Topic: Optimizing Results
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
This is a really tough one and something a lot of affiliate marketers struggle with; should you use banners for affiliate marketing or text links? The answer is that it depends. Both methods of promoting affiliate offers can bring sales and both have their benefits over the other. Using Banners In
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
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
As ThirstyAffiliates has progressed over the last year we’re moving more into being a mature product and can focus on creating new features for our already existing awesome users. This bolstering on features just means that ThirstyAffiliates is getting better and better. As 2012 draws to a close, we are