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Just discovered a slick, free and easy way to embed overlay ads with live links onto YouTube videos. Let’s say for instance one of your merchants has a video demo on YouTube. You can embed the YouTube video on your site and have a small ad with a link to the merchant right on top of the video.

When an affiliate has reduced search traffic or loses ranking, two of the 1st things they think of are that either duplicate content penalties or affiliate links are responsible. Official Google blog.

This morning North Carolina and Hawaii affiliates awoke to some really bad news. Ahead of pending advertising tax legislation Amazon took a preemptive strike by dropping affiliates effective immediately.

If you’ve ever had your affiliate application declined for a merchant you were raring to partner with… if you’ve ever had a great plan to promote a certain product and got turned down by the network – you know how very frustrating it can be.

New Google Affiliate Network programs include: 2mCCTV.com, Wysong Pet Store, Snowshack.com, SpiritHalloween.com, Threadsmith.com and Shortcovers.com

Today the IAB UK is having their affiliate marketing seminar which looks at the growth of our industry, the need for ROI, transparency and self regulation.

Affiliate link disclosure is a hotly debated topic. Well now it looks like the FTC is planning to regulate disclosure. HOT TIP for how to disclose and have it be a selling benefit.

Podcast – If you are looking for a simple 10 step formula for how to launch and run an affiliate program, well here it is! Jay Berkowitz from TenGoldenRules.com recently did an interview with Shawn Collins.

Affiliates are up in arms about a recent surge in click fraud on Facebook ads. WickedFire is at the center, then TechCrunch got involved. Now Facebook is

The California advertising tax has been revived in a desperate attempt to help California’s budget crisis. AB178 was tabled earlier in the year, but they just added the anti-affiliate nexus language to the budget bill which could be voted on as early as this week.

This is one blog I hope you don’t read, because I hope you took time away from the computer today to go have fun in the sun and play with your kids.

Affiliate Convention is on full swing in Denver right now. For those of you that missed it, you can listen in to the keynotes and some of the sessions here

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network: iFloor, GlobalTestMarket, Goldwing Country, Real Hog, RingCentral and Modern Furniture Warehouse

North Carolina is so close to enacting the anti-affiliate sales tax that Amazon just sent notice to all NC affiliates letting them know that if the law is passed Amazon associates in the state will be dropped immediately.

Here to report today on 2 big affiliate parties/networking events. I have not heard anyone in the industry talking about it, so I wanted to spread the word.

Features dozens of charts based on responses from 450 affiliates. Also includes candid complaints, ideas, suggestions or opinions affiliates have regarding affiliate marketing.

Ever thought about doing more with your affiliate business? There are many ways to expand your business and the revenue streams that feed it – we cover some of these possibilities in detail

There are several other big advantages to bigger niches that most affiliates don’t take the time to think about… So while, a lot of affiliates recommend to new affiliates to stay away from the big over-saturated niches, I say go for it

Tweetbucks pays marketers 70% of the affiliate commissions each time a click becomes a sale. This new opportunity enables affiliates to harness new customers from the vast Twitter community.

A handful of people are incredibly motivated and will do just about anything to succeed. OK, that’s 80% of the battle but I’ve met plenty of people with 50 content rich websites who were making a pittance in comparison to the work they’d been putting in.