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Here are a few definitions that may help you better understand Affiliate Marketing from kwatc

• Merchant - A merchant is a person or a company that markets their products and services on the web. Your merchant is the person/company whose program you joined.
• Affiliate - An Affiliate is a person or a company that assists the merchant in marketing products and services in return for a commission. This is you!
• Merchant-Affiliate Relationship - In the Merchant-Affiliate relationship, the Affiliate acts as an independent "salesperson" who promotes the merchants products and services. The merchant tracks the incoming visitors to determine which Affiliate sent them the sale - if any. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some useful links and resources for blogging

Create A Blog

Bloglines - a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install.

Blogger - one of the biggest blog platforms recently bought by Google. Easy to use and you don’t need any HTML experience.

TypePad - You can publish anything instantly. Be the sole author, or share a weblog with friends, family, or colleagues. Post your vacation photos, comment on the news, keep a private journal. How you use TypePad is up to you.

Movable Type - the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses , organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.

WordPress - a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

Below are some useful links and resources for SEO

News & Articles

Search Engine Watch.com - the premier search engine news site edited by Danny Sullivan.

Search Engine Guide.com - loads of search engine related articles, news and reviews.

Search Engine Blog.com - regularly updated site giving you only what you absolutely need. Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Ellis of KBATC has written an article about 10 Ways For Affiliates To Generate Content here are some important tips from the article

The hardest job for quality affiliates is not designing the site, putting it together, choosing merchants nor deciding what subject or niche to work in - it’s generating the actual content that will make a website interesting and encourage visitors to come back.

A website without any original content is boring. It’s easy to build a site and then fill it with banners, standard datafeeds and the odd site map and feedback form, but where’s the real quality? What is that site offering that a million other sites aren’t offering too? Read the rest of this entry »