Gov. Bill Ritter criticized Amazon’s decision Monday to end its affiliate marketing program with Colorado residents over a new tax proposed by Gov. Ritter, passed by the legislature and signed by the governor: “Amazon has taken a disappointing – and completely unjustified – step of ending its relationship with associates. While Amazon is blaming a new state law for its action, the fact is that …

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - 03/10/10) - Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that the agenda has been finalized for the April 15-16, 2010 Amsterdam Casino Affiliate Convention . The event will have a strong focus on niche SEO for online gaming. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the primary marketing method chosen among most affiliates for successful marketing an online gaming site. In …

Las Vegas (3/08/10) — Affiliate brokerages of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World ? ( www.LeadingRE.com ) representing annual sales production of $280 billion convene this Tuesday through Thursday, March 9-11, at the Encore at Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas for LeadingRE’s annual conference.

UK start-up Skimlinks has developed a new tool to help US and UK publishers make better use of affiliate marketing on their websites. The new desktop application powered by Adobe Air, SkimKit , will provide publishers and bloggers with a searchable database of products with an affiliate link and image that they can include as part of an article about that item.

Experience Advertising, the leading outsourced affiliate program management agency or OPM, has again been rated the top affiliate marketing company by TopSEOs.com, an independent online marketing review company.

Bullion Exchange International’s new affiliate plan offers participants opportunity to earn up to 30 percent commission on sales of luxurious gold and silver products.

Behavior-based marketing solutions provider Catalina Marketing has scored a big win. The company, which specializes in precision marketing and shopper-driven media, has tapped former Google exec Chris Henger to run its Digital Services business unit. Henger joins Catalina Marketing from Google’s Affiliate Network business, originally part of the Google acquisition of DoubleClick in 2008 and …

I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people (well, since I don’t have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source of valuable contacts). Today I am happy to feature the interview with one of the marketers who has always been someone I’ve looked up to. Geno Prussakov is a well-known affiliate marketing expert, author and … Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search …

One of the most fundamental but little discussed challenges to affiliate marketing is payments. Alex Mifsud, CEO of EntroPay sheds some light on the payment problems facing the industry and explains why it’s worth spending time on getting it right.

AOL Inc. has sold its affiliate marketing business, Buy.at, for an undisclosed price to Digital Window Ltd., which runs a network of affiliate marketing sites. Such sites steer customers to e-commerce sites in exchange for a cut of sales.