Promoting My Affiliate Programs. How?Written by Vickie J. Scanlon
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I’m currently in a forum – they give you a webpage, and in back office you are allowed to advertise your services/products of businesses. And trust me, they do read them – and as an added benefit – your links are being picked up by search engines. Yeah, you got it – more traffic. If you want to join for free or just take a look at it, go to my home page at www.myaffiliateplace.biz and register. Ezine and Safelist Advertising -- Ezine advertising and safelist advertising are good methods of advertising. In each case, you have to join their list and follow their rules to submit your ads. If you want to try your hand at safelist advertising, I would suggest that you create a separate free email account on Yahoo. Why? A safelist allows all that have joined to submit their ads to you, as well as, you to them. Here, your subject line is your eye catcher – so choose wisely. Ezine advertising is a very good way to advertise your turnkey site, website, product or service. You have option for free (need to watch for their instructions), and various paid ads. What’s great about ezines? It’s an opportunity to sell to a more targeted market. The more targeted your market, better opportunity to get a sale. Articles – Articles are a great way to get word out about your website and your product or products. However, please make article informative – or you’ll lose your credibility and reader. Search Engine Optimization – If you have a website you should submit to search engines. To review process on how and where, you can go to my site at http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz/Affiliate_Info_SEO_Keyword.htm. Linking – Linking is exchange of your link with that of another webmaster. This can be very beneficial, however, make sure websites that you link to compliment but does not compete with your site. I’ve touched on only some of methods of advertising that you can use to get word out about your product/service or website. The most important thing to remember is to keep your mind and eyes open for new ways to promote your product or service – and do your research.
Vickie J Scanlon has a BBA degree in Administrative Management and Marketing. She left the corporate world as an Reports Programmer, to begin her journey as an Internet Marketer. Visit her site at: http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz for free tools, articles, ebooks, and how to info. or check her blog for additional insights to the Affiliate Business – http://myaffiliateplace.blogspot.com/
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To join an affiliate program, you simply go to site and complete their online application form. Some programs approve you instantly, while others check out your application before it is approved. Once it’s approved, you're given some HTML code that you can cut and paste onto your web page. How do I make my money? Before joining any program, you should probably be aware of different payment programs available. Pay Per Impression Here you are paid according to number of times advertiser's banner is displayed on your site. The amount paid is usually small, but it is easy to earn as everytime a visitor loads page, you earn. The more vistors your site attracts, more you earn. Pay Per Click With this method you’re only paid when visitors click advertiser's banner on your site. It generally pays higher than pay per impression program. You’ll get better results if your banners are carefully selected to suit your target audience. Pay Per Sale or Lead You only earn if your visitors click through banner and buy product or service. Often, to avoid wasting resources in issuing checks for very small amounts, advertisers will accrue amount owed to you until it reaches a certain amount before they pay you. How do they keep track of referrals? Every affiliate banner or link that a visitor clicks on has some type of coding added to URL - this differentiates it from other affiliates' links. The most common means of tracking affiliate links is by "cookies" Cookies are tiny files stored on your computer by a web browser when you click on an advertising link. Cookies are generated to track visitors to websites. This is how they can "remember" what you bought when you visit there again. For an affiliate company, cookie records information on which affiliate referred visitor to company, and when. As some computer users block or delete cookies, there are other methods used to track referrals. For example, CGI-based scripts related to individuals affiliate code attached to URL links and database matching algorithms are used. Second tier programs A two tier program allows you as an affiliate to sign up other affiliates under you. You earn a smaller commission on referrals or sales that arise from their advertising efforts as well as your own. This costs you far less time and money for each sale if some of them aren't yours. In effect, you have your own sales force and pay a commission to your sub-affiliates. Except that commission comes out of affiliate company's profits rather than yours.The affiliate company benefits by a possible exponential growth of its sales force for no more effort on its part - you're providing that. It’s not hard to recruit people under you in two tier programs. A second level can be a great advantage to you as an affiliate. Even if you only spread word amongst friends and family, you never know when someone who signs up under you will really take off. They could earn you a lot by their own efforts in spreading word about a program. You might not get rich, but you'll get some welcome extra income. A multi tier affiliate program builds on concept of a two-tier program. Not only can you earn from sub-affiliates, but you can also earn from their sub-affiliates, and perhaps their sub-affiliates. With a two tier program, you have an incentive to sign up sub-affiliates. A multi-tier program gives you incentive to help your sub affiliates sign up others. Is it for me? If you have a website then there’s guaranteed to be an affiliate program to suit your needs and audience. For minimal effort you can make your website earn money, even while you’re happily sleeping. Perhaps it won’t make you a fortune overnight. And it’s true that no-one hands you money for doing nothing. But with some careful thought and planning, choosing an affiliate program that fits in with YOUR website and sells products that YOU are confident in is a straightforward way of increasing YOUR income. And it costs you nothing.
Shanon Lewis is a web marketing specialist with over 7 years of search engine placement, e-mail marketing and affiliate management experience. She is part of the expert team at affiliateprograms.com, the premiere affiliate programs directory online.
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