After 12 years as an Internet professional – as a content producer, project manager, Web designer, application developer, search engine optimizer, Internet advertising specialist and Editor-in-Chief of Website Magazine, I realize that the majority of Web workers have at one time or another considered affiliate…

From a distance, affiliate-marketing riches can appear easily attainable: buy a domain name, launch a website, put up some affiliate offers and wait for the checks to arrive. The reality is far more complicated, which is why the preparation phase…

To Excel in the Performance Space, It’s Essential to Start with the Affiliate Marketing Basics. The difficulties that many newcomers encounter are caused by a lack of understanding about how affiliate marketing really works, and the inability to best utilize their…

On the performance Web, the savviest understand the importance of comprehensive affiliate marketing training. Affiliate programs have changed dramatically over the years. Once the territory of only the savviest marketers, now more and more are trying it – and not…

Selecting the right type of affiliate marketing programs is important and will be covered in future chapters, but understanding how individual offers fit within the big picture of your website’s unique value proposition is even more essential. Without a proper…

Have you chosen the right affiliate marketing networks, models and merchants?  Let’s back up quickly and look at some of the fundamentals we’ve already addressed. We’ve developed a formal definition of affiliate or performance-based marketing; explained how it works on…

Today’s Web users are smarter than ever, and merchants are increasingly more aware of affiliate techniques. In order to succeed in this virtual world, one must know how to promote the affiliate offers merchants have devised for the audiences they…

Affiliate marketing is at its core just marketing, but there are important skills and tools of the trade that are known only to the savviest people in the industry. Are you ready to accelerate into the fast-moving world of affiliate…

The sites with the biggest communities are the ones that ultimately fare the best in affiliate marketing. This is why you have to be focused on building a community of like minded individuals before anything else. Success with affiliate marketing…

The affiliate world is not driven wholly by word of mouth and mouse, but also by advertising dollars. An immense amount of money is spent each day promoting websites and individual offers on the Web, most of which comes from…