Affiliate Programs to Avoid

Rosalind Gardner | Affiliate Marketer

by Rosalind Gardner

As an affiliate marketer of Internet dating services, I’m always on the lookout for good quality dating sites and products to offer my single visitors. Merchants help me out when they let me know about their new products and affiliate programs.

I was therefore thrilled when one of my friendly affiliate competitors got in touch to tell me that he’d started his own Internet dating service and affiliate program.

Having launched a community membership site myself last year, I could fully appreciate the huge amount of time and money my friend had invested to develop this new site. He was justifiably proud of his accomplishment and I was excited by the prospect of having a product to promote that would benefit everyone – my customers, my friend and myself.

Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out that way.

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Affiliate Programs: NO More ‘Leaky’ Links!

Rosalind Gardner | Affiliate Marketer

by Rosalind Gardner

One of the rules of affiliate marketing, is to partner with merchants that don’t have too many external links on their sites. This is especially true if you pay to advertise your site.

You might just as well burn your money as send it to sites that steal your traffic.

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Top 10 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer

Rosalind Gardner | Affiliate Marketer

by Rosalind Gardner

Back when my online business consisted ONLY of affiliate sites, I had no need for a personal assistant.

The sites were all in place, and my affiliated merchants handled everything related to orders.

Last week, one of my clients mentioned that he was moving AWAY from selling his own products to promoting more affiliate programs just for the simplicity and freedom.

Yup, he definitely ‘gets’ it.

Although there are many, many benefits to promoting affiliate programs with your own home-based Internet business, here are my top 10 reasons to become an affiliate marketer.

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How to Make Affiliate Links

Making affiliate links is very easy. First, you want to go to the site and register for a free affiliate (or associate) ID. On ClickBank, they call it a nickname. On Amazon, it’s an associate ID, and on PayDotCom, it’s your affiliate member username. On ClickBank.com, you’ll go to the marketplace, which is the link … Read more