There are three main types of affiliate marketing. These three types are Pay Per Click (PPC), Pay Per Sale, and Pay Per Lead.
1. Pay per click affiliate marketing is perhaps the easiest type of affiliate marketing to get started in. Google Adsense is a prime example of affiliate marketing and is a very good way to make money online. Basically, you get paid every time someone clicks on an advertisement on your website. The earning potential is limitless, but depends on how much web traffic that you receive. A site with more traffic and well placed ads can make hundreds or thousands of dollars everyday. In order to make that kind of money, you would need to have a very large and popular website.
2. Pay Per Sale affiliate marketing is usually structured on a commission style pay. You earn a percentage of each sale that you generate for a company. The easiest programs to utilize this type of affiliate marketing with are Amazon Affiliates and Clickbank. You can review or recommend products from these sites and then post your affiliate link. If someone clicks the link and buys the product, then you are paid a percentage of that sale. You may decide to pay for advertising if you want to focus solely on this type of affiliate marketing. You can utilize Google Adwords to attract targeted traffic to these reviews or recommendations to get some sales. I have successfully started a number of websites that have just affiliate links with reviews of the products and have made money from it too. Adwords will be discussed in more detail in another article.
3. Pay Per Lead affiliate marketing involves getting people to sign up for a free trial of a service or just simply signing up on a website. You may get $0.01 to $10 or more for each lead that you may generate for a company. These types of programs are more on a company by company basis rather than having a program like clickbank. However, there is one program that comes to mind that covers both Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead. This program is Commission Junction. Commission Junction or CJ is a great resource for website owners and bloggers who want to promote real, tangible items rather than the informational and digital items on clickbank. CJ allows you to get paid a percentage of each sale that you generate for a company and for generating leads for different companies or services. CJ is definitely something to look into.
This should provide you with a brief but informative idea of what Affiliate Marketing is all about. There is A LOT of money to be made in affiliate marketing. If you haven't done so already, make your own free blogger blog or Google pages site and get started making money.
Monday, September 22, 2008
The basics of Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the biggest earners for site owners and bloggers. You are an affiliate if you promote a product, link to a program/item or even have Google adsense ads on your site.
There are a few main affiliate marketing programs that you can join to make money through your website or blog.
1. Clickbank. Clickbank is a very easy way to make a commission on referred products. Clickbank focuses solely on informational items and digital items such as software. If you have an established site or blog, you could simply put in an affiliate link at the end of a relevant post and get a few sales from doing just that. You can create individual links for every item. The earning potential is endless.
2. Google adsense. Adsense is probably the easiest affiliate marketing program to become a part of. Whenever someone clicks on an Adsense ad on your website, you get paid. If you have 500 unique visitors every day and get 25 people to click on the ads, you could get anywhere between 25 cents and $50, depending on your subjet area and content.
3. Amazon Affiliates. You can earn money by referring people to amazon.com to buy certain products. Most people will trust amazon.com and are more likely to buy from them than anywhere else. You earn a commission on each item that is sold through your links, much like clickbank.
There are a few main affiliate marketing programs that you can join to make money through your website or blog.
1. Clickbank. Clickbank is a very easy way to make a commission on referred products. Clickbank focuses solely on informational items and digital items such as software. If you have an established site or blog, you could simply put in an affiliate link at the end of a relevant post and get a few sales from doing just that. You can create individual links for every item. The earning potential is endless.
2. Google adsense. Adsense is probably the easiest affiliate marketing program to become a part of. Whenever someone clicks on an Adsense ad on your website, you get paid. If you have 500 unique visitors every day and get 25 people to click on the ads, you could get anywhere between 25 cents and $50, depending on your subjet area and content.
3. Amazon Affiliates. You can earn money by referring people to amazon.com to buy certain products. Most people will trust amazon.com and are more likely to buy from them than anywhere else. You earn a commission on each item that is sold through your links, much like clickbank.
Optimizing Google Adsense to make more money
Google has enabled virtually anyone to make money with adsense. However, just because something is available to you doesn't mean that you will succeed at it. In order to make more money from Adsense, you must optimize your website and your ad placement.
1. You must blend your ads into your website or blog. By blending, I mean making the ads appear as regular links rather than advertisements. People hate being advertised to, so use the same colors of your website in the ads to make the appear as subtle background links.
2. You mustn't overwhelm the page with advertisements. This doesn't mean that you have too many ads, it means that the ads are very visually loud or are too big. Google only permits you to have 3 advertisements per page and they have a system that ensures that only 3 are shown at any given time. Try to blend the ad colors in with the rest of the site and do not have any protruding ads. Always keep the ads small and clean to get the most clicks.
3. The final thing that you must do to make more money is to have TONS of RICH content. Content is the key to getting traffic to your site and is also the key to getting people be interested in the advertisements. Have a goal of writing 1 to 2 large posts per day. Place the advertisements in or below each post in order to get the clicks. Also try to use the MED rectangle, as you may get more clicks with it compared to another format.
3. Place your advertisements in areas that will are the target of your reader's eye. Don't put ads away from the content. The person is visiting the site to read the content, so place the advertisements near the content. Link sidebars are also a great place to put the ads.
1. You must blend your ads into your website or blog. By blending, I mean making the ads appear as regular links rather than advertisements. People hate being advertised to, so use the same colors of your website in the ads to make the appear as subtle background links.
2. You mustn't overwhelm the page with advertisements. This doesn't mean that you have too many ads, it means that the ads are very visually loud or are too big. Google only permits you to have 3 advertisements per page and they have a system that ensures that only 3 are shown at any given time. Try to blend the ad colors in with the rest of the site and do not have any protruding ads. Always keep the ads small and clean to get the most clicks.
3. The final thing that you must do to make more money is to have TONS of RICH content. Content is the key to getting traffic to your site and is also the key to getting people be interested in the advertisements. Have a goal of writing 1 to 2 large posts per day. Place the advertisements in or below each post in order to get the clicks. Also try to use the MED rectangle, as you may get more clicks with it compared to another format.
3. Place your advertisements in areas that will are the target of your reader's eye. Don't put ads away from the content. The person is visiting the site to read the content, so place the advertisements near the content. Link sidebars are also a great place to put the ads.
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