affiliate program

If Hit by Search Engine Penalties, Do Not Close Affiliate Program!

Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by […]

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How to Safeguard Your Affiliate Marketing Program Against Fraud?

We are now working on setting up an affiliate program for a client, and it is going to employ both a pay-per-sale, and a pay-per-lead model. The Internet Marketing Director of the company has emailed me a very good question which I would like to quickly address for the rest

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5 Popular Affiliate Marketing Questions Answered

Using Google Suggest (aka autocomplete) to spot some of the most popular affiliate marketing-related questions, we see 5 questions score particularly high. I’ve answered them all in my previous blog posts and articles, and today I’ve decided to put them together into an easy-to-use compilation. 1. What is affiliate marketing?

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20 Reasons For Affiliates Not To Work With Certain Merchants

When an affiliate takes time to post their thoughts on what annoys them, merchants should take heed… Such is the case with Logan Thompson’s recent 10 Reasons Affiliates Don’t Like Your Website blog post, and I fully agree with Joe Sousa’s tweet: In addition to the 10 website-related concerns that

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4Food – Social Media Restaurant With Affiliate Program

A couple of weeks ago, Manhattan’s Theater District has seen a grand opening of 4food which some have already christened a “social media restaurant” meaning that there’s “both a brick-and-mortar hamburger joint in Manhattan, and a community-oriented Website that supports the restaurant.” SocialCitizens.org elaborates: …4food [is] a fast food restaurant

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Pay-Per-Call and Pay-Per-Sale or Synergistic Affiliate Marketing

A merchant which already has a pay-per-sale affiliate program in place, and is considering tapping into pay-per-call advertising, has emailed me the following question: Do you think affiliates are commonly motivated to build affiliate marketing campaigns for the promise of lead-based commissions on phone sales? We’re slightly dubious of this

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How to Budget an Affiliate Marketing Program

As any marketing program, affiliate program requires a budget. While it is true that comparing to many other types of online advertising, affiliate marketing generally requires a significantly smaller budget, it does require one. Below you may find a basic breakdown of expenses that you should be prepared to incur:

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