Having analyzed how affiliates see links on 5 affiliate networks — Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network, and AvantLink — I have noticed that 2 of these 5 (CJ and AvantLink) offer data on link performance.
Commission Junction shows link’s 3-months and 7-days EPC:
AvantLink, in their turn, displays link’s Conversion Rate “calculated from click-throughs and [...]
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Communication failures abound in affiliate marketing. Every day merchants are mistreating their affiliate partners but failing to keep them informed on what’s going on in their affiliate marketing programs. And here I’m not referring to keeping affiliates up-to-date on the customer-oriented promos and bestselling products, sales [...]
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In the course of this week two affiliate networks sent out newsletters: Google Affiliate Network (GAN) – to advertisers/merchants, and ShareASale (SAS) – to affiliates.
Google Affiliate Network’s Newsletter to Advertisers
I really like the way GAN is providing their merchants with a “monthly dashboard” report where Google gives a good visual overview of what’s been going [...]
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It is no secret that in affiliate marketing text links generally convert significantly better than banner links. Also, when it comes to text links, it is easy for an affiliate to split-test different text variations (improving conversions) on their end without getting the merchant involved in the process at all.
But what do you do [...]
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An affiliate wrote:
Could you please explain how affiliate marketing works for someone living in Eastern Europe. How exactly is payment handled?
Good question. Whether you live in Western or Eastern Europe cashing a USD check (the universal payment method utilized by all affiliate networks) always entails a fee. In Western Europe it is normally a flat [...]
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Attention deficit is a serious problem in itself, but all the more so when you observe it in people whose primary role is in providing you with customer service.
Both for the sake of notifying the affiliate network, and to find out what their recommendation would be, we reported the application receipt from the suspicious [...]
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Attention deficit is a serious problem in itself, but all the more so when you observe it in people whose primary role is in providing you with customer service.
Both for the sake of notifying the affiliate network, and to find out what their recommendation would be, we reported the application receipt from the suspicious [...]
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Just had a new publisher apply into one of the affiliate programs we manage on the Google Affiliate Network. The affiliate’s website opened just fine in my Internet Explorer, but Mozilla Firefox gave me a warning a part of which you are seeing above.
Are you checking affiliate websites for malware prior to making your [...]
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