Over the past few days I have been polling my blog’s readers on the question of whether they believe domain age matters for SEO. As expected, the majority of poll participants has chosen the positive answer (if you haven’t yet voted, I’d appreciate your vote right now — before you read through the end of [...]
Today the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) revealed data from its bi-annual online advertising expenditure study. This report has been prepared in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the World Advertising Research Centre (WARC). The analysis of the first half of the year 2009 has shown that the Internet advertising spend in the UK has accounted [...]
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Back in March I posted my 5 recommendations on how to make killer landing pages.
In July I showed 5 examples of well-put landing pages.
Today I have conducted an analysis of specific affiliate campaigns (coupons, promos, featured products/services and product lines) run by 50 Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Google Affiliate Network advertisers randomly selected from the [...]
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Three days ago Forrester Research, Inc. has published their “US Affiliate Marketing Forecast, 2009 To 2014″ based on based in interviews of “vendor and user companies, including Commission Junction, Intuit, LinkShare, Pepperjam.com, Performance Marketing Alliance, Stateless Systems, ValueClick, and Vertive” [details]. In it Forrester forecasts the affiliate marketing industry to grow from $1.9 billion in [...]
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Did you know that in North America alone there are over 170 affiliate networks? Yes, if we include all networks that utilize performance marketing payment models, we will arrive at a pretty impressive list. Here is one that I have just finished compiling (the order is solely alphabetical):
North American Affiliate Networks:
buy.at
AvantLink
AffiliateFuture
ClickBank
clickXchange
clixGalore
Commission Junction
Google Affiliate Network (formerly [...]
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Many people come to my blog searching for “free affiliate tracking software”. There are a number of free (and inexpensive) scripts that merchants can install on their server to start an affiliate program. Here’s just a brief list:
Affiliate Program Script
Cosmic AffiliateClick
SimpleAffiliate
TigerTom’s Affiliate Program Software
TWSC Affiliate Lite
Additionally, some shopping carts offer free affiliate program plug-ins. [...]
Earlier this morning, Roxana Patrichi of Avangate published a list of 150+ negative keywords for software selling AdWords campaigns. This reminded me of one of the questions that I was asked in a recent interview to Affilorama. I was asked what advice I would give to newbie affiliates that are getting involved in paid search. [...]
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Contrary to a popular belief that couponing is the most effective affiliate marketing strategy, I believe otherwise (even though we are still in a recession). Judging by what I am seeing in the affiliate programs that we manage, content creation is actually significantly more effective (creates a different kind of engagement, and really adds value), [...]
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Over the past few days I have been receiving proposals from affiliates who came up with new ways to position themselves in the online space. Not to give away anyone’s secrets I’ll have to stay generic, but they have essentially come up with tools that help merchants’ existing customers and new site visitors enhance [...]
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