Many assume that affiliate marketing is a super easy way to make money online. After all, if you can slap banners on a web page, you can make money online, right? Most experienced affiliates know that is not to make real money in this business. Top affiliates are always working on new products/services or portals [...]

Commission Junction is one of the top affiliate networks around. It has a ton of merchants and can bring you a considerable amount of revenue if you take time to promote the offers available in it. I am personally not a big fan of importing data feeds to my sites to make money from affiliate [...]

In the past few weeks, I have been testing Google+. I have seen a few folks who are already pushing affiliate products in that social network. Unfortunately, many affiliates mistake Google+ as another Twitter. For starters, Google+ users are fairly sophisticated and can tell if you are shamelessly pushing affiliate products. Second of all, it [...]

In case you missed it, the mighty hurricane Irene came and affected some states in East Coast. But it was no where near as strong as some of us thought it would be. Some affiliates used this occasion to sell a ton of generators and other essential items for such disasters. Unfortunately, many folks bought [...]

In case you have not noticed, platforms such as Kindle have given independent publishers more ways to publish their books without having to go broke. As long as you can write valuable content, there is no reason you can’t be a success on Amazon. Of course, you will have to promote your e-book properly to [...]

In the post Panda world, all bets are off. There was a time that sites could achieve high rankings by getting listed in online directories. Online directories have not been decisive factors for search engine rankings for a while now. But even the little effect that they had was pretty useful for new sites that [...]

Google Plus is the latest great social network. It has been growing exponentially fast and is on its way towards becoming a dominant force in this space. Not surprisingly, top affiliates are now looking for ways to promote their offers in this network and make even more money online. Considering that technically you can’t operate [...]

Many affiliates have been on the move to avoid getting kicked out by Amazon over sales tax laws in their states. There is no question that some states have been more friendly towards Amazon affiliates than others. But if the Democrats have their way, the law will be applied all over the country. Amazon has [...]

Many of us are too attached to our work and assume that merchants have been waiting all this time to work with us. Unfortunately, that is not really the case in reality. Affiliates get rejected by merchants on a daily basis. Some merchants do not like to work with affiliates who may not bring a [...]

In this day and age, new, shiny gadgets are released to the market everyday. The first temptation for many affiliates is to start promoting these products right away. There is nothing wrong with that approach as long as you do your due diligence. Many affiliates that I know cut corners and rely on early reviews [...]