Semantic discord – situation where two (or more) parties are misaligned on definitions of key terms which formulate a concept. I am an active user of Google Alerts and a number of other tools for online content monitoring. One of the key phases that I monitor daily is “affiliate marketing” …
Affiliate Marketing? Don't Get Tangled Up in Definitions! Read More »
Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by …
If Hit by Search Engine Penalties, Do Not Close Affiliate Program! Read More »
Earlier today eMarketer has published some interesting data on the sources that consumers use in their pre-purchase product research. Two reasons why we couldn’t miss this: (1) the data was from our client, Compete.com, whose affiliate program we manage, and (2) if you look at the below data carefully, you …
Search Engines and Online Reviews Represent Affiliate Opportunities Read More »
An affiliate has emailed me the following situation and question: I’m fairly new at PPC, but I’ve already had some luck with it. A few days ago I started promoting [merchant name here]’s program on CJ. Sent over 150 clicks to them spending over $30 on it already, but haven’t …
Paid Search Marketing and Affiliate EPC (Earnings Per Click) Read More »
Yesterday Josh Braaten, an Online Marketing Manager at Rasmussen College who also writes about SEO and web analytics on Big Picture Web tweeted: His tweet was a part of our brief conversation on how some of the online marketing-related professions are being misunderstood by people, but the wording of it …
The famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse is known for saying: “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.” For an affiliate marketer (and any online marketer, for that matter!) the “place to stand” remains the same as in …
5 Hot Trends for Affiliate Marketers to Leverage in 2011 Read More »
The newest issue of Search Marketing Standard (SMS) has just come out, and in it you will also find an article by me. SMS has approached me earlier this year to write about affiliate marketing for SEM experts, and I decided to tackle the subject from two angles: (a) paid …