Handling out of stock products automatically
A sold-out product at the top of a round-up wastes the click and costs you the reader.
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Rui Correia
Articles on affiliate marketing, link monetisation, and publisher revenue strategies from the Squirrel team.
Articles by Rui Correia
Making Squirrel widgets match your site
Fonts, colours, corners, spacing. Build as many styles as you like, point them at whichever widgets you want, and change your mind later without touching a single article.
Paste a retailer link, get live prices from everyone else
You've got a link to one retailer. Squirrel finds the same product everywhere else.
How to find your Rakuten affiliate ID and link your account with Squirrel
Learn how to find you Rakuten affiliate ID and set up your account with Squirrel
Affiliate marketing: tips and tricks
Want to boost your affiliate marketing revenue? Squirrel is here to help by giving you some tips and tricks of the trade.
Introducing Squirrel 2.0
New features available from today
Why publishers should monetise international traffic
A reader in Germany clicking a UK link earns you nothing. Here's what to do about it.
The affiliate networks UK publishers actually use
Not a ranking. A working guide to which network covers what, and which ones you'll end up holding.
Affiliate links for publishers: how they actually work
The mechanics, the money, and the bits nobody explains until you've already got it wrong.
Black Friday marketing tips and making the best offers
Pick up a few extra tips for your Black Friday marketing success
Black Friday for publishers: what to prepare and when
Black Friday 2026 is 27 November. Most of the work that matters happens in October.
Connecting a Howl account to Squirrel
Still supported, and still worth connecting if you have an account. Some history worth knowing first.
Matching products by make and model, not just by code
When you haven't got an ASIN or an EAN, you've usually still got a name. That's enough.
What is Little Squirrel?
Meet our little Squirrel, one of our most unique and efficient ways of profiting from your online content
How to sign up to FlexOffers as a publisher
Two verification steps, an SMS code and a file on your server. Get both right and you're approved in a couple of days.
Rakuten publisher login: where to sign in and sign up
The login is publisher.rakutenadvertising.com. Here's the rest of it, including what the move to Impact means for your account.
How to sign up to Impact as a publisher
Impact's front door is built for brands. Publishers get pushed to a demo form. Here's the route that actually works.
digidip for publishers: how to get an invite
digidip doesn't have a sign-up button. Here's how it actually works, and who owns it now.
Using Skimlinks alongside Squirrel
You don't have to choose. Here's how to connect an existing Skimlinks account - and the subdomain cUsing Skimlinks alongside Squirrelhange that broke a lot of tracking this year.
How to set up direct affiliate networks in Squirrel
Grow your affiliate network by integrating your affiliate partners within Squirrel
Amazon Product Advertising API is retired: what to do now
PA-API stopped answering on 15 May. If your product data has quietly gone missing, this is why - and here's what replaced it.
How to sign up to Awin as a publisher
Awin's sign-up asks for an invitation code and a refundable deposit. Neither is explained well. Here's what they actually are.