Link Sharing & Affiliate Programs
Links sharers relevant to personal and professional web sites
allow your site to be visited more often by your targeted
consumer. You simply add an advertisement from their site to
yours and link to yours with a description of your site. If you do
not know html you may want to purchase a book and get from
the library. If your site has low priority on the search engine,
then link sharing would increase your sites chances of being
visited more often, by more visitors.
Affiliate programs can be extremely useful. They increase also
visitor return and compensate you for placing ads for their
products on your website. To the right are actual ads supplied
by advertisers. Below is a list of Link Share Networks and
Affiliate Programs:
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide
you with as many tools as
possible for a little as
possible to start your own
home computing business
and be successful.
Commission Junction requires you to sign up as an
advertiser or an affiliate. If you have opened a store, you
may be able to do both.
You may apply directly to the Yahoo Publisher Network
or through Commission Junction.
Google Adsense is similar to Yahoo's Publisher
Network.
Link Share Network Affiliates must open a paydotcom
account and a paypal account. It is the largest affiliate
market on the internet.
Example of a Niche store: Niche Website for sale,
Recipe Script
ABCs of Computing at Home
Link Sharing & Affiliate Programs
Some affiliate and link share programs use aggressive email
marketing and spamming techniques. You have to decide which
program is best suited for your site or you can use more than one.
There are many individual websites that have affiliate programs, it
depends on the content of your site which is best suited.
Placing Ads
Placing ads can be as simple as copy and paste in a form. Others
can be a little bit more complicated but if you follow the advertisers
instructions, you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Some products may have hundreds of affiliates, while others are
extremely limited or non-existent. If you join an affiliate program and
cannot not find the right advertisement, search the Internet. Some
companies do not advertise that they have an affiliate program on the
home page. The ad to the right is the program I use for email
marketing and is very effective!
Note: The more ads you have on your site, the longer it may take to
get a payout. Limit the ads if possible. Some site are nothing but ads,
but they have the luxury of time, great SEOs, pay per clicks, and
several sites. Place the same ads on several pages to get more
exposure. Discuss the product (not by name) to draw their attention
to it.
Affiliate Payouts
Some affiliates pay per click. That means every time someone clicks
on their site from yours, you get paid. This can be get if you have high
traffic but if you have low traffic, it could be a very long time before you
see a payout.
Others pay for referrals, when someone from your site signs up, you
get paid.
Some pay commissions on sales, you need to make sure the
commission is high enough to even consider putting them on your
site (1% is not worth the effort).
Others pay flat rates, so read the conditions. You may only get $0.25
for a fee.
When do I get paid?
Here's where having great content and high traffic matter. If you keep
people on your site long enough to 'see' the ads, most of them will
click on them. While most affiliates want you to clearly state that the
advertisement is an affiliate, you are allowed, most of the time, to
promote products (but not by name) to get them interested. Once they
leave your site, it is up to the advertiser and their products.
Here's what happens then:
Publishers call the ads cash cows. Think of them as jars you are
trying to fill at the state fair. You miss more than you hit, but eventually
the jar is full. Once you have reached the payout limit, which can be
from $10 to $100 depending on the advertiser, then you get paid.