Kimball, do you allow AvantLink merchants to contact you via the blast emails? Or have you turned that off in preferences? I like to get personal emails not blanket sale emails on my end. In the past when I worked with hundreds of merchants it was a bit too taxing on my inbox. Even with a separate folder setup.. Ps we haven’t seen you over on Digital Marketing Snow affiliate forum in a while, come back…

#8. Run image ads, and keep them changing.
Affiliate sites that focus on rich content (not product centric) need fresh image ads to get our users to click through.

#9. Run lots of sale image ads.
No surprise here. Users click on sale ads more than any other.

#10. Load ads in AvantLink before the promotion starts.
If you run a one-day sale and I don’t here about it till noon, I probably won’t show it. Time is short. I only manage what ads show or not once a day, usually first thing in the morning.

#11. Don’t forget to set the ad metadata.
Start date, end date, and deal flag are important.

thanks Chad!

Hey Mike- an excellent call on having an article about publishers’ preferred criteria. I actually think this is a great opportunity to source a lot of opinion points from a variety of different affiliates. What we’ll probably do is have a submission form located on the affiliate dashboard to source opinions from. I’ll update this comment thread when that goes live, we’d love to get your opinion on it.

I would be happy to write an article for AvantLink. It seems the publishers are the ones that could use and need the most help?