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 Resources
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. […]
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 […]
New Zealand Online Research for Affil...
One of the difficult things when working in the New Zealand online market is finding just the right place to research the habits of New Zealanders on the web. Many of the tools which you might use for a global campaign are not as relevant to the New Zealand web. A good example here is […]
Advanced Google Operators
Google Search has many advanced operators, which are allow words with special functions available when using their search. This is a little off topic but very useful as a reference to the advance operators on Google. I’ll be using this myself as it’s good to have a visual reference somewhere. Here is a list of […]
Updated advertising policy on Adsense
Google Adsense have updated their advertising policy with a couple of quite substantial changes. The simplest one is the ability to add more than one (up to three) link ad units across a site. Previously these have only been allowed as one link ad unit per page. With the high click-through rates received from link […]
New Zealand SME Expo ..
I was at the Auckland small business expo for the day yesterday and have to say I was impressed with the level of online presence in the expo. Many exhibits (there were 500+ I believe) were pushing their website as the main point of contact for the company. It makes sense to do this however […]
New Version of Google Analytics
If you don’t already, you should be using the free Google Analytics tool as (at the least) an additional statistics package for your affiliate website. It offers so much more than many costly packages and it’s free! This week Google have announced a completely new version of the Google Analytics interface and reporting on the […]
Google Adsense / Google Adwords tidbi...
I learnt something new yesterday which may have been common knowledge to a fair number of people but changed one of the assumptions I had about how the Google Adsense program shows adverts. We’ve all seen how Adsense can sometimes show only a single advert in a large advert box. So you’ll end up with […]
