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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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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This is one of the most frequently asked questions by merchants that are deciding between different affiliate networks. Today it came to me in the following form:
Which network was the highest number of strong affiliates?
My answer is twofold: (i) most affiliate networks do not disclose such information, but (ii) every major/strong affiliate has accounts with [...]
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Earlier this morning I have been listening to Shawn Collins’ and Missy Ward’s InBound Marketing Summit presentation entitled “Five Successful Strategies for Monetizing Blogs”, and Shawn has mentioned some interesting statistics. Apparently, out of the 100 online retailers ranked by Internet Retailer as the “Hot 100 Retail Web Sites”, 75 have affiliate programs.
Shawn also included [...]
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I wanted to provide this information for a total of eight affiliate networks, but two have never responded. I have included their names in the table, and will add their information if/when it becomes available. I compared the more traditional networks, and have not included any of the sub-affiliate ones here (read about the differences [...]
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