California’s Governor Jerry Brown, formerly known as Governor Moonbeam during previous term in office, signed a budget with a provision requiring Amazon.com and other online merchants to collect sales taxes if they use affiliate marketers to help drive traffic to their web sites. (more…)

If you are considering the opportunity to get into affiliate marketing, your choices may be limited in some states due to the drive to impose sales tax collection on online merchants who have no nexus in the state. That is pushing dozens of online merchants to cancel their relationships with affiliates in states that redefine their tax laws in order to force Amazon and other online merchants to charge sales taxes. (more…)

Amazon.com has one of the largest affiliate marketing programs on the web. Their wide selection of products makes them an attractive merchant to work with. While there are several scripts available that interact with Amazon’s XML database and provide real-time displays of products, pricing descriptions, user comments and images, it is hard to find a script that displays Amazon’s Top Ten Sellers. (more…)

This is a simple script for setting up redirects to affiliate merchant links without using a database. It can be added to any site that can run PHP code. (more…)

Affiliate marketing programs can be attractive for many web entrepreneurs, but success is not always as easy as it sounds. Here are some of the issues that you need to be aware of before you decide to get into affiliate marketing. (more…)

Setting up an affiliate marketing site can be a simple or a very complex venture, depending upon the goals you wish to meet. The scope of the pros and cons needs to be understood before you embark on a commit to a project. (more…)

If you have read the first two parts of this series and are ready to get started with affiliate marketing, we list the next steps for your project. (more…)

With respect to affiliate marketing, a data feed is an electronic transmission of product data from a merchant to an affiliate partner. The data is used to update a web site with current product information. In this article, we explain how a data feed works. (more…)