I have asked some top websites how having a Affiliate Program effects there business

I asked Bob the founder of eXtremePixels who runs a successful affiliate program why he has a affiliate program and how has it impacted on his business.

Bob: I really think that the affiliate program helps a lot, anytime you can get extra exposure it is a good thing. I have a lot of affiliates that link to the main site and that drives extra traffic. Traffic is key!

Clicky is the only web analytic website that offers a affiliate program, why did you decide to do this and how has it improved your business?

Sean: Affiliate programs are a great way to get some cheap marketing, since you only have to pay the people who create results. Tons of people write articles about us or put our little Clicky “badge” icon on their page simply because we offer this program. Even if some of these links never result in any paid signups, they still drive a lot of traffic to our site and help to build our brand name.

Advantages of Offering an Affiliate Program

- It is FREE, you only pay per sale, so unlike more traditional methods of Pay Per Click or Pay Per Impression, which you can end up with no sales and out of pocket.

- In many cases, website owners want to offer recommended books, products or services, if you have an affiliate program they can be rewarded for it and that will make them want to suggest you as a recommended product.

- Helps builds a brand, even if the visitors the program don’t all result in a sale, it will help you build a brand!

- It is all automated! You don’t have to speak with anyone who is promoting your site through the affiliate program, unlike traditional advertisers.

- Affiliates compete to sell your product!

Recap: So let’s get this right, if you can get just 100 affiliates which is super easy! Each affiliate sends you just 50 visitors a month resulting in just 3 sales each! You will have earned an extra 300 sales each month, which is 3600 extra sales a year! Now think, if your product is £2000, 3600 more sales is going to make you super rich!

WAIT! So there going to compete to sell my product! Yes, that’s right! They will actually try to compete for advertising space on such sites as Google, Yahoo and Azoogle.

Step by Step Guide to Setting up a Affiliate Program

- Find a Affiliate Marketplace, my recommendations are Commission Junction, ClixGalore and Affiliate Shop.

- Once you have signed up for at least one of these marketplaces, affiliate marketers will be able to come along and view your product. Some sites such as Commission Junction show details on each product, how well it converts, how many visitors on average you have to send to make a sale and so on.

- Payday! Actually, you do not have to pay your affiliates, Commission Junction will do the payments for you.

It really is as simple as 1,2,3…

Once someone has decided to promote your product, they will do it in either three ways.

- Promote on there related Website

In fact 5 of the 7 people advertising on one of my websites is promoting a affiliate product. They know how many clicks they need to result in a sale so they can then work out if promoting there affiliate link on your site is worth it.

- Market it to there email list

In every industry there are websites and company’s who create a Email List. The power of the list is going to shock some of you. If you have a list of 10,000 emails from people who are interested in teaching abroad. They go and find your affiliate link and decide to promote it in a email they send out to there list. Let’s just say they make 250 sales! That will earn the list owner £25,000! One of those a week isn’t to bad …

- Use advertising to promote there URL

They will complete to sell your product on search engines, if you view the right side of Google “Sponsored Links” you will see 10 adverts, 8 are promoting the same product.

I’m building a massive list and need some recommendations..

Heres a example, Ashbo from whateverlife.com, Andrew Gower owner of Runescape.com

Name them here please!

Good idea Cow, i donated a dollar for the difty idea!

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Yesterday I added a Interview from Retire at 21 to Digg, it was about the kid prodigy Carl Ocab with his money making blog!

How to get on Digg HomePage

1. Plan your digg. I luckily had the number 1 Buzz Marketer at my disposal who came up with a cracking title which every Digg user had to click! “mommy, can i cash my Google checks now?”. You will not get to the front page of Digg with a bad title!

2. Submit your article and link to the digg from your article page.

3. Email your mailing list, tell all your friends and promote your story on related forums. This will not work if you have a bad story, no one wants to read a article on how to make money with Google Adsense any more.

4. Depending on what time of day it is the more Digg’s you will need, you have typically 12 - 24 hours to get enough Digg’s to get homepage. In the morning you will need around 30 Digg’s to hit homepage, in the afternoon you will need around 50 and in the evening you will need as many as 100.

So you will have plenty of time to get enough Digg’s, if you start in the evening when most people are on and get your first 40 Digg’s, when you get up in the morning you should not need many more Digg’s to get on the front page!

To see how many Digg’s you will need to get on the homepage, view the almost page.

The Effects of getting on Digg Homepage

• 100,000s of visitors
• Your server will crash!
• Not targeted traffic
• Hard to make money from digg users!
• 100s of back links from some related website’s
• Search Engines rank you quickly and efficiently!

View My Digg!

And i replied, yes it can…

Promoting your Website

Pay Per Click - Paying per click is great with high price tag products as long as you know how to write your advert. Make sure to include your massive price in the advert so only people who can afford to pay that price will click the advert. For pay per click i use Google Adwords.

Affiliate Programs - Affiliate programs allow you to get a lot of traffic and you only pay for the visitors who buy your product. Affiliate programs work so, you give your affiliate a referral url which they link to on there website. This url has a tracking id in it so you know every time someone buys a product from that url. Imagine if you have 1000 affiliates (i know many people with 10x that amount), and they all sell your $3000 product once a month, that’s $3,000,000 extra revenue (deduct there 15% commission fee) you would of never had.

Making the Sale

Success Story’s and Testimonials

Like i always say, nothing sells better than a customer selling a customer, “This Product Changed my Life”!

• Have testimonials all the way down your sales pages
• Include names and pictures to let your visitors know there real people and real testimonials
• Try get your customers to make video or audio testimonials, send them a Microphone or a Web camera to make the testimonial, its worth it!

Here’s a testimonial i did recently for Flippingwebsites.net

See how i include a personal touch in my writing, my name, website and picture, wow this stuff sells!!

Making the Value look Massive and the Price look tiny:

• A $1999.99 fee for a month trip to Costa Rica may sound like alot of money, but having all expenses payed trip for two month’s for $33.00, you couldn’t even get a night in a hotel for that price let alone breakfast, lunch, dinner, bus journeys, air flights, somewhere to stay and a chance to change your life!
• Show the value of everything they get - Flights $999.99, Food $599.99, Travel, $406.99, Somewhere to stay $1299.99, Free Ebook how to keep safe in Costa Rico $39.99 and a chance to change your life, priceless.
• Pay in monthly installments.

Showing your a safe website to use:

If your website is 100% Safe Shopping, show your visitors that.

Show your visitors there safe:

Hacker Proof, no one will steal your credit card details.

Improve your Order Page:

• Fast Booking Options - No one likes to spend a hour to join a course or go on a trip abroad.
• Up sell with related products, travel products for my friends gap years website.
• Extra week on your Gap Year $139.99, Exclusive Price!
• Get 5 friends to go on a gap year and your go for FREE!

News Letter

When anyone signs up for your news letter you will be able to email them about promotional offers and website updates. When ever you add a new blog post to your blog, your news letter subscribers will be emailed to let them know about the latest updates. So if your blogging every day, you will have all your subscribers notified about your latest posts.

I recommend either to use Aweber or Feedburner for this, Feedburner doesn’t allow you to capture emails but Feedburner is free.

Blog Rush

Blogrush is one of the most innovative new ways to get traffic to your blog for FREE! Most options for getting traffic to your blog are Really Expensive or take a lot of your time. Well there’s now a another option, BlogRush is by far the cheapest and fastest way to get exposure for your blog.

Here’s how it works:

You will add a BlogRush Widget to your blog, you will then have your posts automatically promoted on related blog’s across the internet. Every time your page loads it will show the blogrush widget, it will contain 5 blog titles. When any page on your website gets loaded, you earned the right to get your blog post titles viewed on someone else’s related blog. So if your website is viewed 100 times in one day, Blogrush will show one of your Blog Titles on related blog’s Blogrush Widget 100 times that sane day

Get Blog Rush Now…

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking sites allow web surfers to save, catalog and share web pages they find online. The most popular social bookmarking website’s have millions of visitors going to there website’s every day to find out the latest and craziest news around. Users will vote your website up or down whether they like it or not. It doesn’t matter if your blog post is about “how you can loose 10 stone by..” or “Apply Announces iPhone” it is well worth the potential 1000’s of visitors it could bring you!

a set of icons at the bottom of a post that allow you to quickly bookmark the current page at a number of social bookmarking sites (Digg, Del.icio.us, blink, furl, etc.). You can see this plugin in action on my blog.

To download this plugin click here…

Blog Reviews

Blog reviews can bring a website massive amounts of targeted traffic, depending on the website that reviews you. Receive valuable feedback, buzz, traffic, and links back to your website!

Reviewme allows you to Browse there Marketplace of the top blog’s on the Internet. Purchase a review of your blog or service directly from a related blog.

Invite Blog Posters

Blog posters offer a great chance to get alot of new content for free. If you can get someone well known in your niche to do a featured blog post you could gain alot of publicity and would give you a great chance to improve all the above.

Comment on Related Blog’s

Give helpful feedback on related blog’s and leave your website url at the end of it. If people are seeing you offer something new they will appreciate it and will have a look at your website and leave a comment back.

Search Engine Optimization

When blogging keep in mind what people will be searching for, blog about something people will be searching for in a couple weeks time like “Who wins the Apprentice 2007″.

1. If you got it, flaunt it - If you are making $100’s a day and its so easy then lets see some screen shots!

2. Testimonials - If you have testimonials on your website, you want to put a picture up with the testimonial, there full name, email address and website url. Even ask your customer to create a video or audio clip reviewing your product. This stuff sells! Anyone can protend Tom Jones wrote a testimonial for your website, back your testimonials up.
Example of a Good Testimonial:

Testimonial - from $40 a month to making well over $50,000 a month!

This Ebook instantly changed my life, before reading this, i was going from pay cheque to pay. Now i drive a ferrari and have made more money in the last year than my whole family has in there life! If you don’t buy this ebook your going to miss out on a whole new life style! This ebook was worth way more than $27.99, heck if i knew it had all this great info id of payed $2,799! Michael Dunlop http://www.retireat21.com

3. Before and after - Show how your bank account has changed, how your business has changed and more important, how your life has changed! “Look at what my get fit program can do”.

4. FREEBIES - It doesn’t matter if its a 1 page report, people love free stuff!

5. Capture there email address - if they don’t buy today, send them a email a few days later telling them your give them 10% off if they buy now!

What Adsense Can Do For You AdSense automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.

Google Adsense is easy and quick to setup and will be accepted on almost every website, even the website is a day old, there for it is one of the quickest ways to monetize your website. Once you have been accept, you can put adverts instantly on your website and they will be related to your website. Below is a screen shot of adsense on a page about making money online, look at how targeted the adverts are.

You can add Adsense to as many websites as you like, Google Adsense will show you how many times your advert has been seen, how much clicks, the rate of click through and earnings so far. Here is a screen shot from my adsense today:

Creating your Adsense

Sign in to your adsense account and click Adsense Setup at the top of the page, on the next page click adsense for content.

You will now find your self on the Adsense for Content Wizard Page, here you will have colour and appearance options. When you receive your adsense code you are not allowed to alter it at all or you could find yourself banned. Adsense are always coming up with better and new ways to make your ad appear better on your website. You will see on the left side of the wizard a example of what your advert will look like. When complete with the wizard click continue you will now be able to receive your Adsense code. Make sure to blend your adsense in with your website theme, don’t use colour’s that wont match.

Copy and paste the code into your website where you would like your advert to appear. Upload and with in a few minutes you will be seeing adverts which are relevant to your website.

Once you have create your Google Adsense make sure to test it, change the colour’s and ad units size to see what works best for your website. What works well for one website doesn’t always work well for another website. Your target audience has alot to do with how you should make your adverts look and d where you should position them. For example, i have a gaming website, gamers love image adverts, the bigger the better, but when i put adverts on my cooking website, they like small adverts which blend in with the website.

Google Adsense Money Making Options

Adsense for Content - automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you
can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience
and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.

Adsense for Search - allows website publishers to provide Google web and site search to
their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the
search results pages.

Referrals - Google Referrals allow you to choose specific products or groups of
products to advertise on your site, allowing you to match ads to your
content. Choose up to 15 products or specific ads to rotate in the referral unit. You can also choose categories and keywords to ensure that you get newer ads as they become available.

Tip: Review the product your Referring

What works well with Adsense

When creating a site solely to create revenue from Google Adsense, you want to pick high paying key terms. By choosing the right key terms you can earn more than 3x the amount you are currently. I use a some software called Keyword Country, there software lets you search between 6.5 Million High paying keywords, Traffic Building Keywords, High CTR Keywords and Thousands of Niche keywords from 600,000 markets Online! At the moment there isn’t any software on the market that will come anywhere as close as this. I highly recommend signing up for it now!

From Using Keyword Country i have found that the term “Kitchen Supplier” is a high paying Niche keyword. From that i created Kitchen4uk.co.uk, below you will see a screen shot of this website. When a visitor comes to your website they will look from top to bottom, the first 3 main things you will see on my website, is my logo, a Adsense block and a adsense text link block. All the adsense shown’s links my visitors want to find and give them no choice but to click them for more, this morning i had 5 visitors to my site, every one of them clicked a advert making me a little more than $5! A Dollar a person is great, if you have 100 people a day i can make $100, now imagine if you create 100 sites (which is very easy to do and can be done for a very low cost, il show you how below) that’s $10,000 a day!!

Above i was telling you how you get 100 adsense websites create almost instantly for a very low price, you can achieve this by visiting a great company called PPC-Sites.com which will provide you with a website optimized with PPC Google Adsense. Every website contains over 500 web pages all containing your Adsense Code (Or Yahoo). All that for as low as $9.95 per website!

I want to have 100 websites making me $100.00 a day, get started by visiting there website…

Below is a example of a website created by PPC-Sites.com

Increasing your Click Through Rate

Image Ads Don’t Work, I have tried them on all my websites and never got the click through that text ads give me.

Put a image near your Google Adsense as visitors will tend to look at them.

Increase Traffic will increase clicks and we all know what increase clicks mean!

Keep your website specific to one thing, if your website is about 100 different things, it will show adverts for 100 different things and will stop you from earning so much.

Place your advert above the fold (don’t make your visitors scroll to see the adverts).

What not to do with Adsense

Click Your Own Advert

Ask Others to Click your Advert

Mislead visitors into clicking your advert

Note: Google will not hesitate in banning you if you are breaking the rules, don’t do it!

It seems that in today’s corporate world, working a 9 to 5, having two kids, one car and retirement at 60 (if you are lucky) is generally the road map that we all take…

We are told to eat our greens, look before we cross the road, don’t trust strangers, put some money away for retirement… and with any luck we can scrape through life’s battles and illnesses and finally settle down at 60 after decades of hard work, to look forward to our golden years.

Well that is the idea, but it seems that those golden years are in reality, more like rusty years.

One young entrepreneur certainly didn’t want to wait for the rust to set in before he started enjoying all life has to offer. In fact, he is turning common beliefs on their head with his website retireat21.com

This portal provides free, step-by-step advice to show you exactly how you can make money on the Internet.

“But I am already older than 21”, I hear you cry. Don’t worry, despite the name, the information and advice is more geared towards retiring prior to having a fake hip installed. Even if you retire just a few years earlier due to the advice at retireat21.com it surely has to be worth taking 5 minutes from your day to check it out… doesn’t it?

This stunning new site will show you:

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Show of your website sites, take a screen shot a put it up there! This will convert like crazy if you got some crazy amount of traffic.

2. Tell your advertiser what you can offer them:

• Huge amounts of targeted traffic
• A rocket boost in the Search Engine rankings
• An increase in Google Pagerank
• Brand perception boosts
• Increased monthly sales and profits
• Advertising methods that actually work
• Advertising packages that actually work
• A partnership with a leading webmaster website
• The secrets of “The Big Dog” (top secret)

3. Let your advertisers sell your advertisers

Get your current advertisers to write testimonials for your advertise page, include names, pictures and websites if possible.

4. Tell them what they wont be getting

• You wont be on rotation with 100 other advertisers
• Your advert wont be seen on only some pages
• You advert is important to us
• Once you given us your money we wont forget you
• No Refunds

5. Give Aways and Clear OutSales

• Any Reason for a Sale - Need to pay my Speeding Fine Sale
• If they want to buy a years advertising give them 4 months free
• If there advert doesnt convert, give them more time, after all if it doesnt work for them then they wont carry on advertising.
• If there buying the banner adverts, give them some text adverts for free.