http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Marketing from a New Zealand perspective. Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:18:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had some spare time while out of the office and have been reading a couple of interesting posts on work people have completed surrounding building affiliate programs that pass SEO weight. As you'll most likely know, affiliate programs are all about gaining advertisements (or links) from other websites through to ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/affiliate-programs-that-pass-seo-weight/ This morning I was asked if there is any direct affiliate coaching in New Zealand available to help someone who is interested in getting into affiliate marketing as a supplementary income. It's a good question so I thought I'd post the Q & A here; Good morning Gary, I live in Whangaparaoa and ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/affiliate-coaching-in-new-zealand/ There was a simple but often overlooked question in our Affiliate Forum over the last week that I thought deserved a post to help others out with their searching as well. Hopefully the forum poster doesn't mind me answering the question regarding Affiliate Merchants here; I just joined the affiliate program forum ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/finding-affiliate-programs-in-your-industry/ The most regular means of communication between affiliate managers and the wider group of affiliates in their program is generally going to be the affiliate newsletter, otherwise known as CRM (customer relationship management) if you're the affiliate manager. The affiliate newsletter is commonly under-utilised when, done well, it can be one ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/affiliate-newsletters/ I watched the Google Wave presentation recently and aside from getting a few laughs from the speakers crashing the sandbox version of the new open source Google Wave project it really does look like it has the potential to change online messaging or more specifcally change the online collaborative documentation offering. The discussion ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/what-google-wave-change-anything/ Personally, I'm not particularly keen on the idea of using Twitter for affiliate marketing beyond promoting your site directly. It just reeks a little too much of spamming a social network. It's a reasonable argument that there are a lot of people who are currently using Twitter as purely a promotional ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/should-affiliates-use-twitter-for-affiliate-marketing/ I don't usually write about other blogs that I've come across but it's pretty rare to find a blog that's actually full of PPC humour! PPCVillan.com is a laugh, it's a great take on what you can actually find out there in the PPC world and covers the best of the ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/ppc-humour/ If you've ever used Twitter or if you're really into short URL's you will be likely to have come across the URL shortening services that are available from a few different companies. The idea behind the service provided is to solve the problem of the ever increasing length and complexity of ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/short-url-services-for-affiliate-marketing/ If you haven't heard about it yet, you need to get along to the Creative Freedom Foundation to help join the protest surrounding the looming implementation of a copyright Act that is coming close to becoming law which effectively creates what people are calling a "Guilt Upon Accusation" situation. There is ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/new-zealand-internet-blackout-2/ It looks like In-Text Advertising has finally found New Zealand portals. I've noticed over the last month a few portals of note (e.g. geekzone.co.nz) have been running the adverts. So far it looks like the sites are completing trial runs but it will be interesting to see if the trend catches ... http://www.affiliateprograms.co.nz/affiliate-archives/in-text-advertising/