This is a guest post from Joan Pasay, a nutritional therapist who runs the site Powerinthegroup.com to help women around the world prevent diabetes. Joan uses Geniuslink to keep this site accessible to all, free of cost.

This is a guest post from Joan Pasay, a nutritional therapist who runs the site Powerinthegroup.com to help women around the world prevent diabetes. Joan uses Geniuslink to keep this site accessible to all, free of cost.
This is a guest post from FE International, a professional website broker that provides M&A advisory services for mid-market -commerce, SaaS and content businesses. This post outlines the five factors that affect the value of an affiliate business from their advisory standpoint.
Affiliate marketing as a business model has now been established for over 20 years. It’s one of the primary ways industry leaders such as Amazon, eBay, and TripAdvisor, drive traffic to their sites. In return for funneling a customer to an e-commerce site, such as Amazon, the affiliate site is paid a commission on a resulting customer purchase. If you are one of several million affiliate site owners around the world, you may be earning a decent income–but how do you increase the sale value of your business?
Aside from the obvious benefits of growing your revenue, increasing the overall value of your affiliate business will help attract potential buyers. At FE International, we can help you take the steps necessary to make your business saleable, provide you with an accurate valuation, and connect you with the right buyers so you can successfully sell your business for its full value.
With over 500 completed deals totalling in the hundreds of millions value wise, we have developed a unique understanding of what buyers look for in affiliate businesses. Buyers are looking for low-risk, sustainable affiliate businesses with a reliable source of income. Below, we provide you with the necessary steps to help optimize your business and turn it into an appealing and valuable business for buyers.
Converting Amazon Associates links on your WordPress site into intelligent, affiliated, and geo-localized links is easier than ever with with our Amazon Link Engine WordPress plugin. It’s been about a year since we first released the plugin, and since then we’ve received some incredible feedback from our clients.
Well, that feedback did not go unheard, and we’re happy to announce two new key features to make the Amazon Link Engine work even harder for you!
2015 is upon us, and although we don’t have our hoverboards or time traveling DeLoreans, this year is shaping up to be monumental for GeoRiot. As we move into the new year and approach our 5th birthday this February, we wanted to take a look back at all of the incredible milestones that you helped us achieve in 2014!
[UPDATED 03/29/16]
It has been over a year since we first asked this question, and even though there still aren’t any definitive answers from YouTube or Amazon, a lot has changed and there are even more examples of people intelligently leveraging affiliate links on their YouTube channels. When used correctly, YouTube affiliate links are a fantastic way to provide even more value to your viewers as well as earn some extra affiliate revenue. In fact, a recent Quora article we found shows that oftentimes this “extra affiliate revenue” can actually be a very significant amount!