Affliate Program Coupon Policies

Coupon Guidelines
1) Any website that is specifically deisgned in nature to only promote coupons, deals, or discounts must be preapproved by the affiliate manager before affiliate links are distributed onsite.

We are looking for:
a) Graphic and design quality
b) Established user base
c) Transparency – full contact details listed no protected domains
d) No fake or expired couponse) All coupon sites must be established for at least 5 months.
e) Unique content

Required:  We will not approve your affiliate application if you do not make your email address public in your CJ profile.

Calling all dragon hunters and knights! Kidorable’s Dragon Knight style is here!

Activation Bonus for content and datafeed affiliates- Earn a $5 activation bonus if you are a registered affiliate who has not yet started promoting our program whom run our product data feed to create an SEO’d content post/page this week. Contact us for more details. *not valid for ‘deal or coupon websites’ – content sites must have been established for at least 4 months.

Upcoming Coupon Code
Offer: receive a free Dragon Knight umbrella with their order over $20 (be sure they know to add the Dragon Knight umbrella to your cart first)
Coupon Code: Distrubuted via CJ

Product images ( size down as needed)

http://www.kidorable.com/cart/images/D/mdl_dragon_02.jpg

http://www.kidorable.com/cart/images/P/umb_dragon.jpg

http://www.kidorable.com/cart/images/P/bkpk_dragon.jpg

http://www.kidorable.com/cart/images/P/coat_dragon.jpg

Dragon Knight Umbrella $13.50
Dragon Knight Rain Boots $29.00
Dragon Knight Backpack $23.00
Dragon Knight Rain Coat $36.00

This week Buy Cute Apron’s Affiliate program is featuring Apron Designer Kay Dee Designs!

Kay Dee Designs carries an assortment of Kitchen home decor items and their apron has just the right amount of frills, sashes, and rhinestones. Buy Cute Apron’s carries most of the current Kay Dee Design’s aprons and they can all be found in Buy Cute Apron’s product data feed.

Consider featuring the Kay Dee Design Aprons this week on your blog, twitter feed, Facebook Page, PPC Campaigns, or with a product data feed. (Popshops should allow you to pull them into your post easily.)

A great Holiday Gift Idea- pick up two and save! Current Coupon code for Kay Dee Aprons and Sugar baby aprons available in t Share a Sale’s Deals section.

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!

Promote our November campaign and enter to win a Kidorable Butterfly Umbrella!

Banner and product links can be found in CJ. For a complete campaign kit – including Keywords, images, and more banners send an email to affiliates @ kidorable. com

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?

If you have previously uploaded the code for the monthly banner, your banners will automatically update this month to our Autum Butterfly Campaign. If  you aren’t using the monthly campaign affiliate html, log onto CJ and grab your HTML code for the monthly campaign banners.

A full affiliate campaign kit for November can be obtained by emailing affiliates @ kidorable dot com

The kit includes:

• SEO tools – Keyword list
• The weekly featured products and coupon codes
• Product images
• Additional banner sizes
• Affiliate contest details

We will be giving away a Butterfly umbrella to one of our affiliates in November- check back November 2 2011 to enter!

Don’t forget… the product data feed is available for all of our Cupcake Provocateur aprons.

Not a Buy Cute Aprons Affiliate? register today

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

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