TopSeos.com, an independent Digital Agency review website, has ranked Experience Advertising the #1 ranked affiliate marketing company for the 5th month in a row. Experience Advertising, focuses on managing and growing affiliate programs for both large and small Advertisers primarily on the Commission Junction affiliate network, as well as Shareasale and the Google affiliate network. They are an OPM, or outsourced program managers, for dozens of Advertisers on the CJ.com network. Experience Advertising manages cost-per-sale and cost-per-lead campaigns on behalf of their clients, focusing on one-on-one affiliate management to gain the most affiliate participation possible. They specialize in recruiting affiliates into their affiliate programs through proven affiliate recruitment methods such as: cross-recruiting, site contacting, and email-based invites sent through the affiliate network. If you are looking for the best performing affiliate program management company, then you should definitely check out Experience Advertising, you can view a list of their current affiliate programs under management here.

Commission Junction, or CJ, is the largest of the major affiliate networks out there. If you are looking to launch a new affiliate program on CJ, or currently have one, it’s imperative that you have good affiliate managers in place. Merely having a program live on CJ is not enough to guarantee your affiliate program will perform like it should. You need excellent affiliate management in place to work with the affiliates and make sure their every need is taken care of. Proactive affiliate management is the best way to increase the affiliate participation level in the program, and therefore the revenue it produces. Having knowledgeable affiliate management help to increase sales because more affiliates have a chance of producing, once worked with. Make sure to have really good affiliate management in place when you run a CJ program to ensure your affiliate program will reach its fullest potential!

Looking for some great examples for affiliate program banners? You should check out the animated gif and Flash banner designs from Experience Advertising. Having great affiliate banners is a must for ecommerce companies looking achieve a high click-thru rate for their affiliates. These are some really great designs, so check them out!

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Just in time for the holidays, this service allows you to send ad-free
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Their affiliate program is available through the CJ affiliate network: https://signup.cj.com/member/brandedPublisherSignUp.do?air_refmerchantid=2838046

Thank you,
Evan

Experience Advertising has been ranked the #1 affiliate marketing company by topseos.com, an independent online marketing review website. Experience Advertising is an outsourced affiliate management agency or OPM focused on growing affiliate programs for Advertisers on the major affiliate affiliate networks. Experience Advertising manages both large and small Advertiser’s affiliate programs primarily on the Commission Junction affiliate network, but also manages programs on Linkshare, Shareasale, and Google Affiliate Network.

Experience Advertising uses personalized affiliate management techniques to connect with their affiliates to increase production. They also have a philosophy of actually doing the work for the affiliates, such as composing original content and helping launch niche sites and blogs free of charge. If you are interested in growing your affiliate program to it’s fullest potential you should definitely check out Experience Advertising.

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Running an affiliate marketing program for your ecommerce or lead generation website is one of the best ways to increase both your traffic and sales dramatically. Your affiliate program should grow consistenly over time and be part of your overall long-term online marketing strategy. There are a few ways to handle management of your affiliate program, i.e. inhouse management, outsourced affiliate management or no management at all. Of course, having dedicated affiliate managers is the best way to make certain that your affiliates will be well taken care of. However, it’s improtant that you have very competent, proactive people managing your affiliates on a day-to-day basis. Simply approving affiliates and sending a monthly newsletter is not enough to make sure your affiliate program grows to it’s fullest potential. Affiliates need plenty of attention, training and resources to help them do their thing.

Experience Advertising is a leading affiliate management agency or OPM (outsourced program managers). They have several large corporations onboard as cleints and several smaller companies using their services. They manage almost exclusively on the Commission Junction affiliate network. Experience Advertising is run by people that have been in the affiliate marketing space since 2001 and online marketing since 1998. They have an excellent suite of free affiliate tools. They also provide keyword research and unique content to their affiliates free of charge. If you are looking for a really good, affordable affiliate management company then Experience Advertising is the company for you.

Make sure to hire a company that has years of experience and free tools for your affiliates, to give them the best chance at succeeding with your affiliate program. Once you have a robust, gorwing affiliate channel you are on your way to increased traffic and revenue on a performance-basis. Affiliate marketing should definitely be part of your online marketing strategy.

Linkshare UK looks like they are doing some really informative stuff to try to help Advertisers get more savvy about facilitating and motivating their affiliates. They are running some live webinars and have some recorded webinars you can check out. They have been good in the past so there is no reason the next one focusing on “How to Run A Publisher-Friendly Program” shoudn’t be quite good. Should be interesting at the very least! I find the Brits to be very advanced with affiliate marketing techniques and management, probably due to the small, focused region everyone operates in. While here in the U.S. everyone is all spread out and most of the networking is done via email, chat and phone. In a smaller region you can really meet up in person and get more accomplished.

There are so many possible ways of driving traffic to your website, it’s hard to know where to focus first. This article will attempt to explain some of the best ways to drive traffic to your company’s website, including: organic search (SEO), pay-per-click search advertising, affiliate marketing, and database re-marketing. All of these methods are effective and must be done properly and with gusto. These concepts are in no particular order, but equally important to your overall Internet marketing mix.

Organic traffic or SEO is as old as the the Internet itself. I remember formatting the meta-tags on my web pages 10 years ago! Guess what…good, complete meta-tags still matter to your organic rankings, so make sure they are completely filled out on EVERY page of your site. There are basically 2 main aspects of organic optimization you need to focus on initially: meta-tags and on-page content. Like I said, every page of your site should have complete, unique meta-titles, meta-descriptions, and meta-keywords filled in. On-page content also has a huge amount of importance for gaining search rankings. I have sites that ranking organically just off the content on each page alone. If you are able to expand you content on certain pages like your category pages and product descriptions, you can potentially gain more search traffic off those pages, maximizing what you are currently doing with your site.

Pay-per-click search marketing is probably one of the most necessary, yet misunderstood types of campaigns you can run. All companies, in my opinion, should be running a good amount of PPC search in order to drive targetted traffic to their sites. Whether you handle this internally or outsource it, you should keep a very close eye on the performance and management of your PPC accounts with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Your PPC accounts should be ever growing, as you test different groups of keywords to see what converts and what doesn’t. What converts you run with and what doesn’t you eliminate. The goal should be to attain the best ROI possible. Of course, your landng page should be as good as it can be to best convert the traffic into sales or leads.

Affiliate marketing is my favorite topic and where you should be focusing a great amount of resources and money. A well-managed affiliate program should always be growing in the number of participants and active producers. Many companies launch affiliate programs and just expect them to grow on their own. This will occur to a certain degree, but plataeu quickly without good affiliate management and a good affiliate growth strategy. Companies should be trying their best to make it as lucrative as possible for affiliates in order to get the most production possible. Again, having a good converting website is key to ensuring your affiliate traffic will convert and produce commissions for your affiliates. Affiliates should be treated with the utmost respect and given as many tools to become success as possible. At all times, affiliates should be worked with and motivated to produce more revenue, as well as new affiliates should be recruited into the program to grow the number of participants. If either of these 2 things aren’t going on, you are not maximizing the growth of your affiliate channel.

Re-marketing to your database is one of the most powerful ways to generate revenue for your company. You can send promotions, deals, and coupons to motivate your database to purchase for the first time or re-purchase more products. Re-marketing to your database at the right interval and with the right message is essential to getting a good response. Subject line is everything! Getting people to open your email promotions is key to getting them to act, so make sure to make your subject lines compelling. Email content is also improtant to getting your database members to move into action.

Once you have a good strategy in place for all of these traffic driving methods you are ready to make it happen! Make sure to have the right people or companies handling these tasks for you, as they are extremely important. Don’t assign a new employee to manage your PPC or affiliates, you will suffer the consequences or just not grow like you should. I hope this mini-article was an enjoyable read. I couldn’t mention everything, but you get the jist. If you would like to have a conversation about these concepts make sure to email us or leave your comment below! Now get out there and drive some traffic!

One of the biggest impediments to newer affiliates getting into the affiliate game is their lack of ability to get a niche website online fast and easy. Most savvy affiliates already know how to get a site online and start publishing articles and content. However, most newbie affiliates have a harder time setting up their site, adding the affiliate banners and adding pages of content to their sites. Often times, affiliates will turn to site builders that are hard to use and cumbersome. Enter the free affiliate site builder, a tool created to help both novice and experienced affiliates to set-up a new, niche affiliate website for their favorite merchant quickly and easily. The tool was developed by Experience Advertising a leading affiliate program management agency.

The free affiliate website builder leverages the Word Press platform to enable affiliates to erect a new site under a minute. As far as I know it’s the fastest website builder on the planet. You can build either a subdomain site or build a site on your own domain name. In its beta-version release, the affiliate site builder has constructed over 700 sites over last few months. Currently, the site builder tool is only available for affiliate programs managed by Experience Advertising via the Commission Junction affiliate network, but soon will be able to be used for general website building purposes. The cool thing about the affiliate site builder is that it automatically adds the affiliate banners and affiliate’s PID into the site’s layout. So when the site is done the affiliate just has to log into their Word Press back-end and started adding content and articles. What could be easier?

Initial feedback has been tremendous and soon the site builder will be adding additional features to further enable affiliates to produce and syndicate their content quicker and easier. Let me know what you think about the free affiliate site builder tool. Oh did I mention we are hosting all the affiliate’s sites for free forever? Let me know if you have any suggestions to make the tool even better, I look forward to hearing from you all!

Affiliate marketing is one of the most exciting and thriving channels in online marketing. Building up an army of motivated webmasters, search engine marketers, and large web portals is a tremendous way to increase your company’s traffic and revenue. Just how large and productive a merchant’s affiliate program can become is based on numerous factors. Some of the factors influencing your affiliate program and it’s potential are:

- Who is managing your affiliate program
- How they are managing your affiliate program - i.e. techniques, methods, strategies
- What is being done to grow your affiliate program
- What is being done to motivate your current affiliate base
- How well your website converts traffic into sales or leads
- How well you compensate your affiliates for the revenue they produce
- how much search volume there is for your “core keyword terms”

Who is managing you affiliate program is very important to getting the most out of your affiliates. You can hire internally, promote from within, or hire an outsourced affiliate management agency. Each approach can be effective if the right procedures and practices are put into place to ensure that your affiliate managers are assisting, training, and providing valuable resources to your affiliates on a regular basis. A real effort to get to know your affiliates and have quality interactions with affiliates is a must. Affiliates should be treated as well as possible, listened to, and rewarded for their efforts.

There are many different affiliate management techniques that can be used by affiliate managers to work with the affiliate base. Response time is everything and all affiliates should be treated like they are super-affiliates or potential super-affiliates. Every super-affiliate was once a newbie to the game, so working with all affiliates to the utmost is key.

When it comes to growing your affiliate program, there are a few bone-fide ways this can be accomplished. Recruiting affiliates from within the major affiliate network you are part of is a great way build your affiliate sign-ups. Each affiliate network has their own emailing system so you have to leverage whichever one you have access to. If handled well, sending recruiting emails to affiliates, of a particular category you would like to work with, is a tremendous way to build your program. Another effective strategy to building your affiliate program is to contact websites in your niche and ask them if they would like to join your program. This has to be done tastefully to get a response, otherwise you will be bothering busy people. Another way to grow your affiliate program is to advertise in Google, Yahoo, and MSN under affiliate program related keyword phrases. This can bring in a lot of novice affiliate marketers hungry for knowledge and direction, you have to be prepared to work with them either through email or phone to get them producing and make it worth the spend.

Coming up with creative and effective ways to motivate your affiliate base should always be emphasized by your affiliate managers. Setting up performance incentives, running creative contests, and giving bonuses to affiliates for doing a great job are great ways to gain happy affiliates. Don’t be cheap when you do motivational promotions, it’s money well spent.

Focusing on your website’s conversion rate is a must for having a great performing affiliate program. If your website converts well, you affiliate traffic will convert well and its a win - win situation. You should always place emphasis internally on improving how well your site converts in order to gain a better ROI for all your online marketing campaigns. Doing smart things like making your site “stickier”, working on homepage load time, and running multivariate testing on your landing pages are great ways to work on increasing your website’s conversion rate.

Every company has a different business model, different margins, and other factors that determine what can be paid out to affiliates per sale or per lead. Affiliates are definitely interested in making a great commission with your company. Money motivates, so be generous with your affiliate compensation amounts. You can also reward affiliates that produce volume of sales or leads with higher commission levels. Making your affiliate program as lucrative as possible for your affiliates will translate into more productive affiliates over the long-term. Affiliate payouts can also be determined by how many other companies are in the space with affiliate programs. Supply and demand can elevate affiliate payouts in order to woo affiliates to their program.

How popular your products or services are will also determine how much overall traffic your affiliate program can drive. Affiliate marketing and search engine traffic go largely hand in hand, so educating your affiliates on which keyword phrases convert well for your website can give them a head-start in promoting your program. Helping affiliates maximize both organic search and paid search (PPC) is a great way to leverage the search engines and all the searching going on.

Affiliate marketing when done properly and with extremely proactive affiliate management can far exceed what you could have hoped for from your affiliate program. Affiliate marketing is still growing by leaps and bound every year with no slow-down in site. Growing your affiliate program should always be a primary focus of your company, it just depends on how fast or slow you want to do it. I hope you enjoyed this little article on affiliate management. I’d love to know your feedback!