We reject most affiliate and influencer applications in the programs we manage that use AI to: Create content within their website Respond to our emails Auto respond to communications Answer user questions on their websites Apply to programs Generate images that involve branding The main reason is that our clients expect us to manage their […]
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This post is about how multiple marketing and branding teams can work together to get featured in LLM results like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity by using third party signals. It includes being a recommended brand in the lists of where to shop and recommended stores based on what we’re seeing. It is not about what
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Review affiliates can both grow and hurt your bottom line. It’s how you work with them and what the goals of your affiliate program are. Not all affiliate programs have the goal of making money, some are there to burn budgets or keep executives and investors happy. Review affiliates are not only mid-funnel touchpoints, they
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Every affiliate manager that reads this gets asked “can you share an example of what other affiliates are doing?” from new and existing partners. If you’re an affiliate, you’ve probably asked this at least once in your journey. If the affiliate manager shares examples of other affiliates, you should think twice about what you share
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The client came to us because they didn’t have luck with affiliate program managers in the past. The traffic sources were hard to determine, they found some end of sale interceptions via branded coupon phrases in Google, and lots of reviews being a source of traffic (which is value adding, but not top-funnel). We assured
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Yes, affiliate links are backlinks and they can work for or against you when it comes to SEO. This is because they are a link from one site to your website, and any link that points towards your website is technically a backlink. But not every backlink passes SEO value, and that is where the
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