Affiliate Marketers and Brands Beware of Outsourced Affiliate Programs

Last week I was supposed to be enjoying a wonderful baby moon ahead of the baby boy being born.  Instead, I awoke one morning to find an email in my inbox that said Commission Junction Removal: Non-Bona Fide Transactions: This letter shall serve as notice that your publisher account has been terminated and removed from the Commission Junction Network and transactions may be reversed ("charged-back"). This termination and removal is the result of non-bona fide transactions performed on your account in violation of the Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement you agreed to follow. Non-bona fide transactions include, but are not limited to, false, self-inflated, and/or duplicate leads or transactions. You are not eligible to rejoin … [Read more...]

The Most Comprehensive Affiliate Marketing Program List

If you run a website, there is a high likelihood that you are also in the business of monetizing that website. The most common way to monetize a website is to join an affiliate network, which gives you access to advertisers that you can post on your site.  This is an easy way to get access to a bunch of different advertisers, and most networks make it easy to ad the necessary code to your website.   Types of Affiliate Advertising Programs Affiliate networks or programs have several different ways that they pay: - Pay-per-click: As it sounds, you are paid every time someone clicks on a link or ad. The most popular pay-per-click affiliate network is Google Adsense. - Pay-per-lead: This option is for advertisers that are … [Read more...]