August 2009

SEO Link Building in Affiliate Marketing – Merchant's Perspective

An affiliate wrote: I am one of your affiliates and have an affiliate link on my web site www.hisURLhere.com for your store. My site is new this month and I’m working on building traffic (which would benefit both of us) by getting others to link to my site.  I was […]

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Internet Marketing Conferences – 2009

In response to a reader’s request under my “Affiliate Marketing Conferences – 2009” post, I have decided to compile a list of the Internet marketing conferences to attend during the remaining months of 2009: Sept-Dec 2009 Internet Marketing Conferences 09/01-09/02 – ad:tech Chicago (Chicago, IL) 09/02-09/03 – ad:tech Tokyo (Tokyo,

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eBay Partner Network Will Now Pay for Clicks

After testing their new affiliate payment model with select affiliates for over three months, the eBay Partner Network (eBPN) has made an official announcement of it yesterday. The model bears a name of Quality Click Pricing (QCP), and is essentially a CPC (cost per click) model. It is called to

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Importance of Follow-Up Affiliate Recruitment Emails

While recruiting affiliates into the affiliate programs of the merchants we work with, over the years we have registered that follow-up recruitment emails are actually more effective than the initial email contact with a prospective affiliate partner. In fact, more affiliates are being recruited through follow-up emails than through the

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Microblogging versus Social Networking: Twitter vs Facebook

Not too long ago I have blogged about the 17 types of social media marketing channels. Since then Facebook has acquired FriendFeed [more here], which should enhance the real-time social search on Facebook, making things significantly better than they currently are on Twitter Search. Another reason behind it may be

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