A good question came to me in the email yesterday: Is there a certain metric you use to predict revenue potential for a site? I have a potential client with a blog that gets as many as 75k uniques and close to 200k pageviews per month… He can’t understand that he has tons of great [...]
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I’ve blogged about multiple things during the past days (sometimes more than once a day), but naturally wasn’t able to cover, or react to everything that I personally have found to be of interest. There really is an abundance of great content being produced on a weekly basis, and to highlight some of the posts [...]
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Conversion optimization — “the science and art of creating an experience for a website visitor with the goal of converting the visitor into a customer” [source]. What else could be more important (whether you’re an affiliate, a online retailer, or anyone else involved in digital marketing)? Here are the 7 must-follow conversion optimization experts who [...]
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Last week Commission Junction affiliate network announced that out of the merchants who use affiliate networks as platforms for their affiliate programs, close to two-thirds (63% to be exact) choose Commission Junction, which is “more than twice as often as any other affiliate provider.” The data was based on the usage of affiliate networks by [...]
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A few days ago Clarke Duncan, one of the co-founders of Paid On Results UK affiliate network, sent me the following tweet: Paid On Results (POR) were the first affiliate network to create a deep-linking tool for affiliates, and this was back in 2005 [see the way it used to work]. Ever since then they [...]
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This past Sunday (July 20) was Father’s Day in the U.S., and I got some amazing gifts. The best of them were made by the little hands of my precious daughter. On that Sunday morning I posted on my Facebook profile: I am sure those of you who have kids can identify with what I [...]
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Nine months ago, when I blogged my 5-step advice for paid search affiliates, I wrote: Use negative keywords (or keywords for which you do not want your ad to show in paid search results, as they are unlikely to convert into the desirable action) Using negative keywords not only helps you improve the clickthrough rate [...]
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According to comScore’s data, quoted at SearchEngineLand.com a few hours ago, an affiliate website (TheFind) has beaten Yahoo! Shopping “in terms of average daily users”, and 2 out of the top 4 comparison shopping engines (TheFind and Shopzilla) are active affiliates. Here’s that data (highlighting mine): More in the above-quoted Google Is Top Shopping Site, [...]
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