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

Launching Your Own Affiliate Program

If you have your own product, launching an affiliate program is a necessity if you want to reach your full profit potential. Even if you manage to control a massive 10% of your entire niche market on your own, that still leaves 90% of that niche’s traffic on the table. By setting up an affiliate … Read more

Merging Your Affiliate Offers

If you launch your Internet marketing business as an affiliate marketer, then you’ll want to know how to merge your offers to play off of one another. On eBay, it’s called cross-promotion. You go to an eBay auction for an iPod and find cross-promotions of all sorts of accessories, battery packs, and bling they can … Read more