Remember my last week’s Possibly the Worst Affiliate Traffic Leak Ever post? Well, reviewing one affiliate program (on obvious reasons, their name and domain name have to remain discreet), I’ve discovered a situation that was even worse — “for tracking purposes” the merchant was linking some of his internal banners […]
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A month and a half ago I announced a photo contest for the best picture with my newest book, “Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day” [details here]. Thank you to those of you who participated. The day has come for me to announce the winners (based on the votes
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Less than an hour ago HasOffers has announced the launch of Adtribution, its new development called to fix what’s “broken” in present-day “online advertising” [source]. Intrigued I reached out to Peter Hamilton, Partner and CMO at HasOffers, and asked him a few questions about their new development… Here is an
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Yesterday, in The Ugly Side of Affiliate Marketing post a friend and fellow affiliate marketer, Tricia Meyer wrote: The eBay Partner Network announced out of the blue that they are dropping loyalty sites until at least October. The question this immediately raised in multiple heads was, of course, “why?” Carolyn
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Earlier last week Amazon held its annual shareholder meeting in downtown Seattle. One of the questions that came up repeatedly was one that is of utmost importance to the affiliate marketing world — namely, the affiliate nexus tax, and Amazon’s stance on it. We know that every time a new
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Yesterday LinkShare announced its 2011 Golden Link Award Finalists, and I was both surprised, and humbled to learn that I made the list too: Out of all categories on the list the “Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate” seems to be one of the most fundamental, and altogether most humbling ones.
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ROI, or Return on Investment, is one of the key indicators of your affiliate marketing campaign’s success of failure. Analyzing your campaigns’ ROI figures is a must both for merchants, and for affiliates. As a result, you get a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t. And since at
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Yesterday, during my a4uexpo Europe presentation I said that the very first thing merchants should do to ensure that their websites are affiliate-friendly is to get rid of leaks. My definition was: Leak is any external link within your website that may lead to a course of action for which
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Flew into the gorgeous Munich, Germany this morning, already had a few great meetings, and given my presentation on the website, affiliate program, and affiliate management components that predetermine affiliate program’s success or failure. I’ve split these into two groups: 7 merchant essentials and 7 management mistakes. Here’s a quick
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An affiliate has emailed me the following situation and question: I’m fairly new at PPC, but I’ve already had some luck with it. A few days ago I started promoting [merchant name here]’s program on CJ. Sent over 150 clicks to them spending over $30 on it already, but haven’t
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