When you think about affiliate marketing, you may think of the larger affiliate programs that typically act like application service providers (ASPs), where the advertiser interfaces with and motivates affiliates. Over the past few years, a plethora of cost-per-action (CPA) affiliate networks have evolved. CPA networks place the burden of managing affiliates and driving traffic [...]
If you’re one of the countless smart affiliate marketers who blog frequently, I bet you put a lot of effort into creating high-quality content. Regularly, that valuable content is timeless, but only appears on the most-viewed part of your blog – the homepage – for a short time. Other posts push it off your homepage [...]
Digital Window Ltd., a joint venture of German publishing company Axel Springer AG and Swiss firm PubliGroupe SA, has agreed to buy competitor Perfiliate Ltd., which operates Buy.at, from AOL Inc. just two years after the Internet company bought the marketing operation. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed, but it’s fair to say the [...]
This week, Amazon sent termination letters to affiliate in the state of Colorado. Amazon had made very clear that they would stop advertising through Associates based in any state who passes nexus or online tax. They, along with other merchants, feel that the new nexus laws are unconstitutional and that we need to have a [...]
Skimlinks is a service that turns an ordinary link to a product into an “affiliate marketing link” that generates revenue. This UK startup wants to revolutionize the affiliate model by giving publishers access to affiliate programs of thousands of merchants from a number of affiliate networks. Each time a user clicks through and makes a [...]
