Affiliate Programs
- affiliate programs explained
- tips for success with affiliate programs
- top affiliate programs recommended
You create and promote your webpage while your affiliates maintain the hardware and programming to deal with the customers, including customer support, credit card approval and billing. You get regular information about your results as well as graphics and text to use on your page. And best of all, you get regular checks in the mail.
Some affiliate programes have two tiers. These are the webmasters' dream opportunity, a referral program where you not only get commissions from selling products from your own site, you can also make a percentage of the commission earned by any webmaster you refer to the program.
Some affiliate programs require that you have a minimum number of visitors to your site before you can join; many of them exclude "adult" content sites from their programs; and almost all ban "spamming" (unsolicited email) as a promotion method.
But there are now so many affiliate programs available that you are sure to find ones that suit you. Choose which affiliate programs you want to join, which products you wish to sell, and let your affiliate companies put you on the fast track to e-commerce success.
The first thing to do is to bookmark this page so you can find it again when you need it. Then, take a look at some of the affiliate programs we recommend below, and others you find from your own searching. Select products and programs that are going to be interesting to the visitors who come to your site. You could promote books on the subject covered by your webpage. If your site is about antiques or collectibles, you could promote an auction site. If your site is about fitness and health, you could promote fitness publications and fitness products. Use your imagination. What kind of things do your visitors spend money on?
They say that if a visitor to your site doesn't click on something in the first three times they see it, then they are not going to. So change the graphics regularly, and promote different things.
Keep a check on the affiliate program results, especially at the start. They can make mistakes and you could lose money. Don't hesitate to tell your affiliate contact if you have reason to think their results are wrong. Mostly my experience is that they get it right; but one program I joined kept losing my referrals until I pointed this out and they corrected it.
ValueClick is a pay per click affiliate program paying up to 17 cents for every click from your site on a graphic link to a ValueClick client. You can choose the categories of banners that are shown on your site, and exclude any you do not want. They have over 11000 sites hosting their banners, and dozens of paying advertisers waiting to advertise on your site. In addition they have a referral program where you can earn one cent for every click from a site that you refer to ValueClick. This program has worked very well for us. Click here to join now.
Commission Junction pays per click, lead, or sale with over 500 merchant advertisers for you to choose from. You choose the banners you want to display, or use text links (which are much more effective). You can also earn 5 cents for every visitor you send to Commission Junction itself. They have good on-line reports so you can keep track, and they pay regularly. Click Here
to join Commission Junction
