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Latest Digital & Search Marketing Jobs in Australia

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Affiliate Marketing

The benefit of affiliate programs for publishers and advertisers is that it can be used to market phyiscal products, software or services.  It can take a bit of time, patience and even trial and error to find what works and what doesn’t but it is a growing area for businesses. There are typically two parts to an affiliate marketing program the advertiser and the publishers the following information will explain it in some more detail and list some of the leading programs in more detail.

• Protected SEM bidding keywords: trademark terms, brand terms….
• Prohibited SEM Display URLs: Trademark.com/affiliate#
• Prohibited SEM Ad Copy Content: Buy direct from Trademark
• Prohibited Website Domain Keywords: www.trademark-example-site.com
• Prohibited Website Site URLS: /trademark/product/
• Unacceptable Websites Topics: Sexual,War,Conflict,Death,Gross,Profane,Crime

What assistance do Advertisers offer affiliates?

• Recommended SEM bidding keywords that convert well for other advertisers
• Coupon Discount Codes
• Affiliate Discount Codes
• Promotional Codes
• Can use Sub-Affiliate networks

Affiliate Marketing Programs Reviewed

Share a Sale

Learn how more about how Share A Sale can increase your sales, develop your brand, and generate interest in your site. One of the better earning platforms with a number of high quality software solutions such as social media platform Knowem using it to run its affiliate marketing program. We like Share a Sale it is a nice and simple affiliate program that has a growing number of merchants.  It its flexibility for link types is also quite impressive:

• Get a Link
• Banner Link
• Datafeeds
• Coupons/Deals
• Gift Cards
• Specific Product Linking Code
• Custom Link to a Page
• Make a Page
• Get Widgets
• Get Videos

Note: Not all the advertisers offer all the affiliate link types available.

Share a Sale Payment Options

1. Direct Deposit
2. Check/Cheque

Affiliate payment cycle: 20th of the Month

Affiliate payout minimum balance: US$50

Share A Sale Dashboard Screenshot

Avangate

Avangate is a more advanced affiliate network that combines a eCommerce platform for software publishers to sell their products, an affiliate network to promote them and a market place to sell them in. The benefits of affiliate networks like Avangate is that software has very high margins which can be shared with affiliates.  Some companies offer upto 75% commission for every purchase made by customers referred via links or banners from the publishers website.

Avangate cookie length tracking? a number of sites only offer 7-30 day cookies but Avangate offers upto 120 days.  So if a visitor decides to buy the product within 120 days of the original visit you still get the commission.

Is there a cost to join Avangate? like many of the affiliate programs, avangate charges no setup fee, no startup cost or no hidden performance targets you must reach.

Avangate Affiliate Reports offer:

1. Click-through-rate – unique clicks sent to vendors (advertisers)
2. Products Sold- successfully sold products for the selected period
3. Conversion ratio – percent of successful sales
4. Total Sales vaild for avangate affiliate commission
5. Any Refunds processed against your avangate affiliate commission
6. Average order amount for every referred click from your site.

Avangate Advertisers

• Bitdefender
• Lavasoft
• Movavi
• VSO Softare
• Kaspersky Lab
• Dr Web
• Caphyon

Avangate Payment Options

1. Paypal
2. Check/Cheque
3. Wire Transfer
4. Avangate Prepaid Mastercard

Affiliate payment cycle: Monthly

Affiliate payout minimum balance: US$100

Avangate Dashboard Screenshot

Commission Junction

Commission Junction is one of the largest affiliate marketing channels. The benefit is that CJ is able to attract a high grade of advertisers which is good for publishers and reassuring for advertisers that they are in a suitable affiliate network.

Commission Junction for Publishers

Some current Commission Junction advertisers

• Reebok
• Travelocity
• Walgreens
• Avis
• Discover Cards
• Network Solutions
• Adobe
• Expedia
• Hotels.com
• Match.com

Some newer Commission Junction advertisers

• Lexmark
• EA Store
• Yelp
• Newsweek
• Marvel Digital Comics

Commission Junction Payment Options

1. Check/Cheque
2. Wire Transfer
3. Direct Deposit

Affiliate payment cycle: Monthly

Affiliate payout minimum balance: Varies between payment type

• Direct Deposit: US$50
• Check/Cheque: US$100

Commission Junction Dashboard Screenshot

ClickBank

ClickBank is one of the larger platforms with its clients having earnt close to US$1.6 billion over the last 10 years and it claims to have never missed a payout once to its advertisers or affiliates.  ClickBank is interesting because it actually offer 3 parts to its affiliate marketing program.

1. Sell Products (Vendors/Advertisers)
2. Promote Products (Publishers/Affiliates)
3. Buy Products (Marketplace)

Clickbank for Affiliates - Like Avangate it offers upto 75% commission, but it has a larger variety of tens of thousands of products.  Unlike many other affiliate platforms you can begin promotion almost immediately. Global reach with 13 currencies accepted and promotion suitable for English, Spanish, French, and German affiliates.

Clickbank for Advertisers - For those who just want to create something and sell it Clickbank seems to make it easy with the following features, low one-time $49.95 activation fee, fraud prevention, no merchant account required and credit cards and paypal accepted.  A number of other affiliate programs don’t offer as much flexibility or like Commission Junction a minimium level of online sales/month. Clickbank allows advertisers to reach more than 100,000 active affiliates in 145 countries around the world.

Clickbank Market place – Browse the categories or find products via the search box and buy direct from Clickbank advertisers.

ClickBank offers 2 ways to display ads on the publishers website

1. Text Ads Builder
2. Tabbed Ad Box Builder

To show more about how ClickBank works we have included 2 live working examples of each type ClickBank HopAd Builder can generate, which showcases how it works.

The Text Ads Builder
The ClickBank ad shown above is built using text preselected targeting “affiliate,marketing”.  It is not tailored to your past search behaviour, onsite contextual elements or keywords used to find this page.  The box is a simple and easy way to run ads tailored to match the style of your site. Tabbed Ad Box Builder
The ad shown above allows for more ads to be displayed, so you can promote multiple related products in a single Ad box.  This allows for more niche advertising to be run and takes up less realestate on your site.We targeted the following keywords: adwords, affiliate marketing and jobs. Limitations of ClickBank? The limitations of the product is that it doesn’t allow for competitive filtering, negative keywords or using a pages contextual elements.  While the fine tuning allows you to be very specific the setup time required is much greater than competing products. There is also no suggestion around what keywords, or tabs titles may produce the most clicks or most variation of ads which may make this a bit more complicated for those new to affiliate marketing.  But the longer term advantage of this total control of your ClickBank ads does allow for some fine tuning and testing to get a better ROI from your affiliate ads. ClickBank Payment Options

1. Check/Cheque
2. Direct Deposit

Affiliate payment cycle:

• Direct Deposit (weekly)
• Other payments (every 2 weeks)

Affiliate payout minimum balance: US$10 If you want to find out more we suggest giving Click Bank a try and sign up here. ClickBank Dashboard Screenshot

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera In-Text Ads are built dynamically by a javascript module that performs real-time semantic analysis of the page content.  The ad platform then selects what it calculates to be the most relevant keyword phrases and turns them into hyperlinks. When the visitor moves their mouse over the ContentLinks the Kontera Ad module loads displaying what it calculates to be a relevant advertising message to the visitor.   The benefit is that publishers can generate more revenue from their content while advertisers can reach a more relevant and targeted audience.  This offers the advertisers a better ROI on their campaign. The reason why some advertiser like Kontera In-Text Ads is that they are more obvious and harder to ignore. Some visitors may get annoyed when publishers go overboard with too many Kontera text ads but they have a number of elements they can control. Publishers have a few elements that control aspects of how the In-Text ads are displayed but the primary feature is the ability to control the Kontera text link colours to make it stand out more on a page or stylise the colour to match the website.

• Keywords – block specific brand or product keywords from being highlighted on publishers site.
• Advertisers – block specific advertisers from showing up on publishers site.
• Advertisers – block specific advertisers from showing up on publishers site.
• Topics – block specific topics (retail,employment…) from publishers site.

There are two more control items that Kontera publishers can select to use:

1. Zone Tags – forcing Kontera Text Ads to show in specific paragraphs/areas
2. Filter Tags – restrict Kontera Text Ads to specific paragraphs/areas

Too Many Kontera ContentLinks? If you are a publisher you can request to reduce the number of In-Text ads that are shown.  This can important when the number is affecting other advertisers or reducing the user experience. You can see on the Kontera section is the only place that the Kontera ContentLinks are showing on this whole page. Kontera Affiliate Reports: Summary, Detailed, Keyword, URL Kontera ContentLink Payment Methods

• Check/Cheque
• Wire
• Paypal
• International EFT

Kontera Payment Cycle: First Week of the month Minimum Payment: US$50 Kontera Dashboard Screenshot

Amazon Associates

Amazon associates affiliate program used to be a decent earner for a number of websites but personally i’ve struggled to see it perform even close to what the worse affiliate network has done lately.  It’s not clear if the life of the tracking cookie is not long enough to capture the sale or multiple tracking from other affiliates replace each other so only the last affiliate to see the visitor is awarded the sale. Amazon should be one of the leading affiliate platforms as it has the most experience in this area and some of the most powerful ad options listed below. Amazon Associates are offered:

• Links & Banners
• Widgets
• aStore
• Endless.com
• Product Advertising APIs

Affiliate Links to Amazon

1. Amazon Product Links enable affiliate to link to a specific product on Amazon while showing information about it in more detail.  Amazon Associates can build customised Text Links, Text and Image Links and also Image only links to the Amazon product.
2. Amazon Banners enable affiliates to link to a specific product category or promotion.  Amazon banners are offered in standard banner sizes and shapes, and offer referrals of upto 15%.
3. Amazon Site Strip enables affiliates to easily share product links via social media tools such as Twitter with a simple click.

Poor Amazon Experience The Amazon Associates platform is also very clunky and does not allow for easy sharing of email links or short links via platforms such as Bit.ly which a number of other platforms such as Share a Sale offer, which makes it hard for you to customise your affiliate links to suit your website or blog. My experience with the Amazon Associates program has been less than positive compared to a number of other affiliate programs, as it tracked that my affiliate code has captured 1979 clicks but only 8 items have been successfully ordered, which is a conversion rate of 0.40% well below any other platforms conversion rate. Why not Adsense? That same traffic sent even to Google Adsense might have delivered with an average Adsense earning of $1.55 per click approximately $3,076.39 would have been earned instead of the actual $15.09 from Amazon Associates. From a affiliate marketing perspective its not really one that seems to suitable to webmasters anymore and it has more restrictions of medium used to generate traffic with any type of paid promotion such as AdWords now banned and any direct links only benefits Amazon’s SEO rankings leaving the publisher/affiliate with a leaking money bucket. You can make up your own mind but it seems that a number of affiliate marketers are dropping Amazon Associates program in favour of other affiliate programs that actually convert or lead to sales.

Amazon Associates Dashboard Screenshot

LinkShare

LinkShare offer a number of marketing solutions for Advertisers such as Search Marketing, Lead Generation, Affiliate Marketing & Creative Services. Search Marketing: Paid Search, Search Optimisation, Social Media Lead Generation: Pixel or Enterprise Tracking Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Network, Link Distrubution, Emerging Media (Flash,Video,Widgets,Mobile,RSS,Twitter,Blogging) Creative Services: Website Design, Content, Optimisation, Banners,Templates. Similar to Commission Junction a high number of well known advertisers are using their affiliate marketing platform with over 600 of the largest and well know advertisers are also advertising on the LinkShare platform. Some of these selected LinkShare advertisers are:

• 1800Flowers
• iTunes
• AT&T
• Delta
• Enterprise
• Lego
• McAfee
• Macy’s
• Orbitz
• Hotwire
• Pearsons Education
• RadioShack
• TigerDirect
• Toshiba
• Toys R Us
• Walmart.com

Note: We have just setup this account and yet to test it in much detail but it does have some very well know advertisers which should help drive clicks and hopefully sales. LinkShare Payment Options

1. Check/Cheque (US/UK/CAN/AU/NZ/EU/OTHER)
2. Direct Deposit (US/UK/CAN/AU/NZ/EU)

Affiliate payment cycle: Every 35 Days Affiliate payout minimum balance: US$1.00 LinkShare Dashboard Screenshot

PepperJam Network

The PepperJam Network is a combination of tradational affiliate marketing with Search and Link bait solutions for advertisers, unlike other affiliate networks PepperJam provide consultant services for their advertisers to ensure the best possible ROI. PepperJam Merchants - Can benefit from technology, brand protection via the publishers transparency score. PepperJam Affiliates - Resources such as free webinars and educational materials prodvided to grow into super affiliates. Featured pepperjamNETWORK Clients

• SEMPO Institute
• SEOmoz Pro
• BBC
• Sketches
• Fender
• Sesame Street
• English Laundry
• Swarovski
• Fiji Water
• JellyBelly
• Mattel

The affiliate programs are split into 3 options when filtering lists of affiliate programs.

1. Show Revenue Share Offers Only
2. Show CPA Offers Only
3. Show Both Revenue Share and CPA Offer

The cookie duration also varies between advertisers which is unusual because its usually standard across an affiliate network. The Pepperjam Network affiliate link options

• Generic Links
• Banners
• Text Links
• Advanced Links
• Coupons
• pepperjamADS

Pepperjam Store Builder This cool feature allows you to build a dynamic storefront displaying merchant feeds within the selected program. You can filter the merchant feed to display specific products “nike” or groups of products “shoes”.  Finally you can customise the code with colours that match your website.  You can cut and paste the code into your site and the Pepperjam Store Builder will automatically resize to fit the look and feel of your website. PepperjamADS These are a smart affiliate marketing widget similar to ClickBank’s Tabbed Ad Box Builder as it allows you to serve single ads or ads from multiple Pepperjam Network advertisers at the same time. Unlike the ClickBank Tabbed Ad Box, the ads are served contextually based on the site’s content and come in various shapes and sizes. Pepperjam Network Payment Options

1. Check/Cheque
2. Direct Deposit (US)
3. Paypal
4. Wire Transfer

Affiliate payment cycle: Every 2 weeks (10th/24th) Affiliate payout minimum balance: US$25 PepperJam Network Dashboard Screenshot

Google Affiliate Network

The Google Affiliate program is based on its Google Adsense payment platform and is growing very aggressively with a number of advertisers been added weekly.  We are yet to test this platform but may examine it in more detail in the next few months. The Google Affiliate Network is an expension of its Google Adsense network trial of a CPA model which was retired in 2009.  The benefit of exploring the use of the Google Affiliate Network is because advertisers can now pay not just for clicks but actions that lead to sales or conversions and publishers are rewarded with a larger amount as it is now % of sales/referrals. Google Affiliate Network seeks to offer:

• Leading advertiser and publisher services
• Rigorous Google content network quality standards
• Reliable conversion tracking via Conversion codes
• Detailed reporting for both advertisers and publishers
• Publishers receive Automated payments via Adsense
• Simple link and creative delivery tools for publishers
• Flexible commissions to specific publishers
• Publishers can access to top brands on the web

Advertisers can begin to attract quality publishers because:

1. Affiliate marketing expertise - Consult with Google’s affiliate marketing specialists on planning & distribution, account optimisation, and any technical issues.
2. Google Network depth - Choose from a wide variety of thousands of high-quality publishers based on detailed profiles & metrics.
3. Easy Tracking and reporting - Track your conversions, evaluate Affiliate performance, and optimise your program with actionable data.
4. Network reviewed for quality - Work only with qualified publishers who are continually screened, reviewed, and advised by the Google quality team.
5. Offer performance-based pricing - Rest assured that cost-per-action pricing means Google’s interests are aligned with yours.

Google Affiliate Network Payment Options

1. Via Adsense Payment

Affiliate payment cycle: Monthly Affiliate payout minimum balance: $150

Google Affiliate Network Dashboard Screenshot

Chitika Affiliate Program

One of the growing alternatives to Google Adsense is Chitika which offer premium PPC ad units that are compatible with Google Adsense, they also offer their own Local map units similar to Google Places that you can add to your site.

Chitika offers a number of alternatives for ads such as their Chitika List Unit which automatically adjusts it’s height to reduce any ugly spaces that impact on the user experience.  You can select the unit width in pixels, the number of ads to display, and as Chitika only displays to select traffic what Fallback display options you want to use such as shown an alternative ad or collapse the Ad Unit. The Chitika Ad Code allows for a good range of alternative formats from their own custom ad sizes specifically designed for blogs, to their look at me super sized boxes and the standard Adsense sized banners.

Ad Unit Options: Multi-purpose unit, map unit, mobile unit

Affiliate Payment Cycle: Monthly

Affiliate payout minimum balance: $10 (paypal) $50 (check)

ClixGalore

This is has been one of our early tests of affiliate marketing as they did have some decent advertisers but it seemed that most of the time the notification emails were about advertisers suspending and restarting campaigns which may have lead to some lost sales when the tracking codes were not updated.  But this happened so often with some advertisers that we just gave up on adding any more affiliate links and slowly removed the existing links. Poor Clix Galore Experience My experience with the Clix Galore program has been less than positive compared to a number of other affiliate programs, as it tracked that my affiliate code has captured 488 clicks and none have been successful. The 0.00% conversion rate was one of the reasons that this affiliate program was dropped even though the click-thru-rates were averaged at just over 34% it did not equate to sales and this affiliate program does allow for deep links into the advertisers website. Why not Adsense? That same traffic sent even to Google Adsense might have delivered with an average Adsense earning of $1.55 per click approximately $758.60 would have been earned instead of the actual $0.00 from Clix Galore. Google Affiliate Network Payment Options

1. Direct Bank Transfer
2. Paypal
3. EFT ($1000+)
4. Bank Cheques/Checks (US Only)

Affiliate payment cycle: Monthly Affiliate payout minimum balance: AUD$100, NZ$100, UK£35, €60, US$50 ClixGalore Dashboard Screenshot Affiliate Marketing is Trial & Error The two examples of Amazon & Clix Galore show that affiliate marketing can be a fair amount of trial and error as one advertiser might work and match very well to your website, but using that same affiliate program for all its other advertisers doesn’t equate to the most money your can generate from being a publisher and advertisers won’t reach their desired sales targets. If you are interested in affiliate marketing there are a number of experts in the field you can help but its not a get rich quick scheme. Some of the people in the industry have made thousands of dollars using a number of the following Affiliate networks or a combination of the above, so its a matter of what suits your website and what products you are trying to promote as a publisher.

SiteCore

SiteCore is one of the newer Content Management System (CMS) platforms built on the new Microsoft ASP.Net 3.5 and seeks to change the user interactions by personalising content served to each website visitor.  The platform is more focused towards enterprise solutions, corporate intranets and businesses that will benefit from marketing automation software for continuous improvement to their user experience.

Similar to many ASP.Net platforms SiteCore CMS is built around a layer of Sitecore Modules which allows for flexible development and are optional and matched to your requirements by your web development partner. Some of the more popular sitecore modules are:

• SiteCore Sharepoint Connector Module
• SiteCore Web Forms for Marketers Module
• SiteCore Search Optimisation Module
• SiteCore Newsletter Module

SiteCore Pricing
The platform has been designed to suit single shared server installations upto the mutli-server enterprise eCommerece solutions that serve millions of visitors per day.  SiteCore CMS pricing has been built with a flexible size based model with 4 key pricing levels: primary, professional, enterprise and site license.  SiteCore CMS pricing is best discussed with an appropriate SiteCore partner such as Next Digital but typically the price is based on number of SiteCore Sever installations and number of simultaneous users required to be logged in your site such as content editors, designers and developers.  The benefit of using a web platform like SiteCore is that unlike many other enterprise CMS platforms there is no extra cost for content items, number of URLs used or number of website visitors which allows costs to be budgeted for in advance.

Sitecore CMS Pricing

• Number of Servers: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,20,Unlimited
• Number of Concurrent Users: 1-3,4-20,10-30

SiteCore Add-Ons

There are two primary solutions that can be priced as an add-on to your core Sitecore pricing quote but the cost depends upon the number of distrubuted websites that are installed or the number of employees that will use the Intranet.  Sitecore Foundry is built for organisations that have hundreds or even thousands of affiliated websites but need the simplicity and quick results for remote site editors but need to retain centralised controls of their web communication, brand strategies and unified theme. SiteCore Intranet Portal is for companies that need just a ready-to-run Intranet platform but has to be built on a enterprise platform but still satisfies end users.

SiteCore Online Marketing Suite
One of the benefits of SiteCore is that it takes what you discovered in your search optimisation research phase and allows you to have all your offline and online marketing channels working together to drive more traffic and better quality traffic to your website.  The main parts to the marketing suite are: visitor experience analytics, real-time site personalisation,  sales team enablement and real ROI on your campaigns.

SiteCore Analytics

Sitecore analytics is ready to deliver much of it’s functionality out-of-the-box unlike Google Analytics or Omniture. Like a number of web analytics platforms Sitecore uses 1st party cookies and not 3rd party cookies to track visitors but while it is able to offer server-side monitoring it is unable to offer client-side monitoring.

Some of the built in features unique to Sitecore include:

• A unified platform (with marketing tools & CMS)
• real-time personalisation driven be analytics
• server side monitoring
• granular multi-variate testing
• real-time analytics

Some of the built in reports unique to Sitecore include:

• site search
• visitor session details
• navigation analysis
• path analysis
• lead scoring
• visitor session profiling
• user experience reports
• pages with user reported errors
• lead identification by DNS

SiteCore Project & Website Examples

SiteCore’s Australian & New Zealand Site of the Year 2010

• Best SiteCore website 2010: Blackmores
• Best SiteCore Electronics website: Canon Australia
• Best SiteCore Best Government website: Invercargill City Council (NZ)
• Best SiteCore E-Commerce website: Clive Peeters Group

SiteCore’s British Site of the Year 2010

• Best SiteCore website 2010: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Best SiteCore Entertainment, Leisure and Travel website: Birmingham Airport
• Best SiteCore Government, Public Services website: Dept for Business, Innovation, & Skills
• Best SiteCore Retail, Wholesale, and Consumer Goods website: Britvic
• Best SiteCore Professional, Business, Personal Services Site (TIE): G4S
• Best SiteCore Professional, Business, Personal Services Site (TIE): Totaljobs
• Best SiteCore Entertainment, Media, Advertising website: I.B. Tauris
• Best SiteCore Not for Profit website: International Business Leaders Forum
• Best SiteCore Healthcare & Medical website: NHS Direct

SiteCore’s North American Site of the Year 2010

• Best SiteCore Website 2010: CA Technologys
• Best SiteCore Association/Non-Profit website: Entrepreneurship
• Best SiteCore Biotechnology website: STEMCELL Technologies Inc
• Best SiteCore Careers or Recruitment website: SAP Careers
• Best SiteCore Consumer Goods website: BARE
• Best SiteCore Education website: Brooklyn Law School
• Best SiteCore Food website: Tyson Foods Inc .
• Best SiteCore Government website: Office of Naval Research
• Best SiteCore Healthcare website: HealthSouth
• Best SiteCore Legal website: Goodwin Procter LLP
• Best SiteCore Mobile website: Brookings Institution
• Best SiteCore Museum/Arts website: Cleveland Museum of Art
• Best SiteCore Performance or Entertainment website: Cirque du Soleil
• Best SiteCore Sports website: LebronJames.com
• Best SiteCore Utilities website: Cobb EMC

SiteCore Social Media Links

• Join the Official SiteCore Facebook Group
• Follow SiteCore Australia on Twitter

SiteCore Webdesign Partners
The Lost Agency is not a webdesign or web development firm so we have partnered with a number of developers who we recommend and have found to be excellent at what they do. We have detailed some of the background about these web design partners below and if you have any questions please contact them direct via their website.

Next Digital is one of Australia’s leading digital agencies with over 200 digital media and marketing specialists who work from offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Shanghai. Our team brings together the creativity, technical excellence and business sense needed to provide the digital horsepower behind many of Australia’s best known companies and brands including Crown, Ford, Qantas, Transurban, News Digital Media, Harvey Norman, Jetstar, Melbourne Cricket Ground and Vivas Lend Lease. They are the leading Web Development & Design firms in Australia and have been building websites since 1996 with over 4,000 projects completed.  Next Digital is the right Sitecore partner as they are the only Technical Sitecore MVP in Australia with all their ASP.net development team being Sitecore certified and have experience in development and rollout of large scale Sitecore projects.