So for example: if your website is a car auction site, you know that visitors to your sites will be looking to sell used cars. You may therefore decide to advertise a valet business on your site. How it works is very simple, someone visits your site looking to sell their car and sees the valet advert and clicks on it and gets their car done, the valet company will pay you either a fixed amount or percentage commission to you for generating that business.
This section will show you how to develop your website, so that you can generate extra money using affiliate marketing.We have generated quite a bit of cash using affiliate marketing on our sites, because there are a lot of companies prepared to spend big bucks on getting customers.
If your website is up and running, then you are ready to become an affiliate marketer...
Affiliate marketing has become a huge market and because of this there are a number of affiliate marketing companies available on the internet which you can sign up to for free. I have 9 companies listed below which is plenty to get you started. Once you get comfortable with placing ads on your site and how the systems work, scout around and see what other affiliate sites you can find!
Points to Remember , joining up to affiliate companies is easy and websites are rarely declined by the affiliate companies themselves. Below is a list of companies that I would recommend you sign up to. You might not use all them straight away, but different companies use different affiliate marketers, so it's well worth while signing up to all them all.
1) Tradedoubler
2) Commission Junction
3) Casino Blasters
4) Casino Rewards
5) 32 Red Affiliate Scheme
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6) Affiliate Future
7) Link Share
8) Webgains
9) Clix Galore
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The more affiliate companies you apply to, the wider range of advertisers you can pick from. So, if your website is business related, then you may wish to choose advertisers that complement what you do. So for example, if you are a travel agent, then a car hire program might not be a bad one to use.
Once you have signed up to affiliate companies, in some cases, you will then have to apply to specific advertisers themselves. Some sites do this, because they will want to visit your site to check its integrity before accepting you. Sadly, you will find some companies that will decline your site. The reasons behind them declining sites is varied, but some companies will feel that your site is not worthy of their name, and others will think that your content may not fit with their marketing ethos who knows, just role with the punches! The best thing to do is just not to worry about it, and when you are declined, just move on to someone else!
When you have a number of companies that have accepted you, you simply need to select the banner ads available and copy and paste the banner code into your webpage code. Hopefully, you will have left room for the ads on your site when it was constructed, but there are small ads generally available that should easily fit into a spare corner of your site.
You will need to upload the page again via your FTP client / hosting company to your site and check that the banner works ok, i.e. click on it and ensure it goes to their site!Now that the banners are in place, you need to get people to your site
Now that you have set up your affiliate accounts and have pasted your banners from your affiliate companies, you need to get traffic to your site to make money.
The best traffic in the world is through recommendation, so the first thing you should do is tell your friends and family, and encourage them to visit your site and utilise your banners - this way you will earn money from your friends shopping.
As previously mentioned there are a number of companies (generally in the gaming world) that offer fabulous commissions to affiliates who get visitors to open up accounts with them.Because of this, there is an unbelievable opportunity for affiliates to make good profits from referring people to their site.
Let me give you an example: Sign up to an Extrabet affiliate account and place Extrabet affiliate ads on your website. If a visitor to your site then clicks on that ad and opens an account with Extrabet and proceeds to deposit £10 and place £10 bet. Your commission for that person will be £25.
• You will have made £25 commission and it will only cost your visitor £10! ;-)Hopefully you can see from this, there is a great opportunity for you to make money from promoting other companies!
A word of caution!
Do not click on your own site banners and open up accounts yourself - this is a Big No and you may be banned from receiving any commissions by the affiliate companies if you do this. You can click on the links to ensure that they work, but you cannot gain commissions from your own actions on your own website.
Similarly, your computer can be tracked by its IP address, so do not get lots of people in your household to sign up to certain companies using your PC.
A final point
This is your website, so develop it as you see fit, and remember, the more people that visit your site and click through on your links - the more money you will make!
