Affiliate Marketing Resources

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing and Contextual Advertising
Affiliate Marketing - Handy Resources
- Legal Resources, Starting a Business, Trademarks- Affiliate Marketing News Feed via RSS - Tradeshow and Industry Events Calendar - Affiliate Marketing Glossaries
General Affiliate Marketing Resources and Blogs
- Individual Affiliate Marketers - Affiliate Marketing Blogger Communities / Portals - Affiliate Marketing Media - Aggregated Internet Marketing News - OPM (Outsourced Program Management) Companies - Merchant Affiliate Programs - Affiliate Networks - Affiliate Industry 3rd Party Vendors

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Introduction to Affiliate Marketing and Contextual Advertising

These resources are for affiliate marketing professionals and newcomers. Some resources are for affiliates, some are for affiliate program managers (advertisers), and others are for both.

If you are a merchant or service provider who is selling your products or services online, and you don't have an affiliate program, consider launching one.

Are you a Newbie and just started out as Affiliate or Affiliate Manager?

I created a special page with Affiliate Marketing Training and Learing Resources just for your needs to get you up to speed quickly and cuts down the time it would take you if you search the web for information and resources yourself. I collected over the years various information to Affiliate Manager Training Courses, Affiliate Bootcamps and Self Learning Resources. Some are free, others have a low price tah and make it easy for you to get started.

Some of the resources are pretty expesive and targeted to either professionals and companies that can afford the initial investment or to individuals that are serious about this business and not shy away from investing money up-front to save the time to learn it through practical experience and over time.

The expensive classes and training kits can't teach you anything that years of practical experience will teach you automatically, but most people can't or don't want to wait that long. ... more.

Articles About the Basics

Affiliate Marketing 101 by Carsten Cumbrowski from May 30th, 2006 (updated and extended in June and August 2006). How does affiliate marketing work? Learn the answer to that question.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Checklist #1
Launching and Relaunching Affiliate Programs at ReveNews.com by Jamie Birch from September 7, 2006
Promoting Your Marketing Campaigns via Your Affiliates by Carsten Cumbrowski from March 24, 2006 covers the basics about coupons for your affiliates.
Determining the Right Compensation Structure for Your Affiliate Program by Carsten Cumbrowski from January, 26 2007 (updated and extended in March 2007)
Merchant Product Datafeeds/Data Feeds for Affiliates - 101 by Carsten Cumbrowski from January, August, September and November 2006
About Affiliate Activation and Retention at ReveNews.com by Carsten Cumbrowski from December 2, 2007

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Affiliate Marketing - Handy Resources

Affiliate marketing is diverse and complex. Affiliate marketing has a lot of different facets. I created separate Resource Pages for individual aspects from Internet Marketing Basics and Web Development to Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. I also wrote some interesting Affiliate Marketing related articles you might want to look at as well.

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Legal Resources, Starting a Business, Trademarks

Legal resources regarding starting a business and trademarks can be found at my Internet Marketing Resource Page and Outsourcing and 3rd Party Resources Page. Most questions about reporting taxes (U.S. only) are covered here.

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Affiliate Marketing News Feed via RSS

Stay up-to-date about new developments in the internet and affiliate marketing world
It is very important and now also very easy to stay up to date on recent events and developments in affiliate and internet marketing. See current news here. You can subscribe to the news via Email or RSS.

Just sign up for my aggregated affiliate and internet marketing News (RSS Feed).

I have collected the most important sources of news and information about affiliate marketing and Internet marketing in general into a single and convenient RSS Feed so you don't have to go out and search for good sources and subscribe to dozens of individual feeds yourself. You can see the latest news in my RSS Feed here.

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Tradeshow and Industry Events Calendar

Attending an affiliate/Internet marketing tradeshow can be very rewarding for your general Internet marketing and affiliate marketing efforts. You will meet the "who's who" in the industry and gain new insight at the keynote sessions. Subscribe to the Cumbrowski.com Internet Marketing Events Calendar powered by Google Calendar.

Add the Calendar to your or use my Google Calendar Feeds .
To see which events I have currently listed check my List of Important Industry Events.

Are Affiliates Not Social? is the question of an article written by me in 2006. True? False? Learn more!

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Affiliate Marketing Glossaries

Affiliate Marketing Glossary of Terms provided by Affiliate Scout
Webopedia An online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.

... find more definitions and glossaries via Google definition search for "Affiliate Marketing"

See also
Internet Marketing Glossaries, SEM/Paid Search Glossaries and Search Engine Optimization Glossaries

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General Affiliate Marketing Resources and Blogs

ReveNews.com - Online Revenue News and Opinions. Blogs by Leaders in the Internet Marketing Industry.
Affiliate Tip - Affiliate Marketing Resource, News and Directory by Shawn Collins
5 Star Affiliate Programs - OPM , Blog, Forum, Resources (Linda Buquet AKA Catalyst).
AffiliatePrograms.com - Affiliate Directory, Articles and more
Affiliate Classroom Blog by Anik Singal and AC Students
AffiliateFairPlay.com Anti-AdWare and Spyware resources and blog by Kellie Stevens
Affiliate 2.0 - News, Podcasts, Articles
Daily Blog Tips by Daniel Scocco and the writers: Stephen Ward, Ryan Imel, Skellie Wag and Steven Snell.

Individual Affiliate Marketers and Bloggers

Cost Per News at CostPerNews.com, Internet Marketing Blog by Sam Harrelson
Affiliate Fortune Cookies - another blog by Sam Harrelson
Vinny Lingham Blog owner of Clicks2customers and incuBeta
Jangro.com Blog - Affiliate Marketing and SEO Blog by Scott Jangro.
AffiliateBlog.co.uk - UK Affiliate Marketing Blog and Podcast by Fraser Edwards
Shoemoney.com Blog and Forums by Jeremy Shoemaker from the WMR Show "NetIncome"
QuitYourDayJob.com Blog by the sucessful super affiliate and book author Jeremy Palmer
Terry's Blog at SuperAff.com - The Affiliate Marketing News Blog
Andy Beard Blog about Niche Marketing and Affiliate Marketing
Wayne Porter's Blog - The Post Human Experience - Wayne's Personal Blog
SeekingAlpha.com - Market Analysis by Jeff Molander
JimKukral.com the blog by internet marketer and entrepreneur Jim Kukral.
ThoughtShapers.com by Jeff Molander
Aojon.com - Mookjon's Super Affiliate Marketing Blog. A no BS approach to the art & business of aff. marketing
AffGo.com by Durk Price - Sticking Affiliates & Merchants Together
Rosalind Gardner's Blog at NetProfitsToday.com (Author: The Super Affiliate Handbook)
Top Affiliate Blog by Stephen Ralph of Pinnacle Industries
Jamdo.com Blog by Rob Wood (Affiliate)
Affiliate Warrior Blog by Affiliate Manager and Consultant Wade Tonkin
Affiliate Marketers Blog by Bobbie Grennier
Affiliate Program Advice - Blog by Jessica Luthi (United Kingdom)
Affiliate Marketing Recruiting Blog by Franklin Banker of BBL Internet Media LLC
Evolutionary IMarketing Success Blog by the Affiliate Marketers Lester & Jasmine
Affiliate Blogger by Bobbie Grennier - Affiliate News, Affiliate Help Tips and Affiliate Marketing Programs
Who Is Andre Wee? - Affiliate Marketing and Social Media Blog by Andre Wee. Who? Visit and find out :).
ExWebJunkie.com - Blog by James Little, UK Affiliate Manager and Affiliate Marketer
Chris Kramer's Blog - Personal Blog about Affiliate Marketing by Chris Kramer, NETexponent
EarnersBlog.com - Blog by the australlian marketer Stuart McKeown about PPC Marketing & Affiliate Marketing
HarpsOn.com Personal Blog by Mitchell "Harpz" Harper. Ideas and Tips to Increase Your Website Traffic.
FinalTag.com the Affiliate Marketing Blog by Pranav Chavda
Tyler Cruz Blog. The journal of a young web entrepreneur on his journey to wealth.
Bob Schmuck - Starting-ground and inspiration to become a successful Internet entrepreneur
ZacJohnson.com the blog by super affiliate Zac Johnson
SupperAffiliateMarketing.com Blog by Paul Schroader and Ryan Williams
Affiliate Watcher Blog by Don Lawson at AffiliateWatcher.com. News, Reviews and more.
eMomsAtHome.com by Wendy Piersall who quit her job to become a full time affiliate and blogger online.
Courtney Tuttle by Court ??? from Provo, Utah about internet marketing.
Entrepreneurs Journey a popular blog by entrepreneur Yaro Starak.
CPA-Affiliates.com - CPA Affiliate Marketing Blog and Info by David Adams.
Joel Comm's Blog - also called "Mr.Adsense", author of the NY Times Bestseller "The Adsense Code"
JenSense.com - The contextual Advertising Blog by Jennifer Slegg (SEW, WMR Show "Click This!")
WiseAff.com the affiliate blog by Adam Viener that provides affiliate marketing wisdom from the trenches.
MEMWG.com Blog by Eric Giguere (Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense) about Contextual Advertising
ProBlogger.net by full-time Blogger Darren Rowse. Helping Bloggers Earn Money
45n5.com - Affiliate Marketing, AdSense Blog by Mark Wielgus
The Rating Blog by Alan Johnson, author of The Online Business Handbook
Butler Project a blog by the internet entrepreneur Mark Butler.
Caroline Middlebrook's Blog by a mom and internet marketer.
Carl Ocab's Blog at Carlocab.com about affiliate marketing and making money online.
Blogstorm by Patrick Altoft, a blog from the United Kingdom about SEO, SEM and affiliate marketing.
SuperAffiliateMindset.com, the affiliate marketing blog by super affiliate Amit Mehta.
DerekBeau.com the blog by Derek Beau about making money through internet marketing and development.
GoogleLady.com the affiliate marketing blog by the lebanese marketer Hussam Abouzenny aka Google Lady.
Todd Talks, the blog by Todd Crawford, former VP sales of Commission Junction and then Digital River's OneNetwork.

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Affiliate Marketing Blogger Communities / Portals

BUMPzee! - Affiliate Marketing Community and Blogs. Like a Digg and MyBlogList for Affiliate Marketers.
BUMPzee! Bookmarklet, Google Toolbar Button and IE7 Search Provider
ReveNews.com - Internet Marketing News and Opinions Blogs
Affiliate-Guild.com Blog collective of affiliate bloggers

Affiliate Marketing Media Blogs

Revenue Magazine Blogs - The official Blog of Revenue Magazine- The Performance Marketing Standard Magazine maintained by Revenue Magazine Editor-In-Chief Lisa Picarille.
The Weekly Insight Blog - Podcast about Affiliate Marketing News and Gossip hosted by Jeff Molander
Affiliate Thing Blog - Marketing Podcast by Shawn Collins (AffiliateTip.com) and Lisa Picarille (Revenue Magazine)
DMConfidential Newsletter and Newsletter Archive. Affiliate newsletter archives provide affiliate program deals for the internet marketing industry. DM Confidential is your source for all your affiliate marketing needs, that you have come to rely on.
FeedFront Magazine Blog - FeedFront is the official magazine of the Affiliate Summit conference and expo, available in print and digital format.

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Aggregated Internet Marketing News

Affiliate Marketing Buzz - (beta) - Affiliate Marketing News Portal. All the Latest Affiliate Marketing News.
Affoogle.com - Google Custom Search Engine for Affiliate Marketing by Affiliate Classroom
Affiliateville.com - Adam Viener's - Filtered Affiliate News via Google Reader

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OPM (Outsourced Program Management) Company Blogs

Forge Corporation Blog - Affiliate Marketing Management and OPM Service Company Blog
Partner Centric Blog - PartnerCentric is a well known OPM Service Company. Affiliate News Blog as well as Announcements for their Merchants.
AMWSO Blog - Program Announcements and Affiliate Marketing News by AMWSO (Chris Sanderson)
PartnerPerform Blog by Michael Payne
PepperJam Blog by Kris Jones about Affiliate and Search Marketing
AffiliateNewsReview.com timely affiliate marketing industry information by Durk Price
InsureMe Affiliate Blog maintained by James Omdahl, Brittany Heidtke and Penny Hagerman
Paydayloan Affiliate Blog by JoeSinkwitz aka Cygnus
AffMgr.com, the blog by Danny Kautt. He is not a very active blogger though.
ConverseonAffiliates.com blog by Converseon for it's affiliates.

Merchant Affiliate Program Blogs

Blair.com Affiliates Blog by Chris Park, Affiliate Manager for the Blair.com Affiliate Program

Affiliate Network Blogs

ShareResults.com Blog - Canadian Affiliate Network Blog about Affiliate Marketing
ShareASale Blog - The Blog by the ShareASale Affiliate Network maintained by Brian Littleton the SAS Owner
OneNetwork (DR) Blog - Digital Rivers Affiliate Marketing Blog, focus on Merchants in DR's OneNetwork
Kowabunga Technologies Blog - Creators of MyAffiliateProgram and Kolimbo Affiliate Network
AvantShare Blog - Affiliate Network blog by AvantLink.com, the affiliate network with focus on datafeeds
Performics Blog - the offical Blog by the Performics Affiliate Network, a DoubleClick company
Firelead CPA Network Blog a Small upstart CPA Network from Pennsylvania by Peter Kleitsch and Partners

Affiliate Industry 3rd Party Vendors Blogs

PopShops.com Blog product widgets and feeds service to promote merchants with data feed. The PopShops blog is being maintained by Angel Djambazov.
DataFeedFile.com Blog, which is maintained by DFF founder Andrew Nurcahya. DataFeedFile.com provides easy access to data feed content to affiliates.

Much more News Sources, Resources and Blogs that are important not just for Affiliate Marketing, but Internet Marketing in general can be found at my Internet Marketing Resources Section.

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