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Affiliate marketing resources for affiliates and affiliate program managers. I've carefully selected the best affiliate marketing resources on the Net - tools, web sites, books and articles.
Add this page to your bookmarks. You will want to return.
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For Affiliates
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 Site Build It!
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(Making affiliate marketing easy)
While Ken Evoy's Site Build! can be used to create mini web sites, that's a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. This highly advanced tool is aimed more at making everything easy for affiliates who want to create themed web sites. (A themed site is one which covers one particular topic. Every page of the site is likely to contain the same key phrase.) When you're involved in affiliate marketing using a theme, you're building for the future - search engines LOVE themed sites.
You don't have to know HTML, FTP or even how to submit to search engines to use Site Build It! You can concentrate on YOUR expertise, on writing about things in which you have a passionate interest, and promote affiliate products which suit that theme. Highly recommended. Learn more here.
Declan Dunn wrote the first thorough book on affiliate programs - aimed mainly at merchants. Then Declan, a leading consultant on affiliate marketing on the Internet (he has designed several programs in the Be Free network), went a huge step further, with his book, "Winning the Affiliate Game. The Ten Step Master Plan for Maximizing Your Profits".
This is an oldie now, a classic, and still well worth reading if you're involved in affiliate marketing.
Click here to get the inside information on Winning the Affiliate Game.
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Prolinkz
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(Ad tracking script)
Prolinkz is a Perl script created by CGI wizard William Bontrager. You can use it to track clicks in ads in newsletters or on your web site, to track responses from e-mail newsletters. It can turn a long affiliate URL into a short one. It helps you quickly figure out which promotion was successful and which one wasn't. Very useful.
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Affiliate Marketing 101
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Wayne and Kim Porter give a good solid introduction to affiliate marketing in their book, "Affiliate Marketing 101: A Start-Up Guide For Serious Netpreneurs". It's aimed at beginners and it's cheap
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Affiliate Assistant
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A cheaper, simpler way to keep track of your commissions. It lets you see quickly what's working and what's not.
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WeAreAffilites/Yahoo
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Take yor part in the Yahho groups affiliates message exchange. You are free to join our e-group as well as to open the one of your own. Easy to start up an on line group matching your interest.
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Ken Evoy's free Affiliate Masters Course
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The best manual for affiliates - at any price - is Ken Evoy's 224-page 5 Pillar Affiliate Manual. To get it, all you have to do is join his free affiliate program. It's that easy.
I assume you've read Ken's free course? This is where every affiliate should start, no matter what product or service you're selling. It's about 100 pages of excellent information and tips, based on what successful affiliate marketers do.
Also, if you sign up for his free affiliate program you get access to all the past issues of his newsletters, his free 80-20 Report (which tells you how to concentrate on the 20% of things which achieve 80% of your results), and the free 224-page affiliate marketing manual. Excellent stuff! Ken is one of the foremost affiliate marketing success stories. All this info works with ANY program and most of it applies to ANY type of Internet marketing, not just affiliate marketing.
He pays lifetime commissions on excellent products. The customers are "yours" for life. Unbeatable.
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WeAreAffiliates Newsletter archives
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Keep an eye on the fresh updates in our Newsletter archive. Some valuable tools are always there at your hand.
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For Affiliate Program Managers
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The Practical Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Affiliate Program
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If you need to realise results from your affiliate marketing campaign fast, then this new book will help you every step of the way - saving you time, money and frustration!
Your Practical Guide should be required reading for anyone who is planning to launch a new affiliate program and for ALL affiliate program managers.
Click here to discover the secrets of successfulaffiliate programs
Pay for Performance: Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants
By Shawn Collins and Frank Fiore, this book shows you how to plan, implement, and manage a successful affiliate marketing program. It also provides case studies of successful programs as well as failures and scams to demonstrate and teach the lessons of building a successful program.
The Complete, Insider's Guide to Associate & Affiliate Programs
the first thorough guide on affiliate marketing. A "must-have" book written by Declan Dunn, consultant to a host of high-profile companies successfully using affiliate marketing. Highly recommended.
Click here learn more
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Affiliate Announce
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(Submissions to affiliate directories)
Save time. Let Neil Durrant announce your affiliate program to all the top affiliate program directories. Neil does the submissions very carefully - manually - and gets them right. He also provides other services for affiliate marketing merchants. I strongly recommend this excellent service.
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How to Recruit Affiliates and Increase Sales
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This comprehensive free affiliate marketing report provides ideas and tips to help you build your affiliate program including: Planning Your Program - Building Your Team Of Affiliates - Keeping Your Affiliates Loyal - Which Links Attract The Most ClickThroughs? - Silly Mistakes Affiliate Merchants Make - Free Targeted Advertising For Your Affiliate Program - Further Reading and Resources.
Ralph Wilson's Report on Affiliate Management Software
Ralph Wilson has done by far the most thorough research I've seen on affiliate tracking software and affiliate solution providers.
Some of the merchants involved have switched from one system to another, and explain why. Ralph, one of the most trusted and respected figures in Internet marketing, has compiled his research into a 108-page ebook. Don't start an affiliate program without reading the very candid comments in this report.
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How merchants can reduce credit card fraud
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Neil Shearing of ScamFree Zone has managed to reduce his credit card chargebacks to almost zero. If you sell online (or if you think you might), check out his article where he describes the resources that have helped him save a lot of money by reducing fraud.
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The United States Affiliate Manager Coalition
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A discussion group with experienced contributors.
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How to set up your own associate program
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More than 20 ways - affiliate tracking software and affiliate solution providers.
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For affiliates and Affiliate Program Managers
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A SAFE way to do fast submissions to search engines
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Now you can AUTOMATE your search engine submissions with the same care and attention as if you were doing them manually. Michael Campbell's intelligent auto submitter is VERY EASY to use. It takes over the tedious job and submits your web pages for you, in a responsible manner - guaranteed. We've been carefully testing this tool, submitting to the main search engines, for several months. It really does work well. This will leave you more time for affiliate marketing. Click here for more...
Offer FREE e-mail from your site
You can add customizable e-mail, search, and discussion boards to your site free and keep 50% of the banner revenue.
Click here for more details
WordTracker
WordTracker is an extremely powerful tool for discovering which are the best keywords to concentrate on. The is HUGELY important. It's no use just guessing what people in your industry are searching for. Its newly expanded database now includes 350 million keywords. Don't guess. Find out. Highly recommended. Try a FREE trial.
More good affiliate marketing products and services
Check out the products and services on My Best 15 Performers.
Only VERY carefully selected affiliate marketing products manage to get on this list.
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