Blogs You Should Subscribe To

As with any business, you need to completely surround yourself in affiliate marketing knowledge to stay up to date and learn new tips you may not have learned before.

Each and every morning, I get up, check my email (of which a good amount are blog updates). I love to check these blog updates because I can often find nice new gems of knowledge in them! Granted, every blog writer needs to write some fluff posts (Refer to my political post a few posts back...) that really don't benefit you. What I like to say is Eat the meat, chuck the bone... Which means take in the good stuff and throw away / ignore the bad and pointless posts.

That being said, I'd say there are about 15-20 blogs I am subscribed to that I read on a constant basis. Most of these blogs have great material. Some have better than others and the list I am about to give you is not in any particular order.

So without further ado:

CDF Networks - Chad doesn't post very frequently (because he's too busy rockin' it) but when he does post, they are always of good quality. His blog has given me the most "Aha!" moments where something clicked. A recent good post of his was theming your landing page... You can read it on his blog... Very good stuff.
http://adwords.blogspot.com/ - If you use adwords, you need to be subscribed to this blog. It's not even a question of if... you just need to. There are always helpful updates and you're always the first to know about the latest and greatest with adwords... very important seeing as a large portion of your traffic probably comes from adwords if you're anything like me.
Jonathan Volk - Some cool guy that talks about AzoogleAds way too much... You should subscribe to his blog for sure. (hahahaha)
UberAffiliate.com - Paul is a smart guy and usually has some really useful tips. I used a tip on his blog back in the day when I was doing ringtones to make at least 5-7k extra in revenue. Yea... So worth reading through his posts to see the tips. He also has an amazing guide at UberCamp.com which gives newbies a complete course that they can go through...
Shoemoney.com - While Shoemoney doesn't provide useful tips as much anymore, he does usually do a great job at getting large industry news out before anyone else. Another thing I enjoy about Jeremy's blog is that he usually provides insight as to how he looks at this as a business instead of an "internet thing." Because he is the one making multi-millions, I like to learn how he does it from him... and not someone who isn't making anything.
Cash Tactics - Usually has some good information... specially enjoy some of the older posts. A great wealth of information there.
NickyCakes - NickyCakes is simply the king of linkbait. He is also a great guy but more importantly he releases juicy insider secrets all the time on his blog that always make me cringe when I see them. ~95% of his posts are useful which is a much higher percentage than many!
Affiliate Confession - Alan is someone I respect a lot. Although he is just learning PPC, I think he probably has single handedly written more posts on BANS than ANY OTHER PERSON EVER. Seriously... if you want to make some income not using PPC, BANS is a great way to go and he will teach you virtually everything you need to know in his previous posts! Don't waste your money on an ebook. Seriously. I also enjoy the fact that he seems to take time with his posts and usually includes images that are well suited for the post.
Justin Dupre - Justin is newer to the affiliate marketing game than pretty much all of the guys above but when it comes social marketing, he really provides some great tips! I've learned a thing or two about my social media advertising.
Neils Web - Neil is the king of facebook advertising posts. If you're trying to learn to advertise on facebook, read through his old posts. Though the blog has been dead for 23 days now, the old content is still relevant and worth reading...
[NOT A BLOG] WickedFire.com - *WARNING* - Wickedfire is filled with people who will literally RIP you apart if you ask or say anything stupid so I would not go there if you're a newbie... or stupid. Lots of great information about affiliate marketing in the affiliate marketing section so it's worth checking out.

EDIT:

Some others I remembered:

Matt Marcin - Matt doesn't write much but the posts he does have are really good info.
PPC.bz - Sometimes it's just nice to have a laugh at some of the things going on in the industry. I like the sense of humor this guy has.
5 Star Affiliate Blog - How could I forget Linda's blog? This is THE authority blog for affiliate blogs.

I'm sure there are more I am missing but can't think any more tonight. Post your favorite blogs that I have not mentioned here too!

~JV