Commission Junction Changing Things Up

One of the great things about utilizing affiliate programs as opposed to contextual advertising is the ability to 'modify' your listings to better blend with your site. Typically, contextual advertising requires an individual to 'not touch' the code, although small modifications are allowed 'pre-code creation'(Changing Text Link Color on Adsense).Commission Junction recently announced that they

Blockbuster Online Affiliate Program

Blockbuster Online has raised their commissions once again! Now affiliates will earn $26.50 per sale! Join now, and take advantage of this great offer!Good luck, and happy promoting!Affiliate Future announced BlockBuster Online raising their affiliate commissions. Exciting news, but don't go throwing together affiliate sites just yet.Make sure whenever you create an affiliate site that you are

Affiliate Propaganda

When I search for a product that I'm interested in purchasing, I hope to be greeted with the most relevant pages. Typically, this would mean that I would find the 'official' page for the product in question. This is assuming that the manufacturer, retailer has an online pressence, but everyone does nowadays.A study shows that 15% of Brand Searches Stray away from Company sites. This is extremely

Parasites Stealing Your Affiliate Link Credit

Spyware does exist that would allow a hosts to transform your affiliate link into a link of the spywares owner. This would cause credit of the link to go to the spyware owner and not to you, the publisher. Educating yourself on these methods of 'stealing' and making yourself aware of ways to protect yourself can save you money.5 Star Affiliate Programs offers a blog that tracks and monitors

Affiliate Cookies

When choosing an affiliate program cookies can make the difference! The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized webpages for them.The cookies will remember your referral, even though the customer may visit at a later date. This will ensure that you get credit for the referral, even though they did not enter the site through your creative.Often times a

Affiliate Pitfalls

When searching for Affiliate programs, be sure your comparing apples to apples. There are a number of merchant programs that disguise themselves as affiliates.It's not an affiliate program if you have to pay, to sell their products. Such programs that charge to be a member are merchant programs. These programs provide you with a store front that you manage and sell their product. The basis for

Utilizing Amazon Tools

Amazon offers a number of tools for you to use when affiliating with their products. From direct Product links to a search box they have you covered for the best creative to blend with your site. Knowing your visitors will help you decide what type of ad to use.Utilizing the stats of your site to decide what creative to use can help increase your revenue and make your site more appealing. Knowing

Important Affiliate Links

Affiliate ProgramsAffiliate FutureChitikaClick BankCommission JunctionAmazonTop Affiliate List5 Star AffiliatesAffiliate and Marketing Help ForumsV7NDigital PointKeeping up with the sites on these links can help make your campaign a successful one. Knowing what each program has to offer, their strengths, and weaknesses will make you more revenue! Please feel free to make any suggestions on others

Using Auto Traffic

The use of auto surf sites tends to set on the gray line of shady business. Often times its a pitfall for the investor and a waste of time for the surfer. Auto-Traffic sites pay a small amount to users to simply visit sites, using the money from the investors looking to get their site seen. Where do you fit in?Don't get me wrong, there are legit sites out there that can provide quality traffic.

Affiliate Program Spam, Stay Away

Spam, spam and more spam, it clogs the inbox of the most diligent webmaster. Sometimes, affiliate programs find their way in through the backdoor in the form of spam email. Often enough their program sounds enticing, easy to accomplish, and just worth checking out. But be warned, if spam is needed to spread their message, are they really worth doing business with?This question has surfaced

Monetizing with Text Link Ads

As mentioned in my previous post regarding finding niche affiliate programs, Text Link Ads has one of the best programs available for creating multiple streams of income.Not only can you earn money by becoming a publisher for the site, but by affiliating you can earn up to $25 per referral. A referral is considered anyone who signs up to the program, from your link, and becomes a publisher or

Affiliating with Adsense

While Google Adsense is primarily known for its contextual advertising, it does have a referral system in place where you can earn from affiliating. Google Adsense has referrals for the Adsense Program, Picasa, Google Pack, FireFox, and is always adding more.It is possible to earn more from these referrals than from the actual contextual advertising. For lower traffic sites starting out these

Building That Affiliate Site

As discussed in my previous post, there are a lot of MFA(Made for Adsense) sites abound and not as noticable, made for affiliate sites. The question that arises is how do you know what type of product to focus on, when building a site for the sole purpose of earning revenue off of affiliating. The answer is not simple and does not come quick, so brace yourself...'A lot of research'."A

MFA, Made for Adsense

Everyone has seen them and the majority of people despise them, they are MFA's, Made for Adsense Sites. They are creeping up a lot more fequently now and some are actually starting to gain grounds in the SERPs(Search Engine Results Page). How do the MFA sites compare to the MFAP sites?MFAP, Made For Affiliate Program sites. It would seem to me that sites created to market(affiliate) products

Finding Programs to Affiliate

Sometimes the best affiliate programs are not readily available, or rather advertised. These programs are found after you join a service, purchase a product, or subscribe to some sort of offer online.Some noteworthy affiliate programs are available from such companies as PokerStars.com and Text-Link-Ads.com, but you wouldn't know it unless you signed up for their services. To be an affiliate for

Affiliate Future

Affiliate Future is one of the leading programs available in affiliate marketing. They offer plenty of products to choose from, to fit your websites needs. The following is a brief list of some of the things they offer:As mentioned, this is just a very brief overview of some of my own successful affiliations. The actual lead earnings and sales earnings per program vary greatly, but all have

Amazon Sucks?

I just made $14 for selling $400 worth of merchandise for Amazon, and I'm sick of it.Comments such as this are starting to run rampant amongst the affiliate crowd. Whose fault is this? Obviously Amazon is a business looking to make money, but are they starting to cut the grunts out of the picture. Afterall, the grunts are the ones putting Amazon's name out on the net and marketing the plethora of