Recent Topics from the 5 Star Blog
- Are you thankful for your affiliate independence? Think about it! We work in the most “free” country in the world. Plus affiliates and outsourced affiliate managers have the freedom to work from home and the independence to largely create their own destiny.
- I see lots of affiliate ads on the big sites like MSNBC and Fox news. So how do affiliates play in a space usually reserved for Fortune 500 companies and big ad agencies?
- Schwarzenegger just committed - NO advertising tax in CA. Therefore Overstock overturned their decision to terminate affiliates! So that means Amazon and other companies won’t have to cancel their affiliate agreements in the state either!
- New advertisers launched this week: HockeyMonkey, Ebaby.com, Namco Games, Temple St. Clair and Acronis.
- MarketLeverage provides Publishers access to hundreds of top-notch advertisements designed to maximize their online profits. We offer the industry’s highest paying rewards program, the industry’s best paying lifetime referral program, weekly payments sent via FedEx, and the industry’s first affiliate Internet TV Program, MLTV.
- 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.
