Why I failed in affiliate marketing

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introduction

Online marketing is alsoknown as online advertising, Internet marketing, digital 

advertising. However you chose to call it, online marketing is any form of online promotional 

techniques that are used to deliver a message to consumers in order to drive sales via electronic 

commerce (or e-commerce).

Thanks to the new digital age, online marketing is able to reach more customers at a 

faster rate. Companies are able to build up their reputation and status online through various 

forms of online marketing. 

Typically online marketing will see an advertiser put an ad on another company’s website 

in order to drive traffic back to their site and see these clicks converted to measurable sale leads. 

The click to conversion rate is where the money is made in online marketing. However, now 

there are many more techniques in online marketing that advertisers, or anyone with a website 

really, can use to make a profit.

As more and more people around the world are using the Internet on a regular basis, the 

potential to reach a larger audience with online marketing is huge. Advertisers are now able to 

target their advertising to the audience they want, allowing them to have greater sales than they 

ever could with traditional advertising mediums, like newspaper, radio, television and 

magazines. 

To succeed in this digital world, you need to be familiar with and master online 

marketing techniques in order to capitalize on this new direction of digital advertising. As an 

increasing number of people have a screen in front of their face, the potential for interactive, 

targeted online advertising is huge.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reported that collectively in the first quarter of 

2015, online advertisers in the United States ad revenue reached over $13 billion, a 16 percent 

increase compare to the first quarter of 2014. These numbers are unprecedented in the 

advertising industry and the trend is showing and even greater increase in online ad revenue.

Online marketing tools include digital advertisements, paid search (pay per click), email 

mailing lists, affiliate marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing. 

While digital advertising was the number one way to monetize online advertising, it is now being 

shown that email marketing and affiliate marketing are the best online marketing channels to get 

a high return on investment (ROI) as people engage more through these channels.


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 Monetizing Your Website

No matter what type of website you have, be it a personal blog, a news site or a company 

website, it can be monetized through various channels. Not all monetization channels are ideal 

for each type of website, so you have to see what works best for each individual website.

A great way to test what works and what does not work for your website is to do A/B 

testing with a site like Optimizely or heat mapping with CrazyEgg. A/B testing means putting 

content and ads on your website with various layouts to see which layout will best optimize your 

monetization strategies through customer engagement rates. You can select how often each 

different version of your site will be shown each time the page is re-loaded, then you will get a 

report back indicating which version has the highest engagement rate.

With heat mapping, you will see a screenshot of your site with an overlay of red to blue

spots for where people are clicking, or engaging, the most or least. Sometimes this information 

will be surprising and counter-intuitive to where you thought people were engaging. 

Using the highest engagement rate to place monetization channels on your website is 

very important. Whether it is ad placements, an email mailing list sign up form or affiliate 

marketing links, you can get the best optimization with proper placement.

Advertising

The first thing most people think of when they go to monetize their website is to get 

digital display advertisements on their site as soon as possible. Digital display ads work through 

advertisements being uploaded to your site through using slot tokens and keywords to get 

contextual ads displaying on your site. They are usually contextual because they will be targeted 

at the user based on their demographics and search history, or the ads will show something 

related to the site the user is looking at. 

Digital ads work through pay-per-clicks (PPC) and click through rates (CTR). 

Advertisers pay for each click on the ad that is placed on your website and the higher the CTR 

(the number of clicks based on the number of views), then the better the ad is doing and the more 

money you will make from the ad.

If you website is fairly new, under six months, then you should refrain from using Google 

AdSense to monetize your website because they will penalize you and possibly block you out 

from using AdSense. There are many terms and conditions to using AdSense and it can be 

difficult to use and get the clicks you are hoping for.


Email Marketing

Email marketing is quickly becoming one of the leading ways to monetize your 

website. Targeted email lists means you can send exactly what you want to the audience who wants to see it. You know they want to see it because they have opted to sign up to receive

specific newsletter via email from your website. These email lists are very important for growing 

your traffic and monetizing your website. 

Growing your email subscribers shows a marketing or advertising company that your 

website has reach and can be used to promote products to the subscribers that they will enjoy. 


Readers who have signed up to be a part of your email marketing typically trust the sender and 

their opinions enough to opt into the newsletter. 

This means that you can easily promote different products and services to them through 

paid sponsorship or affiliate marketing and they will feel more comfortable having you tell them 

about that product or service rather than them seeing a pesky ad trying to get them to click. 

There are several email marketing service providers that will help you build campaigns, 

manage your email lists and track how your campaigns are doing by showing who has opened 

them, what they have clicked on and how much they have engaged with the email. This kind of 

information is very important to know how your website is doing and how the audience is 

interacting with your products. You can then use this information to improve your monetization 

channels.

Paid Sponsorship

Another way to monetize your website is through paid sponsorship, which means a 

company will pay you to sponsor their product or service on your website. A sponsor will pay for 

you to write an article featuring or reviewing their product or service, have a section on your 

website dedicated to their product or service, or they will simply pay for an ad space. In all cases, 

they are paying you to put their company’s message, product or services on your blog in hopes of 

getting conversions. 

Sometimes paid sponsorship does not come in the form of money, but rather they will 

give you the product or service for free. For example, they may give you a free couple of nights 

in their hotel so you write a review on your website. Paid sponsors will often look at how much 

traffic you get to your site, your social media follows and your email subscribers to determine 

how much they will pay you.

Offer Products: eBooks & Courses

Most websites and blogs have a niche that they cater to. Without a niche your website 

probably won’t make it. Having a niche means you are an expert on the subject and people will 

keep coming back to learn more from you. Offering courses and eBooks help build authority and 

trust with your readers and help you with your branding.

Creating premium content for your readers through courses and eBooks shows 

you have in depth knowledge of a subject and they can be a great source of income. 

People will be highly likely to buy an eBook on a specified subject or take a course on a new 

topic. People like to learn and scour the Internet in their spare time for new things to read. You 

can generate a lot of income through selling your eBook on your own site, as well as have other 

sites have a link to sell your eBook as well.

Affiliate Marketing

Different to paid sponsorship, affiliate marketing pays for clicks that are converted to 

purchases on their products. Affiliate marketing can be the first form of monetization on your 

website as there is no need to wait to start using it. You can put affiliate marketing on your 

website from day one and wait for the money to start coming in, though it is recommended to 

build up some content to be able to implement affiliate marketing. 

Sometimes if your blog or website gets good traffic then affiliate marketing companies 

will approach you and ask to be added to your website. In other cases, you can simply sign up 

with different networks, such as JVZoo, ClickBank, Amazon and CJ Affiliate.

These networks have thousands of merchants with a large pool of products to pull from. 

You will search for a product you would like to place on your website, get a link with your 

unique ID and then place that link onto your website. This link will link back to the merchant’s 

website so the customer can purchase the product. The unique ID and the browser’s cookies will 

tell the merchant that the sale came from you and you will get the commission through the 

affiliate marketing network where you got the link.



Make Affiliate Marketing Your Number One Source Of 
Income
Most bloggers make the majority of their money from affiliate marketing and the 
commissions from it. Affiliate marketing works for bloggers because their readers come to their 
blogs looking for trusted reviews and information about different products and services 
available. With all the different information on the Internet, it can be hard to pick the product or 
service you want to spend your hard earned money on. 
Bloggers and affiliate marketing is the perfect match because they marry products that 
bloggers love and want to share with their readers with selling products and making money. In 
many cases, bloggers do not even need to do anything more than putting in a link into the text of 
their articles. This link will track when someone clicks on the link and whether or not he or she
ends up buying the product. 
The users do not even need to buy the product right away, the blogger will get the 
commission if the user goes back and buys the product later because affiliate marketing uses 
cookies that will store when and where the product was first clicked on.
What Exactly Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is about building relationships between the advertisers, publishers and 
consumers to generate sales. The advertiser typically has a product or service to sell but needs 
help in selling it. The advertiser will look for help from a publisher to distribute their message 
and connect with consumers and they are willing to pay the publisher to do this. 
A publisher will be someone who delivers the advertisers message in the form of a link, 
banner ad or in an email newsletter to the consumer. The consumer sees the message and will 
take action by clicking on the link, ad or newsletter, taking them away from the publisher’s site 
to the advertiser’s site. The final step is the when the action is completed by the consumer 
purchasing the product, called a conversion.
How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?
The advertiser will give a publisher a unique ID for each of their websites in order to 
track and process every click. Tracking the clicks for each product is how the publisher gets 
commission from affiliate marketing. Not only does the publisher get a unique ID, but so does 
each product or link the publisher uses. The combination of unique IDs for the publisher’s 
website and the product allow the action of the consumers to be tracked.
If a consumer clicks on an affiliate marketing link, cookies will enable the affiliate 
marketer to remember the date, time and location (website) of the click on the link. 
Enabling cookies allows the site to know if the consumer returns at a later date to 


purchase the product and thus completing the conversion. This is when the publisher will receive 
commission from the sale.
The affiliate network is a company that oversees the relationships between the advertisers 
and publishers, creating a network of other companies that use their platform.



Why Use Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing can be the easiest way to monetize your website. All you need to do 
is sign up to be a part of an affiliate marketing website, create your account and unique ID, 
search for products to link throughout your website, paste the links to your site and then wait as 
the money comes in. The links can be in the form of text or images, or both, depending on what 
you need for your site. While this is the easiest approach, there are some secrets that will be 
discussed in the next chapter to make you a successful affiliate marketer.
Affiliate marketing is the best way for advertisers to engage with consumers and you the 
publisher are their key ingredient. As a publisher, your readers trust your judgment, so when you 
make a recommendation to them, they often listen and convert. You are very important to 
advertisers and you can use this to your advantage when you need to monetize your website. And 
just to be clear, you are the affiliate marketer. The advertisers and publishers are working 
together so that they can both make money, without each other there is no money to be made.
Using your email mailing list is the perfect way to distribute affiliate marketing messages 
to your readers. Often they will not even notice or care that you have linked them to a site in 
order for them to purchase the product, in fact, often your reader will be pleased to have the link. 
Unlike ads that often go unnoticed or have consumers feel like they are being targeted, affiliate 
marketing links are helpful to the consumer.
Affiliate marketing is great for putting multiple links into one article or page. Each of the 
affiliate marketing networks will have a plethora of products to search through that will be the 
perfect target for your website’s niche. While adding multiple links to maximize your earning 
potentials, sometimes it’s about quality over quantity. Don’t put in too many products without 
thinking about if the links will be beneficial to your readers or not, they might find it annoying 
having too many links in your articles and get turned off by your site.
Using affiliate marketing on your site is simple, easy to use and has a transparent model 
for monetizing your site. You simply recommend products throughout your site and that’s it. It’s 
really great because you don’t have to worry about creating a product and making sure it is 
delivered to the customer; all you do is promote it on your site and let the advertisers take care of 
the rest.


Secrets To Becoming A Successful Affiliate Marketer

Implementing affiliate marketing on your website can be very beneficial in your 
monetization strategy, if it is done correctly. You cannot just expect to sign up with an affiliate 
network and just expect the money to come rolling in. While this might happen in the rare, lucky, 
case, it will likely not happen for you. If you follow these secrets to become a successful affiliate 
marketer, only then you can watch the money come rolling in.
Have A Killer, Content Rich Site
To be successful as an affiliate marketer, you need to be credible. To gain credibility you 
have to have a great website with even better content that brings people back time and time 
again. 
Anyone can set up a blog and start writing about whatever they like, the Internet is full of 
personal blogs that do not go anywhere. They key to getting a great blog or website start is to 
have a great design layout that makes sense and is user friendly. Your site needs to grab the 
reader’s attention right away with striking images and rich content.
If you don’t know how to start out designing a website, simply sign up with a web host, 
create your domain and set up an account on Wordpress. Once your account has been made and 
you’ve linked your Wordpress account to the web host, you can start looking through all the 
different website themes Wordpress offers. There are thousands of different free themes to 
choose from or if you can’t find something you like, you can search and purchase a theme 
through sites such as Themeforest or elsewhere and upload it to Wordpress through your web 
host.
Give your website’s theme some good thought, this is what can make or break your site. 
If visitors land on your homepage and immediately leave due to an unpleasant theme, you’ll have 
a high bounce rate and you will never generate any traffic. Without traffic you cannot become a 
successful affiliate marketer, you’ll be a want-to-be affiliate marketer. 
It’s not just about the awesome design of your website either. Now that you’ve grabbed 
the reader’s attention with your amazing layout, you need to prove to them that they should 
continue coming back to your website because of it’s content. Only when you have great content 
will users start to trust your site and as the trust builds, they will be more inclined to listen to 
your product recommendations and therefore more likely to click and convert into a sale. Even 
though Google uses a lot of SEO for rankings, content is king. 
Getting traffic to your site can be slow and difficult at first. A key tip is to make sure 
Google is not blocking your site from showing up in the search engine results page (SERP).
Some web hosting providers, such as Arvixe, include SEO tools to get into Google that should be 
used and updated weekly, such as submitting your sitemap and ensuring Google is not blocking 
you.


Policy Page and a Terms Of Service Page. If Google decides to block you or not rank 

you then it will be difficult to build traffic to your site organically and you will have to work 

harder on social media outlets.

It’s also important to have good content so you can put in the affiliate marketing links 

without seeming like you are forcing them in there. The links should seem like genuine casual 

recommendations, like how you would tell a friend about a great new product. If you don’t have 

great content, then users will not trust your site and will not click on the links and you will not 

get the commission. 

Once you’ve spent about 3 – 4 months building up traffic and followers on your site, you 

can start looking at different monetizing strategies. Typically, after 3 or 4 months you’ll have 

built up enough great content to be able to place multiple affiliate links. You can put the affiliate 

links in right away, but some advertisers might see you have low traffic and they might not want 

to partner with you right away.

Finding The Right Advertising Partners

Before you jump right into an advertisers program, it’s important to outline who you are 

looking to partner with and how you foresee promoting them on your website. You should not 

just blindly sign up for affiliate marketing programs in hopes of making money instantly. You 

need to have a plan to know which direction you want to take it and how it will benefit your site 

and how it will benefit the advertisers.

Questions to ask yourself before signing up: What is my niche? What types of products 

can I promote on my site, apparel, electronics, travel, etc.? Or are there multiple categories? It is 

very important to know what you are looking for. 

Once you’ve signed up for to an affiliate marketing network like JV Zoo, ClickBank or 

CJ Affiliate, you can filter the advertisers by the categories, keywords, content and the area that 

an advertiser will ship to. Each advertiser will have slightly different programs terms and 

commission rates that you have to comply with.

You’ll find some advertising partners are going to work much better with your site and 

you’ll enjoy working with them more. Find the relationships that work for you and that you can 

see will turn into a long lasting relationship. The more reliable the advertiser is, the more likely 

you will be successful with them for the long haul. 

Only Promote Products That Make Sense

If you already have a following on your website with good traffic, chances are you have 

enough returning users who trust what you have to say and promote. Try to stick to 

products that have a natural flow in your website. If you put in a product that seems out place and completely like it is something your are force promoting, your loyal readers will 

start to question your judgment and be turned off by the misplaced product rather quickly.

Promoting products that do not fit with your site will likely not get any clicks and this 

will lower your overall conversion rate. The conversion rate is the percentage of visitor’s to your 

website who are converted to a sale, or lead, by not only clicking on the product you have linked 

but also purchasing it. Misplaced products will not have any conversions.

Don’t just sell, sell, sell. You should figure out the number of products that feels natural 

for an article or your whole site in general. If you are doing an article called the “best X number 

of Y products”, with Y being the type of product, then only put in X number of the products in 

the article. Don’t place additional products that do not belong in the article that will confuse the 

reader in hopes of getting more clicks.

Be helpful to your audience and promote quality products that add value to your readers.

Why do people come to your site? They want to see and hear what you have to say. They enjoy 

your site and will come back to it. They had a need or a question that needed to be answered, so 

they came to your site to seek help. They are interested in the different products you have to 

recommend. You only want to put in products that make sense on your site and the readers will 

find valuable. Do not try to trick your readers.

If you write about a topic you are passionate about, it will shine through to your readers. 

Try to keep to products that you have personally tried out and found useful. However, do not feel 

obligated to purchase a product just so you can do a product review. Be smart about what you are 

promoting on your site.

You also only want to promote products that you know are good. The worst thing that 

can happen is that you promote a product you do not believe in or have not thoroughly 

researched and you have a customer come back to you after buying it based on your 

recommendation and tell you it was a horrible mistake and they want their money back. This can 

ruin your credibility as an affiliate marketer.

Set Up Your Affiliate Profile Accurately

An important step in the whole affiliate marketing process is to ensure that your profile 

on the affiliate marketing network is accurate. This might seem like a no-brainer, but if you 

profile has any incorrect information, then you will not receive payment from the site. 

Some networks, such as Amazon and CJ Affiliate, require you to put in your tax 

information before you can gain any earning from the site. 



Use Multiple Affiliate Networks

Signing up with several affiliate marketing networks will help maximize the 

revenue potential for your site. It’s always smart to diversify.Every niche is different and 


will require different strategies. By using multiple networks you can constantly test and improve 

on which affiliate network is the best for your site. 

Signing up with multiple affiliate networks will allow you to get to know how each one 

works and which one you like the best. Each has different features and advantages and 

disadvantages; so test them out and find your favorite.It can take 1 – 2 months to really find the 

affiliate network that is best suited for your site.Not every network will work for your niche and 

you’ll find out which one works as you go along.



Use Analytics And Tracking

Don’t just expect to put affiliate marketing links into your site and expect to make 

money. You should always keep track of what you are doing and how the links are performing. 

Each affiliate network should have a reporting or tracking section to tell you how each of your 

links are performing. 

You should be monitoring these reports often to see if there are any trends emerging. For 

example, perhaps you’ll notice that all of the links you put in the top of your articles always 

perform better than the ones at the bottom. If you notice this as a trend, then put the products that 

will earn the most money at the top of the article so they are more likely to have a higher 

conversion rate.

If you see that some links are not performing at all consistently, then take them out as it 

will lower your conversion rating and advertisers will take notice.If you are noticing that many 

links are not performing well, then try to switch it around and trying new links. It will take some 

time to learn what is working and what doesn’t, but when you get there, you’ll start to have a 

couple articles that consistently perform well and become your moneymakers.

Not only should you be looking at the analytics that the affiliate networking companies 

provide on tracking your links, but you should also set up Google Analytics for your entire 

website. This will give you demographics and analytics on your audience so you can pick better 

products that are better suited to your specific audience. If you find your audience is primarily in 

Europe and you are only promoting products that ship to the United States and not Europe, then 

your conversion rate will be low.

Connect To Your Readers Before You Sell

Collect emails, build relationships on social media, engage with your readers so they feel 

like you’re helping them and there is a true relationship, so when they are ready to buy 

something, they will come to you.

You want to engage with your readers by replying to the comments and questions in a 

promptly manner. This can be a little time consuming but it adds great value to the 

relationship between you and the reader. It makes them feel more connected to you, gives 

them proof that you care able them and value their opinion. Everything that builds up trust will 

have your readers being loyal to you and coming back to purchase your products when they feel 

ready. 

Social media.Social media.Social media. If you aren’t already on it, get on it. As painful 

and delightful as all the different social media platforms can be, they’re your new best friends for 

growing your followers. Plus, they are a great way to connect with your readers. Everyone has 

their own preference for social media platforms, but if your website doesn’t have at least 

Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, you’re hurting your websites potential. Obviously some 

different niches won’t use all of the platforms regularly, so find out which ones work best for 

you and use them often. 

Connect with your readers by finding out what other sites and social media platforms 

they use. Find out where your audience hangs out so that you can follow them there and promote 

your website and the products you are featuring. 

Pinterest can be a surprisingly helpful tool to drive traffic to your site, sometimes more so 

than Facebook and Twitter. It can be especially helpful when you are using affiliate marketing. 

You can create a vertical pin (735 px by 1102 px) featuring one of the products you are 

featuring. Your pin can have the image of the product or something creative about the post, with 

the pin linking to your site’s page that has the product on it. Or you can link directly to the 

affiliate link and it can take them directly to the advertiser.

You can use social media management websites like Hootsuite, where you can plan out 

what to post, when to post and on which social media platform to post it on. You can also see 

who is engaging with you on social media, who’s talking about you and all kinds of analytics 

that will be very helpful to learn about your audience. The more you know your audience, the 

more you can successfully use affiliate marketing. This will help you organize everything so you 

don’t go crazy with all the social media. 

Don’t forget about your early and loyal followers who helped build the foundation of 

your traffic. It’s likely some of the people who first signed up for your mailing list or to follow 

you will be some of your best customers later on down the road. Be sure to keep building a 

relationship with the early followers as you grow your traffic. 



Deep linking And Higher Google Rankings

Deep linking is another SEO term that refers to linking to an inner page of a website 

rather than homepage. 

Advertisements are recognized as Google as advertisements. When affiliate links are 

deep links, Google sees them as part of the content of the page. Deep linking allows the links to 

be bypassed as advertising and appear to be part of the content that is linking to another page. 

They are called deep links because they take you deeper into a website than just linking to the 

home page. The benefit of deep linking is that Google will index these links as part of your page, 

giving you better link juice. It is also possible that Google will pull up your page when someone 

searches for the product. Articles with affiliate marketing links in them tend to have deep links in 

them and therefore Google will award these links and rank them higher.

Deep linking can reduce your bounce rate and increase your page views and subscribers. 

Deep links are better for readers because it means they get to the page they want quickly. Deep 

linking can increase your page’s entire authority, something you want. Deep linking help pages 

that might be hidden and not be indexed by Google get indexed. Since most affiliate marketing 

links are deep linking, adding affiliate marketing to your website is highly beneficial, not only to 

monetize, but to increase your visibility and traffic. 



Write With SEO In Mind

Placing the affiliate links into an article is great. But if Google doesn’t find your articles 

and your traffic is not growing organically, then people will not see it. Once you write an article, 

it’s up and out there on the web. You don’t have to do anything else to it. So if you write with 

SEO optimization in mind then you don’t have to go back and tweak the article later for Google 

to find it.When you write good high quality content, in time, Google will take notice. 

Do SEO keywords research to determine the content of your articles. The same keywords 

can be used when you are searching for advertisers and products through the affiliate network. 

This will also match products better, giving your site more credibility.

Affiliate Marketing Network Company Profiles

There are several different affiliate marketing networks online today, all with thousands of 

advertisers to choose from offering millions of products. Some networks are larger, older, more 

established or more suited for your needs. Here are some of the top affiliate marketing networks 

out there are the moment. Read these companies profiles to see if any catch your eye as one you 

would like to sign up with. 


JV Zoo

JV Zoo is newer to the affiliate marketing scene than other networks, however they are 

quickly becoming the rising star because it is easy to use and free to sign up. They have a large 

number of advertisers offing a wide range of products. There are some products that are only 

available on JV Zoo, so even if you are already using other affiliate networks, JV Zoo can still be 

profitable to you. JV Zoo has great customer service and is always happy to help out. While they 

do not have the best looking user interface, it is practical and easy to use.

One of the great features that JV Zoo has that the other networks do not have is that your 

commissions go instantly into your PayPal account. JV Zoo is very popular among the “make 

money online” crowd because it is easy to get paid instantly with the adaptive PayPal payment 

scheme. Why wait for your hard earned money. This is one of the reasons that JV Zoo is quickly 

becoming one of the more popular affiliate networks even though it is one of the newer ones.

Refunds with affiliate marketing can become a nightmare and ruin your reputation based 

on the payment schemes of the other affiliate networks. With JV Zoo there is no issue with the 

buyer getting their money back because with instant and direct PayPal payments, PayPal simply 

deducts the payments from both the publisher and the advertisers accounts the same way the 

payment when in. 

JV Zoo also has great integration with Warrior Forum (a larger marketplace for online 

marketing products). When the Warrior Forum goes down, which it is known to do, it reroutes 

all the affiliate marketing links to the JV Zoo network.


ClickBank

Perhaps one of the oldest affiliate marketing networks out there, ClickBank is also one of 

the best affiliate marketing networks. You can earn commissions of 1% to 80% from their large 

network of advertisers. In fact, ClickBank has the largest source of advertisers of all the affiliate 

networks. 

ClickBank’s 60-day money back guarantee is very important to consumers and 

they feel comfortable when they see the Click Bank logo. The reputation of Click Bank 

precedes itself and when a consumer sees the logo they know they are getting a quality product.


Click Bank only offers digital information products. Click Bank might not be the right 

network if you are focused on fashion or sports, for example. Since there are no distribution costs

with the products ClickBank offers, this allows a higher percentage of commission to go to the 

affiliate.


Commission Junction (CJ Affiliate)

Commission Junction (CJ Affiliate) is now one of the largest affiliate networks on the 

web. Almost every major merchant is on CJ Affiliate, giving the affiliates a greater range of 

products to chose from. Affiliates get even more power in the decision-making because the 

advertisers offer multiple creative sizes. This customization and plethora of products makes it 

nearly impossible to not find a product to promote on your site, no matter what your niche is.

CJ Affiliate has one of the most powerful reporting systems in all the affiliate networks. 

This will greatly help you optimize your performance. The more you analyze how your products 

are doing and tweaking them to do better, the more money you will make. With CJ, the more you 

put into it, the more you’ll get out of it. That being said, it can be a steep learning curve to set up, 

navigate and understand all the reports.

To complete the application process for CJ Affiliate you need to enter your tax 

information. Without it you are barred from using the network. 


LinkShare

LinkShare is also one of the oldest affiliate networking sites on the web, however, it still 

remains to be a smaller one, only have a small percentage of merchants compared to some of the 

other networks. However, this does not stop them from being one of the top affiliate networks.

One of the main features of LinkShare is that you can rotate through multiple banner ads 

for a particular product from a single snippet of code. This is a key feature because you do not 

have to manually select which banner to run and it allows for variety on your site. 

LinkShare also allows for flexible deep linking options. This means that you can link 

directly to products instead of the merchant’s home page. You don’t need to be approved to sign 

up and can start using LinkShare right away. LinkShare does have a considerably smaller 

merchant pool than other networks, such as CJ,thathave most of LinkShare’s merchant pool plus 

more.


Amazon Affiliates Program

The Amazon Affiliates Program quite possibly has the largest pool or products 

because of the large amount of merchants on Amazon. Anything that is sold on Amazon



can be turned into an affiliate link to be put on your site. You’re likely familiar with Amazon and 

the huge amount of products on it. This is probably the easiest affiliate network to get started on 

and learn how things work.

The Amazon Affiliates Program is possibly one of the easiest networks to set up and get 

started with. The reporting abilities are a little weak, but sufficient to see how your links are 

performing. Like CJ Affiliate, you will need to upload your tax information before you will 

receive any payments from the program. The whole network is a little dry and less involved than 

the other networks, but you will find some products that you won’t on other networks.

The payment scheme of Amazon Affiliates is a little less than other networks, hitting 

only 4% - 15% for commission. You will get a large variety of products to choose from and 

easily set up your account but you won’t see as much money as you will from other networks.

Another drawback of Amazon Affiliates is that they have a net-60 payment policy, which means 

you will not receive your commission from a sale until two months after the sale occurred.


ShareASale

ShareASale has a large network of merchants from small businesses to the big Fortune 

500s and they have been around for 14 years, so they have built up relationships with credible 

merchants. The payment scheme of ShareASale is the 20th of each month via direct deposit or 

check. 

ShareASale offers a large range of comparisons when you are trying to decide which 

offer to select. This is great when trying to decide on which offer will be the best to promote on 

your site.

In order to sign up with ShareASale, they need to approve your website which can take 2 

– 4 business days. ShareASale also has a difficult to use user interface that can be cumbersome 

for new users. Once you get the hang of it, you can make good money on ShareASale.



Importance Of Emailing Lists

A great way to take advantage of affiliate marketing links and promoting them to your 

readers directly is through email marketing lists. If your site does not already have a subscription 

form, set on up as soon as possible. Having a mailing list is best way to grow your traffic and 

interact with your readers on a more personal level. 

Email marketing is the easiest way to connect to your followers. You can personalize and 

customize emails to be sent out to your subscribers at a frequency you choose; usually bimonthly or monthly so your users do not become annoyed by the frequency they receive 

something from you.

There are multiple different email marketing solutions, such as MailChimp and 

Benchmark Email, that will manage your contacts into various lists, help you design your email 

campaigns through preset templates and will track and provide various analytics for who opened 

your campaign, what they clicked on, who did not receive the email, who forwarded the email to 

someone else and other results that are important for optimization.

Of all the online marketing tools, email marketing is quickly becoming the most 

important because you can deliver your website’s message and other forms of marketing directly 

to your reader in the newsletter sent to their inbox


List Building

To start your list building you need to have a subscription form on your website. Readers 

who enjoy your site and want to be kept up to date on new content and promotions will sign up 

to receive your newsletter via email. It is very important for people to subscribe to your 

newsletter by opting-in and agreeing to receive it. In fact, in some countries, it is the law that 

readers subscribe to your newsletter and have the option to unsubscribe easily each time they 

receive a new newsletter from you.

You can create multiple lists for your website depending on who is signing up to 

subscribe. You can create different lists depending on demographics, interests, promotions and 

information. The user must subscribe to each list to receive the newsletter. By creating multiple 

streams of newsletters you can really target and personalize who is receiving what to you and 

add value to your subscriber. 

Building up your lists through subscription forms is sometimes easier than using social 

media. You do not have to push your readers to subscribe; you simply need a subscription form 

on your site. Once you put your subscription form up, you just need to wait for people to actually 

subscribe. You can set up auto-responders with the various email marketing solution sites that 

will introduce the new subscriber to your newsletters and inform them what they have subscribed 

to.

The great thing about emailing lists is that you can personalize each email for 

each receiver. The campaign will have a spot you can put in the person’s name or other 



information so that whatever they have put as their name in the sign up form will appear in the 

email. This is great for building a relationship with your reader. 

Everyone checks their email on a regular basis, so you know for sure they at least see 

your email come into their inbox. The trick is to get them to open your email and engage with it. 

You can track who has opened it and who has not with the analytics in each email marketing platform. 


Brand Promotion

Email marketing is a simple and quick way to remind your readers to keep coming back 

to your website. It’s a great tool that arrives directly to their inbox to tell them about your brand. 

Promoting your brand is important to gain traffic. If people don’t remember your brand, they 

won’t think about returning to your site to purchase anything. 

Emailing lists are very important for customer acquisition and engagement. Make sure 

you are promoting your products in a creative way that stays true to your brand. Email marketing 

is an important tool to really develop your brand and see what works with your customers. With 

all the different tracking and reporting abilities of email marketing, you can really see how your 

customers are engaging with the personalized emails you send out.

Just be careful on the frequency in which you are sending out emails to your various lists. 

If some subscribers are on multiple lists, they might get annoyed with your brand and 

unsubscribe. The maximum frequency you should be sending out your emails is about once 

every two weeks, sometimes just once a month is good. 

Conversion

Email marketing is a great way to boost your conversation rate as an affiliate marketer. 

Since people spend more time reading their emails than they do on social media, it’s important 

that you take advantage of this marketing channel. It can really complement and improve your 

other marketing strategies.

You can send out emails that focus on promoting only the products you are promoting 

through affiliate marketing, or if you prefer a less direct approach, feature the articles that have 

the highest commission products in them. All of this will help improve your conversion rate. 

When advertisers see you have a high conversion rate they may approach you with great deals or 

be more willing to work with you. 

Customizing emails for your reader’s demographics will also help you better target your 

promotions. You can segment the emails in the readers’ gender, age, location and anything else 

you might want to target. This customized and personalized email will make your reader feel like 

you are letting them in on a secret through the email. 

It has been shown that email marketing is a high source for conversions, with the highest click through rates coming in on Saturdays. Email campaigns that have words like 

‘secrets’, ‘e-sales’ and ‘awesome’ in the subject line and were fewer than 30 characters have also 

been showing to get higher clicks. It has also been reported that people who buy products 

marketed through email spend more money than those who do not receive the email offers.

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