AbeBooks UK Affiliates Blog

Affiliate Census

E-consultancy has just released their first edition of the "Affiliate Census". It provides a good analysis of who the affiliates are in the UK, they have done a very good job in highlighting what affiliates want and the main drivers for why they sign up for programmes.  One thing I found interesting is how much some of the affiliates are making, just amazing!  Look for future posts from AbeBooks where we will compare the Affiliate census to the AbeBooks Affiliate survey we conducted this past November.

Affiliate Centre Redesign

We have launched our redesigned Affiliate Centre! After a few years of running with the same thing we decided it was time to freshen it up a little and present a nice neat package.  Our goal was to make it easy for new affiliates to sign up while at the same time present relevant information such as the current promotion for affiliates already in the program.  If you think we are missing something that will help you, let us know, we are here to help you earn more money.

AbeBooks Affiliate Centre

The Affiliate Challenge

I am not sure if you any of you have been following the post on the A4UForum about "The Affiliate Challenge", well now Steve has setup a blog that will follow the competition, I am keen to see where this goes and especially the outcomes in a few months.  Do you think AbeBooks should sponsor an event like this in the future?

Libros en Español

That's right folks we have now launched our 5th website IberLibro.com a Spanish version of the AbeBooks sites, it has all the same features and functionality of all the other AbeBooks sites.  As you may or may not know we purchased IberLibro back in the fall of 2004, and we have spent the last year fully integrating it into the AbeBooks family.  As with all the other AbeBooks sites we also have a Spanish affiliate program, I suggest you give it a try, as you know a large trend these days is the internationalization of affiliate marketing, why not take your successful site and create another focused on the Spanish market, over 400 million speak the language it could be a great vertical for your site.  If you have any questions let me know or contact our Spanish affiliate team directly afiliados@abebooks.com

Ongoing Affiliate Promotion

To keep you all up to date on the current promotion in the program. 

"We are currently offering a 8% commission on all sales for the months of December and January to new or longtime affiliates who incorporate either AbeBooks Search API/ Webservice or Datafeed into their site."

We have had some great feedback from some of you, if you have any questions or concerns about using either of these two tools drop me an email, I will more than happy to talk and discuss how either or both could be incorporated into your site.  As it takes sometime to add these tools to your site, we are more than open to extend this promotion for individuals who are just getting on board.

A Refresher

For all of you of you long time affiliates I am going to give you a refresher on what tools and networks we work with, for all newbie’s this will help lift your campaigns to the next level, and for all you lurkers this will hopefully motivate you to get signed up with one of our programs.

Quick Tour

• Commission payout structure on all programmes a base tier of 5% ranging up to 7%
• We payout on all book sales up to $500 in value.
• We payout on unlimited transactions, that is a user comeback as many times as they like and will continue to credit your account for additional purchases the user makes.

Tools

• Affiliate Centre- This is our affiliate programme homebase, all levels of affiliates will find this a useful place to keep up to date with current promotions, types of creatives and general AbeBooks information.  It has recently been redesigned let us know what you think.
• Search Server API/ Webservice-  This is technical tool that allows you to display AbeBooks book information on your site.  This is an intermediate to Advanced tool, you will definitely need some programming know-how when using it. 
• Datafeeds- Yes, AbeBooks does have datafeeds, they are large and content rich, again,  these are focused more on the intermediate user due to the fact that the feeds are generally in the range of 500,000 to 1 million products, with this size it is not possible to work with them in excel, all you access database masters will have no problem handling these.
• Deep Linking Tool- This is our entry level affiliate tool, it allows you to enter your search criteria and receive a link back that is coded with your affiliate tracking id, this works for great for users building out content sites.

Networks

Currently in the

UK

we are working with 3 different affiliate networks, we feel this gives us a good spread amongst the many players.  If you have any insight into which network you prefer or if you have a favorite network that we don't currently work with, let us we are always open to exploring new networks and listening to your feedback.

• Commission Junction
• Zanox.co.uk
• Buy.at

If you have any questions about any of the above items let us know we are more than happy to help you integrate some of tools, provide input on what will convert best with your site or just have a chat about online marketing.

AbeBooks UK Affiliate Blog Launches

Here it goes! We at AbeBooks are launching, Affiliate Blogs! 

Who is the person writing this blog, you might ask?  Well, my name is Michael and I am the Affiliate manager here at AbeBooks UK, I have been a part of Abebooks for over 4 years and been involved with the online marketing for 3 of the 4 years, I am one of the lucky few who have worked in both our Victoria and Dusseldorf offices.  Why we have launched a blog? The answer is simple, to keep our Affiliates and Partners more up to date and informed on what is happening here at AbeBooks and with its Affiliate programme.  We asked ourselves what is the purpose of this blog and we came back with the obvious "Let's cover all things related to AbeBooks Affiliate programme" however we thought that was kind of weak, so we vow that this is not simply another self-promotion tool for new AbeBooks programme features, it is more then that, this blog will offer non-partisan affiliate marketing knowledge and know-how. We plan on updating the blog on a weekly schedule...as time goes on we will see how this goes, it could be more often or at times less.