Resources

Affiliate marketing can be hard to get your head around. We’ve compiled the resources below to help both merchants and affiliates be more successful. We know this isn’t a comprehensive list, so if you would like a resource added, just email us!

Tools

AffMeter.com (http://affmeter NULL.com/):  Affmeter is an easy, secure, and reliable way to gather your affiliate revenue statistics from all of your Affiliate Networks and Google Adwords PPC costs data into one place.

Affiliate Forums

AbestWeb.com (http://AbestWeb NULL.com)
Affspot.com
5staraffiliateprograms.com

WordPress Related

WordPress Quick Install (http://codex NULL.wordpress NULL.org/Installing_WordPress)
CSV 2 Post Datafeed Plugin (http://blog NULL.affiliatetip NULL.com/csv2post)
Easy CSV Importer (http://blog NULL.affiliatetip NULL.com/csv2post)
Datafeedr (http://www NULL.datafeedr NULL.com/)
CSVPig (http://blogpig NULL.com/csvpig-wordpress-csv-importer)
Affiliate Link Encoder from AvantLink (http://www NULL.avantshare NULL.com/blog/2008/01/25/installing-the-affiliate-link-encoder-on-a-wordpress-blog/)
Commission Junction Product Search (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/commission-junction-product-search/)
Clickbank Widget (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/clickbank-widget/)
LinkShare RSS DealFeed (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/linksharerss-ads/)
LinkShare AdMix (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/linkshare-admix/)
PopShops Affiliate Store Plugin (http://www NULL.popshops NULL.com/faq/wordpress)
DataFeedFile.com Featured Product Plugin (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/datafeedfile-featured-product/)
Skimlinks Affiliate Marketing Tool (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/skimlinks/)
123Linkit Affiliate Marketing Tool (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/123linkit-affiliate-marketing-tool/)
Pretty Link (http://blairwilliams NULL.com/pretty-link/)
Affiliate Link (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/affiliate-link1/)
Ad Squares Widget (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/ad-squares-widget/)
WP125 (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/wp125/)
Amazon Autoposter (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-autoposter/)
Amazon Product In a Post Plugin (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-product-in-a-post-plugin/)
Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-affiliate-link-localizer/)
Amazon Store (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-store/)
Amazon Post Purchase (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-post-purchase/)
Amazon Product Link Widget (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/amazon-product-link-widget/)
Scripts4YourSite (http://www NULL.scripts4yoursite NULL.com/) builds dynamic pages on your server. Once the databases are built by the software the first time, you can set up your server to automatically retrieve future datafeeds at set times from the merchant and have your database automatically updated.
ezDataFeed (http://www NULL.ezdatafeed NULL.com/index NULL.php) offers free datafeeds from several merchants outside the networks in an easy to download process without cost to the affiliate.
WebMerge from www.FourthWorld.com – builds static pages on your computer and then you upload them to your server and into your own custom site template.

Datafeeds

PopShops (http://www NULL.popshops NULL.com)
DatafeedFile (http://datafeedfile NULL.com)
GoldenCan (http://goldencan NULL.com)
FeedShare (http://feedshare NULL.com)
Datafeedr (http://www NULL.datafeedr NULL.com/)

Affiliate Blogs (by affiliates)

Logan Thompson (http://www NULL.loganthompson NULL.me/)
Affbook.com (http://www NULL.affbook NULL.com)
Both Sides of The Tracks (http://geekcast NULL.fm/archives/category/both-sides-of-the-tracks/)
James Martell (http://jamesmartell NULL.com/)
Zach Johnson (http://zacjohnson NULL.com/)
John Chow (http://johnchow NULL.com/)
What Joe Thinks (http://whatdoesjoethink NULL.com/)
Geno’s Marketing Blog (http://www NULL.amnavigator NULL.com/blog/)
I Work in my Pajamas (http://www NULL.workinmypajamas NULL.com/)
Jason Rubacky (http://jasonrubacky NULL.com/)
Missy Ward (http://www NULL.missyward NULL.com/)
Modern Dissent (http://www NULL.moderndissent NULL.com/)
Stephanie Lichtenstein (http://stephanielichtenstein NULL.com/)
Blogging Tips (http://www NULL.bloggingtips NULL.com/)
Cumbrowski.com (http://www NULL.cumbrowski NULL.com/)
SugarRae (http://www NULL.sugarrae NULL.com/)
Affbook (http://affbook NULL.com)
TheChrista.com (http://www NULL.thechrista NULL.com/)

Affiliate Manager blogs

Matt McWilliams – Legacy Learning (http://www NULL.legacyaffiliateblog NULL.com)

Networks

Commission Junction (http://cj NULL.com)
Linkshare (http://linkshare NULL.com)
Google Affiliate Network (http://googleaffiliatenetwork NULL.com)
AvantLink (http://avantlink NULL.com)
LinkTrust (http://linktrust NULL.com)
Impact Radius (http://impactradius NULL.com)
MyAffiliateProgram (http://www NULL.myaffiliateprogram NULL.com/)
Directtrack (http://directtrack NULL.com)

Affiliate Software

ShareResults
DirectTrack
LinkTrust (http://linktrust NULL.com)
iDev Affliate
Post Affiliate Pro
LinkConnector

Podcasts

Both Sides of the Tracks
Affiliate Thing
Webmaster Radio

Industry Blogs

AffiliateTip.com
Revenews.com (http://AffiliateTip NULL.com)
Murry Newland (http://www NULL.murraynewlands NULL.com)
Get Elastic (http://www NULL.getelastic NULL.com/)

Industry News

Misc Vendors

Help Centers

Twitter Lists

Online Retailer News

http://www.internetretailer.com/ (http://www NULL.internetretailer NULL.com/)
http://www.b2bm.biz (http://www NULL.b2bm NULL.biz)
http://www.myretailer.ca/ (http://www NULL.myretailer NULL.ca/)
http://retailminded.com/blog/ (http://www NULL.myretailer NULL.ca/)
http://www.retailsherpa.org/ (http://www NULL.retailsherpa NULL.org/)
http://www.retailerdaily.com/ (http://www NULL.retailsherpa NULL.org/)
http://www.getelastic.com/ (http://www NULL.retailsherpa NULL.org/)
http://www.chainstoreage.com/ (http://www NULL.chainstoreage NULL.com/)
http://retailindustry.about.com/ (http://retailindustry NULL.about NULL.com/)
http://www.retail-week.com/ (http://www NULL.retail-week NULL.com/)
http://multichannelmerchant.com/ (http://multichannelmerchant NULL.com/)