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What Influences Affiliate Banner Performance the Most? Surprise Ahead

As an affiliate manager, one of the most frequently asked questions I receive is “Which one of your program’s creatives performs the best?” When running links/banners performance reports, I noticed that text links perform almost always better across all networks in our affiliate program. Monthly publisher performance when using text […]

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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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Comparison of Affiliate Creatives and Importance of Assortment

When setting up an affiliate program, each merchant/advertiser gets to a point when they need to decide which creatives to offer affiliates to use for the promotion of the merchant’s products/services. If I were to rank merchant creatives in order of importance (to affiliates), and it were a retail-oriented web

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How to Convert Other Affiliate Links into Text Links

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.

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