Affiliate Marketing Forums

http://www.affiliates4u.com/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://forums.seochat.com/
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com
http://www.affiliateforum.com
http://forum.affiliatebot.com/
http://www.affearners.com/forum/
http://www.v7n.com/forums
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums
http://www.webmasterworld.com/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.revenuesource.com
http://www.gii.in
http://www.ewealth.com
http://www.iaffiliate.net/
http://www.affiliatelink.org
http://www.experienceadvertising.com/
http://affiliate-talk.com/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.davidcastle.org
http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com
http://forum.abestweb.com
http://www.moneyfanclub.com
http://www.globalgoldtalk.com

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Affiliate Marketing Forums

http://www.affiliates4u.com/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://forums.seochat.com/
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com
http://www.affiliateforum.com
http://forum.affiliatebot.com/
http://www.affearners.com/forum/
http://www.v7n.com/forums
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums
http://www.webmasterworld.com/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.revenuesource.com
http://www.gii.in
http://www.ewealth.com
http://www.iaffiliate.net/
http://www.affiliatelink.org
http://www.experienceadvertising.com/
http://affiliate-talk.com/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.davidcastle.org
http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com
http://forum.abestweb.com
http://www.moneyfanclub.com
http://www.globalgoldtalk.com

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Affiliate Marketing most Effective channel of Search Engine Marketing

Percentage of merchants claimed ‘very’ or ‘quite’ cost effective channel of SEM

Affiliate marketing - 95%

Paid search – 90%

Email marketing - 82%

Best-represented sectors

Retail- 58

Financial services (including insurance) - 29

Travel - 27

Telecoms / mobile phones - 12 respondents respectively.

Merchants are spending 18% of their online marketing budget on this channel.

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Affiliate Marketing Strategies

AffiliateFirst is an affiliate submission service . AffiliateFirst will submit your program to around 50 directories for $59.


It's been my experience that power affiliates are concerned with a number of issues:

a) Revenue share levels

b) Tracking accuracy

c) Payment reliability

d) Quality of product/service

e) Money back guarantees for people they refer

f) Good lines of communication

g) Extensive promotion resources

h) Merchant reputation

i) Discount offers for people they refer


Affiliate site content should be relevant to your product.


- Site should have appreciable levels of content. Web sites that primarily contain ads should be avoided, unless it's a popular destination.


- Content misuse. Be very clear with your affiliates what content they can use from yoursite. Cases where affiliates have basically copied all the content from a merchant's site. This can not only cause confusion for potential clients, but can impact on your search engine rankings. By supplying quality content and promotional materials to your affiliates, the incidence of this will be minimized.

- Misrepresentation of your products and services.


The main types of fraud:

1.Malware and stealware

2.Fake purchases:


References:

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles2/affiliate-marketing.htm

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles6/recruit-manage-affiliates.htm

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/affiliate-software-services.htm

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