{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/category\/affiliate-marketing\/#CollectionPage","headline":"Affiliate Marketing Category","description":"","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/category\/affiliate-marketing\/","hasPart":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/what-is-a-niche-site\/","headline":"What is a Niche Site?","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/what-is-a-niche-site\/","datePublished":"2010-05-26","dateModified":"2010-05-26","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/what-is-a-niche-site\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/#Person","name":"Adam Riemer","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/","identifier":2,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\" title=\"adam riemer\">Adam Riemer<\/a> is a two-time Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award winner and marketing veteran who has appeared in the NYTimes.com, Forbes, SearchEngineJournal, MarketingLand, Feedfront and more for his knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, monetization strategy and conversion rate optimization. With more than 15 years of experience, he's ready to help you with your marketing needs.","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":null,"keywords":["affiliate sites","how do I find a niche","niche sites","picking a niche","starting an affiliate site"],"commentCount":"1","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/what-is-a-niche-site\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2010-05-26 19:46:00","description":"Great topic idea for an affiliate site. Affiliates more than most people must figure out what is too general or competitive versus what is large enough to have sufficient traffic and sales opportunity. Too tight or too general both fail. \n\nIn your example above, a site dedicated to women's business card holders would be a good-sized niche: small enough to not have to compete with already established business card holder sites yet large enough to have plenty of interest. \n\nIn contrast, crystal business card holders would be a really tight niche which isn't to say it might not work. You could potentially own that space faster and then expand. \n\nThere are far more niches than most people realize. For example, someone could create a site that focuses on pink accessories for women including pink business card holders, or women's business accessories or blue business accessories. \n\nI mention that to get affiliates thinking about how to set their site apart from others. Every site needs a USP - what is unique about it that makes it special.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gail from GrowMap","url":"http:\/\/www.growmap.com\/ethical-affiliate-marketing\/"}}]},{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware\/what-is-affiliate-fraud-and-what-does-it-actually-mean\/","headline":"What is Affiliate Fraud and what does it actually mean?","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware\/what-is-affiliate-fraud-and-what-does-it-actually-mean\/","datePublished":"2010-05-25","dateModified":"2010-05-25","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware\/what-is-affiliate-fraud-and-what-does-it-actually-mean\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/#Person","name":"Adam Riemer","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/","identifier":2,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\" title=\"adam riemer\">Adam Riemer<\/a> is a two-time Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award winner and marketing veteran who has appeared in the NYTimes.com, Forbes, SearchEngineJournal, MarketingLand, Feedfront and more for his knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, monetization strategy and conversion rate optimization. With more than 15 years of experience, he's ready to help you with your marketing needs.","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":null,"keywords":["Adware","Affiliate Fraud","ppv"],"commentCount":"1","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware\/what-is-affiliate-fraud-and-what-does-it-actually-mean\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2010-05-26 18:18:57","description":"I suspect that few outside those who are benefiting from affiliate fraud and the few like you who campaign against it have even an inkling about what is going on. \n\nThese dishonest tactics are causing SERIOUS damage to the credibility of affiliate marketing. If they continue merchants are going to find out how they are being fleeced and stop using affiliate marketing - and that would be very bad for merchants, affiliates and consumers alike. \n\nWhat merchants must do is only use affiliate networks that can be trusted. From my research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growmap.com\/deep-link-shareasale\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">shareasale<\/a> appears to be the cleanest and unless you want to be neck deep in learning affiliate marketing I strongly recommend you hire an expert in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growmap.com\/ethical-affiliate-marketing\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ethical affiliate marketing<\/a>. \n\nI'm sure there must be others, but Adam is the only one I've come across so far and I would not want anyone I know to start an affiliate program without his assistance.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gail from GrowMap","url":"http:\/\/www.growmap.com\/ethical-affiliate-marketing\/"}}]},{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware-and-media-buys-does-opt-in-mean-its-ok\/","headline":"Adware and Media Buys. Does Opt In Mean it&#8217;s OK?","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware-and-media-buys-does-opt-in-mean-its-ok\/","datePublished":"2010-05-22","dateModified":"2010-05-22","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware-and-media-buys-does-opt-in-mean-its-ok\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/#Person","name":"Adam Riemer","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/","identifier":2,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\" title=\"adam riemer\">Adam Riemer<\/a> is a two-time Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award winner and marketing veteran who has appeared in the NYTimes.com, Forbes, SearchEngineJournal, MarketingLand, Feedfront and more for his knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, monetization strategy and conversion rate optimization. With more than 15 years of experience, he's ready to help you with your marketing needs.","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":null,"keywords":["Adware","Affiliate Marketing","Media Buying","Parasites","Theft"],"commentCount":"2","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware-and-media-buys-does-opt-in-mean-its-ok\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2010-05-23 18:19:31","description":"In a perfect world Networks would do their jobs and protect their Merchants and Legit Affiliates and the FTC would focus on companies that can enable theft instead of on disclosures and tracking cookies.  Unfortunately certain networks promote and endorse this type of behavior as good under the name contextual publishers and advertisers and many Merchants believe them and fall for this type of behavior.  \n\nThe reality is that until Merchants actually educate themselves and realize who their partners are and stop falling for terms like Pay Per View and Opt In meaning good things and the FTC not realizing the larger issues and tax problems that can shut down an industry this will just continue to happen.  \n\nOn a good note though some Merchants are now becoming a lot more proactive and starting to educate themselves.  This is why when I first talk to a new Client or someone just looking for advice I always recommend they contact Kellie Stevens from Affiliate Fair Play as well.  She taught me everything I know and is my main source for finding out new things and new adware applications being used to rip off Merchants and other Affiliates.  \n\nI definitely appreciate all of your referrals and am happy you continue to come back here to read my blog.  I am a big fan of yours as well.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam","url":""}},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/adware-and-media-buys-does-opt-in-mean-its-ok\/#Comment2","dateCreated":"2010-05-23 18:10:26","description":"I completely agree with you Adam that anything whose purpose is to intentionally steal commissions earned by another affiliate or unearned commissions from merchants is unethical and wise affiliate networks should ban them and affiliate managers should remove any affiliate caught using them from their program. \n\nThis is one of the primary reasons I recommended you - because you are able to determine which affiliates are up to no good and keep them out of the merchant's program and keep them from stealing commissions from sales that belong to another affiliate.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gail from GrowMap","url":"http:\/\/www.growmap.com\/ethical-affiliate-marketing\/"}}]},{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/how-to-use-the-share-a-sale-video-tool\/","headline":"How to use the Share a Sale Video Tool","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/how-to-use-the-share-a-sale-video-tool\/","datePublished":"2010-05-18","dateModified":"2010-05-18","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/how-to-use-the-share-a-sale-video-tool\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/#Person","name":"Adam Riemer","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/","identifier":2,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\" title=\"adam riemer\">Adam Riemer<\/a> is a two-time Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award winner and marketing veteran who has appeared in the NYTimes.com, Forbes, SearchEngineJournal, MarketingLand, Feedfront and more for his knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, monetization strategy and conversion rate optimization. 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How to vote and which ones I recommend","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/vote-for-affiliate-summit-sessions-how-to-and-which-ones-i-recommend\/","datePublished":"2010-05-04","dateModified":"2010-05-04","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/vote-for-affiliate-summit-sessions-how-to-and-which-ones-i-recommend\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/#Person","name":"Adam Riemer","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/author\/adamriemer\/","identifier":2,"description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\" title=\"adam riemer\">Adam Riemer<\/a> is a two-time Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award winner and marketing veteran who has appeared in the NYTimes.com, Forbes, SearchEngineJournal, MarketingLand, Feedfront and more for his knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing, SEO, PPC, monetization strategy and conversion rate optimization. With more than 15 years of experience, he's ready to help you with your marketing needs.","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fda62f751f2a6c2ec2b079fedff69720852e4a65633212ffb11832454c29160a?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/arm-logo-2.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vote-for-Affiliate-Summit-Sessions1.jpg","url":"http:\/\/adamriemer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vote-for-Affiliate-Summit-Sessions1.jpg","height":"225","width":"462"},"keywords":["Affiliate Summit East","Affiliate Summit Sessions","Affiliate Summit Sessions Voting"],"commentCount":"3","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/vote-for-affiliate-summit-sessions-how-to-and-which-ones-i-recommend\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2010-05-05 06:01:43","description":"No problem Trisha.  I think you all would do a great job.  =0).  Feel free to tweet or retweet this post as well if you would like.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam","url":""}},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.adamriemer.me\/affiliate-marketing\/vote-for-affiliate-summit-sessions-how-to-and-which-ones-i-recommend\/#Comment2","dateCreated":"2010-05-05 04:20:48","description":"Thanks for recommending our Podcasting 101 panel, Adam!  I just wrote up my recommendations earlier tonight, and I love the idea of all the panels I saw your name on!  \n\nMy recommendations will be going up at the end of the week :)  See you at Summit!","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Trisha Lyn Fawver","url":"http:\/\/www.trishalyn.com"}}]}]}