CategoryAffiliate Programs

There’s been quite a bit of chatter around the blogging for money community about affiliate programs in the last few days. So here’s three of what’s being written on that topic: Jeremy shares some tips on how to choose a CPA (cost per action) Affiliate – particularly focussing on whether ...more

TechCrunch report that booBox (a Brazillian start up) are getting ready to launch a service that will help bloggers and other webmasters monetize their sites. It’s an interesting concept which is best understood by using their demo of it here. In short – bloggers add tags to images on their ...more

Have you ever wanted to be able to track your Amazon Associate program’s performance with channels (like you can with AdSense and Chitika)? I’ve heard a number of publishers complaining about this and even a few saying that they have multiple Amazon Associate accounts for this purpose. It seems that ...more

The Amazon associates program is changing it’s payment system to be every month instead of once a quarter. So instead of getting 4 cheques (or gift certificates) per year you’ll get 12. The payment terms will be 60 days (ie you get your cheque or certificate 60 days after the ...more

Copyblogger points to an article that indicates that Affiliate Marketing Disclosure may become Mandatory by law. This will be a fascinating one to watch and could have implications for bloggers on many levels. The article states: “The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which ...more

BlogKits has launched it’s long awaited Affiliate Marketing Network for bloggers. So I thought I’d ask it’s founder, Jim Kukral, a few questions about it and what he’s learnt along the road in developing it. What is BlogKits? (give us your elevator pitch) Our business model is simple… Help 99% ...more

Some days when I check what was bought via my Amazon Associate’s affiliate program the previous day I just have to laugh. Here’s a random sample of 10 items from yesterday’s sales which I think has to be the oddest collection of sales I’ve every had in a day. Waring ...more

One key to affiliate programs succeeding is that you have enough traffic that actually sees your affiliate links. There is little point in actually deep linking to products on pages that no one actually visits. So how can you increase the chances of people seeing and potentially clicking your affiliate ...more

Amazon have just announced that they are now allowing publishers to earn commission when readers that they refer buy a gift certificate in the Amazon store as part of their Associates program. This is only the case up until the end of the year and commissions will be a flat ...more