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When established CPA networks start to get complaints due to lack of support or slow payments, affiliates start looking for other options. With so many new networks popping up all the time, it’s easy to think that new network that keeps promising to do it better, is just the ticket. This post will give you some insights about working with CPA networks and points out how new networks, even those with the best intentions, can go downhill fast when things get out of control.

Thou shall not be annoying – Annoying affiliate managers make me want to either kill myself or kill them. In all seriousness being annoying is not a virtue. Unless I have a close relationship with you as an affiliate manager I do not want to hear from you on the phone……EVER!

ShareASale just announced a fun little Holiday contest they have going for affiliates. The grand prize is a trip for two to Chicago, where ShareASale is based and air fare plus hotel is included. They say they have some other fun activities planned for the lucky winner!

If you spend time making lots of affiliate landing pages or spend money outsourcing, here are a couple new tools I recently discovered that could make your life easier. The 1st tool is for building Wordpress landing pages.

This publisher achieved $1,128,000. An incredible feat by any means but what is truly remarkable is that he’s only 21 years old, has been in the business for a year and was working from the hospital on his laptop. Whats his key to success

Saveology Network is an authorized dealer for the nation’s most recognized brands in home services and technology and offers a competitive advantage in this growing market. High commission, great support.

I was reading a couple of disturbing threads at AbestWeb over the weekend. Members there have discovered that AVG, the #1 free antivirus program, is totally blocking all Linkshare affiliate links and is also blocking CJ links on one of their domains.

What better time to spice up your copy or add some new keyword rich content than right before the Holidays – the biggest selling season of the year! We all know that content is king and COMPELLING content sells, so take some time to learn how to improve on the sales copy you have already written to make a bigger impact on Q4 sales. Yes, there is still time, just do it!

Google Affiliate Network has several more New Affiliate Programs for your linking pleasure. Lots of great niches. Check them all out here.

There was controversy recently about Amazon refusing to pay commission on Twitter links. This piece retracts that and was written with the help of Amazon as a GUIDE to social media marketing for affiliates and lays out the ground rules that they assume will also be acceptable for most other affiliate programs, although you should always check each program’s TOS.

Tapping into international traffic can be relatively inexpensive because few affiliates and merchants know how to best capitalize on it. There are large, identifiable international markets to target online that aren’t nearly as competitive as the US market is.

Each post features insights about different challenges many affiliates face and offers tips for how to overcome them. Pick one that you can relate to and I hope you’ll get some ideas that will help you be a more productive, successful affiliate.

Harness the power of the Google Content Network. If you haven’t tried the Content Network yet or even if you are already using it, you’re about to discover some great tips and tricks for leveraging this unique, low cost traffic source.

Google Affiliate Network has nine New Affiliate Programs for your linking pleasure. Lots of great niches. Check them all out here.

If You HAD to Start Over, Knowing Everything you Know Today – What would you do Differently??? Super affiliates James Martell and Ros Gardner answer. Plus read 22 pages of valuable insights from many other affiliates and learn from their mistakes.

Discussion includes: how CPA differs from CPM, which affiliates CPA is right for, the tainted reputation of CPA, how CPA is going to overcome issues about fraud, FTC scrutiny, industry consolidation and more

Do you ever get in a rut with your keyword research, using the old same tool in the same old ways? I hope all these tips and videos will help you jump start your keyword research either by showing you some new ideas or reinforcing some important basics you may be overlooking.

Many affiliates use PPC marketing and there is always a plethora of great new tips about how to capitalize on this hyper-targeted method of generating traffic. Today I have a few posts that cover some key areas of Pay per Click marketing and are filled with ideas about how you can optimize the performance of [...]

BinLayer offers Webmasters the opportunity to monetize their websites in a highly efficient and user-friendly way by showing reputable campaigns of top companies. Their innovative layer ads lead to higher conversion rates. Publishers are paid on a CPM basis. BinLayer works with affiliate networks like Zanox, Linkshare and Affilinet and high quality advertisers such as

They discussed the benefits of datafeeds to affiliates and merchants, why datafeeds are not standardized, the challenges of dealing with them and using datafeeds as a tool for keyword generation and more.