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The blog post suggested a marketing ploy that is dangerous, unethical and illegal. He suggested affiliates try to sell various herbal products by saying they will ‘prevent’ the swine flu. The FDA and FTC are cracking down and asking the public to report this fraud.

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.

If you like affiliate widgets then I have some good news for you. Both eBay and Amazon have added new widgets to make your site enhancements easier and revenue potential greater.

In this economy the last thing you need is a stagnant affiliate channel. Let’s face it though, even in the best of times, it makes sense to take inventory to see if you are doing all you can to keep affiliate partners happy, loyal and motivated. Affiliates what do YOU think?

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.

Obviously, we all want to make more money from our affiliate marketing ventures. But sometimes, how to do so is not quite so obvious. A revenue stream keeps a website running strong

According to Shoemoney the Trigget ads dont suck like Kontera. No double underline, no page load problems. Once the code is placed, Triggit will automatically create highly relevant text link ads in your site or blog and you get paid per click.

It’s filled with FREE insight and information smart affiliates, affiliate managers and merchants don’t want to miss. Here’s a list of whats inside.

RU Addicted to Social Media? I’m not as bad as some of the AM peeps I follow on Twitter. I only scored a 32%, so I’m not hopelessly addicted yet! How about U? Take the quiz then come back and tell us how you scored! Betting Sam, Jim and Peter score BIG!

Well BlogWorld has come and gone and I barely even had time to notice it was on. There were a couple good panel discussions dealing with affiliate marketing, so I thought I’d gather some links to blogs that covered those 2 sessions. Dig in to find some real gems.

Buy.com just announced new Buy TV Video Widgets for affiliates. The widgets use the popular QOOF video platform and allow affiliates to feature videos of the hottest products in a very small space. The video widgets self-update daily with top sellers. Here’s a sample video

The Affiliate piece of the Make-A-Video is complete and ready for use. As an Affiliate, you can now create and generate your own video creatives, and link them to multiple different Merchants throughout the video through the use of cue points.

Platform-A announced the launch of an affiliate marketing solution that links the buy.at affiliate network to the widget-based marketing tools of Goowy Media, Inc. The new offering lets publishers generate revenue by merging the power of affiliate, widget and viral marketing.

Adotas recently interviewed David Fortino, VP at NetLine about the unique benefits the RevResponse model offers. Has some good insights, astute RevResponse affiliates can pick up on

The affiliate widget shows up to 10 products without taking up much real estate. If you select vertical placement which would work well for sidebars, it’s called a Ferris Wheel and that’s just how it moves. Hope consumers like it and it helps affiliates get some good conversions.

LinkConnector’s Widget technology makes it simple to offer product content on blogs and social networks. Bloggers. Facebook, and MySpace users can now provide revenue-producing product content on their pages and participate in the growing world of affiliate marketing.

Think this program sounds too B2B for your site? Think again! You get paid for every FREE subscription you give away. The RevResponse Marketing Widget makes it easy to add a huge variety of offers to your site or blog in minutes.

The hottest thing going at Affiliate Summit West 2008 was the new widget being offered by Qoof.com. This revolutionary widget combines the power of video ads with affiliate tracking codes. This widget is poised to take affiliate marketing by storm

Widget advertising is a growing trend, especially within social networks. According to eMarketer, 22 percent of marketers surveyed used widgets as a social media marketing application last year. They predict that this year, the number of marketers who plan to use widgets will double to 47 percent

Affiliate Marketing Insider, a weekly online radio show focused on the affiliate marketing industry. Host Linda Woods will be interviewing three well-known industry leaders this month on her show including… topics will be…