AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Yesterday I hosted my first GotoWebinar session, featuring the configuration, installation and best practices for the ALE on static HTML pages and a WordPress blog. No major complaints, although I will admit it was a bit challenging hosting my first webinar.
We’re planning to do a LOT more of these, basically one for each of the [...]

Learn how to auto encode direct merchant links (or keywords) to Affiliate tracking links by installing one line of JavaScript on your web site or blog. The ALE is the ideal solution for monetizing existing blog or forum archives!
Join us on Monday, August 9th from 11am-11:30am mountain time for an overview of this unique tool. [...]

This marks the third and final installment of changes suggested during our AvantLink Feature Requests survey on Facebook.  This round includes only one change, but it was a doozy to implement: the affiliate support request page now displays the history of responses from AvantLink on individual support tickets.
As anyone who has ever filed a support [...]

Just a quick post to say we’ve recently completed implementing a few more of the suggestions we received from our AvantLink Feature Requests survey on Facebook.
One change that affects all levels of AvantLink users is to our add-on for Firefox:

If you have configured custom display settings for a report (e.g. a particular sort order or [...]

Thanks for all of the feedback we received on our AvantLink Feature Requests survey on Facebook.  We’re happy to say we’ve begun implementing some of those feature requests, and would like to mention what has been accomplished so far.  The following are improvements made to the affiliate interface of AvantLink:

We’ve added an EPC (Earnings per [...]

If you’re an AvantLink user and have an Android mobile phone, well this one’s for you!  We recently released a new application, creatively named “AvantLink Mobile” to help you keep in-touch and up-to-date with AvantLink wherever you go.
To install, search for “AvantLink” in the Market app on your Android phone, or just scan the barcode [...]

I’ll be honest: I was a bit skeptical when we first released our Firefox add-on for displaying real-time reporting results as part of our Notification Center tools back in December 2007.  At the time I didn’t think very many of our affiliates or merchants would choose to use the QuickStatsBar, as we called it.  But [...]

This week we’ve released a few new features in our ProductSearch API module, aimed at improving the control affiliates have over how the search is actually performed.
First, there is now the ability to specify multiple search terms within one API request.  For instance, suppose you wanted to search for two kinds of snowboards, say the [...]

We recently completed an overhaul of our video ad support here at AvantLink.
First and foremost, we’ve switched over to using the Flowplayer video player for displaying our videos.  We feel that Flowplayer provides a better user experience than our previous player, and it offers a few more features than we had access to previously, like [...]

A while back we did a review of our merchant datafeeds to see how consistent product image sizes are from one merchant to the next.  The results were less than impressive.  There were huge variations in both width and height for small (a.k.a. thumb/thumbnail) and large images between merchants, and in some cases within single [...]