The race for the affiliate presidency 2008. We all know who we back (or don’t) for the USA presidency 2008, but here’s a look at who’s backing who in the affiliate world. Let’s start with the advertising networks, and firstly ShoppingAds (formerly known as AuctionAds). ShoppingAds is a part of online solutions company MediaWhiz Holding Inc.. Which in [...]

The History of Affiliate Programs, The question of where the first affiliate program was started is an interesting tale of deceit and murder, well maybe not the latter but you get my drift. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos claimed for many years that Amazon was the creator of the first Affiliate Program in 1996, but this is just a [...]

The history of Affiliate Networks is a messy and complicated business, with claims of this, lies of the other flying around all over the place. So let’s begin. The first real affiliate network was LinkShare, still going strong today, who created the concept and launched their affiliate network in 1996. Stephen Messer can take some of the [...]

The History of Affiliate Programs Directories, As history research goes, this is an easy one. It’s well documented that the now Internet.com (JupiterWeb) owned Refer-it was the first Affiliate program search engine that was launched in 1997. A few months later Allan Gardyne set up an affiliate directory AssociatePrograms, that’s still alive and going strong today. Another important [...]

I’ve been playing around various pagerank checking sites for the last 6 hours and found that pagerank is completely dead. Every site is showing a PR of 0, including Google itself. Now I’ve heard of PR being unreachable for maybe 1 or 2 hours in the past, mainly during updates. But 6 hours does seem like a [...]

The A4U Awards were held in the last couple of weeks, in the Fox ExCeL, London. here is an update of the awards that were given. A4U Awards - A4UExpo Merchant Awards - Publisher Choice of Merchant 2007: PrezzyBox Innovation in Affiliate Marketing: Merchant Award – Amazon Publishers Manager of 2007: Merchant Award – Zak Edwards from PrezzyBox Best New Merchant [...]

Ok the Shopping Affiliate Programs directory has been more or less completed, with over 150 shops and shopping affiliate programs listed which are split up into the 15 categories as follows - General Shops Affiliate Programs - 5 Programs Animal Shops Affiliate Programs - 3 Programs Bathroom Shops Affiliate Programs - 2 Programs Bedroom Shops Affiliate Programs - 12 [...]

After successful negotiations with advertisers in the previous weeks, we here at affiliate programs cash can confirm that over 1,000 extra programs will be added to the Affiliate Programs Cash main directory in the near future. Nearly every niche imaginable will be available for your affiliate program needs. These large additions will take approximately 4-6 [...]

This has been going on for a while I know, but the Valueclick Inc situation doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Valueclick (traded as VCLK - NASDAQ), the parent company of commission junction, has some trouble. Apart from shares falling 40% since may of 2007, failed takeover news, and having a Federal Trade Commission investigation [...]

I know a lot of bloggers around the world seem to think technorati is one of the top or if not the top blogging tool for exposure, but to me it seems like a mostly one sided affair. I’ve included a test for this new blog by including a technorati profile and will be tracking everything [...]