3 Easy Ways To Succeed With Your Affiliate Programs
by B.Delepierre
For a lot of webmasters affiliate programs are the largest income generated
by their website. Advertising revenue isn't always very high as
only few webmasters generate thousands of pageviews a day.
Affiliate programs are a wonderful way to earn money as long as you keep some
things in mind. Let me tell you the things I have learned the hard
way using affiliate programs.
When your site had been designed and you want to start using affiliate
programs you probably wondered where to start. Presuming you know
the principles of affiliate marketing , you still will be confronted
with a lot of questions.
1. Target is the keyword.
A very common remark that I hear from visitors is they don't know
which programs they have to put on their site in order to make good
revenue. Know that the choice of your affiliate programs is the most important
aspect of your affiliate marketing strategy. I sometimes see sites
where the webmasters have put advertisements on their pages that
I'm really not interested in. Lately I met a webtools site that
promoted Italian clothes. It's useless to put ads on your site that
people aren't interested in.
You don't know what their interests are you say ? It's simple !! They
visit your site so they are interested in what your site has to
offer. Remember this and exploit it ! Add offers to your site that
are related to the content of your site. You will get a much better
response than with non-targetted ads. continuing the example of
the webtools site it would be much better to put an ad for a webhost
than the clothing ad. Our site has a search-engine
that lists over 1000 merchants. Just insert a key-word and you will
find the most relevant merchant programs.
2. Get people to click.
Once you have chosen relevant affiliate programs you need to get as much
people as possible to click the ad. It's important that people want
to click the ad so don't start using popups or other forced clicks.
There are some tips I can give you to get more click-troughs :
* Notice that text-links have a much higher click-trough ratio than
advertising banners. Nowadays most surfers now that you are paid
if they click on it and this will prevent them to click it sometimes.
Text-links give the impression that these links are good additions
to your site and you don't have any profit from it.
* Don't be afraid to use more affiliate programs on one page, especially
when you use text links. Stuff your page with interesting links
and mix it with as much paid links as possible. Remember to put
your paid links on top of your page so people will more likely be
confronted with them.
* Market your affiliate program ! Make sure that you convince your
visitors that the respective service or shop is really a must for
them. Be honest and tell it as if you were talking to a good friend
* If the affiliate program that you promote offers the possibilty
to insert dynamic content, use that ! Statistics have proven that
affiliate programs score much better if you can interact with it
on the site you're at.
3. The don'ts of affiliate marketing
Don't forget that you want your site to be reputable. That's why I can
strongly advise you not to use following techniques to get more
money.
* Don't promote services that you don't want to be assiociated with.
Some affiliate programs can be very questionable. Remember that
your site will be associated with the links they provide. Make sure
you use quality programs. If you are looking for quality merchants
you can take a look at
our top 10 where we have selected the merchants that are reliable
and are good to make you money.
* Don't promote offers that are equal to your service or content of
your site : Find as many complementary services to your site and
add these merchant programs.
* Don't ever spam a service. This can give you a lot of legal trouble
as you are promoting a third party. Aso you have to recall that
your reputation on the internet will be ruined.
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