CategoryAffiliate Programs

Once you’ve chosen an affiliate product or program to promote on your blog you cannot just slap a link to it into your sidebar and forget about it. The task then is in thinking about how you’ll drive readers to it. Similarly to contextual advertising – positioning of your links ...more

Another task that is worth doing in order to prepare your blogs for the end of the year is fine tuning your affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are quite a different way of monetizing your blog than advertising and while there are some similar principles that come into play when optimizing ...more

It’s time for another earnings update on AdSense referrals. It’s now been almost a year since they were introduced (I think it was 4 November 2005) and so we’ve all had plenty of opportunity to test them. Referrals are Google’s first venture into CPA (cost per action) advertising and I’m ...more

Bloggers using Amazon’s aStore will have received an email today announcing some updates which include (the below is a direct quote from the email): For those of you linking from your website to your aStore rather than embedding it, we have added the capability to put a link back to ...more

The Amazon Associate Program emailed their publishers today to let them know that they are officially launching their ‘Product Previews’ service to all Amazon publishers. This has previously only been a beta test with a select group of publishers. The ‘Product Previews’ allow you to promote Amazon products and give ...more

Amazon have emailed participants in the aStore beta test (my review here) with a sneak peak of what will be included in the next version of aStores. Here’s the list: Build and maintain multiple aStores using a single Associate ID Specify products to feature on Category and Sub-Category pages Create ...more

Robyn writes a thought provoking post with the title of Why Use Affiliate Ads Rather Than AdSense or YPN? In it she points out the benefits of going with affiliate programs that pay larger amounts when people purchase a product in comparison to CPC (cost per click) ad programs like ...more

Amazon have just emailed those testing their aStore to let them know of three ways to integrate it into their website. 1. Link to your aStore as a stand-alone store (this is what they were offering previously and is as simple as having a link (like this) to your aStore. ...more

Two of the main critiques of Amazon’s new aStore (the new beta test from Amazon that allows you to make your own Amazon store) that I’m hearing from publishers are: It’s hosted on Amazon’s domain which doesn’t look that integrated with your site There’s no link back to your site ...more