Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for November 2005. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/

Topics in this issue:

1. Affiliate Summit 2006 News
2. What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
3. Affiliate Marketing 2.0
4. Affiliate Program News
5. How to Use Links To Maximize Google PageRank
6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - October 2005

1. Affiliate Summit 2006 News
The registrations and booths for Affiliate Summit 2006 are selling fast. We've already got more attendees signed on than we ever had before.

Plus, we are increasing the number of booths from 15 to 75. See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/Exhibitor_List.pdf for the current list of companies that will have booths at Affiliate Summit 2006.

Also, lots of people have been asking about who will be there and how they can set up meetings with other attendees.

Everybody that registers for a full conference pass to Affiliate Summit 2006 will be entitled to log in at the NetworkingMatch site, create a profile, and then select who they want to meet at the conference.

We will arrange a series of one-on-one meetings with those people at Affiliate Summit 2006. And you can use the contact info to set up your own meetings outside of the speed networking session.

Set up your profile at http://networkingmatch.com/AffiliateSummit/

Check out the list of speakers and the agenda for Affiliate Summit 2006.

2. What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
In the past, articles have frequently asked CEOs and CMOs what the future holds for affiliate marketing. These have pretty much been the sole voices of the future.

I'd like to hear some different voices - how about the opinions of the people in the trenches of affiliate marketing? What do you think is going to happen in the future for affiliate marketing?

There are no right or wrong answers - just your unique opinions. The author of any response that is published at affiliatetip.com or affiliatesummit.com will receive their choice of one of the following:

• Size: small 'It's an affiliate thing, you wouldn't understand.' t-shirt
• Size: medium 'It's an affiliate thing, you wouldn't understand.' t-shirt
• Size: large 'It's an affiliate thing, you wouldn't understand.' t-shirt
• Affiliate Summit coffee mug
• Affiliate Summit optical mouse for a notebook computer

Submit your opinions about the future of affiliate marketing at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=281531467120

3. Affiliate Marketing 2.0
The genesis of mainstream affiliate marketing was the CDnow buyweb program back in 1994, by most accounts. Back then, CDnow was focused on "looking for small sites to link to (them)," according to The CDnow Story.

What a difference a decade makes. In those early days of affiliate marketing, it was a simpler channel, or perhaps more difficult, depending on how you look at it.

There was less technology, less affiliates and less competition to recruit them.

Complete article at http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/7308.asp

4. Affiliate Program News
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Money Mechanic is a dynamic Affiliate program that's currency specific! Reports are sophisticated and robust offering affiliates better insight into their target market and revenue. A live forum encourages open communication between partners. Money Mechanic Online Marketing news will aid any experienced or novice affiliate. Money Mechanic - Building Partners!

New Payless.com Affiliate Coupon Code
Get 10% off with any purchase of $40 or more! A special affiliate coupon offer. Use code PSS10OFF40. Coupon expires 11/1/05. If you'd like to be sure you always feature the current coupon code from Payless.com, get an account at http://www.couponfeeder.com/

Start Earning Money as a Real Affiliate
The Real Affiliate Program has the best products: Rhapsody - the #1 digital music service, SuperPass and GamePass. The best payouts: $12+ lead, plus performance incentives. And the best tools with a dedicated affiliate team to help you succeed.

5. How to Use Links To Maximize Google PageRank
Anik Singal has written an interesting article on proven strategies that can help affiliates improve their position on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

He covers eight tips for maximizing PageRank through proper link tactics based on his own observations and analysis, discussions with experts from all over the world, and plain old trial and error.

The article also has some advice on staying out of the Google sandbox, the status of sites that are not being indexed in Google for whatever reason.

You can read Anik's article at http://affiliatetip.com/news/article00368.php

Also, the November issue of Anik's Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out.

The latest issue includes features by Brad Callen, Rosalind Gardner, and more. If you haven't seen Affiliate Classroom Magazine, you should definitely check it out. It comes out monthly and it's available for free.

6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - October 2005
Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for October 2005 as tracked by the AffiliateTip.com Affiliate Program Directory.

The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received on AffiliateTip.com.

1. oneNetwork
2. InstrumentPro
3. MPORT
4. Diet.com
5. Payless ShoeSource
6. Hilton
7. eHealthInsurance
8. AllPosters.com
9. CPAEmpire.com
10. Hydra Network

Disclaimer: While we attempt to include only legitimate programs in this directory, no warranties are made. Please research each company carefully to arrive at your own conclusions. If you experience difficulties with any of the programs listed, contact us, so that we may investigate them.

As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

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Take care,
Shawn Collins

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