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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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Not too long ago I’ve given ShareASale credit for a convenient mass banner upload function for merchants. It is convenient, and makes complete sense, saving affiliate program managers a lot of time for more fun things (than banner upload) to do. Just like the mass banner upload, I personally could
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I manage an affiliate program for a merchant who is simultaneously utilizing two affiliate networks: Commission Junction and ShareASale. I’ve just had to upload 6 new banners to each network, and in one case it took me 8+ times longer than in the other. Here are the details: Commission Junction
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Last week Commission Junction affiliate network announced that out of the merchants who use affiliate networks as platforms for their affiliate programs, close to two-thirds (63% to be exact) choose Commission Junction, which is “more than twice as often as any other affiliate provider.” The data was based on the
Larger Merchants Prefer Commission Junction, Smaller Have Options Read More »
<!”It is interesting that we do not see much written on affiliate marketing analytics, whereas if there is one industry that relies on analytical data especially heavily it is affiliate marketing” — this is how my newest article starts. It is one of the feature articles in the Summer 2010
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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.
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When as a Commission Junction advertiser/merchant you get a “Publisher Country Change” notification (see example below) in your network mailbox, treat it as a red flag. In my experience, in the majority of cases it means nothing good. C’mon! How often do people change the country of their residence from
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