Using Google Conversion Tracker to test your Affiliate Landing Pages
January 26, 2008
I found out early on that most of the good data that Google gathers for advertisers is pretty limited if you are an affiliate. You will never be able to determine a true conversion rate, unless you have a merchant that allows you to put your tracking pixel on their confirmation page. Which […]
Affiliate Marketing in 5 Easy Steps!
January 24, 2008
It’s truly amazing the perception of affiliate marketing. Budgets are cut and critical mistakes are made everyday. At the high level the concept of affiliate marketing has been around a long time and is extremely fundamental, affiliates have been referred to an outside sales force since before I started in the industry.
So what […]
You have been found to be in violation of our PPC policy!
January 20, 2008
How many of these emails have you sent out this year? Most people that touch search engine marketing deal with violations from many different kinds of advertisers, on a daily basis, but determining it’s impact is completely hypothetical and enforcing your search policy can be expensive.
So what is the impact? You could consider […]
Fingerprinting at affiliate networks…almost…
January 8, 2008
Recently at work, I have been redesigning the signup form and process for our network, so I decided to go join all that I can…here is an interesting story.
I have had affiliate networks call & email me to verify I actually exist before allowing me into their network but I have yet to have someone […]
Affiliate Network User Interfaces: CJ, Performics, Linkshare
January 6, 2008
From my recent build of giftcardfavors.com It was necessary for me to do 2 big tasks for each post. 1) I had to determine if the merchant had gift cards for their store and 2) see if they had links either in the standard formats or product catalog for those gift cards. If […]