A merchant who is planning on starting an affiliate program, has studied my Online Guide to Affiliate Marketing and emailed me this question: Can you please give me a quick overview of the pros and cons of running our program in-house or going with a network like Google’s Affiliate network? Good question. There are indeed [...]

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Geno on September 26th, 2009

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 [...]

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Geno on September 8th, 2009

In my post on the affiliate program setup expenses to be aware of I have mentioned that not all affiliate programs are based on affiliate networks. Many are being run in house: on self- or remotely hosted (and sometimes even internally-developed) software. Amazon and eBay, for example, run their affiliate programs in house and on [...]

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I have blogged about the problem of disabled cookies, and how situations when the end users refuse to accept cookies may hurt the affiliate tracking. In my response I have mentioned that there is one “if” and that is “if the platform chosen by the merchant relies on cookies for tracking” then the tracking will [...]

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