Have you monetized your traffic? Have you signed up for Affiliate Programs?

“Affiliate programs? Hmm, What are those?” A good friend of mine who is passionate about cameras and has a blog with good readership exclaimed. What a waste of valuable traffic!

What is Affiliate Program? – A Definition

Affiliate program is a partnership between the merchants such as Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, Circuit City etc. and you, the publisher who places links to these merchant sites strategically on your websites and drive additional traffic to the merchant websites.

Terminology

Pay Per Click: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your website visits merchant’s website.

Pay Per Sale: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your website actually buys the product offered by the merchant.

Pay Per Lead: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your site provides some information to the merchant like his/her email id or fills a form. Essentially, Merchant is getting leads to sell his stuff.

Choosing the right affiliate programs for your site?

First and foremost, it is important to understand that the chances of your visitors clicking on your affiliate links, if the topic is relevant to them, which means your website/page and the affiliate links published should be closely related.

Of course they should offer reliable mechanisms to track: the traffic sent by you, your commissions you earned etc.

In addition to payout that is attractive, I would prefer those that offer good support, those who care for their affiliates. I should be able to get in touch with easily and get responses quickly, if situation demands.

A program that offers cookie duration so that even if your visitor visits a merchant today and purchases a month later, you would still get your commission, would be attractive to me.

Multi-tier programs and programs that offer residual income can also be attractive.

If your topic is regional, you have to make sure that the affiliate program(s) chosen cater to that region.

What’s the best way to find Affiliate Programs for your site?

There are tons of Affiliate Programs out there offering from very attractive to so-so commissions. Which one to pick?

Your time is rather valuable to be checking out each of these merchant websites, making notes etc.

I find Affiliate Directories more useful, with their classification of programs, payout details and more importantly review etc., all available in one place.

You can pick the best affiliate suited for your niche much easily at a directory than on your own. Affiliate Directories help you spend more time concentrating on making your content more useful to your readers.

A few Tips for Success with Affiliate Programs

It is becoming increasingly clear these days that text links are much more successful that banners. A personal endorsement, for a targeted affiliate program with useful informative facts could help tremendously in encouraging the visitors to check out the merchants you promote.

Why do so many affiliates fail in affiliate marketing?

Fundamental and obvious reason for failure is that you are promoting stuff that is not relevant to your visitors.

Lack of conviction: Affiliate program is not just about putting a link. Get involved with a product and try it out if possible. Personal honest reviews help promote the stuff better. Only hard work pays.

If your pages designed with the sole purpose of acting as a commission-earning middleman, beware; search engines can throw your site out. Make sure that you are not a thin affiliate (a website with just affiliate links and banners, but no useful content).

Some fly by night operators take advantage of the minimum payout limits. Be sure to check the credibility of the affiliate program you are joining.

In summary, monetize your website. Let your passion bring in some revenue for yourself. Choose the Right Affiliate Program by browsing Affiliate Directories. Put some effort, get involved with the product you are promoting and increase your revenue.

About the Author:

Jonathan White has been doing affiliate & article marketing for over 4 years. He owns AffiliateSeeking.com – Affiliate / Associate Programs Directory & SimplySearch4it! Articles Marketing Directory

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I believe that all change happens in an instant. I wanted to share with you one story about a decision that I made three years ago that altered everything for me.

About three years ago (June 2003) my wife and I financially hit rock bottom. I was working a summer job as a painter (struggling at nights trying to get my internet business to work). We were bringing in enough money to almost cover our bills.

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Network Marketing Superstar Tim Sales has successfully transitioned his activities from building his own network marketing distributorship to becoming a head trainer for the industry.  With this, Tim has developed his own line of products to help train other distributors and educate prospects.  A quick look at some of his tools include;

- Professional Inviter

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- Brilliant Communicator

- Brilliant Questions

- Professional Presenter (yet to be released)

and other sales and training tools.  Tim Sales has broken the activities of building a Network Marketing business into three main parts.  Invite, Present, Train.  Tim Sale has overlooked a critical activity that would address most Network Marketers problems… and that can be summed up in the question, “What do I when I’ve run out of people to approach?”  So the missing component is the Marketing of the business.

Tim Sales seems to address this by offering a very weak solution.  And that is to Buy leads.  In my humble opinion this is the worst thing you can do if you want to see growth in your business. But perhaps Tim knows this but is also smart enough to know that people are willing to do just about anything to build their business, so he sets up a company that will sell you leads. 

Why is this a Fatal Mistake?  If you have ever spent time and money purchasing leads you will understand how frustrating this process is.  More times than not, people think you are a telemarketer and view you as a pest.  On top of that you are positioning yourself in the place of being ‘needy’.  People are looking for three things when looking for a business opportunity.

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2) A system that is easy to tap into

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See, Tim Sales does not teach you how to market yourself as a leader.  He does not teach you marketing strategies that go beyond you “warm market” (which is basically your friends, family, and everyone 3 feet around you).

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The majority of successful affiliate marketers closely guard their affiliate marketing secrets. This is simply because if everybody was aware of their secret to affiliate marketing success, their secret would not be as effective as they previously were.

Below you will discover three secrets of affiliate marketing prosperity.

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But how can we get a share of all that traffic?

In order to get tons of traffic from article marketing, you have to be consistent. Building website traffic is an on going process and the moment you stop then soon you will see a decrease in the amount of traffic to your websites.

If you have a brand new website, I would suggest you write a minimum of 5 articles per day pertaining to your websites topic. Each of your article should be keyword specific. You keyword should be in your title and at least once for every one hundred words. This will help your article to rank high in the search engines and constantly bring in tons of targeted traffic.

Submit your articles to the top article directories with a link with your keywords pointing back to your website. This is one of the good things about article marketing, you will get a lot of traffic from the article directories and at the same time building backlinks to make your personal websites rank higher.

Once your articles are approved the next ting you want is to bookmark your articles with some of the top social bookmark websites to increase your article ranks in the search engines and thus increasing the amount of targeted visitors to your websites.

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