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Top Affiliate Program Categories on 6 U.S. Affiliate Networks

Following up on my previous post (where I summarized my findings on the top affiliate niches based on a research we’ve conducted across six U.S. affiliate networks), today I am bringing you detailed breakdowns of the categories into which the top affiliate programs fall on each of the analyzed networks. Together with […]

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3 Underused Ways to Improve Affiliate Program Visibility on Network

When asked about the avenues via which they like to find out about new affiliate programs, affiliates repeatedly point to affiliate network websites (and network-based directories) as one of their preferred methods of what I call “passive affiliate recruitment” (i.e. when they find you, as opposed to you reaching out to

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Do Affiliates Drive $230 Billion in Sales to Top 1000 US e-Retailers?

Have you heard of the Internet Retailer’s new Top Tech 2014 Guide yet? This is an eBook based on their 2012 research of “the leading solutions providers to America’s top 1,000 retailers.” Among the providers analyzed they also looked into “affiliate marketing vendors” used by North America’s leading 1,000 e-retailers.

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Commission Junction Introduces New Affiliate Tool: Product Widgets

Commission Junction affiliates will now notice a new tab in their “Account Manager” interface — one devoted to “Widgets.” Amazon has had these forever. Some other affiliate networks have been offering similar tools for a while too (e.g.: ShareASale’s Make-a-Page tool), and now Commission Junction is enabling affiliates with a

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7 Affiliate Marketing News Not to Miss in August 2013 (Second Half)

Much has been happening in the affiliate marketing world lately. Even though August 2013 isn’t over yet, I think it is safe to presuppose that the below 7 news are definitely the ones that you do not want to miss. So, here they are in chronological order: 1. Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate Recruitment Case Study: How to Find New CJ Publishers

A month ago I blogged about a new structure-based affiliate recruitment tool offered by Commission Junction (CJ) to advertisers who run their affiliate programs on their network. Since then CJ has improved the “Search” function, expanding it to include all affiliates (including new ones) on the network, and not only

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Commission Junction (CJ) Launches Affiliate Recruitment Tool (Beta)

One of the world’s major affiliate networks, Commission Junction (CJ), has launched an internal affiliate recruitment tool. If you are a CJ advertiser, you may now find it by going to “Manage Publishers” tab, and proceeding to “Publisher Recruitment (beta)” sub-tab: The two tabs to the left of this newest

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In a Relationship-Led Business, Little Things Make a Big Difference

I often talk about affiliate marketing being an industry that’s built on relationships. While it is a performance industry with everyone’s focus being on the bottom line, you get more out of your affiliate programme if you have good relationships with your affiliates. This works both ways – the affiliates

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In Affiliate Profiles More Is Not Always Better

On Monday morning I tweeted: Affiliates, when setting up affiliate network acct do NOT put “None” into incentive program description. It marks you as incentive affiliate — Geno Prussakov (@ePrussakov) May 21, 2012 I have been getting questions about that tweet. So, let me elaborate on it, as I believe

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Commission Junction Now Allows Merchants to Bulk Upload Text Links

For years I’ve pleaded with affiliate networks to follow ShareASale’s example and allow merchants to mass-upload creatives. A couple of weeks ago I’ve once again exchanged messages with Commission Junction (this time on Twitter): Yesterday I’ve noticed that CJ has introduced a new sleek “Links” interface, and has also made

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