Work Those Affiliate Programs
and Make Some Cash
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by Merle
So
you've joined your first affiliate/associate program and slapped that big old
banner on your site. All you have to do now is sit back and wait for the bucks
to come rolling in.
Not so fast there, Bucky. There's a lot
more to making money with affiliate programs than that. If your best effort is
going to be that banner, don't plan on retiring any day soon.
Just
like everything else online, you'll get out of it what you put in. So if you want
to make some serious cash with those programs you're joining, you need to promote
them. There are a variety of methods you can use, but I'll discuss the few that
I know seem to work the best.
My first suggestion to you is
to join only programs that relate to the theme of your Web site. Make sure it's
a "good fit" with your site and that it pays out a "healthy"
commission. Getting paid $2.00 in commission may not be worth the work involved
in promoting the program. Try weaving the URL's throughout your site or devoting
a whole page to their topic. Don't just use banners; use alternatives like text
links within your pages. Banners have become so saturated online that a lot of
folks tend to ignore them, plus the extra weight they add to your pages makes
them load slowly.
Most programs you join will give you a variety
of ads to use in your promotion efforts, but for best results you really should
be creative and write some of your own. All too often I see the same old ad repeated
over and over online until I want to scream. A little creativity and stressing
the benefits will take you a lot further than canned ads that 10,000 other programs
are using.
