AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:
Snowboard Connection
Snowboard Connection is a full-service snowboard, skateboard, and online surf shop. Promote the world’s top outdoor brands to a massive online snow, skate, and surf community of customers! Based in Seattle, Snowboard Connection pays 8% per sale, with a 120-day cookie. They have a dedicated program manager with Courtney [...]

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:
NRS
Incredible opportunity to promote the best kayaking gear, rafting supplies and boating equipment with NRS. Affiliates with outdoor related sites and/or traffic should jump on this! As an exclusive AvantLink merchant, you know your NRS traffic will be safe and secure. This programs offers very competitive compensation with a 10% [...]

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:

KOA Coffee

Promote premium 100% Kona fresh coffee products that are grown, processed, roasted, labeled and shipped directly from the KOA Coffee plantation on the Kona Belt in Hawaii! We’re very excited to announce this exciting opportunity for Affiliates to market to nearly half (49%) of all American adults who drink [...]

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:

SylvanSport

This is an exciting new addition to our Outdoor/Recreation category. Since 2004 SylvanSport has been enlivening the spirit of outdoor adventure through the creation of the Award winning GO, their action-adventure camping trailer that enables people to carry bikes, kayaks, surfboards, ATVs and just about anything for fun or utility! [...]

Recently Scott took care of a minor issue (for some Affiliates, anyway) with the xhtml encoding in our tracking code by offering a “URLs Only (No Html)” integration option for links. Here is the response we received from Christian at CouponCraze.com, when Scott notified him of the new functionality:

Thanks for the heads up. As usual [...]

There are a lot of discussions these days centered around unscrupulous Affiliates using pay per click (PPC) search marketing to drive traffic via searches for merchant names, their domain names and/or any trademarks they might own. Common terms in the Affiliate industry to describe this practice include “Trademark Bidding” or “Trademark Poaching” to name just [...]