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This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories (May 29, 2009)

news_may_29_09.jpg There’s an App for That
On the ReveNews website, Barry Silverstein said, “Apple’s iPhone applications are opening the door to hand-held computing in a big way.” Barry goes on to explain the positive impact Apple’s opening up the iPhone to developers has had.

Affiliate Link Redirecting and Cloaking
On his blog, Shawn Collins said, “Affiliates cloak their links for a variety of reasons, but I do it so my affiliate links will be short, so I can use then in text email newsletters, and some people don’t like clicking affiliate links.” Shawn discusses a free redirecting and cloaking program called .htaccess.

Simple Keyword Conversion Tracking
In this interesting article posted on the CDF Networks website, the writer said, “Tracking is essential to the success of any per click affiliate campaign.  In order to know what keywords are converting, you have to track down to the keyword level.  This used to be a fairly complex thing to set up, but now its very simple.” There are both free and paid options, and the writer outlines both.

UStream of PPC Classroom Live Now Available
Tennyson Rog, blogging on the Affiliate Classroom Blog from the PPC Classroom Live Event in Las Vegas, said, “for those of you who aren’t able to make it, don’t despair! If you are not joining us in person, we invite you to come back here and watch the presentations LIVE.” Cool! It’s still happening!

Report: Online Video Fastest-Growing Medium in the History of the World
Gavin O’Malley, writing on Online Media Daily, says, “online video is the fastest-growing media platform in history, according to a new report from social media research consultancy Trendstream and research firm Lightspeed.” Interesting article.

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2 Comments

  1. > a free redirecting and cloaking program called .htaccess

    Never heard it called *that* before…

  2. Good review, thanks so much for the tips.
    Another best affiliate program.