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Table of Contents
SECTION1:THE SURVEY
Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers 4
SECTION2:THEIR WORDS
Affiliates Speak Out 23
SECTION3:RESOURCES
Glossary 28
Message Boards 32
Blogs 33
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Affiliate Facts & Figures
State of the Industry in Affiliate Marketing
F or the last seven years, AffStat has delivered annual affiliate marketing benchmarks that are
crucial to the development of any affiliate marketing program. The 2010 Affiliate Summit
AffStat report is no exception.
Over eleven hundred and fifty affiliates were surveyed for the 8th Annual Edition, on their methods,
preferences, and strategies based on their experience in the industry.
The research has been designed to increase awareness and foster best-practices in the affiliate
marketing industry. As you peruse this report, it is our hope that you consider the results and how they
affect your role as an affiliate, merchant, network or vendor.
Missy Ward & Shawn Collins
Co-Founders, Affiliate Summit
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Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers
Do you maintain an opt-in e-mail list for your site(s)?
No
48.5%
Yes
51.5%
Do you promote your affiliate links in PPC search engines?
Yes
44.5%
Yes
No
No
55.5%
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Finish this sentence: I have been an affiliate since...
1997, 2.6%
1996, 2.6%
2010, 9.6%
1998, 2.2%
1999, 4.8%
2000, 5.3%
2001, 3.9%
2009, 16.7%
2002, 3.1%
2003, 5.3%
2004, 5.3%
2008, 8.8%
2005, 11.4%
2007, 9.6%
2006, 8.8%
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Do you prefer network or independent affiliate programs?
Independent
programs
14.0%
No preference
38.6%
Network
programs
47.4%
How many affiliate programs do you actively promote?
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51 or more 10.9%
21.0%
41-50
0.9%
2-5
31-40 26.6%
0.9%
21-30
9.6%
11-20
10.0%
6-10
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How many return days for cookies would you consider to be fair?
365 Days Lifetime
2.7% 2.7% 1 - 7 Days
13.0%
91 - 180 Days
4.8%
8 - 14 Days
0.7%
90 Days
12.3%
60 Days
22.6% 15 - 30 Days
40.4%
31 - 59 Days
0.7%
Do commission payment policies (how often a program pays)
affect your decision to promote an affiliate offer?
No
41.0%
Yes
59.0%
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Have you successfully requested an increase in commission
from an affiliate manager?
Yes
38.1%
No
61.9%
How many domains do you own?
0 1
0.8% 13.7%
5 to 10
11.7%
5 to 10
11.7%
21 or more
31.0% 11 to 20
6.5%
2 to 4
8
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Do you own any domains dedicated to a particular affiliate
program?
Yes
47.3%
No
52.7%
How often would you like to hear from your affiliate managers?
Never
3.8%
Weekly
Quarterly 36.1%
11.1%
Monthly
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How do you most often find out about an affiliate program
and then join?
Research of
Network
Offerings Advertising in
6.2% Word of Mouth print publications
1.3% 4.6%
Personal
Research
5.7%
Other
1.0%
Affiliate directory
18.3%
Google Affiliate Forums
18.0% 1.3%
Affiliate Manager
blogs
5.7%
Conferences
11.3%
Affiliate Manager
Contacts You
Affiliate Manager Affiliate Manager 16.2%
is on Twitter is active on
3.9% message boards
6.4%
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What is your preferred method for finding out information
from an affiliate manager?
Video Affiliate Forum
Twitter
1.9% 0.5%
2.4%
Social Network
Site
1.0% Blog
8.1%
Phone
1.4%
Company site
13.8%
Network internal
email
21.4%
Instant Messenger
2.4%
Network area for Merchant Email
merchant 41.0%
6.2%
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How much information should an affiliate manager make
available to you?
Twitter
2.4%
Email
35.2%
Phone, IM & Email
40.4%
IM
Phone 6.3%
15.7%
How would you prefer to be contacted by affiliate managers on
an individual basis?
Phone, IM and Social Network
Email 0.8%
11.9%
Phone
12.6%
Email
Network Interface 64.4%
0.8%
IM
9.5%
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What is your preferred method of commission payment?
ePassporte
0.5%
PayPal
17.0% Check
17.0%
Wire
3.4%
Direct deposit
62.1%
What is your preferred payment threshold?
Over $100
2.0% $0
15.2%
$100
28.9%
$25
24.5%
$50
29.4%
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What industry/merchant types do you prefer to promote?
Contests/Giveaways
0.10%
Travel & Auto
6.75%
Apparel
Toys & Hobbies Wedding 6.45% Books, Movies & Music
5.44% 0.10% 6.75%
Sports & Recreation
5.95%
Career/Business Opp
Spiritual 0.30%
0.20%
Real Estate Dating
0.10% 0.71%
Pets Computers &
0.40% Electronics
8.97% Department
Outlet & Discount Stores
3.73% 4.33%
Education
0.40%
Office & Business
7.46% Event
Tickets
0.10%
Medical Financial
0.10% 0.10%
Flowers & Gifts
Magazines
4.64%
2.52%
Food & Entertaining
Jewelry & Accessories 5.85%
4.74% Gaming
0.10%
Home & Garden
Insurance / Financial 6.15%
Services
Health & Beauty Green/Eco Gift Certificates
5.54%
8.47% 0.20% 3.33%
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What is the minimum EPC (earnings per 100 clicks) for you to
promote an affiliate program?
Less than $5.00
More than 15.0%
$30.00
24.2%
$25.01 - $30.00
5.0%
$5.01 -
$10.00
$20.01 - $25.00 30.8%
9.2%
$15.00 - $20.00
10.8% $10.01 - $15.00
5.0%
What is the highest reversal rate you would accept?
20-25%
16-20% 5.0%
6.9% 0%
9.9%
11-15%
5.9%
6-10%
21.8% 1-5%
50.5%
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What is the most important factor in choosing a merchant?
Search Marketing
Competition
Product or 0.5% Affiliate
Service Quality management
or Uniqueness 16.1%
8.0%
Allows
incentivized
Payout amount traffic
30.7% 0.5%
Optimized
Creatives & Brand
Landing Pges EPC awareness
0.5% 18.1% 25.6%
What are your preferred link types?
Widgets
0.4%
Text
24.5%
Storefronts Banners
6.4% 25.8%
Data feed
Product Photos 12.2%
0.4%
Pop-ups Dynamic Rich
3.2% Media
Landing Pages 7.1%
12.2% HTML for solo e-
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Do you cloak links (CGI, .htaccess, meta redirect, etc.)?
Yes
38.4%
No
61.6%
What is your average gross monthly income with
affiliate programs?
$100 - $500
4.5% $501 - $1000
Under $100
2.0%
4.5%
$1,001 - $5,000
7.4%
$5, 001 - $10,000
1.5%
$10,001 - $15,000
5.0%
I would rather
not say
55.4% Over $15,000
4.0%
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Are you currently using any URL Shortening Services in your
marketing efforts?
Yes
40.4%
No
59.6%
If you answered YES to the question above, which URL
Shortening Services are you actively using?
twurl.nl
tinyurl.com
3.5%
1.8% WP Pretty Link
su.pr 0.9%
0.9%
ow.ly
38.9%
bit.ly
42.5%
itshrunk.com
0.9% budurl.com
3.5%
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Does your affiliate marketing plan currently incorporate
marketing on social networking sites?
No, 32.5%
67.5%
If you answered YES to the above questions, which social
networking sites are you currently using in your affiliate
marketing efforts?
bebo del.icio.us
1.2% 6.3%
digg
7.7%
Twitter Facebook
26.9% 25.9%
Stumbleupon
8.0%
Reddit
0.2%
Friendster
Ning 1.5%
0.2%
Myspace Google Buzz
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Are you currently integrating video in your affiliate
marketing plan?
Yes, 29.4%
70.6%
Are you currently using any WordPress plugins or widgets
designed for affiliate marketing efforts?
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If you answered YES to the above question, which affiliate marketing
related plugins and widgets are you currently using?
123Linkit
WP-Marketer 1.1%
9.8%
WFReview
4.3%
Avantlink Widget
Simple Link Cloaker Amazon 1.1%
5.4% Reloaded for
WordPress
20.7% Bounce.cc
ShareASale Make a 4.3%
Widget
14.1% Buy.at
Content
DataFeedr
Widget
2.2%
Self-developed 1.1%
1.1% DataFeedFile.com
Featured Product
MaxBlogPress Ninja Plugin
Affiliate eBay 5.4%
2.2% 1.1%
LinkShare RSS LinkShare Link
DealFeed Lookup LinkShare AdMix
10.9% 9.8% 5.4%
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If you are currently using WordPress to build out affiliate
sites, what is your preferred WordPress theme?
WPNow
4.8%
Woo Themes
9.6%
Affiliate Theme
26.5%
Thesis for
WordPress
Custom built
26.5%
8.4%
Elegant Themes
2.4%
Thematic
2.4%
Headway
StudioPress Pagelines
3.6%
14.5% iBlogPro
1.2%
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Affiliates: Their Words
When given a soapbox, what do affiliates have to say about things?
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he statistics tell one version of the story. But to truly get a complete picture of the triumphs and hurdles
of affiliates, you’ve got to hear things straight from their mouths.
The following is an uncensored view into the opinions of affiliates on a variety of other subjects.
Affiliates were asked to share any complaints, ideas, suggestions or opinions they have regarding affiliate
marketing.
Read what happens when affiliates stop being polite, and start being real. This is the Real World – Affiliate style.
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Affiliates Speak Out on the Issues
Please give us advance notice of new products where possible, it makes all the difference
Own up to your company mistakes - even if it costs you money.
My biggest complaint is that companies that the average person haven't heard of you always seem to
get automatically accepted, and the brand name companies you always seem to get rejected. What's up
with that? My web site is called Brand Name Depot, I will only put Brand Name companies on my site.
The whole purpose of my site is to offer my visitors convenient one stop shopping with companies that
we're all familiar with, and to offer them as many choices in each category so they could do their
comparison shopping all within one site. When I keep getting rejection notices, it make the possibility of
easy comparison shopping for my visitors, and takes away a little of my site credibility. I can't help but
wonder, are these companies afraid of a little competition, competing with companies already on my
site, on the same level as them? Something to think about. My filling out the applications, I do to go
through the motions to get affiliated with them. Also, what I am really doing, is inviting them to be on
my site. Are they always that gracious in accepting invitations?
Need more input from affiliate managers.
Cookie based programs are designed to benefit Advertiser and Networks not the affiliate or publishers.
Many times Networks are walking my money back and forth for weeks but not finished reaches my bank
account. - These situations only lead to loss of confidence in affiliate networks and advertisers.
Update with new promos regularly, and make me aware of them. Also think critically about the quality
of your feed. Lousy feeds are a waste of everyone's time.
We as affiliates do not like it when affiliate managers pull shady stuff, like allowing certain publishers to
break the rules. If you piss us off enough, all it takes is one phone call to the CEO of the advertiser that
you are working for and we can let them know exactly how they can save hundreds of thousands of
dollars (in some cases, millions) by dumping your ass. (and reversing the commissions of your buddy
who happens to be in the affiliate program breaking all of the rules) Play fair, or face the vindictive
wrath of the publishers! Just remember, we got the exact same eyeballs on you, that you got on us.
Pay attention to your affiliates and what's happening in our industry.
It would be really nice to have easier access to product codes.
Update your tools and creatives often to keep up with the changing look/feel of the web.
Run more Promotions, where you can earn a bonus if you reach a given goal.
I dislike it when an advertiser is overly restrictive of keywords that can be used. For example, there was
a company trying to sell wood chips for fuel, but they won't let you bid on wood chips as a keyword?
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Link Networking. Link Networking. Link Networking. Nothing else matters except backlinks to your web
site and that takes link networking.
It should be easier to reach affiliate managers or at least know who is managing programs before signing
up.
I appreciate quick responses to questions about affiliate programs, same day or quicker. Thanks!
Affiliate managers rarely make any effort to respond to my problems, complaints or request for help.
Prompt email response time is always a plus, but that's a given.
Be clearer about what levels/tiers need to be reach in order for commission level to be increased. This
way, less wasted efforts can be placed on programs/campaigns with stricter budget and less flexibility.
Need more video across the board; YouTube-like video, clickable.
Please don't terminate poor performing advertisers. I had a site which was slowly gaining in traffic, but
the affiliate manager terminated the agreement, due to lack of sales. So I signed up with their
competition, and as the traffic finally hit, I made money from the new program. I think some manager
just didn't like the look of his report, so they trimmed out the underperformers, to make the report (and
their efforts ) look better. The underperformers are not hurting anything, you never know when the
search engine algorithm will be tweaked to favor certain on or off page factors.
Performance Incentives are a must for any serious affiliate program. While top affiliates can always
attempt to contact the affiliate manager, having an automatic tiered system for different levels of
affiliate is key to continued affiliate satisfaction.
Never, under any circumstances, lie to a publisher. If you don't an answer to a question admit that and
either move on, or find out. Making stuff up will have me going elsewhere regardless of payout
Affiliate managers need to take a more public stance on industry issues; many are all too silent on
critical issues including parasites, toolbars, and merchant good standards and practices. I also believe
that the affiliate -merchant TOS needs to become more balanced and protect affiliates more.
Why aren't more marketers offering PayPal as a choice for payment?
Not all of us have programming capability, so programs or networks that provide me the ability to
display multiple products in one place with minimal effort are preferable to me - SAS has this and
AvantLink also, with options to create product displays in HTML or JAVA - programs that only have
banners are just too hard to promote these days. More tools, more communication, more ideas shared
help.
I believe before a company can reverse a commission they should give a specific reason why not only to
prevent it from happening in the future but also as a courtesy to the affiliate so that we know what is
going on.
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I would like to hear from my affiliate managers if they discontinue or change an item. This could be a
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Cookies should last forever.
Commission should be distributed as long as customer retains the service and remain with the
advertiser.
This industry is the worst example of fairness in compensation! Internet sales have gone up and up while
publisher commissions have gone down and down over the years. Something's not adding up, and it is
frankly insulting to see that ad networks think so little of their publishers' ad space. Ad technologies
virtually take over the viewer experience, and the presenter is left with lost audiences and nothing to
show for it. Ad networks need to start compensating fairly, or they will run their network dry.
Most affiliate managers do not respond in a timely manner. Most often commissions are not tracked or
paid in a timely manner.
Need more apps for bloggers
I don't have TIME to be replacing offers all the time. I have a content site. Ads are secondary. I need the
ads to take care of themselves.
I understand the need to have minimum payment thresholds, but if I never make the threshold, then I
should still get my money that I earned from below the minimum.
Some companies need to make their image links easier to use -- some of the images appear extremely
small or extremely large on a website. In addition there are times that you can click on the same image
two different times and each time it takes you to a different landing page -- e.g. one time it goes to a
landing page for the product. The next time it goes to the home page for the company.
These people need to be fired: Affiliate managers who do not respond to emails, who expire publishers
without warning or explanation, who will not help a publisher with a problem concerning an advertiser,
who treat publishers as second class citizens.
Offer up the best method for promoting your product based on what you have seen. video, twitter,
Facebook, PPC, mailing lists, etc.
Weekly payouts please.
Policies are too fuzzy most don't understand the difference between bidding on a trademark (TM) or a
TM + specific term, like TM review, TM deals etc. They don't understand that in the second case search
engine customers are not looking for their site.
Am frustrated with merchants who refuse to place my Google Conversion code on their thank you pages
(even though I consistently generate at least $5K/mo revenue for one in particular). Also, paying out
only once per month is difficult for programs that I promote solely via PPC.
I think that publishers should get paid twice a month. Allowing this will give participants faster time to
reinvest their advertisers.
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I would like to see better and more honest reporting, better uptimes.
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Learn my nickname. I hate being called my full name. If I'm going to bring your company $20k/month in
sales, you can at least afford to learn my preferred name. That's all I ask.
Reach out. More information is better than no information. Don't be afraid to email us often.
I wish there was more emphasis on quality over quantity of affiliates. I also wish there was more
emphasis on ethics and building long-term trust.
It's annoying when program managers spam my Inbox with useless stuff! I tend to ignore those that
email me too often. On the other hand, I DO appreciate information that is actually useful to me and
sent ONLY when it's actually warranted. Don't know the difference? Send me ONE email and ask me to
subscribe if I want more.
I'd like to see more banner ads with African American models. I run a Website that's focused on the
African American community but I'm having a difficult time getting my audience to click because there a
few ads with people that look like them.
I have had affiliate managers quietly implement changes to their keyword policy without notifying me
and then reverse my commissions when they catch me violating the TOS. This practice is unprofessional
and unethical. This has personally cost me over a thousand dollars in ad expenses and several times that
in commission in just the past 3 months.
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Affiliate Marketing Resources
Some things to make your job easier.
T
here are some great resources out there that can make your job a whole lot easier. Here is a glossary to
explain all of the industry terms, plus lists of suggested message boards, blogs, and Twitter accounts
that you should know about.
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Affiliate Marketing Glossary
Affiliate marketing has a language all its own. Below is a collection of some of the frequently used terms I’ve
defined over time.
Affiliate: a Web site owner that earns a commission for referring clicks, leads, or sales to a merchant.
Affiliate Agreement: terms between a merchant and an affiliate that govern the relationship.
Affiliate Information Page: a page or pages on your Web site that explains clearly and concisely what your
affiliate program is all about.
Affiliate Link: a piece of code residing in a graphic image or piece of text placed on an affiliate's Web page that
notifies the merchant that an affiliate should be credited for the customer or visitor sent to their Web site.
Affiliate Manager: the manager of an Affiliate Program who is responsible for creating a newsletter, establishing
incentive programs, forecasting and budgeting, overseeing front-end marketing of the program, and monitoring
the industry for news and trends.
Affiliate Program (also an Associate, Partner, Referral, or Revenue Sharing Program): a merchant pays a
commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate's
site.
Affiliate Program Directory: directory of affiliate programs, featuring information such as the commission rate,
number of affiliates, and affiliate solution provider. Associate-It, AssociatePrograms.com and Refer-it are among
the largest Affiliate Program Directories.
Affiliate Solution Provider: company that provides the network, software, and services needed to create and
track an affiliate program.
Auto-Approve: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are automatically approved for an
affiliate program.
Commission: income an affiliate receives for generating a sale, lead or click-through to a merchant's Web site.
Sometimes called a referral fee, a finder's fee or a bounty.
Cookies: small files stored on the visitor's computer, which record information that is of interest to the
merchant site. With affiliate programs, cookies have two primary functions: to keep track of what a customer
purchases, and to track which affiliate was responsible for generating the sale (and is due a commission).
Contextual Link: integration of affiliate links with related text.
Conversion Rate: percentage of clicks that result in a commissionable activity (sale or lead).
CPA (Cost Per Action): cost metric for each time a commissionable action takes place.
CPC (Cost Per Click): cost metric for each click of an advertising link.
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CPM (Cost Per Thousand): cost metric for one thousand banner advertising impressions.
CPO (Cost Per Order): cost metric for each time an order is transacted.
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eCPC: stands for 'effective Cost Per Click’. Affiliates that earn on a CPA or CPO will back their numbers into an
eCPC. It is calculated by dividing total earnings by their number of clicks. For example, if an affiliate earned
$1500 from 3000 clicks, the CPC would equal $1500/3000, or $0.50.
eCPM: stands for 'effective Cost Per Thousand impressions'. Affiliates that earn on a CPA or CPO will back their
numbers into an eCPM. It is calculated by dividing total earnings by their number of impressions in thousands.
For example, if an affiliate earned $1500 from 75,000 impressions, the CPM would equal $1500/75, or $20.00.
Hybrid Model: affiliate commission model that combines payment options (i.e. CPC & CPA).
In-house: alternative to using an affiliate solution provider; building affiliate program architecture within a
company.
Lifetime Value of a Customer (LVC): the amount of sales in dollars that a customer in his lifetime will spend with
a particular company.
Manual Approval: affiliate application approval process where all applicants are manually approved for an
affiliate program.
Merchant: an online business that markets and sells goods or services. Merchants establish affiliate programs as
a cost effective method to get consumers to purchase a product, register for a service, fill out a form, or visit a
Web site.
Pay-Per-Sale: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sale of a product or service that they
refer to a merchant's Web site. Pay-per-sale programs usually offer the highest commissions and the lowest
conversion ratio.
Pay-Per-Lead: program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sales lead that they generate for a
merchant Web site. Examples would include completed surveys, contest or sweepstakes entries, downloaded
software demos, or free trials. Pay-per-lead generally offers midrange commissions and midrange to high
conversion ratios.
Pay-Per-Click: program where an affiliate receives receive a commission for each click (visitor) they refer to a
merchant's Web site. Pay-per-click programs generally offer some of the lowest commissions (from $0.01 to
$0.25 per click), and a very high conversion ratio since visitors need only click on a link to earn the affiliate a
commission.
Predatory Advertising: method that creates or overlays links or banners on Web sites, spawns browser
windows, or any method invented to overwrite or redirect affiliate links.
Residual Earnings: programs that pay affiliates not just for the first sale a shopper from their sites makes, but all
additional sales made at the merchant's site over the life of the customer.
ROAS: stands for 'Return on Advertising Spending'. This is the amount of revenue generated for every dollar
spent on advertising. For instance, a ROAS of $1 means you're generating $1 in sales for every $1 in advertising
spend, and a ROAS of $5 means you generate $5 in sales for every $1 in spending.
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ROI: stands for 'Return on Investment'. This is what all marketing managers want to see from the money they
spend on their marketing and advertising campaigns. The higher the sales, the larger the number of shoppers
and the greater the profit margin generated by sales – the better the ROI.
Super Affiliates: that small percentage of sites - the top 1% of affiliates, based on performance and earnings -
that generate the lion’s share of the revenue for your program. They are born marketers and are very successful
with the affiliate program they promote from their sites.
Two-tier: affiliate marketing model that allows affiliates to sign up additional affiliates below themselves, so that
when the second tier affiliates earn a commission, the affiliate above them also receives a commission. Two-tier
affiliate marketing is also known as MLM (Multilevel Marketing).
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Affiliate Marketing Message Boards
What are affiliates saying about your program? Monitor and participate in these message boards regularly to
maintain a grip on the affiliate community:
5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums
A Best Web
AffiliatePrograms.com
Affiliates4U (UK)
Amazon.com
AssociatePrograms.com
Digital Point
Earner’s Forum
Webmaster World
Wicked Fire
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Blogs for Affiliate Marketers to Read
The affiliate marketing blogosphere is expanding constantly. Blogs are a great resource for news and
information in affiliate marketing as it happens, as well as to learn more about tactics affiliates are using (and
some you shouldn't use).
Here are some blogs focused on or related to affiliate marketing to check out.
5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs - http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
Ad Hustler - http://www.adhustler.com/
ADS-links.com - http://www.ads-links.com/
Advertising & Marketing Blog - http://www.jonathantreiber.com/
AffBuzz - http://www.affbuzz.com/
Affiliate Classroom - http://blog.affiliateclassroom.com/
Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins - http://blog.affiliatetip.com/
Affiliate Marketing The Smart Way - http://www.thelazymarketer.com/blog/
Affiliate Program Advice - http://www.affiliateprogramadvice.com/
Affiliate Stuff - http://www.affiliatestuff.co.uk/
Affiliate Summit - http://www.affiliatesummit.com/blog/
Affilorama - http://www.affilorama.com/blog
Azam Marketing Blog - http://www.azam.info/
Andy Beard - http://www.andybeard.eu/
Beer Monies - http://www.beermonies.com/
Brandon Adcock dot Com - http://www.brandonadcock.com/
Bryn Youngblut - http://bryn.me/
Cash Tactics - http://www.cashtactics.net/
CDF Networks - http://www.cdfnetworks.com/
Chris Bloczynski dot Com - http://www.chrisbloczynski.com/
chrisbrogan.com - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/
CJ UK Blog - http://www.cjblog.co.uk/
copyblogger - http://www.copyblogger.com/
Cost Per News - http://www.costpernews.com/
Dennis Yu - http://www.dennis-yu.com/
FeedFront Magazine - http://www.feedfront.com/
GeekCast.fm - http://www.geekcast.fm/
Geno's Affiliate Marketing Blog - http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/
Google Affiliate Network Blog -http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/
How to Make Money Online - http://www.jonathanvolk.com/
Ian Fernando - http://www.ianfernando.com/
Internet Geek Girl - http://www.internetgeekgirl.com/
Jangro 2.0 - http://www.jangro.com/
Jeremiah Cooper dot Com - http://www.jeremiahcooper.com/
JimKukral.com - http://www.jimkukral.com/blog/
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John Chow dot Com - http://www.johnchow.com/
JoelComm.com - http://www.joelcomm.com/
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Lee McCoy's Affiliate Marketing Blog - http://www.leemccoy.co.uk/
Legacy Affiliate Blog - http://www.legacyaffiliateblog.com/
LinkShare Blog - http://www.linkshareblog.com/
MadPPC - http://www.madppc.com/
Many Body Theory - http://www.manybodytheory.com/
MediaTrust Blog - http://blog.mediatrust.com/
MissyWard.com - http://www.missyward.com/
Money Making Scoop - http://www.moneymakingscoop.com/blog/
MurrayNewlands.com - http://www.murraynewlands.com/
Nerdy Affiliate - http://www.nerdyaffiliate.com/
NETexponent Blog - http://www.netexponentblog.com/
NickThrolson.com - http://www.nickthrolson.com/
Nickycakes.com - http://www.nickycakes.com/
OffWhiteHat.com - http://www.offwhitehat.com/
OOOFF.com - http://www.oooff.com/php-affiliate-seo-blog/
Performance Marketing Alliance - http://www.performancemarketingalliance.com/
PPC.bz - http://www.ppc.bz/
ProBlogger - http://www.problogger.net/
Prosper202 Blog - http://prosper.tracking202.com/blog/
ReveNews - http://www.revenews.com/
Shankman.com - http://www.shankman.com/
Share Results Blog - http://blog.shareresults.com/
ShareASale Blog - http://blog.shareasale.com/
Shock Marketer - http://www.shockmarketer.com/
ShoeMoney - http://www.shoemoney.com/
Super Affiliate Mindset - http://www.superaffiliatemindset.com/
The Real Tim Jones - http://www.therealtimjones.com/
Thoughts on Affiliate Marketing from Logan Thompson - http://www.lrthompson.com/
TrishaLyn.com - http://www.trishalyn.com/
TylerCruz.com - http://www.tylercruz.com/
UberAffiliate - http://www.uberaffiliate.com/
Webgains UK Blog - http://blog.webgains.com/
Webgains USA Blog - http://usablog.webgains.com/
Winning the Web - http://www.winningtheweb.com/
Who is Andrew Wee - http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/
Wiseaff - http://www.wiseaff.com/
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