How long have we been in the business of affiliate marketing? A dozen years or more? Well you’d figure that merchants with affiliate programs – especially those affiliated with Commission Junction would know better than to place Google Adsense on their affiliate’s landing pages… see the screenshot below. My advice? Drop ‘em if you got [...]
Podcast: What Merchants Do to Mess Up Their Affiliate Programs
Linda Woods, host of the weekly “Affiliate Marketing Insider” podcast on Webmaster Radio invited Kathleen Lindsay of Allegiance Marketing Resources and me back this week to talk with her on the subject “What Merchants Do Wrong to Mess Up Their Affiliate Programs“. As Super Affiliates, all I can say is that Kathleen and I had [...]
Amazon Affiliate Program Changes Affect Arbitragers
Bad news for search affiliates (arbitragers) out of Amazon today. Here’s what was posted to their Associates Alerts. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other [...]
Google to End Adsense for Video Program
On the ‘Inside Adsense‘ blog, Google writer Arlene Lee states “After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads on your pages, we’ve found that it hasn’t had the impact we had hoped for” and that they’ll be terminating the program at the end of April. Or, in [...]
9 Alternatives to Credit Card Affiliate Programs
Banks and credit card companies started shutting down (or temporarily suspending) their credit card affiliate programs in mid-November 2008 in response to the severe shortage of capital available and to reduce the risk posed by online customer acquisition channels that have historically produced less-than-liquid leads. Credit card affiliate programs that have been suspended to date [...]
No Free Lunch – Not Even at Google
Seems like everytime I hear the news, or read my email, another company directly related to our Internet marketing businesses is tightening the reigns due to the recession. Last week I mentioned that a number of banks have either temporarily suspended or permanently shut down their credit card affiliate programs. Back in December, I received [...]
