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Affiliate Marketing Vs. Google AdSense

It is a known fact that affiliate marketing and Google AdSense are both related to internet marketing or to those bloggers who are looking for ways to make money online. While both are important, there are a few things that you need to know about them and why they are different in terms of monetizing…

13 Handy Tools For Affiliate Marketers

Affiliate marketing is defined as a small business sales system that many online marketers are engaged in with the use of email, web pages, search engine results as well as other methods that help direct traffic into another website in order to make sales. Since there are no physical stores, tracking these methods with the…

8 Myths Of Affiliate Marketing

You might have heard stories about affiliate marketing like it’s taken from a horror movie but the things you have heard are just what they are, stories. But just like stories, there are always two sides to it. The truth is affiliate marketing can be challenging but the myths surrounding it are not entirely true.…

Why It Works: The Math Behind Affiliate Marketing

People can make affiliate marketing sound like rocket science, which is one reason many would-be affiliate marketers never even give it a try. They mistakenly think it’s only for the internet-marketing savvy sort. This is unfortunate, because affiliate marketing really isn’t that hard. With even just basic knowledge of how it works, you can get…

ThirstyAffiliates Geolocations now supports MaxMind and IP2Location databases

If you haven’t seen our Geolocations add-on for ThirstyAffiliates you’re missing out on a big opportunity to increase the conversions of your affiliate links. The way it works is by checking the visitor’s IP address and determining their location from that. You can target just about any country on earth with it. Click here for…

How To Host An Affiliate Banner On Your Site And Insert With ThirstyAffiliates

Quite often affiliate programs give you a banner image to drop onto your site. The code usually looks something like this: <a href=”https://thirstyaffiliates.com?aff=12345“><img src=”http://example.com/link-to-the-image-on-their-server.jpg” /></a> So what happens when you want to download the image and host it on your website so you can serve the image wrapped in your ThirstyAffiliates affiliate link code? Here’s…

Using Software To Control Your Affiliate Links

When you first start out in affiliate marketing it’s a fairly basic process. Step one is finding a product you’d like to promote. This is easy enough, many people find something they want to promote on networks like Amazon or Clickbank. The second step is setting up their affiliate account, getting approval and finally getting…

What Is Best For Affiliate Marketing: Banners Or Text Links

Text links or banners? Understand the benefits of each and determine the best approach for your marketing efforts.

New Feature: Include link categories in your affiliate link slugs

One of the most requested features we’ve had over 2012 was to include link categories in affiliate link slugs. In 2.1 we delivered on this feature introducing the option to add the slug from your link categories to the url of your affiliate link. This means you can truly categorize your affiliate links in a…

New Feature: Automatically strip useless words from ThirstyAffiliates link slugs

In ThirstyAffiliates 2.1.1 we quietly rolled out another great feature that optimizes your cloaked affiliate link URLs. The feature automatically strips superfluous words from your affiliate link slugs when you first create the affiliate link. This means you can copy and paste your full affliate product title which can sometimes be quite long like “A…