5 Star Affiliate Blogs

In her snarky in-your-face style, SugarRae (Rae Hoffman) tells you, in a way no one else will – what it takes to develop a successful affiliate business. I’m going to show you what you could have done had you gotten off your ass, given up the SEO fame game bullshit and actually worked hard and followed through on my advice

I show up on 45 Twitter Marketing Lists. Cleaned up the list, these are the best of the best. Scan to find AM tweople you don’t follow yet. Plus, following these will help you get connected to the latest industry news and meet

at times we need to guard against undue interference with our shots as well. Like Affiliate Nexus Laws. Which takes all Affiliate Marketers, Networks, AMs, and OPMs as well as Merchants to come together as a team and play a little defense.

After checking OfferVault to see how prevalent Free Credit Report offers are in the CPA affiliate world, (76) I decided I had better post a warning about a very blatant new FTC disclosure. This will probably kill conversions dead in their tracks.

In an unprecedented move, Drs Foster and Smith is dropping their affiliate program across the board due to the moving target of the ever-growing patchwork quilt of state legislatures that are considering nexus legislation relative to affiliate marketing and sales tax.

Picking the best affiliate program can be challenging when there are so many key elements to compare. The following guest post makes it simple and shares a cool info graphic that attempts to help sort out the options.

You may have come across get-rich-quick books telling you how you can make a fortune in affiliate marketing. Hand over $97, and you’ll get “the secrets”. We’ve decided to give you “the secrets”, and charge you $0 instead. We’re good like that

Seducing a user into clicking your ads is one of the most important aspects in affiliate marketing. Too many affiliates throw in the towel when their first crack at it doesn’t materialize into windfall profits. That’s probably the major reason why

Below is info directly from the Adwords rep. I learned more, then anyone in the industry could from years of trial and error. These are answers that many affiliates have been seeking for years, and can make all the difference for those of you who are not already banned or given up on Adwords.

What do you get when you combine a Nascar veteran, his car, the Daytona 500 and affiliate marketing? You get a very unique new affiliate marketing funded Nascar sponsorship designed to LITERALLY Drive Traffic and affiliate sales.

For the blackhatters out there that say cookie stuffing isn’t illegal and all is fair in love and affiliate marketing – I say you better take a very close look at this case! Cookie stuffing is NOT an acceptable practice and is prohibited by most affiliate programs

I guarantee if you analyze your site or landing pages and make improvements based on several of the 12 psychological trigger points below you will see a major increase in CTR and conversions.

FREE Online Seminar for merchants and affiliates – High quality affiliates are motivated by the profitability of working with you. Even if you have a higher commission, with a stinking conversion rate the affiliate isn’t making maximal money. Tests and tactics that increased clicks and leads by 165%

Lisa and Todd Crawford among others started the company. As a group, we remain as passionate about performance advertising as we were when we first got into the business more than a decade ago. We think it’s time for the next ‘BIG’ thing in performance advertising

We see a lot of articles about how to become a Super Affiliate however affiliate marketing is a partnership and both sides should be working toward excellence. So if affiliates are trying to learn to be “Super” then affiliate managers and merchants should be striving for that “Super” status as well.

Our new tool gives affiliate managers help spotting those fraudulent affiliates when they sign up. That means less time spent combing through signups and more time supporting good affiliates.

This show includes a Summit recap, discussion about the industry trend toward market diversification in 2010, and what affiliates can do to capitalize on these emerging opportunities over the course of the coming year

Some say SEO and PPC are converging into a Quality Score black hole. So what will it take to successfully market affiliate campaigns with Google Adwords in 2010?

The political momentum in Colorado coupled with the looming and fast paced deadlines for voting on House Bill 1193 is threatening to decimate the affiliate marketing community in the Rocky Mountain State.

If you are a merchant considering starting an affiliate program or an affiliate manager with questions about how to improve and grow your existing affiliate program, this new free guide to affiliate marketing for merchants/advertisers may help.