Guide To Affiliate Marketing

WidgetBucks

A lot of people are now using WidgetBucks (seems it’s a very popular alternative to google adsense) and until January 15th new accounts will receive a $25 sign up bonus.

There are three ways to make money from WidgetBucks:

1. PPC, or Pay-Per-Click ads. Each time a user from the U.S. or Canada clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, you get paid.
2. CPM, or Cost-Per-Thousand Impressions. When a user from outside the U.S. and Canada views one of your pages that contains a CPM ad from one of WidgetBucks’ ad partners, you earn revenue.
3. Referrals. When you refer a new WidgetBucks user, you will receive a 10* percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people you refer. You’ll receive this 10 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins.

* Also starting January 15, we are modifying our referral structure for new accounts from 10 to 5 percent. It’s important to emphasize this only impacts new accounts (Jan. 15 or later) and does NOT impact existing accounts — which will continue to earn the 10 percent referral fee for the full 12 months after the new member joins.

I’ve only just started using this myself so I can’t personally guarantee it to others, though I have heard good things about it (from both US and International Affiliates), but I’d be happy to hear more opinions on it.

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Earn $$ with WidgetBucks

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Promote Ebay Products With Auction Ads

If you’re looking for a simple way to promote a variety of ebay products then Auction Ads is for you.

Currently new Auction Ads publishers receive $25.00 to their account balance when they first sign up (which puts you well on the way to receiving your first payout). Once signed up it’s simply a matter of creating your new campaign - you can have as many different ones as you want covering as many different sites as you want - choosing your related keywords (or selecting the automatic popular keywords) and then pasting the code where ever you want within your own site or blog.

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Make Money With Amazon

One of the most popular affiliate programs to join is Amazon. By becoming an associate no matter what topic your website covers there is bound to be a related product you can sell.

Below are some videos that cover different aspects of being an Amazon Affiliate. The first shows how to sign up.

This video shows how to create your own product links

This video covers creating your own aStore:

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Keeping Track Of Where Your Customers And Sales Are Coming From

When it comes to promoting or selling affiliate products or programs you need to be able to keep track of where your sales have come from, how many people have viewed or clicked on your product before a sale was made and to know what ad works and what doesn’t.

Depending on what it is you’re promoting there is a variety of ways you can do this; from the general stat counter on a webpage to free or paid tracking programs, it will also depend on what it is you’re selling or promoting as to how you can track it. Some programs/products do it for you, others you need to create specific links etc.

To the right of the page I’ve just added Track That Ad (there is a free and pro version) which enables you to give your chosen affiliate link a code that it can then keep track of for you. There are other ways to do this and I’ll add some more later, but I wanted to also share this video which is a great guide to tracking ClickBank clicks and sales

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What Is Affiliate Marketing? - A Quick Video

A quick introduction to what affiliate marketing is

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Promote All ClickBank Products In One Place

When it comes to promoting Clickbank Products there is a variety of ways you can do it. From entering the marketplace, choosing your chosen product, creating your hoplink and adding to your site - to affiliate programs that do all that work for you you only need to add one link and your clickbank id.

One such site is cbtopsites - has over 20000 listings. Each listing has 4 links ( Title link, Thumbnail image link, Tell friends link, Bookmark link etc.). So, there are over 80000 links in the mall.

Each link in your mall makes you money.

You can see an example of the mall here or you can link to individual categories related to your web page/blog an example here

cbtopsites is well worth taking a look at - for those times you don’t want to promote just one item. Find out more here: cbtopsites

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Promote And Sell Ebooks And Software

Many website or blog owners that consider promoting chosen affilitate products often start with ClickBank. Not only will you find a wide range of products covering nearly every topic you can think of, to a certain extent they do all the work for you. All you need to do is find the product you want to promote and add it to your site.

When you join ClickBank as an affiliate you then simply go to the marketplace find your product and create a link (hoplink) this is the product’s sales page and your affiliate link. You then add it to your site. ClickBank handles all payments, deliveries and if necessary refunds. You as the affiliate get paid anywhere up to 75% of the sale and payment is made on a fortnightly basis.

ClickBank is free to join and you can do so here. While you can refer others to the program if they sign up as an affiliate you won’t actually receive anything for it.

ClickBank is also a great way for those of you who are creative enough to create your own product - if you’ve written an ebook for example you can in turn add it to the marketplace (there are fees involved) and have others sell your product for you.

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Get Paid For Every Visitor To Your Site

Finally there is a way to earn revenue on 100% of your website traffic by tapping into a network of big name advertisers.

This is something that has been around for a few years now but is now being opened to website publishers across the globe, it’s an innovative technology that is bigger than radio, television, newspapers and all other forms of advertising combined!

You can get a lot more information here: Pay Per Play

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Choosing And Promoting Affiliate Programs

When it comes to earning online many people choose to promote one affiliate program or another (or a combination depending on their requirements) the problem comes with knowing what will be best suited to each individuals needs: the time they have, their chosen subject (niche) how much help the program provides etc.

All too often people join something because they hear a lot about it or see others promoting it so assume it must be a good thing so join only to find it’s not what they were after or they just can’t compete with the countless others offering the same thing.

When it comes to choosing the right program for you there are a few things to take into account and that’s where this blog comes in. It’s my hope that by not only reviewing programs I use, or at least have some knowledge of, along with tools and tips I’ve encountered along the way to best help promote your chosen affiliate program(s) it won’t be long before you’re well on your way to becoming a respected affiliate marketer and earning the income you deserve.

As time progresses I will cover a wide variety of different affiliates but at all times before joining anything (whether it’s something I recommend or not) I suggest you take the time to learn as much about it as you can; make sure it offers the help you need, you can make contact with the program owners (either via email, support desk, forum etc), check whether they provide you with additional training or offer a variety of promotional materials etc. That’s just some of what you should be on the look out for, more will be covered in later posts.

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