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What is Affiliate Marketing Affiliate is a word synonymous to “referrer”. If you are into affiliate marketing, this means that you are the intermediary link between the owner of the goods and the clients. How it works Starting up an affiliate business is very easy: Build a site.(Read our SEO section!). * Sign up with a few profitable affiliate programs that are related to your interest/site. * Link to the programs from your site using your personal tracking links. * Generate traffic to your site. * Make your visitors want to buy the products from your programs. That’s it. If ...

There has been some useful posts of late that discuss the pracitical methods to get started at developing a new site or blog specifically for affiliate marketing. In particular Aaron Wall discusses practical tips for starting a new site and Dosh Dosh looks at choosing the right blog niche. So along with the new Google hot trends report and analysing the top peformers within the affiliate programs, what other tools are available? I have put together a list of tools below that can help inspire & provide ideas to identify trends, potential niches or opportunities that could provide decent tra...

Lets talk blackhat PPC. After I read a article over at SEW sometime back about blackhat pay per click, I thought I would write about a few other sneaky tricks used within PPC. More specifically in the PPC affiliate marketing space. You see some pretty interesting methods used here in particular because there is that much more inter competition. Affiliates in competition with other affiliates, the merchants internal marketing department or agency, the affiliate network over merchant terms and of course the paid search system itself. In many ways the merchant, the affiliate and the network have ...

I think the majority of the time everyone would agree with a big fat no on allowing affiliates to bid against their brand. Why pay an affiliate a commission for something you will get 99% of the time anyway? However, there are times where clients of mine have agreed to a select few affiliates to bid against their brand and it is something I have been asked about a number of times since. If you are unsure of the reasoning behind the closed brand bidding group, the logic is that by allowing a small number of top performing affiliates to gain extra commissions from the merchants brand it allows ...