Before I post this I would like to mention that I am not a Lawyer and cannot give legal advice. I am also not able to determine what is or is not legal since I am not a Lawyer but what I can do is give my opinion. So this morning a bunch of people […]
Why You Should Not Allow Affiliates to Place Pixels and Partner with Networks Read More »
I recently got chewed out by an Affiliate who applied to one of my programs. His entire pitch (which actually isn’t his but a very old con artist one) is to buy merchants trademark names with the word coupon, or review, or a misspelling and then build the site around the domain name or trademark.
Are Affiliates who buy urls with your name in it bad? Read More »
Hi Everyone. Right now I’m uploading some videos to the 4IDR Affiliate Program on Share a Sale for our Affiliate partners to use. Not only am I a huge believer in combining video into your Marketing (It allows you to speak to your customers and visitors without being able to talk to them in person,
4IDR – New Electro Cigarette Video for Affiliates Read More »
One question that comes up all the time for Merchants with Affiliate programs is “Should we pay Affiliates on Repeat Customers and Repeat Purchases?”. Merchant’s say no and Affiliates, OPMs and Networks say yes. But in reality what is the right choice? Let’s break it down and think of the good and the bad with
Should you pay Affiliates on Repeat Customers? Read More »
A couple months ago my friends and I were talking about work. Well they were since they work real jobs and have to be in an office all day. I was remembering how much I hated it…(insert thank god for my friends convincing me to go out on my own)….when they came to a realization.
Removing Affiliates Because Your Program is To Large Read More »
So one huge and common mistake many Merchants with Affiliate programs make with Black Friday and Cyber Monday is that they always hide and keep their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales hidden from their competitors, which also means not giving their Affiliates a heads up on what will be available and what to promote.
How to get the most out of your Affiliates on Black Friday and Cyber Monday Read More »
Over the last few months multiple travel, sports, and other niche owners have reached out because Google wiped their traffic. This post isn’t about the reasons why Google may have wiped them, its about what they could have done differently when Google was sending them traffic. As a marketing strategist and affiliate manager, my job
How Niche Sites Thrive Without Google & Make Money Read More »
When a company loses SEO traffic, you hear they are dying or got decimated; when it is organic social media you hear about taking a dive or a hit. SEO traffic is more valuable from a direct ROI and new customer acquisition standpoint than organic social media. Before my social media subscribers get upset, read
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Google has a new featured snippet in beta called carousels. This is one of the most exciting schema libraries to come out in years, and may be a game changer for small businesses, publishers, affiliates, and even big brands in the future. Below you’ll find how I think it will be developed, ways different types
Google Carousels Structured Data – How to Use This Read More »
Yahoo’s and Bing’s knowledge panels are sometimes affiliate links, and this can impact your SEO tracking and analytics reporting. But not every time, and it depends on the type of landing page you end up on. Other times they’ll load coupons from coupon affiliate sites for branded search results on a knowledge panel without using
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