest affiliate programs which includes some big brands as well as come nice little niche programs.

Complete Coverage of the New York Affiliate Tax Issues Here
I hoped this New York Affiliate Sales Tax problem that Elliot Spitzer started right before the hooker episode would die out, but looks like it could go through. I’ll link to places with more info for those that haven’t followed this but in a brief nutshell… [...]

The soft retail climate doesn’t appear to be affecting e-commerce in the U.S., as one company is finding out. LinkShare recruited 52 new advertisers in the first-quarter, up significantly from 30 in 4Q 2007. The company’s lead generation service was a key driver…

Then Rons boss came up behind him so Ron brought up a spreadsheet to look like he was working. Then his cousin sent a YouTube link and Ron spent 20 minutes surfing videos of dogs drinking beer. And you wonder why you didn’t get a conversion…

Enter keyword, and it shows you the predicted demographics of who might be searching for this term. Important info for targeting your campaigns. Next tool shows other KW entries that co-occur within the same user session. You can adjust your hop levels…

Free… has just been released and it’s all about surprisingly simple ways to create content and make sure all that content gets found and read online. The Anatomy of a Pre-Sales Article breaks content creation into simple steps that allow…

I’ve been twitfollowing with interest as Wendy Piersall from eMomsatHome.com took her very popular blog through a complete metamorphosis. She not only rebranded the blog with a new name and redesign, but completely repositioned the site from a Mom blog into a resource for a diverse group of people who use the internet and technology to create flexible work for themselves – both parents and non parents.

The affiliate widget shows up to 10 products without taking up much real estate. If you select vertical placement which would work well for sidebars, it’s called a Ferris Wheel and that’s just how it moves. Hope consumers like it and it helps affiliates get some good conversions.

LinkConnector’s Widget technology makes it simple to offer product content on blogs and social networks. Bloggers. Facebook, and MySpace users can now provide revenue-producing product content on their pages and participate in the growing world of affiliate marketing.