Adsense Vs. Affiliate Programs

Very interesting conversation going on over at WebmasterWorld.com about Adsense Vs. Affiliate Programs I found this topic very interesting with a lot of different views of which is better and why.

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F R E E Affiliate Marketing Mini Courses

Selecting Affiliate Programs
Five day Mini Course on Selecting Affiliate Programs that work for you. This course reveals crucial things you need to review and look for when searching for Affiliate Programs to promote. To recieve your F R E E course simply send a blank email to choosing@sendfree.com or fill out the entry form on the left.


Make More Cash as an Affiliate
This Mini Course is a more intensive six day course. With this course you'll recieve six secrets and how to utilize each of them to make you more cash as an Affiliate Marketer. To recieve your F R E E course simply send a blank email to more_cash@sendfree.com or fill out the entry form on the left.

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Affiliate Tips: Avoiding the "Google Inferno"

By J. T. Stephens
Affiliate Program Manager, Overstock.com

In August, Google made yet another algorithm change, shaking the foundations of the content-based search marketing world. Search engine optimization (SEO) experts believe that this recent change stemmed directly from the over-saturation of duplicate content in Google's listings. As a result of the change, many affiliates who employ a combination of merchant datafeeds and generic SEO strategies to build content pages awoke to find that their previously high organic rankings had plummeted into what I like to call the "Google Inferno".

The "Google Inferno" is the final resting place for irrelevant search engine content, AKA "Results Page 20". In my opinion, affiliates end up in the "Google Inferno" when they fail to build relevant pages or sites. After all, affiliate marketing is a symbiotic relationship: Merchants provide affiliates with important marketing tools (creative, datafeeds, DRMs, etc.) with the understanding that affiliates will in turn deliver new and unique customers. In order to meet merchant expectations and drive sales, affiliates need to incorporate these merchant tools into their own original content, insight, and merchandising strategies.

Affiliates that understand the dynamics of this relationship likely rank favorably because their sites are rich with relevant information. Search engines fiercely compete with one another to provide the best and most pertinent search results on the planet. Therefore, they dutifully police the relationship between affiliates and merchants to ensure that the masses only see sites containing relevant content. Affiliates who employ generic SEO tactics to build duplicate pages fail to add value, and ultimately end up in the Inferno.

My number one piece of advice to affiliates is to focus on adding value, not only to the merchant and to the customer, but to the search engines as well. If you are either a fallen affiliate or just entering the SEO affiliate game, applying simple analytics and some elbow grease to your website may help you secure the ranking you desire.

Click here for four suggestions that might help you meet your SEO ranking expectations...

Top 5 Super Affiliate Tips – What's Your USP?

Top 5 Super Affiliate Tips – What's Your USP?

By Mike Merz

It's a known fact that establishing a USP (unique selling proposition) is an essential part of any business plan ...

But what about your affiliate marketing campaigns?

What makes your promotions unique from the hundreds ... or even thousands of other affiliates pushing the same merchant's products and services?

Well ... nothing, if all you do is cut and paste the same merchant provided ad copy as everyone else, or just toss a bunch of links, banners, and buttons on your site.

What you must do is make yourself stand out ... grab the interest of your prospect, and qualify your offering to meet their needs.

Here's 5 quick tips to get the most out of your affiliate promotions.

1) Learn all about the product/service you're promoting.

The more you know about the object of your promotions, the more credible your promotional content. If you don't own the product, do your best to scour the merchant's site for info that you feel best explains the benefits of it, which leads to number ...

2) Write your own ad copy.

It's the credibility factor again ... you're selling yourself, establishing the bond between you and the prospect, in an effort to win their trust and interest. If you do own the product, or have access to it by permission of the merchant, write a detailed review. You can even use yourself as a case study to provide an eye witness account of the satisfaction potentially derived from using it. If not ... and in addition to your own accounts, list the testimonials of others.

3) Establish a line of communication with the merchant.

You might have to settle for the affiliate program manager, or a related department, but the idea is to try to acquire anything you can, above and beyond what is offered to regular affiliates, that will help you gain a promotional edge. Branded articles, ebooks, special offers, free trials, etc. You might even be able to gain access to the product or service you're promoting if you explain that you'd like to review it for promotional purposes (it can't hurt to ask ..

4) Build a sub list of targeted prospects.

Would you believe that I, personally, have built campaign designated email lists of less than 100 members, that have actually accounted for more sales than my main list ... that goes out to thousands of subscribers?

Why? Laser targeting, my friend.

Offer a campaign related update, course, report, or other form of freebie to attract them.

In addition, you'll now have a ready made list for future promotions made by the affiliate merchant.

5) Search engine optimize your promotional pages.

... for keywords and phrases relevant to your offerings, and run pay per click campaigns targeting the same and comparable terms. The search engines shouldn't, by any means, be your sole source of promotion (email, forum, offline marketing ... to name just a few methods) but they could potentially play an important part. I recommend investing in a course like
Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkin's 'Stomping The Search Engines' (http://im4newbies.com/stomping-search-engines.htm), which covers both SEO and PPC pretty extensively ... and effectively.

Work these 5 tips into your affiliate program promotions, and I'm sure you'll enjoy success.

Sidenote:

If you're participating in a multiple tier affiliate program, and you have access to your downline referrals, make sure you take the time to train them to succeed. Remember ... their succuss is YOUR success!

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Mike Merz is a well known Internet Marketing consultant,
and owner of Internet Marketing For Newbies LLC

http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/portal.php

You are free to reprint this article, as long as it
... and this resource box, remains intact.

Copyright 2004 Internet Marketing For Newbies LLC

SearchFeed.com

Like Google Adsense? Then you just may love SearchFeed.com! This is similar to Adsense because you place ads on your site that matches the content you have on that particular page. (Difference is ... you choose the keywords!) With this program you are not only paid by click-thru but also you can refer other affiliates and earn a commission from what they make! Payments can be set up to be issued via paypal or corporate check. Their visual tools make it very easy to design search boxes, category selections and results that look and feel like the rest of your website. The following are a few of the neat tools available: (Please note links will open in new windows so you don't loose your place)

--->Search Engine Generator (SEG)
With this tool you allow your visitors to search the web without ever leaving your site by simply copying and pasting a basic HTML code. Setting up the search box was as simple as filing out a questionnaire. By answering a handful of simple questions you choose the look and feel of the search box, results page, left menu and the target window of the results page making it match your existing website. You can view an example of a working search box I created here
http://www.mommyshelperonline.com/searchfeed-example.html#example1

--->Category Chaser
If you want to display results from a particular search parameter then the Category Chaser is probably your best tool to use. If your website is about digital cameras you might want to display links pertaining just to this topic. After reading through the brief directions provided, you will simply choose where you wish the categories to be displayed and how many there will be. You can then easily create your own categories or use the ones provided. In addition, you can customize all the colors, fonts and sizes to best match your existing website.

--->Dynamic Feed Creator
This is my favorite tool so far on this site. Here you’ll be able to create your Dynamic Feed. View example here http://www.mommyshelperonline.com/searchfeed-example.html#example2 This creator is really neat. First of all you get to choose options on how you’d like it to look such as background, box width, border width, border color, number of listings displayed, whether or not you want to display the title, title, title color, whether or not you want to display the URL of the listing and of course your keyword phrase.

In the example I showed above, I chose the title Top Pay Per Click Programs (which makes it look less like ads and more like recommendations). I also chose pay per click programs for my keyword phrase.

In this second example http://www.mommyshelperonline.com/searchfeed-example.html#example3 I chose the title Top Work at Home Websites and work at home websites for the keyword phrase. To create this box I simply looked through the code found where the title and keywords were placed and replaced them with the new ones. This is a great little tip for those who are a bit more experienced (don’t have to be too much) with HTML.

Overall I’m impressed with SearchFeed.com and will most definitely be replacing some of my Adsense ads with these. I like the way the ads in the Dynamic Feed can be made to look more like recommendations than ads themselves. I believe this will increase my Click Thru Rate (CTR). I also like that you choose the keywords. Unlike some other sites that match the ads to your content on your page, which often they match up well but occasionally, they do not.

You don’t have to be an expert in programming or HTML for any of the examples I listed above. SearchFeed.com’s concept is simply answering questions and copying and pasting HTML codes into your websites. Their site was very easy for me to navigate. Everything is explained in easy to understand words and visual aids throughout the entire process.

This is a two-tiered program from which you can refer other affiliate marketers and advertisers to join and in turn receive a commission. For referring new partners (affiliates) you receive 2 – 5 % of the net revenue generated by them. For referring new advertisers a commission of 5 – 7% of the advertisers initial deposit is earned. You can track searches, clicks and the amount of money you’ve earned through their online reporting tools. There are a wide range of text, banner and button links available to attract both partners and advertisers.

Click here to Join SearchFeed.com

Affiliate Link Hijackers

What are Affiliate Link Hijackers??

These are people who can steal your affiliate commission right out from under you! Most people purchase items through affiliate links and never give it another thought. Others sometimes aren't so nice.

"Link Hijackers" can do one of two things to steal your commission.

--->Sign up as an affiliate themselves and replace your affiliate link with theirs.
--->Find and delete your affiliate link completely.

Both these methods irritate me so much as I'm a "Give Credit where Credit is Due" kind of gal. This person spent the time reviewing the product/service or could have even spent money to adverise it. If someone I trusted recommended a product/service to me I'd be glad to give them click or sale for their effort.

So, as an affiliate marketer what can we do to protect our links?

One option is to hide the link in a page on your site that redirects visitors to your affiliate link using a simple java script. (Note: This also nice to use when writing articles or placing ezine ads.) Here's an example of a working redirected page: (All links will open new windows so you won't loose your place)

http://www.mommyshelperonline.com/web-hosting.html

You'll notice at first that the above link is in your address bar. Then eventually the affiliate link shows up. The actual link is:

https://www.securepaynet.net/gdshop/rhp/default.asp?se=%2B&prog%5Fid=mommyshelperonline&pl%5Fid=110387

Notice, they both go to the same page but you can easily cut off my affiliate link portion of it and then I'd loose the commission. Not to mention, if you were writing an article or placing an ad in an ezine. Which link do you think would look better? You can get free java scripts almost anywhere. Do a quick search and you'll be sure to find one.

Another option would be to use TinyURL.com. With this option you simply mask the affiliate link and make it smaller. Using the same long URL above with TinyURL.com can give you a link that looks like this:

http://tinyurl.com/6bjex

Again, the URL is shorter but, when the new page comes up. Your affiliate link is again revealed. Leaving it as live bait for hijackers.

Now, one of the best options would be to use Affiliate Link Cloaker With this software you can both decrease the size of your URL and when the visitor arrives at your page through your link your affiliate link isn't revealed!

Here's an example of a link before and after Affiliate Link Cloaker

Before
http://hop.clickbank.net/?mommyshelp/nocost

After
http://ebookfire.com/nc.html

Notice, no where is there an affiliate link exposed and the much shorter URL! My opinion would be that the best option is definitely Affiliate Link Cloaker

No matter what option you choose...Save your commission and stop the hijackers!

AffiliateFuel.com

Upon approval from AffiliateFuel.com I received two welcome emails. The first one of course was from the company welcoming me and supplying me with my username, password, log in instructions, phone number and business hours. The second however, was my welcome email from own personal account manager! She was basically welcoming me and letting me know how to ‘fill up’ and start my campaigns. She mentioned a ‘tune up’ section where I can see a conversion table of the offers currently performing the best. My account manager even placed a personal note to let her know what types of offers work best on my site and she’ll be sure to point me in the right direction. Based on the welcome letter (which made me feel just that) alone…I’m looking forward to diving right into this site and find all there is to know!

Once I logged into my account the very first thing I see when I ‘drive in’ is “Hello, Anita! Your total revenue this month is $.00 Your total revenue today is $.00." (First of all I must say…I can’t wait to increase those totals!) I thought this was a nice touch. I liked the fact that all I had to do was log right into my account and see quickly exactly where I stood. Not too much searching just to find out if I can expect a check or not ;)

“Fill Up Station”
Here I found basically what I would call a search engine device to find exactly the right programs for me. First there was a link to “All Offers” and “Top Email Offers”. Then a more categorized listing to choose from. Categories included the following:

--->Automotive
--->Computers & Internet
--->Family
--->Health & Fitness
--->Magazines & Books
--->Small Office/Home Office
--->Business
--->Education
--->Free Stuff
--->Hobbies
--->Real Estate
--->Travel
--->Careers
--->Entertainment
--->Games
--->Investing & Finance
--->Shopping
--->Woman

Upon clicking on one category I was taken to another page listing all the available offers listed there. At a first glance I must say I was a bit over-whelmed because I had only seen a list of links and a bunch of graphics beside each in a chart form. After taking a better look I found the graphic legend below ;)

Details! I personally LOVE Details! These little graphics that I was referring to give you a quick run down of what each program involves such as:
--->This offer is pay per lead.
--->This offer is pay per sale.
--->This offer is pay per click.
--->This offer is amongst the highest converting on the network. :)
--->This offer has text email copy.
--->Banner code is available for this offer.
--->Code is not currently available for this offer.
So, in essence you can take a look at the legend and then look down over the list for just the types of offers you’re looking for! (A++ Feature!)

I chose one company offer to only be lead to even more details. You definitely can’t say you don’t know anything about what you’re offering from here unless you’re blind and can’t read! I think the people at AffiliateFuel.com like details and that makes me like them! Here you’ll find more details about the program itself such as:
--->Campaign Status (Available/Not Available)
--->Campaign Type (Pay per lead/action/click)
--->Your CPC/CPA Price
--->Remaining Leads
--->Description
--->Available Ads
You’ll also find a list of what you can and can’t do with each individual program. I haven’t even left the fill up station! In the fill up station you can also:
--->Get Banner Rotator Code & Manage Rotator
--->Find Network Referral Tools
--->Site Tools (such as:)
>Customized Thank You Pages
>Exit Pop Up Code
>Adjust Website Settings
>FreebieFind Referral Tools
>EduSelelct Referral Tools (and much more!)

“Under The Hood Station”
Here you can find all of your stats listed in real time. You can check
--->Total Revenue Breakdown
--->Breakdown of Individual Sites
--->Breakdown by Submembers
--->Reversal Breakdown
--->Broken Link Log
You’re even able to Generate Customized Graphical Reports of your Account Activity!

“Tune Up”
Here you’ll find a list displaying the Top Performing by Effective CPC (eCPC)

“Checkout”
At the checkout you can view your payment history and update your account information.

“The Attendant”
This section includes FAQ’s, how to reach support and tax information.

As you can tell from above, AffiliateFuel.com is a program offering pay per click, lead and sale programs. They obviously have lots of options for you to choose the right program for your campaign. They have an extensive glossary to help those who need/want to know the difference between CPC and CTR. (Nice feature!) Their website says that it can take up to 10 days to be approved to become an affiliate, however, I applied on Friday and was accepted on Monday. AffiliateFuel.com’s payment terms are officially NET 60 however; on an average they pay NET 30. Lead stats are updated hourly and click stats are updated every four hours. Occasionally they will hold special lead offers delaying stat times. These delays are posted in the ‘fill up’ station. You can add up to 100 of your own additional sites to your account. However, the additional sites will also have to be reviewed and meet their standards also.

AffiliateFuel.com is also a two-tiered program with nice benefits. By referring other webmasters/affiliates to join as publishers you will receive 5% commission based on the referrals commissions and a flat bounty of $2.00 per referral.

Overall I am highly impressed with everything about AffiliateFuel.com. They’re site is easily navigated, tons of details and everything is written out in ‘beginner terms’ so that virtually anyone can understand. Commission rates seem very reasonable and I’m looking forward to being an active publisher of AffiliateFuel.com!

Leadhound.com

My site was reviewed and approved within a few hours by a Leadhound.com representative. So far I have been completely impressed with the way their website works. I received very detailed instructions on how to log into my account and start my campaigns. Once I logged into their site it was very easy to navigate with excellent instructions on what to do next. (Great for beginners!)

Once you’ve logged into your account you find a list of programs available and recommended for your site. I personally thought this was a nice feature to make the whole process simpler. I’ve found myself before with almost too many options taking way to much time to find the ‘right’ ones. The recommended programs are all listed in two charts. The first chart displays the campaigns that are considered “highest priority” and the second displays “normal priority”. The highest lists the campaigns that best fit using the information you fill out when applying to be an affiliate. The normal lists others that also fit but not quite as well as the highest.

Each chart displays the Campaign Name, Pay Per Click/Lead/Sale/Impression and when the program expires. From there you’ll be able to click on details for any of the programs that interest you. By doing this you’ll find the details broken down even more to list all of the above plus a description, cookie life, campaign content and available banners, buttons and text. Here you will be able to subscribe to the campaign.

By subscribing you will not only be shown again the available buttons, banners and text ads but also tips to help you get more exposure and ways to utilize each particular campaign. (A++ feature!)

Another bonus feature is to be able to track individual campaigns hosted by your sub-affiliates! If you prefer you can also ‘hand-pick’ other programs available with a search of either by categories or keywords.

Leadhound.com is also a two-tiered program with some impressive benefits. As a Leadhound.com affiliate you are able to refer other merchants/affiliate marketers to the program and earn the following an extra 5% monthly bonus as an ‘over-rider’ from the revenue made from other affiliates/merchants plus and extra $5 once the affiliate has reached a commission of $50.00

You’ll also receive real time detailed stats to track all your campaigns displaying unique/non-unique impressions, unique/non-unique clicks, leads, sales, commission from affiliates and commissions from vendors.
Leadhound.com pays on a monthly basis including a detailed statement of your earnings. You must earn a minimum of $50 to receive payment. Earnings under $50 will be rolled over to the following month.

Overall I am very impressed with Leadhound.com. I would recommend this program to anyone even beginners.

Click here to join Leadhound.com

ClickThruTraffic.com

ClickThruTraffic.com is a pay per click program. I was pretty much immediately accepted for this program. I received a welcome email as soon as I signed up for this program. This basically tells me that there was absolutely no search on my validity. Honestly, I don’t like to wait to be ‘approved’, but speaking from someone who could be an advertiser. I think I’d like these kinds of things checked into. Here's what my findings from a review of ClickThruTraffic.com.

ClickThruTraffic.com offers 17 different categories for you to choose from such as: (pay out per click in parenthesis)
--->Sports (6 cents)
--->Travel (10 cents)
--->Internet (9 cents)
--->Computers (6 cents)
--->Electronics (7 cents)
--->Casino (20 cents)
--->Business Opportunities (10 cents)
--->Auto (10 cents)
--->Adult (5 cents)
--->Entertainment (6 cents)
--->Home (6 cents)
--->Free Stuff (5 cents)
--->Shopping (9 cents)
--->Health (9 cents)
--->Gaming (6 cents)
--->Movies (6 cents)
--->Music (6 cents)

Each category gives you an affiliate link with an array of buttons, banners and text links to choose from. However, after taking a better look into the Terms & Conditions it looks to be that you cannot advertise via email. Here is exactly what the site has to say:
“Hits from e-mail, newsgroups, or type-ins automatically get discarded. All visitors you send to us must come from a webpage. We do not allow newsgroup postings with links to us. Nor do we allow e-mail links/ICQ/InstantMessage/spamming or any other such practices that could reflect negatively on our program.”

Affiliate links will send visitors either to a targeted advertiser or to a search engine results page that is targeted to the advertisement. No popup window or exit console will appear.

This program is also a two-tiered program. You can refer other webmasters to join and receive 5% referral commission.

You must have a minimum earnings of $25.00 to receive a check. Any earnings under minimum will be rolled over to the following pay period.

Click Here To Join ClickThruTraffic.com

Pay Per Lead/Click

Over the next few days I'm going to dive in on some major research. I'm going to be reviewing a multitude of Pay Per Lead and Pay Per Click Programs.

Pay Per Click Programs
Of course this is basically just how it sounds. You get paid a commission for every ad that you place that gets clicked on. Commissions vary from ad to ad and from program to program. Usually, these ads are bid on by advertisers to pay a price per click to affiliates.

Pay Per Lead Programs
This is where an affiliate would get paid for every lead they generate. For example some programs you as an affiliate would be able to offer free samples. You would get a commission for each person you refer to the free samples. Another example would be just for you as an affiliate to refer others to fill out forms for more information. Again you would recieve a commission for each form filled out.

I look forward to this research and see what company or companies will come out on top. If you have a favorite Pay Per Lead or Pay Per Click Program please feel free to share!

ClickBank.com

Affiliate Info:
In my opinion ClickBank is one of the easiest programs to form your links. You simply use the link that they provide and replace XXXX with your ClickBank ID. ClickBank has over 10,000 digital products in their ClickBank Market Place. Each product lists the exact percentage per sale you would make.

One downfall that I would like to note on is the lack of tracking stats. I personally like to see exactly how many 'clicks' I recieved when and where from. Despite their lack of tracking many, many people (including myself) still use ClickBank.

Merchant Info:
(Also known as vendors)
ClickBank agrees to sell real-time access to your digital product through their 100,000 affiliates promoting. They allow you to recruit new affiliates to promote your digital product and provides you and your affiliates with real-time sales reporting.

Learn More About ClickBank's Affiliate Program

Please feel to Post a comment and share your thoughts about ClickBank.

Mini Site Profits

If you've been struggling to make a fortune promoting affiliate programs you're not alone. It's not as easy as some people make out... as you'll know if you've been trying.

But what if I told you that I've discovered an easy way to affiliate success? A way that will help you make more affiliate sales every day than most people make in a month, by building a series of profit making mini sites that run on autopilot.

Mini Site Profits
Contents Overview:

--->Why mini sites
- the concept/overview

--->What are mini sites?
- introduction - why choosing a topic is different for a mini site - the 3 types of mini sites - why people fail - how to succeed - the basic idea - the importance of your mini site design.

--->My first mini sites and why they worked the program I promoted
- why I built mini sites around it - why they worked and how they quickly propelled me to no2 reseller.

--->Follow the money
- choosing subjects for your mini sites - expanding your horizons - how to move out of your niche - how to build a site you know people are looking for - deciding on a product to sell on your new site - finding an affiliate merchant.

--->Action Plan 1
- building a cell phone micro-mini site step-by-step guide to building a complete mini site from start to finish in under 1 hour for less than $10. (and how to make it profitable in less than seven days without spending a fortune on advertising)

--->Choosing a mini site domain name the type of domain name
- mini site domain name basics - in depth - researching the product - example in action

--->How to make search engines love your mini site why search engines love mini sites
- it's not complicated - relevancy - stay on topic - the importance of keyword rich headlines - content - keyword density -analyzing your keywords - keeping your meta tags clean - the growth of theme based positioning - testing with pay-per-clicks - more search engine advice and help.

--->Preselling and other conversion techniques. What is preselling?
- why Ken Evoy's Affiliate Masters free course is a mini site research must have tool - thoughts on preselling - why preselling is an essential technique of affiliates - and why your mini sites must presell - the main way to presell - targeting techniques - you've got to drive the right people to your site.

--->Mini Web Site Action Plan 2
- the quick and easy way to build a money-making mini site in 25 minutes building a site using material provided by the affiliate merchant in less than 30 minutes.

--->Mini site success stories
-Michelle Grover's Eczema site - Scot Dantzer's musical instrument site - Brian Terry's 5-Minute Reviews -Johannes Garrido's Roibot site - en Silver's Honest Lotto - Eva Almeida's ebook sites

--->Mini site Masters.
What you can learn from the Masters of Mini Site Building - Marlon Sanders - Yanik Silver - Michael Campbell - Declan Dunn - Terry Dean

--->eBusiness Primer building your mini site empire
- your success strategy should be simple - the importance of developing a work ethic - time management for stay at home web workers and improving your personal productivity - the essentials of affiliate record keeping - motivation

--->Further Search Engine Tips and Advice.

--->Affiliate Program Resource Guide
- programs to build your mini web sites around - choosing the right programs to promote - links to affiliate sign up pages.

--->Software Resource List - mini site tools and help

--->Directory of free and low-cost mini site hosts.

F R E E Affiliate Marketing Ezine

Author of Mini Site Profits Phil Wiley also publishes a weekly ezine. Phil shares many affiliate marketing secrets. I personally enjoy this ezine very much and have picked up quite a few tidbits from this one!

CB Clicks

CBClick.com is a new and simpler way to utilize your ClickBank ID. To display ads they utilize Clickbank's® Marketplace. These ads are ranked in order to what sells best. So you are always showing top quality, high converting products and websites. The ads are targeted by you using a "keyword". You choose the "keyword" which best relates to the products and services on your website. CBClicks is a free program to join. You can listen to an audio introduction of this program and join at CBClicks.com

CBClicks has been named the "alternative to Google Adsense". In my opinion you can't really compare them because unlike Google Adsense, CBClicks is a pay per sale program as Adsense is a pay per click program.

I will however, describe CBClicks as an alternative way to use your ClickBank ID. Sometimes it can be a little time consuming and difficult to search Click Bank's Marketplace for the right product. Using this program will make that a bit easier because they choose the product based on the keywords you choose.

On the flip side CBClick ads look very similar to Adsense ads without the term "Ads" displayed. CBClicks gives you lots of ways to adjust the way your ads will display giving you much more control.

--->At CBClicks.com you have an array of options on how you'd like your ads to appear on your site. Such as choosing the border color, background color, title color and text color. With this option you can make each ad match and blend in with the content of your website.

--->Another available option is to change the size of the ads and how many ads you'd like to display. You can choose from 1 ad up to 6 ads.

--->One of the best features (in my opinion) would be the control you would have over the ads by choosing your own keywords. Of course you would want the ad to be relevant to your content but choosing the keywords for that particular page gives you much more control on the ads that appear.

--->And yet another option available is to choose from banner style and tower style layouts. This option can come in handy when choosing the best place to display your ads.

You can view sample ads at
Affiliate Marketing Information Network - CB CLicks

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a business relationship with a merchant or other service provider who allows you to link to that business. When a visitor clicks on the link at your site and subsequently makes a purchase from the merchant, you receive a commission based on the amount of the sale, a referral fee or a pay-for-click fee.

Welcome!

Welcome fellow Affiliate Marketers and Affiliate Marketer Wanabes! This is just my little spot in cyberspace to share everything there is about Affiliate Marketing. I'll be sharing resources, products, services and program reviews. If you enjoy Affiliate Marketing and the income made as much as I do, you'll fit right in!

Tips For Successful Affiliate Marketing

Just a couple of little tips for successful affiliate marketing...

--->Writing articles with worthwhile informational content is an excellent strategy for successful marketing. Make sure that your article contains useful information that targets your audience and doesn't sound like a sales copy or ad.

--->Studies have shown that banner ads are not the best strategy and that visitors actually avoid them. If you must use them make sure they're used sparingly and well placed. Do not place a banner on the same page as your article. Placing a banner on the same page as your article can very quickly turn your well-written article into nothing but a huge ad.

--->One very important tip to remember is that as an affiliate it is not your job to sell. The only job you have is to pre-sell. Once you've done your job correctly and "get the click" then it's the merchant's job to close the deal.

--->Know Your Product. If you know everything there is to know about it then it's much easier to inform your readers of how it can work for them or why they should buy the product. So, therefore, if it's in your budget you should buy it before you pre-sell it.