Affmeter LLC is pleased to announce that starting from today all of the Support Forum issues will be directed to the” Affmeter Statistics and Analytics Discussion Thread” in Affiliates4u UK.

“22 January 2008 was a starting point for Affiliates4u members to discuss Affmeter . Since then forum members like to talk about Affmeter issues, requests or news at this special thread which has become “Moderators Choice“. It becomes a natural instinct for Affmeter users to check out Affiliates4u forum or post their support issues before sending us e-mails about their problems or requests” says Firuze Okten Gokce CEO of Affmeter.

Affmeter Pro which is an automatic revenue collection tool for affiliate marketers who has multiple network accounts is a big time saver for affiliates. Many affiliates like to use this tool since they can spend more time on their marketing activities or other projects instead of exhausting their energy for logging into different network accounts. Affmeter also collecting the statistics of Google Adwords PPC costs along with a net revenue analysis dashboard. Comparison Tables,  Top performing ,  Poor Performing merchants, Merchant Watcher Tools are helping  affiliates to grab the whole picture of his/her activities.

According to Matthew Wood Founder of Affiliates4u “It’s great that the future development of such as useful tool for affiliates being debated and discussed on the Affiliates4u Forum - any innovation that enables our members to drill deeper into their reports and analyse performance and ROI is a huge step forward”

Affiliates4u is UK’s largest Affiliate Communication platform with its forums, blogs and social environment.  Affiliates4u Team are also involving in A4uExpo (UK’s and Europe’s top events on Affiliate Marketing), A4uAwards (The prestigious Award Event for Affiliate Marketing Industry in UK) and many other event organizations. Affiliates4u is continuing to establish, educate and gather all the players of Affiliate Marketing Industry in one platform which is catalyzing the development of Performance Marketing Industry in UK.

Affmeter users are welcomed by Firuze Okten Gokce (CEO of Affmeter) in this Special Thread. “The friendly spirit of Affiliates4u forum makes it easier to handle any problems. Constantly being backed by the feeds of Affmeter user’s gives us speed to figure out the nature of the issues or requests. Affiliates4u is a complete communication platform for Affmeter to shape up its development path of with new features and requests” says Firuze Okten Gokce.

All the users of Affmeter from all over the world are invited to join Affiliates4u forum to experience a better support service of Affmeter and become a part of friendly and informative environment.

We are all solo entrepreneurs who are living and controlling our adventures on our own. Yes, that’s right I’m describing an affiliate marketer.  But why not to cheer up a little bit and have some fun, network with all of the players of performance marketing industry, share and discuss opinions or create new business opportunities in an affiliate friendly environment?

If you are a beginner or an advanced affiliate marketer that doesn’t matter, Affiliate Convention has a lot to offer for every type of attendant. The aim is to bring the actors of this industry together on every occasion possible and almost everywhere in US.  Only these events can help us to see who we are, how we can contribute each others business adventure and cooperate fully to produce more efficient solutions for our Performance Marketing Industry to flourish.

Pack your bag now and be in Denver Colorado on 17-20 June, 2009.

The Keynote Speakers for this event are Chris Jones (CEO PepperJam Network) and  Peter Bordes (Founder CEO MediaTrust) whose missions are to bring technological development and innovation spirit into Performance Marketing Industry.

Dan Boberg (VP, Advertiser Professional Services of Yahoo), Aunesty Jansen (Founder Affspot.com), Rosalind Gardner (Author of Super Affiliate Handbook), Graham Gochneaur (Chief Marketing Officer Clickbooth), Jivan Manhas (Founder - Head of Sales MediaTrust), Steven Richter (President Media Breakaway LLC), Shai Pritz (CEO Unique Leads), Evan Weber (CEO Experience Advertising), Jeremy Schoemaker (Founder, President Shoemoney), Heather Paulson (CEO Paulson Management Group), Jessie Jones (CEO Popshops) and Steve Schaffer (Founder & CEO Vertive, Inc., Publisher of Offers.com) are just a few names who are contributing to the sessions in Affiliate Convention.

There is also a Pre - Event Charity Golf Tournemant for the benefit of Performance Marketing Alliance.

WebmasterRadio.FM AFFILIATE BASH PARTY,  The Affiliate.com Mile High Affiliate Pre-Event Party and Webmasters Pub Social are among the top social events to join.

While you are there, the most valuable asset with you is your business card. If you are a first time visitor for An Affiliate Event, bring as much business card as you can. Exchange them as much as possible in between coffee breaks, Sessions or Affiliate parties’.  Be active, kind and always smile to new people that you will meet. Tell them who you are but always be polite enough to listen who they are. Don’t be afraid of sharing your opinions. Plus ask questions during the sessions.

If you are going to join this one, I’m sure that you will be counting on the next one!

Affmeter LLC is continuing to add fresh networks such as Adcommunal, Adcanadian, Maxbounty and XY7. There are more networks waiting at the pipeline.

For those of you who are not familiar with Affmeter just let me remind you what you can do by Affmeter: Affmeter helps affiliate marketers to automatically fetch revenue and click statistics from multiple affiliate networks. Affiliates who have PPC activity in Google Adwords can also check their PPC costs and be able to do a net revenue analysis. Affmeter provides affiliate marketers with customized report options, comparison dashboards, top performing merchants or poor performing merchants. In a nutshell, it is a quick snapshot of any affiliates’ performance  marketing adventure.

So far Affmeter has already covered Affili.net, Affiliate Future, Affiliate Window, Amazon.co.uk,  Amazon.com,  AvantLink, Buy.at, Affiliate.com, Canadian Sponsors, Clickbank, Clixgalore,  Commission Junction, Copeac, DGM-UK Affiliates, DGM-AU Affiliates, Forex Affiliate, GlobalDirectMedia, Google Adsense, Google Adwords, Google Affiliate Network ,Hydra, Kolimbo, LinkConnector, LinkMo, Linkshare, Linktrust, Market Health, Market Leverage, Offerforge, OnenetworkDirect, OMG, Paid on Results,  PepperJam Network,  Reporting.net, Share Results, Silvertap, Tradedoubler, Trienta, Webgains, Zanox, Zzounds.

Affmeter team is already working on adding new features to Affmeter Pro. Keyword tracking is one of the top priorities. However, innovation and development keeps on coming.

Affmeter Team will be more than happy to hear any requests or suggestions. Please feel free to contact me at firuze@affmeter.com

If you are doing Search Engine Marketing to promote your advertiser’s products, it becomes more important to find converting keywords at reasonable prices.  Our everyday mission is to try to analyze the impacts of credit crunch and the changing patterns in Search Marketing.

Changing consumer perception about future economic conditions leads to changing keyword selections while searching.

If we are going to describe Consumer A’s psychology, we will find that
1.    Consumer A has still his job but Consumer B has just lost his job.
2.    So Consumer A also fears about losing his job.
3.    Consumer A is spending less than before, although he has got enough budgets.
4.    Jobless Consumer B has more time and can surf through the internet without enough purchasing power.
This psychological condition mirrors itself in search trends. A study made by Efficient Frontiers has stressed some of the following points:

1. There is a huge tendency to use “cheap or discount” associated with any keyword search such as “discount hotel” or “cheap flights” The brand recognition has left its place to the price value of any commodity. “Credit, lending, and mortgage” have increased their search volume while loans has just declined.

2. More people are making search and hence increasing the number of impressions but those impressions are not turning into clicks as it was the case under normal economic circumstances. Plus many people have lost their purchasing power and just trying to check out the real deals or cheap priced substitute products.

It’s true that for comparison shopping, tax immunization and deal and coupon opportunities, more people will prefer to use web related services but because of the overall economic conditions and budget cuts every sector had to take some measures and unfortunately first they declined their marketing budgets.

According to Efficient Frontiers Study cost per click has declined from $0.65 in Q1 2008 to $0.54 Q1 2009 for Google Adwords. For affiliate marketers this is a positive sign but if and only if the quality of the traffic remains the same. If we have a traffic which can be called as “search shopping” just equivalent term for “window shopping” in brick and mortar, then this situation signs a real problem.

For the sake of marketing budgets, if traffic does not converting at all, then it does not matter how cheap it was. In the end no converting traffic becomes a very expensive one.

What a marketer should do is to try to think in the shoes of Consumer A and Consumer B separately.
1.    An affiliate marketer should plan different keyword strategies for Consumer A and Consumer B separately.

2.     An affiliate marketer should find different and new niches for Consumer A and Consumer B

3.    An affiliate marketer should focus on Consumer A’s and Consumer B’s needs. Instead of trying to continue to what he has promoted before, he has to change its way and adapt itself to the new rules.

4.    An affiliate marketer should go for different marketing channels to test different environments.

I am so happy to inform you that Affmeter has been announced in the Final  5 List of “Best Use of Technology within Affiliate Marketing” by the Judges of A4U Awards in UK.

We would like to thank you to all our loyal user base,  Affmeter fans,  Affiliates4u Forum and Matthew Wood. Affmeter is our baby and a sign of how we are passionate about Affiliate Marketing Industry. We are so happy to contribute in the formation of our industry which will shape the future of Digital Marketing.

Our aim is to produce cutting edge solutions for Affiliate Marketing Industry and develop Affmeter further in parallel direction with our users’ requests and industry standards.

The winner will be announced on 2nd June 2009 at Hilton Park Lane, London. For the full list of Awards and categories please check  A4uawards.com

The Judges of the A4uawards are Matthew Wood (Managing Director - Existem),  Shawn Collins (Co Founder - Affiliate Summit), Will Cooper (Deputy News Editor - New Media Age),  Gareth Jones (Editor in Chief - Revolution), Matt Bailey (Head of Affiliates - i-level), Duncan Jennings (Managing Director - eConversions), Kevin May (Editor - Travolution), Ian Jindal (Editor in Chief and Co Founder - Internet Retailing), Linus Gregoriadis (Research Director - Econsultancy), Kieron Donoghue (Managing Director - UK Affiliate Offer), Scott Gallacher (Digital Advisor and Investor Director - Accelerated 360), Dunchan pophum (Managing Director - Total Search Solutions), Michael Caselli (Editor in Chief - Lyceum Publishing)

Many Thanks to you all for your trust and loyalty!