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As the industry matures and the stakes get higher, issues of quality weigh heavily on affiliates and merchants alike. What kinds of traffic are affiliates sending to their advertisers? Are top affiliates compensated fairly? What happens when honest affiliates must compete with those who cheat the system?

When it comes to boosting your CTR, conversion rates and revenue, nothing works better than a little inspiration! I read 3 good articles this week I wanted to share with you that each address different ways of increasing sales. I hope you get some gold nuggets you can use to jumpstart your profits.

Newly elected members of the Performance Marketing Alliance Board of Directors are joining Linda Woods at noon Pacific today on the Affiliate Marketing Insider podcast, which is broadcast live at webmasterradio.fm.

Well, I can tell you right now that PPC affiliate marketing is here to stay, however, you’ll need to change and adopt your strategy due to the Google slaps and bans. The savvy affiliates see what’s happening now as a HUGE opportunity to profit with a lot of the competition out of the way.

Check out all the latest programs available on the Google Affiliate Network including Braceshop.com, LexingtonLaw.com, getwow.com, U-Store-It and Xenon Project.

The economy sucks, margins are down and consumers aren’t buying, but those aren’t the real reason your website isn’t converting well. Your landing pages are the problem. Landing pages are becoming overly complicated data dumps

Watch MarketLeverage TV! Check out the video to discover all the winners of the last 3 great MarketLeverage contests.

Want to beef up those landing pages and make them perform better? Read on. One of the roundtable discussions at Affiliate Summit East 09 was “Advanced Landing Pages for Affiliates”.

If you want to break through to the next level of success, you really need to watch this video. Tony Robbins interviews two well known Internet marketing multi-millionaires, Frank Kern and John Reese. They go to Tony with the problem of why

The suit targets both supplement sellers and their affiliate marketers. There could be as many as 500 such affiliates. When the bad actors are identified, the complaint will be amended to include them. Fined 100,000 per web site.

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network – Cricket Communications, Wrangler.com, HauteLook.com, MEDEX Assist, Heel-That-Pain

William Martin-Gill, from the eBay Partner Network, joins Linda Woods today on Affiliate Marketing Insider podcast to discuss the details of the just announced move to a commission payout model based on clicks instead of sales or leads.

Affiliate managers will get something out of Kirsty’s blog post “10 Things I Hate About Affiliate Marketing” and affiliates should be able to relate to the post. Here are 2 of her 10 pet peeves.

If you have been thinking about working with affiliate datafeeds, I’m sure the subject of duplicate content has entered your mind. Google does not like thin sites or sites that are just a mirror image of the merchant’s site, so what’s an affiliate to do?

The eBay Partner Network just announced a new commission payout model based on clicks instead of sales and leads. Quality Click Pricing, is a new payout structure designed to further reward the affiliates who drive incremental transactions on eBay and who send value buyers to our sites.

Darren has a great post today about the things he has learned promoting Amazon products on his blog. Amazon is not his biggest earner, but has provided significant income and he shares some great tips he learned along the way.

Having a plan for success is crucial for any business, and affiliate marketing is no exception. So what is this plan that you need, and how do you formulate it?

There may be more, but so far I know of 4 affiliate marketing companies that cracked the Inc. 500 this year. Know of any other affiliate marketing companies that made the list?

Interview with affiliate Mike Allen. Mike discussed the verticals he focuses on, what he expects of a program and affiliate manager and what makes either one of those stand out to him.

We utilize what I consider an evolved method of building affiliate sites and monetizing them primarily via affiliate marketing. And creating evolved sites means trying to find evolved affiliate programs to work with so you can make the most money possible.