[Simon IA Cash]

My interest in affiliate tools is two-fold. Firstly, as affiliate manager here at IA Cash, I'm trying to keep my affiliates as happy as possible, which involves knowing what makes them happy, what makes them tick. Secondly, in the spirit of getting into the head of the affiliate, I've explored what it's like to actually be an affiliate for programs we're partnered with.

As for the blog discussion, I think I may have underestimated just how many are affiliate-run. I've just found that a large proportion have sponsor written all over them. Affiliate-run blogs are more likely to be flexible in their promotion than sponsor-run blogs. As a guy always on the lookout for new, good affiliates, it would be nice to have a centralized network of specifically affiliate-run blogs. But, I suppose, at the end of the day, a blog is a blog and if a post/blog can make a sale, a network will list that blog, sponsor made or not..