Problems with Berries

As reported by AffiliateTip.com, apparently Berries is/was having problems with their affiliate program. The problem arrose from the coding in their website not properly tracking their affiliate referrals.Therefore, they submitted a letter to all publishers. My concern stems exactly as the same as the author from AffiliateTip, how do you know if you missed out on some sales if they were not able

Affiliate Startup Plan

When designing a website and choosing an affiliate program it's important to have the basics down. Going in blind will most certainly lead to failure, if nothing else a lot of frustration. So, come up with a plan, learn the basics, and THEN go in feet first. To get things rolling Startup Nation has come up with a good basics plan to help get you started.The Marketing 101 Article focuses on 6 key

Saving Yourself Money - TheHandThatFeeds

Theft is one of the largest threats to automobile insurance companies. The replacement costs for stolen vehicles is what drives insurance higher and higher.In a recent press release by CarInsurance.com, it states that California is home to 6 of the top 10 autotheft locations in the US. Because of such high theft numbers finding inexpensive auto insurance is difficult in this area. This finding

Caution Easy Money Affiliates

CaveJunctionNews has a good article on being aware of pyramid schemes on the net as opposed to legit home based businesses. Warning that the idea of easy money rarely exists anywhere, let alone on the internet where there are predators looking to make a quick buck.The article sites where most easy money schemes are produced through 'affiliate' style programs. However, the real bread winners are

Affiliating Nonsense

Pending legislation, it's possible you can be busted for affiliating gambling sites. I've touched on this notion before, but not to the extent that our friends over at 5 Star Affiliates have. Citing that it's possible for law enforcement to freeze assets, shut down your site, and possibly even face stiffer fines.There is a fine line when promoting gambling in the United States and as such is

The Hand that Feeds

How many of you are creating online Affiliate Sites in the hopes of creating more money? I'm willing to bet that everyone does, it's not just for fun, and even hobbies make money sometimes. But when it gets right down to it, scrilla is why we are here, unfortunatley because its worth a lot less now than it used to.It's been noted, that things are not becoming more expensive, rather the value of

NetEnforcer Hoax

What's the latest affiliate marketing buzz? A hoax, an embrassment to hosting providers and Amazon Affiliates worldwide.NetEnforcer, an online entity that supposedly represents major manufacturers, has been sending letters filed under the DMCA that states that a website is breaking the law and using copyrighted information. Citing examples of such infringement leads to the Amazon Affiliate link,

Ebay Contextual Advertising

Well, it's happened, the auction monster eBay has decided to enter the Adwords style market. This will put eBay entering the market slightly later than the other major three that have already launched their contextual advertising product.Google of course has Adwords, MSN has adcenter, and Yahoo has their publisher program. Lord knows the market will be saturated and advertisers won't know where

Adsense & Affiliating

It's been touched on before, but being a publisher of Google Adsense also has other benefits. Google offers several products in which you can affiliate for, but the payouts vary greatly.Google Packs - You can earn up to $2.00 per user that installs the google pack software.FireFox - Earn up to $1.00 per user who installs Mozilla Firefox who did not have it previously installed.Picasa - Earn up to

Deep Links & Affiliating

Often times becoming an affiliate for a program will be ho-hum. As in, we like a certain product for a program, but the basic creative they provide only links to the programs homepage and not to the product in question. There is a fix to this and it is called 'Deep Linking'.Deep Linking is not allowed by all Affiliate Programs, but they can prove a valuable tool so that you can gear your visitors

Affiliate Links Hurting Page Rank?

I've noticed a few questions coming through the popular webmaster forms of users questioning the affect on PR(Google Page Rank). The idea is logical and most definately will affect your PR and rank in SERP's. However, is it enough to even worry about?The web has, is, and will always be a scary place...but why should we worry about who we link to. I say this as long as moderation is used. As a

Repeat Visitors are Worth More

Building a quality site can not be placed second to affiliate or any type of ad placement. Your visitors must be the soul reason you are building your site, because if you don't please them, they won't please your pocket book.By building a quality site you are accomplishing a couple different things. First you are providing a worthwhile resource for your visitors that they will want to come back