Affiliate Marketing

The Future of Content Monetization and Publishing

January 10, 2012

The first panel session of the 2012 Affiliate Summit West was the future of content monetization and publishing with Murray Newlands, Ian Fernando, Steve Hall and me. During the session, we answered the following question: Publishing is going through change but where is it now and what practical ethical steps can publishers take to increase revenue while improving content? The session targeted intermediate level affiliate publishers trying to monetize their content. We covered a lot .....

Study: Does Kontera affect your Google Search Engine Rankings?

January 6, 2012

  It’s no secret that it’s been a pretty stressful year for website publishers. When Google released their Panda update back in March, many sites lost as much as half of their organic traffic overnight, without any idea what they were doing wrong. In the last 9 months we’ve learned a lot about post Panda SEO, but one area that continues to be misunderstood is the issue of page speed, specifically as it relates to .....

Meet me at Affiliate Summit or CES next week

January 3, 2012

I am going to be at Affiliate Summit and the CES in Las Vegas next week and I would love to meet with you. Saturday I arrive on Saturday and will be putting on a drinks night with @heatherinbc and @stevehall / @adrants.com follow us on Twitter for details. Sunday The Future of Content Monetization and Publishing Session 1a Location: Augustus I Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Publishing is going through change but where it is .....

Pagemodo – Building Fanpages in Minutes for Free

December 20, 2011

There is a new company out there that has made creating Facebook Fanpages easy with no coding required. Pagemodo is part of the Webs.com family of products and has taken creating and marketing a Facebook Fanpage to the next level. Not only does Pagemodo offer you free templates for your Fanpage, but they offer a variety of tools and there is no coding or programming knowledge needed. Instead, Pagemodo takes the tricky work out and .....

GetAds – Thanks for the Hoodie!

December 8, 2011

I just opened up my new hoodie from George and Pat Avery at GetAds.com. Since they’re based in Denver, I know they that they know a thing or two about a good sweatshirt. And if you don’t know about GetAds, I recommend you head over to their site and check them out. They offer great products to help out both advertisers and affiliates, and they have decades of experience in the field that make their .....

LinkWeaver by VigLink

November 17, 2011

LinkWeaver by VigLink is a new Link Insertion tool for publishers VigLink says relevant affiliate links are added automatically! http://techcrunch.com reported that “LinkWeaver technology allows readers to instantly click to learn more about a particular product or service, or even make a purchase, without leaving the website to search elsewhere.” The technology really just pops up an advert similar to the offerings by INTENTclick, Kontera and Infolinks. It is not 100% new but maybe they .....

Adtech – Pubcon and Affiliate Summit Las Vegas

November 9, 2011

As you know, I will be attending PubCon this week and can’t be in two places at once.  So I won’t be attending ad:tech NY this time.  Just because I won’t be there doesn’t mean that I won’t be passing along great information about the great parties and networking opportunities. Even if you haven’t been, I am sure you have heard about Clickbooth’s infamous parties.  A couple months ago at Affiliate Summit East, they threw .....

What is Content Monetization and Why Does it Matter?

September 26, 2011

In simple words, content monetization is the process of earning money by writing content. There are several ways to go about the method. You can earn money by selling your content or by indulging yourself in internet-based writing activities. In the first method, buyers of your content can be anyone from book publishers to record labels to artists. In the second method, you can take part in one of hundreds of possibilities available throughout internet. .....

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