Article Marketing for Affiliates

This video from DiamondSEO does a nice job of summing up the two methods of article marketing by affiliate marketing affiliates. Can you see the difference in where to publish your articles and why?

Author: [Jim Kukral]
Friday May 12th 2006, 1:39 pm
Filed under: Forge Corporation

To download the white paper… Please visit www.forgebusiness.com and use the contact form in the right-hand side navigation to get your free copy of the PDF. It will be emailed to you instantly.

Affiliate marketing is hard work, and takes a lot of skill and insight to do it successfully. Want to learn more about how to run a successful affiliate marketing program? Now you can. Forge used their years of experience in the Affiliate Marketing Industry to create this comprehensive white paper entitled Affiliate Marketing Do’s & Don’ts.

The Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Internet Marketing Advisory Board announced a Best Practices for Online Advertising Networks and Affiliate Marketing.

The DMA list is a simple five rules, but important rules that set a generalized guildline for the Affiliate Marketing Industry … something sorely lacking.

The only rule I see as having possible difficulty in obtaining,is the full disclosure of their eligible sites. These Marketing firms keep their sites a virtual secret to stay on top of their game … not something they would readily share.

Search Marketing Expo - SMX
Inaugural Event: SMX Seattle, June 4th & 5th, 2007

I SO want to go to this! Anything with Danny Sullivan involved is going to be hot!

Search Marketing Expo — SMX — is the new search engine marketing conference from Third Door Media, the company behind the Search Engine Land news site and the Search Marketing Now webcast series.

Programmed by search expert Danny Sullivan, the inaugural SMX show on June 4 & 5 will be especially geared toward advanced search marketers who want to hear about the latest search marketing techniques for both organic and paid placement.

And if having Danny Sullivan involved isn't cool enough, the first SMX will be held in Seattle at the extraordinary Bell Harbor Convention Center on Pier 66. Bell Harbor features state of the art convention facilities in an exceptional indoor and outdoor atmosphere. If you haven't been to Seattle, it's absolutely beautiful there.

For now, they're taking sign-ups for the email list. So, go drop in your email so you can be notified when the registration opens. Search Marketing Expo - SMX

I just got this compelling email from Anik Singal and thought I'd pass on the information to you:

Hi Bobbie,

I just got an email about Mike
Filsaime's Free Report called
"The Death of Internet Marketing"

I will admit, like you may be
feeling now, that I thought it was
some hyped up offer to get me to
join for free and get some offer…

…Turns out I was wrong. Way wrong.

The bottom line is, this report
really opened my eyes to what really
is the death of Internet marketing.
The good news is, the report also
shows you what you need to know to
succeed in the near future.

The times are changing and I it would
be a shame for anyone to not read this
report and fail like many will.

I read it, and I wanted to share it
with you ASAP.

I recommend you take a break from
what ever it is you are doing if you
can and get access to this report now.

Consider your future success by
going here now…

DEATH OF INTERNET MARKETING

Thanks,

Anik Singal
Affiliate Classroom, Inc.

Affiliate Blogger launches a new performance marketing blog focused on performance based marketing and marketing that converts.

[ClickPress, Thu Aug 31 2006] Affiliate Blogger launches a new performance marketing blog focused on performance based marketing and marketing that converts.

Bobbie Grennier, widely known as the Affiliate Blogger (http://affiliate-blogger.com), is following on the heals of Jim Kukral (revenews.com/Forge) who recently announced the acquisition of BlogKits (blogkits.com).

"The shift into performance based marketing for bloggers looking to earn income through blogging has taken a big step forward," said Grennier. "I wanted to be an active voice in helping to shape this transformation within the blogsphere."

Bloggers spend hours each day researching and writing about their topics just as any copywriter or journalist does. The desire for bloggers to earn income from their efforts is growing, though there are divisions between those bloggers wanting to be paid to blog and others who prefer to earn income through affiliate programs or selling ad space on their popular blogs.

In a 2005 survey by BlogKits, 73% of bloggers acknowledged that using affiliate links on their blog was acceptable.

Bobbie Grennier brings a discerning eye to the affiliate space and now to the performance based marketing space. In addition to having years of experience as a media buyer and lead generation solutions provider, she has also racked up many years within the SEO/SEM search engine strategies side of marketing (http://www.seo-writing.com). Bobbie's SEO writing websites, blogs and articles consistently appear in the top ten natural search rankings in Google's search engine for "SEO writing" and "SEO writer" keywords.

The new performance based marketing blog will discuss such topics as media buys, multi-channel marketing, affiliate partners and publishers, search engine strategies, datafeed marketing, lead generation and marketing solutions that convert to sales.

About Bobbie Grennier:
As the Affiliate Blogger, Bobbie Grennier is the driving force behind the Affiliate Guild (http://affiliate-guild.com), an online free guild for affiliates to find a common bond, tools of their trade and an educational environment to learn and fine-tune their skills. Grennier is an Internet Strategist who often consults with merchants, helping them to develop SEO and affiliate marketing strategies, in addition to a focus on affiliate partner relationships through recruitment and management of affiliate programs. Bobbie's articles are widely published throughout the Internet and she offers free reprint articles at the Article Repository Directory (http://article-repository.com).

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/17552005cp.shtml

Jude Wright might be on of the most unorganized affiliate marketers, but not anymore. Jude's been working in Internet Marketing for a lot of years. Don't worry Jude, I won't say how many!

As a basically unorganized person, Jude admits, "I was losing everything! I needed a solution to help me find the information that I wrote on slips of paper, kept in notebooks and saved in emails. I wanted to find that information fast!"
 
An old hand at creating databases for the construction industry, Jude turned her attentions to making one for Internet Marketing too. 

The result is a MUST have application for Affiliate Marketers called i-MarketingOrganizer.

The Version 1 software application is the result of Jude's real world experiences in Affiliate Internet Marketing, lots of research, and hard work. i-MarketingOrganizer works beautifully!

Personally, I can't even begin to tell you how valuable a little application this is. Imagine having all your affiliate program account information at your fingertips 24/7 … imagine having all you passwords and usernames waiting for you on your desktop every time you need them … and most importantly, imagine finding any of them in seconds.

No more scraps of paper or notebooks filled with scribbles. Welcome to the enlightened age of Affiliate Marketing … welcome to the world of i-MarketingOrganizer.

Revenue, is the first magazine dedicated to the affiliate performance marketing standard.

Subscribe today and get immediate access to great design ideas, hot search engine strategies, marketing industry news, interviews with industry leaders and opportunities to raise your level of revenue right now.

Pepperjam Announces Sponsorship of Linkshare Affiliate Marketing Symposium and Golden Link Awards

Pepperjam, the industry’s leading search, affiliate, and media management firm announced today co-sponsorship of the 2006 Linkshare Symposium and Golden Link Awards, which will be held in New York City on June 20–21. The Linkshare Summit and Golden Link Awards are the premier affiliate marketing conference and awards ceremony for leading Linkshare merchants and affiliates.

To learn more about Pepperjam please visit http://www.pepperjamsearch.com and http://www.pepperjammanagement.com

Kristopher B. Jones, President & CEO of Pepperjam said, “We are excited to co-sponsor this year’s Linkshare Symposium and Golden Link Awards and are honored to be part of this prestigious affiliate marketing event. In particular, these Linkshare events provide an excellent opportunity to unveil Pepperjam’s newest affiliate marketing initiative, the Pepperjam Comparison Shopping Blog. Unlike other comparison shopping engines, such as shopping.com and shopzilla.com, the new Pepperjam website will offer merchants the expertise of a leading search-engine marketing firm (pepperjamsearch.com), as well as a revolutionary cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and cost-per-click (CPC) advertising model designed with pay-for-performance marketing in mind.”

This year's much anticipated LinkShare Symposium 2006 will take place June 20-21, 2006 in New York City. For more than ten years, LinkShare merchants, affiliates, and leading companies doing business on the web have convened at the LinkShare Symposium to forge business relationships and discuss issues facing the industry at large. Over 500 leaders from companies in the retail, catalog, financial and business-to-business sectors will be in attendance. To learn more about the Linkshare Symposium and Golden Link Awards please visit http://www.linkshare.com/symposium.

About pepperjamSEARCH:
pepperjamSEARCH offers powerful search-engine marketing management solutions based on an advanced search analytics algorithm. The company offers an experienced staff of certified Google Advertising Professionals and Yahoo Search Marketing Ambassadors. Working with advanced, proprietary API-Driven management tools, pepperjamSEARCH offers the ultimate ROI available through the advertising medium of search. Using the model developed over the past seven (7) years by Pepperjam, pepperjamSEARCH offers cutting-edge solutions to many of the nation’s leading online merchants. In addition, Pepperjam is one of only 20 search-engine marketing firms across the United States designated by Google as a Google Adwords Qualified Company.

About pepperjamMANAGEMENT:
pepperjamMANAGEMENT was created in 2002 by a group of industry-leading super affiliates and search-engine marketing experts, including Internet marketing expert Kristopher B. Jones. The company offers pay-for-performance outsourced affiliate marketing management solutions, as well as online media management and consultation in the areas of search, strategic partnership acquisition, and overall market share capitalization.

pepperjamMANAGEMENT is a division of the Pepperjam Network — the world’s largest search-engine marketing super affiliate with over $100 million in annual sales generated to over 2,500 merchant partners, including BabyAge, 1-800-PetMeds, igourmet and Foreclosure.com.

For more information, please contact Robyn Martin, Director of Public Relations at 1.877.796.5700 or visit us at http://www.pepperjamsearch.com and http://www.pepperjammanagement.com.

 Okay guys, here's my findings for you on this Affilistore software … it's freaking brilliant … as in the English word for quite nice.

You have to have some knowledge of how a datafeed works. You need to be able to hook up a database and some php/html/chmod abilities. The install was pretty simple if you know these things.

Once the data is pulled in there are certain parameters that there's no way to update, and others that easily can be. It's very important to do the install correctly, otherwise you'll end up re-doing it.

The templates are easy to work with for the most part. It comes with one already there for you. You do have to select it after the install process is over. So, don't panic when you notice there doesn't seem to be styles. The pages it creates are very clean and easy to navigate.

It is SEO friendly (could be more so) and it's a bummer is that it doesn't update your feeds automatically. I'm guessing that's what's coming in their paid version … I hope so.

All-in-all I'd give this a BIG thumbs up from Affiliate Blogger, the Affiliate Guild and Best Affiliate Network. Thanks to 5 Star Affiliate Marketing for bringing it to my attention.