CategoryAffiliate Programs

Amazon Affiliate program members have received an email today announcing the new referral fee rates for the second quarter of 2006. There are a few significant changes. The first is a ‘simplified’ structure for link premiums. As you’ll see from the following image the commission earned has increased in each ...more

Here’s a tip that I shared with ProBlogger Newsletter subscribers a couple of weeks back (slightly adapted). Those of you who use BlogAds.com ads on your blogs will probably notice that the service allows you to offer free ads using a promotional code. This enables you to offer free ads ...more

There was some good news for Clickbank Affiliates on their ClickBank Web Log a couple of days ago. They’ve added search capabilities to their Marketplace area (where affiliates go to find products to promote). This has been a much needed feature and something many will be very happy to see. ...more

Some Clickbank affiliates (including me) have been having problems logging into their admin area over the past day or two. On reporting difficulties logging in publishers get the following message from Clickbank: “Due to an attempted denial-of-service attack that started Sunday, we have been filtering suspect traffic. It is possible ...more

Perhaps I’m a little slow on the update here and they’ve been doing it a while but today I noticed for the first time that Gizmodo have started linking to products in Amazon with their affiliate ID (see screen cap left) – obviously trying out the Amazon Associates Program. I’d ...more

If you’re looking for a reasonably simple way to integrate the Amazon affiliate program into your blog you might like to check out MotionMall which is a service that is specifically for this purpose. MotionMall leads you through a four part process of designing your ad unit selecting the topic ...more

SixApart (the creators of Movable Type and TypePad) have just announced an affiliate program. You can earn 10% per licence if you recommend someone to Movable Type, $3 per trial subscriber for TypePad and 20% of paid subscription (up to $5) for LiveJournal referrals.

Today’s post in the b5media 12 Days of Christmas series is another post by Hsien-Hsien Lei. She previously posted about ethics for science and health bloggers but this time she’s showing her diversity of blogging interests by writing about Product Placement on Consumer Blogs. Hi. I’m Hsien-Hsien Lei and I ...more

Just logged into my Amazon Affiliate program account (which I reviewed here to check the daily stats and it looks like December is going to be a bumper month with a lot of Christmas shopping going on. While it doesn’t come close to comparing to other income streams earnings on ...more