Affiliate Box
Affiliate Commission Leakage (zero tolerance)
AffiliateProgramAdvice.com pledge We feel so strongly about google check out that we pledge we will not support any merchant who uses google check out without factoring in their affiliates why? Its called affiliate commission leakage, what does this term mean? This is when a merchants has their own (affiliate or commercial) links taking their affiliate’s […]
IBA Affiliate Code of Conduct
NMA announced that the IAB (ANC) Affiliate Network Council, will draw up an affiliate marketing code of conduct. I don’t want to repeat what has already been blogged about, rather Ill refer you to Jason Loquax blog post.I am cautiously optimistic that this is a move in the right direction, I for one welcome this […]
TruffleShuffle converting at 11.5% and climbing
Affiliates have generated £83.5K worth of sales since mid December, conversions are a very decent 11.5% via affiliates. We have entered the Affiliatewindow.com league table and are in position 13 in our category. We offer 12% on all referred sales and 90 day cookie. You cant bid on the name via google only, everything else […]
Do affiliates need to pay TAX
David Hamilton emailed this question to me, thanks its a very good question!The answer is absolutely, any income you earn from affiliate marketing is subject to taxation where ever you are in the world. If you are in a day job and affiliate marketing is a spare time revenue earner, any commissions you get is […]
They ripped my site…
Got an email the other day from an affiliate asking for help about a site she had come across which was a total rip of her own site. When I looked at the source code the offender had not even bothered to alter the code. So what can you do to protect what’s yours? Copyright […]
Affiliate cencus 5.1.6 & 5.5.1
The biggest eight sectors for affiliates, in order, are: 1) Travel / Flights (30%) 2) Entertainment and Music (27%) Joint 3) Electrical goods (24%) Joint 3) Computers / laptops / peripherals (24%) Joint 5) Gifts / Gadgets (22%) Joint 5) Books (22%) 7) Fashion / clothes / lingerie / accessories (21%) Joint 8) Financial services […]
"Ten ways to explain affiliate marketing…“
Ten ways to explain affiliate marketing… “I’ve been pondering lately how it is that Affiliate Marketing, which helped to generate more than £2 billion in UK e-commerce revenues last year, has scarcely ever got a mention in the national mainstream press. Why is this? It’s not as if the papers have been shying away from […]
UK Affiliate Cencus 2006
The UK Affiliate Census 2006 results are now in the public domain.First off, a huge thanks to Linus Gregoriadis over at e-consultancy.com whom without, this census could not have been achieved. Big thanks to all the Networks who assisted us with sending out the initial survey to their network of affiliates, which included, PaidOnResults.com, Webgains.com,TradeDoubler.co.uk, […]