Random But Practical Affiliate Site Tips
If I make a typo of a common word I correct it. However if I typo a product, service, company name, event, etc I leave the typo the way it is.
Having a natural typo can sometimes bring good traffic to a page because if you naturally mispell something others might [...]

Random But Practical Affiliate Site Tips

If I make a typo of a common word I correct it. However if I typo a product, service, company name, event, etc I leave the typo the way it is.

Having a natural typo can sometimes bring good traffic to a page because if you naturally mispell something others might also.

Now, that is interesting. So are a lot of the other tips, some of which come strictly from the level of experience someone like Mark has.

Be sure to check out this fanatastic Lord Matt Link – Make Money from UK Traffic – A Guide for Americans
When I purchased The Flip video camera in the US I paid $160 for the camera.
When a person in the UK purchases the same camera from a store in their land they pay the [...]

Be sure to check out this fanatastic Lord Matt Link – Make Money from UK Traffic – A Guide for Americans

When I purchased The Flip video camera in the US I paid $160 for the camera.

When a person in the UK purchases the same camera from a store in their land they pay the equivalent of $382 American dollars

Who would you prefer to sell the camera to if you were making a commission on the sale? The commission should be larger selling to a UK buyer.

The discussion thread is where they really get into the question of precisely how to target UK customers if you’re based outside the UK. In fact, it looks like most of us (particularly in the US) don’t have much idea how Google works in other countries and so on. It’s funny how you don’t think of little things like that as something you need to know, but they could make a huge difference.

Affiliate Marketing Dictionary
The dictionary is a work in progress, so if you have a suggestion for what should be there or an alternate definition for a particular word, please let me know.
There are still plenty of times when I could use this. Because I don’t do AdSense, I went several months without knowing what “MFA” [...]

Affiliate Marketing Dictionary

The dictionary is a work in progress, so if you have a suggestion for what should be there or an alternate definition for a particular word, please let me know.

There are still plenty of times when I could use this. Because I don’t do AdSense, I went several months without knowing what “MFA” sites were.

What Makes An Awesome Product Site?
Is the social shopping stuff a fad? Should the product site have profiles and that jazz or just basic info.
This is just one of several questions that get discussed in the post and comment thread. It makes for some good reading, especially if you’re just about to sit [...]

What Makes An Awesome Product Site?

Is the social shopping stuff a fad? Should the product site have profiles and that jazz or just basic info.

This is just one of several questions that get discussed in the post and comment thread. It makes for some good reading, especially if you’re just about to sit down and revamp some of your own affiliate sites.

Pepperjam Jammed
All of these large affiliate networks offer affiliate program management services. None of these large affiliate networks manage programs in the other large networks. If Pepperjam is this caliber of network, they have backed themselves into the situation that would be akin to Performics or Linkshare managing a program in the Commission Junction [...]

Pepperjam Jammed

All of these large affiliate networks offer affiliate program management services. None of these large affiliate networks manage programs in the other large networks. If Pepperjam is this caliber of network, they have backed themselves into the situation that would be akin to Performics or Linkshare managing a program in the Commission Junction network, or vice versa. That notion is absurd to anyone who knows this space, and anathema to the networks themselves.

This is interesting in light of Google’s attack on Text Link Ads last year, which forced me to think harder about where the line is between aggressive competition and monopolistic behavior. Is it ethical to tell people they can’t do business with you if they do business with X when you don’t have an exclusive arrangement in place? That’s a tough question to answer in the Google situation – no marketer pays Google for a certain spot in the SERPs, so they can’t really argue they’re being denied anything they have a right (paid for) to when they lose their spot in the SERPs. But it seems to me CJ should either demand that all clients be exclusive with CJ, or none. For them to single out Pepperjam clients strikes me as harassment.

70% of Online Shoppers Read Multiple Product Reviews
It seems the majority of online shoppers want to hear what people like them have to say about the product they’re researching. Almost 70% of customers looked at more than 4 reviews before making a purchase.
I hadn’t thought about this, but I definitely read reviews. In fact, even [...]

70% of Online Shoppers Read Multiple Product Reviews

It seems the majority of online shoppers want to hear what people like them have to say about the product they’re researching. Almost 70% of customers looked at more than 4 reviews before making a purchase.

I hadn’t thought about this, but I definitely read reviews. In fact, even if I don’t buy from Amazon (which I often do), I go there to read reviews before I make a purchase.