Affiliate Marketing

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to the affiliate game or if you’re a seasoned super affiliate who’s been building, ranking and monetizing sites for years, you’re going to find value in this section of the Outspoken blog. This corner of the site is dedicated to everything affiliate and you’re going to want to keep checking back. Oh, and don’t worry, we won’t tell anyone about all the gems and nuggets secretly located here. We’ll just keep that between friends.

Tucked below you’ll find timeless resources and comprehensive guides designed to keep you educated and up-to-date on the top branding strategies specific to affiliate sites. We’ll show you how to build an affiliate brand, how to monetize the brand you’ve got, the ins and outs of creating a commission structure, how to evaluate affiliate programs and more. If you’re goal is to become (or remain) a top player in the affiliate marketing game, we’d encourage you to grab a stool a dig in. You may be here for awhile. You may even want to bookmark the page.

With well over a decade experience building and monetizing affiliate brands, no one is better qualified to give you the tools you need to succeed in today’s market than Outspoken Media.

And when you're done reading and you’re ready to act, contact us about our affiliate marketing consulting services. When it comes to the affiliate game, there's no one who can take your site and brand further than Outspoken Media.

Will the Townsfolk Bring Law and Order to the Digital West?

August 3, 2010
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In April of 2008, it came as quite a shock to the affiliate community when eBay filed a civil suit against Shawn Hogan, Brian Dunning and Todd Dunning – best known to the SEO community as the owners of the Digital Point forums. But, it was originally just a civil matter. No matter how scummy [...]

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Is Your Affiliate Datafeed Site Sinking in Mayday?

June 23, 2010
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The Google Mayday update caused quite a stir in the affiliate community. Why? Because it was said by webmasters to be, and was then later confirmed by Google to be, most heavily impacting long tail traffic. Many affiliate marketers running sites generated by affiliate datafeeds (that traditionally drew decent traffic from long tail searches) saw [...]

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5 things that make my affiliate life easier

August 13, 2009
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It’s not a secret that one of my companies publishes affiliate websites. We utilize what I consider an evolved method of building affiliate sites and monetizing them primarily via affiliate marketing. And creating evolved sites means trying to find evolved affiliate programs to work with so you can make the most money possible. If you’re [...]

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Profiting off Sponsored Conversations

July 27, 2009
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If you weren’t tied to the blogosphere this weekend, you may have missed two very interesting conversations taking place on two very different and reputable blogs. Brian Solis started a sensible conversation about full disclosure for sponsored tweets on TechCrunch, while Chris Brogan looked at brand relationships in his post Quid Pro No. The issues [...]

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Evolve or Die? Amazon.com Chooses To Die

July 7, 2009
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Over the past few years, big business has had to learn that you can’t bully people into doing what you want. The social Web has changed things and we can no longer force customers to come to us. We need to go where they are. To embrace that. To evolve with the times. And for [...]

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Are Affiliate Links Unethical Without Disclosure?

May 15, 2009
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Time to break out our ethic sticks! Jeremiah Owyang says that when it comes to affiliate links on Twitter it’s all about intent. To make sure you’re playing inside the lines of what’s “ethical” in social media, you need to exercise of strategy of disclosure, full transparency and yet even more disclosure. Over at Econsultancy, [...]

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