Over the last couple of years I’ve seen a ton of traditional SEO tools move into the affiliate channels. You have backlink crawlers, social media listeners and even keyword research tools advertising at events, reaching out to agencies and even networks building their own. This is both good and bad for your company and website. Affiliate […]
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Someone asked me the other week about the Google Buy button and how it’s may impact affiliate marketing. Although nobody can say exactly how it will impact it, the Google Buy button could really help value adding affiliates, potentially remove some of the poaching that low value partners may take credit for. It could also
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Affiliate Summit is the best show for the performance marketing industry. You can find affiliate partners that can bring you new customers as well as learn how to combat poaching and theft. There are also sessions to help grow your business inlcuding SEO, Monetization, Email, Blog Optimization, PPC, Affiliate Marketing and more. While you’re going
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The goldmine in the Affiliate World is having a value adding SEO Affiliate that builds a site specifically for your program. Although everyone promises they can recruit these partners, chances are they cannot and will not be able to because you have to have a special relationship and a program that can be pitched effectively
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Every week I sort through hundreds of sites. Whether they are Affiliate sites, we are evaluating them for backlinks for SEO or because I am auditing a site for an Affiliate or Merchant/Client, I see a lot of the same mistakes being made. While I go through them I almost always come across errors that
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There are a ton of people who bash Affiliates. I think it is because they aren’t able to compete so they try to make their own industry look better. Affiliate Marketing is by far the best return on investment and a reliable stream of value adding sales if it is done the right way. Non
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What Are The Benefits & Negatives of Multiple Affiliate Networks? A common question for Merchants who are new to Affiliate Marketing is “Should I launch my Affiliate Program on multiple Affiliate Networks?”. There are many reasons why Merchants may think launching Affiliate Programs on Multiple Networks may be a good idea, but there are also
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Everyone is doing gift guides for the holidays, but getting free products to advertise them isn’t a good way to maximize your time or effort or build a business from your blog. I’ve done a ton of posts about how to create a gift guide, how to make, monetize and distribute unique gift guides so
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Shawn Collins from AffiliateTip recently released some information from their survey that the largest group of Affiliates right now is between the ages of 31 and 40. Having this data gives you a huge insight into how you may be able to get a better success and response rate when pitching Affiliates at Affiliate Summit,
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One question I am getting a lot from Affiliates of all types is how do I pull out of the hits I got from Penguin and Panda. Everyone from coupon sites to loyalty sites, content sites, bloggers, forums, etc… seems to have issues. Here are things I found in common with a majority (not a
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