One of the challenges facing affiliates in all markets is picking the affiliate program that best suits your needs. Many affiliates will look at this question from the attitude of choosing who is will to pay you the most money for promoting their product through their program however there are better and more lucrative ways […]
Posts in category Affiliate Marketing
Gaining links for SEO on your affilia...
One of the key parts of optimising your website for search engines is building in-bound links from other websites. The best place you can possibly have a link is in a contextually rich area i.e. on a page that has plenty of good written copy around the keywords that you’re hoping to rank well in. […]
Dealing with rotating banner campaign...
It’s an on-going mission for an affiliate to deal with time dependent banner campaigns on their website. Usually, if you have an affiliate program that’s doing the job right for you there will be an option for a specific rotating banner campaign that will switch between the time dependent campaign and a default advertising campaign […]
Affiliate marketing through seasonal ...
Building seasonal specific sections of your website is already an age-old tradition in affiliate marketing but it’s still a basic that some people just don’t get around to. Aside from the obvious season terms that every other affiliate marketer is getting articles and blog posts written about (e.g. Christmas and Valentines Day marketing terms), why […]
Question and Response on the NZ vs US...
I received an interesting (if broad) question today by email and thought it was worth putting the details up; Question: Hi, Found your great site and got your contact details. I’m new to the affiliate mktg game but motivated and keen to get moving. However being based in NZ was hoping to start in the […]
Affiliate Marketing and Search in New...
I had the pleasure of attending and was a speaker at (although not for affiliateprograms.co.nz) the Search Engine Room conference yesterday and have to say that I was impressed. The level of expectation from search industry professionals that the search market in New Zealand is ready for double digit growth over each quarter in the […]
.nz Internationalised Domains
If you hadn’t heard about it yet, the DNC (Domain Name Commission) for New Zealand are starting the process towards bringing in the ability to include (for a start) five different characters into the .nz domain space. These are; the the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū which are not currently available in […]
Affiliate emails: Get the basics righ...
I would have thought an affiliate network would understand the absolute importance of the privacy of their affiliates email addresses however I just received an email which included 100 email address of their publishers in the “To” field. Unbelievable! It was a promotional email promoting one of the affiliate programs on their network who is […]
URL’s in Affiliate Promotional Materi...
In my past life as an Affiliate Manager, the first time I thought about URL’s in affiliate promotional material was when a very influential affiliate came to me and said; I will not promote your site because all of your promotional material includes your URL on it. I was quite properly shocked. I hadn’t even […]
What kind of affiliates do New Zealan...
I’m happy to introduce the first in a series of four articles on affiliate marketing in New Zealand from a merchant perspective by Antony Ellis, Affiliate Manager for NZ Fine Prints, New Zealand’s largest retailer of art prints and posters; www.prints.co.nz. The next articles in the series will be; Where to find New Zealand affiliates […]
