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A look at Affiliate Marketing in 2016

January 26, 2016 by Raymond Hackney

Many domain investors have dabbled with affiliate programs in their domaining career as a way to make some money with a mini site or blog. I have to say I have not done much with affiliate programs over the last couple years except for some Uniregistry stuff.

It seems now that some larger publishers like Gawker Media are focusing more on affiliate programs as ad blocking grows and Adsense seems to be paying out less. There is an excellent article on what affiliate marketing looks like in 2016 written by Rae Hoffman on Marketing Land.

If you have been doing affiliate marketing or thinking about starting the article is well worth the read, Rae really knows her stuff and has been doing it for a long time.

From the article:

As affiliate marketing emerges as a viable native advertising alternative for traditionally display-funded larger publishers, the competition in obtaining affiliate sales will increase. The challengers for affiliate marketing revenue will be stronger in terms of technology and resources.

The bar for what kind of sales volume allows you to negotiate higher commissions from merchants will likely be raised.

But amid the cons, we also stand to see some positive effects on the industry. The adoption of affiliate marketing by larger publishers could help increase the level of acceptance of affiliate monetization models by users as encountering affiliate disclaimers becomes a more regular occurrence.

Larger publishers with more substantial budgets also are positioned to be able to promote innovations that smaller publishers can replicate.

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Filed Under: Affiliate Programs

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Howie says

    January 26, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    As soon as the article cited The Wall St. Journal, I stopped reading…

    • Get a clue says

      January 26, 2016 at 4:36 pm

      The article was excellent Sugarrae knows more about affiliate marketing then you or anyone in the name huckster business.

    • Rae Hoffman says

      February 24, 2016 at 8:42 am

      If you had kept reading, you’d have seen I have multiple examples of why their article was inaccurate for the most part due to underestimations and an obvious lack of real world experience with affiliate marketing.

  2. Roger says

    January 26, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    I loved the pseudo intellectuals criticizing the Wall Street Journal, but if that is what someone took from that article then all you can say is WOW !

  3. Brian Beechler says

    April 5, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    This might help me on my affiliate marketing journey. I have a lot of visitors but my conversion is way too low. Thanks for sharing.

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