Archive for Affiliate Tools
Affiliate 101 Creative and Audience
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you know if your affiliate creative is working?
Monitor your CTR. The Click Thru rate of your creative (banners and links) will help you monetize your ad space and revenue as an affiliate.
To effectively monitor and optimize your ad space you will need to be able to review the following data for each ad or creative you run on your site.
1) Placement – where on your site are the ads located.
2) Creative message
3) Audience location
Look for the creative AND LOCATIONS with the higher CTR to determine if you are showing the right creative (message) to the right audience at the right time.
If your goal is to create advertising and affiliate revenue you need to have the tools in place to run and evaluate your ads within the above parameters. To do this you will need an adsever. Here are a few options:
OIO Publisher – wordpress plugin included – ad
WordPress backup – are you doing it?
Posted by: | CommentsI had a discussion with a new affiliate partner yesterday who shared a story of two amazing women who spent a year (full time) building a great content rich website using WordPress. By the end of the year their hard work had paid off and they were earning over a lot of residual affiliate income and ongoing advertising income through adsense and other networks.
Then the unthinkable. Their site crashed. Even the host was not able to retrieve the site. They had not backed up and all their content (and monthly income) was lost.
WordPress has come a long way and backing up is as easy a setting up a plugin now. Here are a few of the WordPress Backup plugins I have used:
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
An automated backup that saves your WP backup right to your dropbox.
This solution allows you to select the day time and frequency of your WordPress data auto backup.
Another solution is: WP-DB-Backup
This WP database plugin allows you to backup specific databases. For example if you use the flex quote plugin, you can download the quote database.
It has options to save to your server, download, or email the backup.
There are quite of few data base backup plugins for WordPress. You can search through them on the WordPress site or within your WordPress dashboard’s ->plugin ->add new page.
How to back up your Blogger Blog
Although having your own hosted blog is the better option, those of you who have blogs at blogger can backup your blog manually. To do so you will have to log onto your dashboard and ‘export’ your blog. Be sure to do so on a regular basis. If your account is ever frozen, you will save all your content and can upload it into a hosted content manager.
Kidorable affiliate product feed
Posted by: | CommentsKidorable’s product data feed has been available on CJ for a couple of months. Now you can sell all of Kidorable’s products as a CJ affiliate partner right from you website or blog using either PopShops or Datafeedr.
With Datafeedr (which enables you to create & embed an affiliate shop into your WordPress blog) you can pull all of the products right into your blog.
Datafeedr is a powerful, push-button store creation system that makes it fast and easy for affiliate marketers to set-up, manage, and update a complete affiliate data feed store WITHOUT touching clunky data feed files, learning a programming language, or hiring expensive programmers.
PopShops is the largest and the most reliable affiliate feed aggregator, Kidorable’s affiliate product data feed from CJ has been live on PopShops for just over three weeks.
Build a custom affiliate storefront or use the PopShops data feed API for 30-days free.
Share a Sale Affiliate Aquarium
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If you are a registered affiliate on Share a Sale, you may want to take a moment to set up your SAS affiliate aquarium profile.
I have seen a few merchants using this tool to offer special bonus offers and incentives. It’s also a great way to build some relationships with your affiliate merchants. I wouldn’t suggest spending a huge amount of time networking on SAS affiliate aquarium, you should however, take a bit of time to customize your profile so merchants can find & reach you.
Check out our affiliate merchant’s affiliate aquarium profiles they will accept your friend request.
Just search for their names: SecuraTrac – TenMarks Education - Our Family Wizard – TotSites
Share a Sale still has some work to do to make Affiliate Aquarium an amazing tool. It has quite a bit of value already though.
