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Search Trends To Watch In 2009. PR Update. I know many of you don’t scour all the SEO news sites like I do. Let me know if you’d like me to do a weekly recap of the most interesting stories and tips I find.

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

Stuart from Earners Blog has some great guidelines for increasing your Google Adwords click-through rate.
13 Smokin Tips to Increase Adwords CTR
I’m slightly obsessed when it comes to CTR with my campaigns, I’ll always try to push things as hard as I can to get the best bang for my buck. These strategies can be [...]

The amount of effort, the diverse perspectives of many of our industry’s most successful leaders and their passionate support, are the reasons we will see the PMA launch in January, 2009. Charter membership will be opening soon.

An Affiliate Thermostat is a subconscious mechanism that throttles your behavior to create a MATCH between your current earnings beliefs and your current actual earnings. The good news is that you can reset it to whatever level you desire.

December 23, 2008

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network:

Bigelow Chemists

PearlParadise.com

CTRL Acne
Treatment System

Bigelow
Chemists

Commission: 12%
CD: 30 Days
Join Program
Program Highlights:

12% commission
Commission duration 30 Days
BYOL available

C.O. Bigelow Chemists is the oldest apothecary in America, credited with making a difference in the way their customers look and feel since 1838. Not only is C.O. Bigelow a place to pick up your hand-made [...]

On behalf of all the 5 Star Merchants and Affiliate Managers – Merry Christmas! All of us here at 5 Star want to let you know how much we appreciate your partnership and loyalty over the past year. We look forward to a continued alliance in the coming year

ShareASale just announced their 1st annual ShareASale Performance Awards. Some very deserving people won recognition in a variety of categories. Big congrats to all.

A battery of top industry experts will present and attend numerous panels. 1,500+ attendees and over 70 exhibitors are expected at this 2 packed days event to be held in a prime convention center.

I thought this was a handy tool for all you vagabond affiliates out there. This has saved my derrière… I fixed it with this cool little plugin right there in the Starbucks, or pulled over on the side of the highway

Theres a new and FREE eBay Wordpress Plugin called Affomatic that can help you embed eBay listings right into your Wordpress posts. Some Bans sites have lost ranking and may be thin affiliate sites.

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network:

LightInThe
Box.com

Exclusively
Weddings.com

NARS Cosmetics

LightInThe
Box.com

Commission: 8-10%
CD: 45 Days
Join Program
Program Highlights:

LAUNCH SPECIAL: For the first 3 months, we’re offering you a special 3% increase in commission across the tiers: so you’ll earn between 11 – 13% commission as an affiliate in the first three months! 8-10% tiered commission thereafter
Shipping available WORLDWIDE and [...]

With the financial uncertainty we saw in 2008 that is sure to continue throughout 2009, you’ll want to get the inside scoop into what type of marketing strategy you should use in a down market. And that’s exactly what you’ll find

Features pictures and quotes from some of our industrys most noteworthy women. Also see – Taking the Affiliate World by Storm, Niche Picking, Affiliate Opportunities in a Recession, Ask InternetGeekGirl and lots more

Guest post from Rae Hoffman of Sugarrae.com. A recent new hire had questions about affiliate marketing and since they’re questions I hear frequently from new hires, I asked Linda if she might have a use for some FAQ’s aimed at new affiliates. Obviously, her answer was yes.

The video got 31 Sphinns and very few affiliate marketing stories get Sphunn, so that shows it’s pretty good. Rae shares some gems about how to be successful as well as pointing out some pitfalls

Revenews Managing Editor Angel Djambazov todays guest. They will discuss e-tailers’ recent successes on Black Friday as well as the outlook for online merchants and affiliates during this holiday season.

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network included Military.com, Horizon Fitness, Dentek, Preowned Aerons, ShabbyChic and more

There are some landing page quality score myths that often come up. One that I often hear is – Google hates affiliates and affiliate landing pages can pull down your quality score.

Even though Cyber Monday gets more of the glory Green Monday is typically the heaviest online shopping day of the year. Last year it was biggest day of the season AND the heaviest online spending day in history.