If you are adding affiliate banners or text links to your site, then best thing to do is for you to add affiliate links or banners to your site that is on same topic as other information on your web page. By doing this, you will not want to add too many affiliated banners or text links as it will just look like a page of links and will only turn your visitors away, about three affiliated links should be enough depending on how large web page is.

Another important aspect in affiliate marketing is advertising. You can't expect to add affiliate material to your site and expect to receive sales straight away. If you have no traffic coming to your site, then you will not get any sales. Infact, directly advertising affiliate links or adding affiliate links to your website and advertising that is probably one of most important things that you will need to do to have any chance of succeeding. This is because more you promote your affiliate link or site that contains affiliate links, then more clickthru's your affiliate links are likely to receive, which is then most likely to result in more sales.

Is there any question? The truth is, I have never read a critical review of Site Build It from someone who sells it. Why would you be objective about a product if you stand to make money every time it is sold?

In fact, this is an unwritten rule about web marketing products. No criticism. Ever. I'm sure just fact that I dare mention "critical review" and a product name in same sentence will draw gasps of disbelief. But, truth is I think Site Build It is a really good program. Not perfect (gasp!). But a lot better than than almost anything else I've seen.

As a result of Mini Guru's utter dependence on sales of products like this, it is virtually impossible to get objective third party information about them.

Do you see what a beautiful system this is for enterprising marketers? Create a product. Make it available to affiliates. Offer a handsome commission. And no one (except poor suckers who buy it) will ever say a negative word about your product again.

Do affiliates mislead their own customers?

In fact, it gets worse. Not only are affiliates uncritical about products, but they can be downright misleading in their praise of them.

For instance, I was recently searching for an autoresponder program, and because I was an affiliate for Cory Rudl's products, I thought I would try his much-hyped program called "My Email Manager". One of reviews I read about product praised it up and down and gave it a glowing "five star" rating.

After struggling with My Email Manager for a week or so I concluded it was a turkey. It just didn't do things it claimed it could do. The product promotion was clearly misleading, and review I had read bore no resemblance to my experience. I doubt very much whether this person had actually tried program.

But that's how affiliate system works.