Comments on: Your Affiliate Manager-Friend or Foe??

By: Amit

Amit — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:38:22 +0000

Hi Doug,

Not yet, I’m still trying to convince Perry Marshall the affiliate marketing is a REAL business! He’s old school, he thinks that blogging is overrated.

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:35:37 +0000

Hi Paul,

My team is not using a content management system for the articles. If we have a blog on a site, we use WordPress.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:59:59 +0000

Amit, you have said that you try to get at least 10-15 pages of unique content on your affiliate sites. Can you please share what content management systems you use, if any?

thanks
paul

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:29:57 +0000

Hi Gert,

There’s no hard and fast way to detect dishonesty. It really comes with experience in the affiliate marketing industry. Once you’ve been playing this game long enough, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:54:16 +0000

Hi Amit,

I assume that you have your own affiliate programm(s) as well. Could you please spend a blogpost on how to set up your own aff progr. I am in a business where there are no aff progr yet and I am sure that it would work, but I have no idea where to start.

Thanks in advance

Richard

By: Miles Baker

Miles Baker — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:05:01 +0000

Hey Amit! Excellent post! As a part-time affiliate manager myself I find absolutely necessary and sometimes difficult to walk that fine line, on the one hand you are entrusted with a lot of confidential information, not only from affiliates, but also from the company itself. Then on the other hand it is your job to help affiliates increase their sales.

Personally, I respect the privacy and confidential information that my affiliates share with me, such as their websites, keywords, etc. I have had many affiliates give me full access to their Google campaigns to see if I could help them out. I think it’s fair to share certain common tactics such as general Adwords techniques, or various promotional tactics that many affiliates use, but there is a line when it comes to sharing someones keywords, telling others what their website is, specific advertising areas they are dominating in, etc.

I think it’s good to get to know your affiliate manager and to learn from them about the niche you are in, however there is never any need to share more information than you really need to with anyone, affiliate manager or not.

By: Tob

Tob — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:16:49 +0000

I usually use the subid/sub field to track my keywords in some matter. The networks all have their own internal SEM group and I don’t want these guys stealing my keywords, so I’m considering hashing my keywords

By: DerekBeau

DerekBeau — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:42:26 +0000

I am always concerned with this, so I don’t discuss any “secrets” with my affiliate managers. I have had many of them tell me that they never share anything with other affiliates, but yet they start telling me what others are doing.

By: Gert Joos

Gert Joos — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:06:26 +0000

Interesting post, didn’t know things like that happen. “inexperienced affiliates may fall for this bs”

Well, to be honest, I’m an not too experienced. Do you maybe have some tips or things you should look out for to be able to notice such dishonesty?

Thanks!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:06:27 +0000

You deserve your income from your ethics and stance on promoting it in others alone. Keep up the real marketing attitude.