I just re-read the following comment regarding a merchant-side affiliate tracking problem that Kaycee posted to our forum some time ago. I was appalled by her merchant’s response and wanted to make all of our readers aware of how best to handle a sticky problem such as this one. I have a niche website featuring [...]
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 [...]
The Art of Wooing Affiliates
“You spammed me” I said with a smile to the affiliate network manager standing next to me as we posed for a picture together at the last Affiliate Summit. Her smile suddenly disappeared. Kind, compassionate and understanding person that I am, I fervently hoped to hear an honest, if not apologetic reply that would give [...]
Merchants: PLEASE Keep Your Links Updated
Cheese me. I was in the Linkshare interface the other night getting Allzine links for blog posting about on the Roamsters.com site. Thirty magazines were returned in the Travel & Leisure category. I grabbed about ten of them, creating ten draft posts with magazine pictures and titles and planned to write descriptions of them later. [...]
