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Affiliate marketing is tough. Anyone who tells you different is most likely very very smart, or very very stupid. Smart affiliates use button pusher marketing to crank out large sites quite often. I think these sites certainly help with the size of the SE’s index, though I don’t imagine many of them contribute to the quality of their indexes. The best affiliate marketing folks are generally very technically savvy as well as marketing savvy. I really respect the opinions of those who have been successful at affiliate marketing, because I know it takes a lot of work, ambition, and dedication. I’ve never been what I would consider successful with affiliate marketing, but I have dabbled a bit, and listened A LOT. There is definitely some gold available for those up to the challenge.

It’s getting pretty tough to come up with a weekly tool list these days. Mr. Ploppy’s list will most likely be a less frequent occurence in the near future. If you have requests for future lists, be sure to let me know, and I’ll try to keep the tools coming as I come accross them.

If you have tools you would like to see added to this list, don’t hesitate to let me know as well. With out further ado…

Affiliate Marketing Tools

• List of Dropshippers
• Webmerge
• Webmerge tutorial
• Another Webmerge tutorial
• Linda’s Data Feed and IPC tools
• Affiliate scripts
• Datafeed Cleaner from AMWSO
• Affiliate scripts from recycled talent
• My Content Generator
• BK replaceem
• Product Showcase Creator
• Revtrends - for consolidating logins
• PHPadsNew - nice free adserver
• C3 affiliate marketing scripts
• Scriptlance
• Elance
• Get a Freelancer

Finding Merchants

• Linkshare Merchant List
• List of Merchant Datafeeds
• WBP combination tool - try “your keywords + affiliate” for finding in-house programs with better payouts
• Shareasale Merchants and New Programs (RSS feed)
• CJ merchants
• Linkconnector merchant list (must be logged in)
• ClixGalore Aff network
• Affiliate Tracking directory

Forums and Reading Material

• ABestWeb
• AMWSO
• Linda’s 5Star Affiliate Marketing Blog
• Terry’s Super affiliate site
• AMWSO Aff Blogs List
• Affiliate marketing library at WMW
• Affiliate forum at SEW
• 20 great affiliate ideas from webwork
• Building a business around affiliate programs
• Finding good niches
• Aff marketing commandments by gopi
• Making more money at affiliate marketing
• The raging SE vs. affiliate cold war
• Sitepoint Aff forum
• *Added Kowabunga Aff Marketing Blog - thanks werty.

Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Marketing, Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Tools, SEO Tools, Affiliate Tools, Affiliate Management