An affiliate emailed me the following question about a program run on an affiliate network: I’d like you to send me a custom text link that I can modify as necessary — the html code in which I can plug in any web address and text. The answer will depend on the affiliate network. Some [...]
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Todd Farmer had just relaunched his AffPlan with a new Affiliate Strategies session: Good to see the good project being reborn. I still remember greeting their very first podcast a year and 29 days ago. I’ve just noticed that the AffPlan.com website profiles the top 4 US affiliate networks, listing some interesting information about each: [...]
A couple of days ago (September 21, 2010) LinkShare affiliate network has announced its completely new advertiser dashboard. To find out a merchant opinion on it, and get a little in-depth here, we chatted with one of LinkShare’s top advertisers — that also made the 2009 Internet Retailer’s 2009 Hot 100 Best Retail Websites and [...]
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Earlier this week, while listening to David Szetela’s and Brad Geddes’ How Adwords will be Affected by Google Instant podcast I’ve learned about a cool tool which lets you compare Google Suggest results — Web Seer. As we know, it is precisely Google Suggest (with its autocomplete function) that is at the core of Google [...]
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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 [...]
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Affiliate marketing is alive and well, and the growth numbers published by two major players in the field prove it. Both LinkShare and ValueClick (owner of Commission Junction) have recently analyzed and publicized their Q2 2010 results. LinkShare This affiliate network has recently “announced that more than 190 new advertisers have joined” it “since January” [...]
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I’ve blogged about multiple things during the past days (sometimes more than once a day), but naturally wasn’t able to cover, or react to everything that I personally have found to be of interest. There really is an abundance of great content being produced on a weekly basis, and to highlight some of the posts [...]
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A few days ago Clarke Duncan, one of the co-founders of Paid On Results UK affiliate network, sent me the following tweet: Paid On Results (POR) were the first affiliate network to create a deep-linking tool for affiliates, and this was back in 2005 [see the way it used to work]. Ever since then they [...]
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Direct deposit is by far the most preferred payment method among affiliates. Almost two-thirds of affiliates choose it over all other possible payment methods [more here], and out of the remaining one-third the majority has to look into other options, because they are located outside of the U.S. or Canada. Direct deposit — a convenient [...]
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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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