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Panda Targets Thin Affiliates

Affiliate sites have been impacted by Google's Panda algorithm changes, perhaps even more so than direct or parent sites. A thin affiliate—defined by Search Engine Watch as an affiliate site that doesn't produce valuable online content--is particularly in Google's sites right now, SEW says. Some markers to watch for, it advises: Any site with many visitors that   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 12th 2011

Do’s and Don’ts for Affiliate Marketers

There is seemingly no end to the growing number of options available to people or companies that wish to join the ranks of affiliate marketers. To name just a few that have emerged within the last few weeks: The FastPencil authoring and publishing service has introduced an affiliate marketing program for community sites or blogs focused on authoring and publishing;  Guard Dog has  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 3rd 2010

Newly Funded VigLink Promises Boost for Affiliates

VigLink is getting set to launch new technology that promises to help web publishers better monetize hyperlinks that connect to affiliate marketers. The company has just closed on seed funding from First Round Capital, Google Ventures and other sources - thus positioning the start-up to deliver a generally available version of its curr  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/06/10

Media: US Local News Network partners with LA Times on new site. Analytics: In wake of data mergers, hyper-targeting takes shape. Search: How to   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 6th 2010

Local Service Companies Intrigued by Pay Per Call

Local service companies such as attorneys, dentists and credit and debt counseling firms are primed to embrace pay per call advertising platforms next year. Pay-per-call models in general are poised to experience explosive growth in 2010, according to Telmetrics. If 2009's activity is any guide, it will be local campaigns driving adoption next year - the number of local search pay-per-call advertising programs the company monitors tripled from January 2009 to June 2009,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 16th 2009

Affiliates Ratchet Up Tech, Analytics

Several newly introduced applications promise to help affiliate marketers analyze their leads, track their site performance and close more deals. The tools - which incorporate more stepped-up technology and measurement than the industry uses now -  should provide a boost to this niche, which has been stymied by a lack of tech savvy and potentially helpful online ad strategies, w  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009

Facebook Invites Charities into Experimental Gift Shop

At the Social Good Conference on Friday, marketing/outreach director Randi Zuckerberg announced Facebook would be opening its new "credits" platform to four non-profits: Project Red, Toms Shoes, Kiva and the Wold Wildlife Fund. The non-profits add to the four online gift and greeting companies that were invited to try the platform last week: American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards and Real Gifts. "We are exploring ways for developers to use the Gift Shop to offer...virtual,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 31st 2009

Millennials Fuel 19% Jump in Loyalty-Program Participation

Despite the recession, US consumer participation in loyalty and rewards programs is rising across all demographic segments and has grown 19% since 2007 among the general population, according to a study by COLLOQUY (via MarketingCharts).   [...]
Posted: Friday, July 10th 2009

YouTube CTA Overlay Lets You Drive Users Elsewhere

Today YouTube releases the Call-to-Action Overlay, a semi-transparent pop-up that enables advertisers to link viewers to any site they wish. For example, a company supporting a charity can send users watching a certain video to their charity subsite. Prior to this inclusion, advertisers that wished to drive users off YouTube had to include a link in the summary on the right-hand side of the video. TechCrunch   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 30th 2009

April's Top Ad Networks: Platform-A, Yahoo Lead Pack

AOL's Platform-A remains the top ad network in the US, reaching nearly 176.5 million US internet users, or 91.5% of the total audience, based on April ad-network rankings released by comScore, Inc, reports MarketingCharts. Platfor  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 22nd 2009

iPhone Brings Bounty to Pandora

Online streaming radio services, such as Last.fm and We7, have been hard-pressed to find a profit model that enables them to pass money to artists and record labels while remaining solvent themselves. But Pandora, a company that's profited primarily from advertising deals on its site, has found a new cash cow: the iPhone. According to CTO Tom Conrad (via TechCrunch), users now buy about a mi  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 11th 2009

Affiliates: Commission, Product & Brand Most Crucial

The three most important things affiliates look at when deciding whether to join an affiliate program are the commission they will receive, the product being sold and the brand being promoted, according to a report from AffiliateBenchmarks, the affiliate research division of NETexponent, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 20th 2008

Neolane Deploys Campaigns from One Silo to Multiple Media

Enterprise marketing software firm Neolane has launched Cross-Channel Marketing Optimization, which enables marketers to create, manage and execute campaigns across multiple platforms. Marketers are under increased pressure to spread their campaign efforts across a panoply of media. But because there is no central location for campaign development and execution, many organizations maintain a "Frankenstein monster" of intersecting platforms -- that is, num  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 6th 2008

Visa, Chase Pilot SMS Coupon Program

A pilot program in Phoenix delivers coupons via cell phone to Visa and Chase cardholders that sign up to receive them from select merchants, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The text-message coupons are personalized to match the interests selected by Chase Visa cardholders, then sent using Visa's Mobile Platform. Coupons are redeemable in stores or online,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 4th 2008

MSN Travel Leaves Expedia for Orbitz

Orbitz.com and ebookers.com, another Orbitz property, replaced Expedia as MSN.com's preferred travel agencies on MSN.com in the US and United Kingdom, reports Reuters. MSN.com is the online home of parent company Microsoft, which reportedly made the switch because employees preferred Orbitz's features and customer service. Orbitz said the change could draw 3.5 million additional visitors per month to its sites,  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 3rd 2008

Online Lead-Gen Delivers, but Can Be Better Used

The majority of company respondents (82 percent) and agency respondents (85 percent) expect online lead generation to be more important to their own or their clients' organizations over the next 12 months, according to research by E-consultancy and Clash-Media -- via MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 17th 2008

IAB Lends Helping Hand to Small Online Publishers

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created a new membership level for small online publishers, part of an effort to help them "prevent adverse state and Federal regulation that could hinder [their] ability to sell or carry advertising." Any publisher that vends ads directly, indirectly or through a third-party network may join the IAB Small Publisher network, provided they make less than $1 million in annual revenue. The introductory rate is $500 per year. Interested publishers may   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 11th 2008

Facebook May Face Class Action Suit, Fueled by Canadian Law School Students

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has filed a privacy complaint against Facebook, asserting it violates the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. "Facebook does not make a reasonable effort to advise users of the purposes for which their personal information is used," the group wrote. "Facebook also does not advise users of the extent of their personal information that will be shared by joining a network." Facebook spokesmen denied tha  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 2nd 2008

Overstock Deserts, Amazon Sues, New York State

Amazon has filed suit against New York in response to a new law requiring online retailers to collect tax from buyers in the state. Rival Overstock took a less complex measure: it has canceled relationships with its 3,400 New York-based affiliates,   [...]
Posted: Friday, May 16th 2008

How To: Deploying and Managing Effective Online Lead-Gen Campaigns

Marketers are under significant pressure to generate trackable ROI on online ad campaigns. This isn't easy when most online media charge for impressions or clicks, which may never convert to leads. Cost-per-lead (CPL) campaigns enable marketers to pay solely for leads. And while online lead-gen is stigmatized – mostly for   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 9th 2008