Affiliate Network:

An intermediary between an affiliate and merchant.  For merchants, it offers tracking technology, reporting tools, payment processing and access to affiliates.  For affiliates, it offers a one-click application to merchants, reporting tools and payment aggregation.

The big networks out there are Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Pepperjam.  Most affiliates are members of more than one network [...]

Well, while I’d intended to recap each day… that didn’t exactly happen as you can tell.  I do intend to post the notes I took from the sessions and the impressions to help everyone learn the great stuff I learned.  Some of the more hot button sessions can’t be covered in mere bullet points, so [...]

Any member of Linkshare has access to this info, but I thought I’d share anyway.  They’re coming out with an interesting new contextual link - Easy Links.
To help accomplish this goal LinkShare now offers advertisers and publishers Easy Links, contextual product ads using intelligent link technology. Easy Links will determine the context of your site [...]

Surprisingly enough, this week is flying by for me.  It seems like a slow summer week, but at the same time I’ve been awfully busy with some new projects at work and some thoughts circling in my head about a new website I may tackle soon.  The idea is all there, but I have to [...]

Cost per Sale (CPS):

The term for advertising in which the advertiser pays only for those clicks where the user clicks through on the banner or ad and actually purchases a product on the advertiser’s site.

This is the model that most retail businesses use in their affiliate programs.  Traditionally, LinkShare has been the network most associated [...]