Archive for Affiliate Resources
Have you considered running our product data feed?
Posted by: | CommentsDatafeeds are a great way to feature items. You can also create your very own online store in minutes with a 3rd party tool like datafeedr.com or popshops.com
Here are some examples of what a datafeed can do:
http://pajamatree.com/store – datafeedr
http://herbabystuff.com/baby-shop/infant-strollers popshops
If you launch our product datafeed for either Kidorable (CJ) or Buy Cute Aprons in November you qualify for a Commission bump – so let us know!
How to earn affiliate revenue with Product Data Feeds
Posted by: | CommentsAll of the programs I manage either have a product data feed or plan to launch one within 4 months of launch. The question is how do you tap into that product datafeed to generate affiliate revenue. (I am assuming in this post that you are new to product datafeeds.)
If you already have content in the form of a site or blog, consider how you can present products to your visitors. Maybe you will simply create a weekly post featuring a merchants product, or your are considering creating an online store as an addition to your current site or blog. Maybe you want to create an online store with a specific theme.
Product data feeds can help you do all these things and more. To show you what a product datafeed can do, I created an entire site from scratch in three days using the product data feed from a merchant that sells one thing. Pajamas.
First I selected a topic or niche that I thought would perform well in the next few months. I considered how I can promote it and what sort of budget I have to promote it. My promotions will focus on: PPC (google adwords), organic traffic via social media, organic traffic via optimized SEO.
I then determined a keyword friendly domain url and I obtained some affordable web hosting that supports WordPress. I installed wordpress and the plugins that optimize SEO and user experience.
Then I signed up for a third party Data feed service ( i.e. popshops or datafeedr). I decided on Datafeedr as I like their ability to create categories. Datafeedr was easy to use and has a WordPress Plugin. I then created the images, navigation and store.
A product datafeed, and a third party data feed service allowed me to create an entire product specific website/store without needing to worry about the overhead costs of running an actual eccomerce online store. By partnering with established merchants my ‘online store’ was up and running in just three days (a realistic time frame would be two weeks).
View the site at www.PajamaTree.com
So how can you utilize the product data feeds for your merchant programs?
Google Webmaster free training videos
Posted by: | CommentsYou know that Google traffic is important to the success of your blog and affiliate platforms. But do you get all the Google details? Keywords, page rank, backlinks?
If your head is spinning don’t worry – Matt Cutts hosts free videos on Youtube form the horses mouth of Google to help you make sense of it all. Here are some topics you will find:
If I don’t need to block crawlers, should I create a robots.txt file?
What are the best practices for PDF optimization?
Do multiple links from one page to another page count?
What role does being in DMOZ play in rankings?
There are over 300 video’s based on ‘questions’ fr m readers so I can’t list them all. These videos’ should be on your list of things to watch while I don’t know say ‘washing the dishes at night’. Throw your lap top onto the kitchen counter and multitask:)
Here is one that you might find interesting;
Underscores vs. dashes in URLs; Underscores vs. dashes in URLs
Affiliate Industry Forum List
Posted by: | CommentsI joined a new upcoming Affiliate forum today. Which left me thinking… do our affiliates know about the great resources and networking opportunities available on some of the leading Affiliate Industry forums? So I thought I would drop a list of affiliate industry forums here on the Her Affiliate blog.
First – check out this newer affiliate forum that has some great affiliates and managers hanging about:
Full of some great affiliate forum threads- I am keenly interested in the Affiliate Manager thread along with the affiliate forum threads related to; Affiliate resources on email marketing, compliance, and data Management & acquisition.
The SpeekEZ affiliate forum is new – but it looks as tough the goal really is to share and present information for affiliates that is useful and teaches REAL affiliate skills like promotion, optimizing creative etc. With so many affiliate forums spammed by network marketing offers – I think this one will quickly become a great resource for those wanting to learn more about promoting legitimate affiliate and CPA offers.
Best of all – all those tips will help any blogger or website publisher wanting to promote their own Internet platforms as well! Visit the SpeekEZ affiliate forum.
Here are some other affiliate forums you should consider creating a membership on. (Remember to brand your presence by using the same USERid on each one.)
Her Affiliate on a BestWeb
Her Affiliate on a 5star Affiliate Forums
Her Affiliate on AFFspot affiliate forum
Affiliate Program Directory AffiliateMount.com
