Affiliate Marketing – The Basics
Imagine that you could earn commissions on a popular brand-name product just by placing a link on your website or in your email. That, my friends, is “Affiliate Marketing”!
OK… So it’s not quite that simple, but it doesn’t have to be much more complicated either.
Let’s start with a few definitions. An advertiser, or merchant, is the company who is selling a product. An affiliate, sometimes referred to as a publisher or partner, is another person or company who assists in the promotion of the product and earns a commission for doing so. (That could be you!) In between is the account management service that partners the advertisers with the affiliates and keeps track of the sales and commissions.
If you want to become an affiliate, you first need to choose either a product you want to sell , or an account management service. You will end up with both, but the choice of one will determine the choice for the other. If you choose the product first, the advertiser will direct you to the account management service that they already work with. If you choose the account management service first, they will provide you with a list of merchants that they do business with.
To see if your favorite product or company offers an affiliate program, go to their website and check the menu bar or the bottom of the screen. Look around for the word “affiliate”. Click on that link, read about their program and requirements, and fill out their application. Some companies require specific types of websites to place their links on. They will email you all you need to know to get started.
If you don’t know what specific product you would like to promote, or if you want to promote several, I recommend browsing here.
Try to stick to products or ideas that you are familiar with and passionate about. It will be much easier to market to your visitors if you can add value to the link you want them to click on. Personal recommendations or stories will get way better results than just a banner or solo text link. give them a reason to “click here!!
Welcome to the world of Affiliate Marketing! and Good luck with your new venture!
Posting Spam comments on this Blog!
Please read this; all comments are MODERATED so the spam that keeps getting posted here will not see the light of day!
You’re wasting your time even if it is only 2 minutes with $17 automated scraping software (yes I have seen the software would I use it? NO! NEVER! Are you really that lame!), are you really that desperate to create a few back links that you feel spamming is the right way to go about it?
On a good day we are seeing in the region of 50 – 80 comments – unfortunately I value my time and I delete the lot after seeing the first 30 or so is purely spam.
I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise to the genuine people who may have had their comments deleted with the rest of the trash
I will cover ethical link building in the next few weeks it appears there is great need for it, then again I doubt the people who are actively doing this will not even read an ethical way to create back links as it involves in giving some quality information and also doing a bit more than pumping rubbish into a cheap bit of software!
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