Affiliate marketing, affiliate data feeds, and search engine marketing tips from Affiliate Insight.
Have you been trying to replicate the look and behavior of Google AdSense units — for example, to display alternative ads of your own when AdSense ads are not available? It’s a popular idea, but if you’re doing it with old-fashioned font declarations and 1990s-era HTML, you’re missing the boat.
If you’ve been enjoying APN’s recent base commission hike to 29%, the time to send more traffic to this leading competitor in the niche is now — because the special promotional rate is set to finish at month’s end, with base commissions returning to 22%. Following some problems with payment processing and affiliate commission timing, the merchant’s promotional rate offers quite the incentive for affiliates who had started looking elsewhere.
We’ve extended our section of recommended affiliate programs with three new reviews. Due to popular demand, one of the new programs covers the online gaming industry. Love it or hate it, online gaming is now big business; the market leader paid out over $75 million to affiliates last year.
Reportedly backed by much of the same team responsible for a program that recently went defunct, the new affiliate program at RSN seems to elicit loyalty and scepticism in almost equal measures. Many who have tried it report prompt payment and great base prices, particularly on some products that few other merchants carry. Let us know what you think!
If you’re an affiliate of APN, you’ve probably found your patience tested a few times during the last month, as payment dates have slipped repeatedly. However, after discussing the situation directly with APN management, we’re confident that affiliates’ patience will be rewarded. The troubles all started with that darned MasterCard…
Unconfirmed reports are surfacing of a bot with a known Google IP that is requesting CSS and Javascript files and which appears with a User-Agent of ‘Mozilla, Googlebot’. We evaluate two possible explanations and comment on the potential impact of a shift from purely text-based search engine bots to spatially aware bots.
Although RXL offers one of our favourite affiliate programs, we’re disappointed to see affiliates hit with a big increase in the minimum payment threshold — from 500 to 1000 dollars. So, if you’ve become accustomed to seeing a regular wire every week, two weeks, or month, plan to see that increase to two weeks, four weeks, or two months.
A leading online pharmacy affiliate program has issued a warning suggesting state health authorities in Florida, California and New York have taken active steps to shut down pharmacy affiliate sites hosted in these states. The warning comes shortly after another report that a leading US-based domain registrar seized pharmacy related domains.
One of the old-timers of the online pharmacy industry, Integra RX has long been known as a premium-priced but highly reliable outfit. Amongst a raft of recent personnel changes at the outfit, Integra has also recently eliminated wire transfers from their payment options, leaving only PayPal and paper check. Support staff continue to insist that PayPal’s prohibition on making MLM payments does not apply to them.
January isn’t even finished yet, and we’ve seen the first casualty of 2006 in the pharmacy affiliate space: Rx-Mex has shut down. Since many affiliates had already moved on to more attractive offers from XLP, APN, and others, we believe the fallout from this particular collapse will be minimal.