Here is a short list of the affiliate management company's that I use, you can also find a directory on the Internet of these company's, there are 100's if not 1000's, but you have to use the one that the company your affiliating with uses.
Commission junction
ClixGalore
linkshare
ShareAsale
Commission junction and ShareAsale are the two that I like best, theirsite is fairly easy to navigate. The others takes awhile to get use to, but are still okay. This is not an endorsement merely my preference. Also as a disclaimer, there is a link at the bottom of this page for ShareAsale, they are the only one of the four that will pay me for referrals.
When your all signed up and ready to search for company's that carry the items you want. You will find them on a list with your affiliate management company. You will click on a button that says something to the effect to join that company's affiliate program. Some company's have an immediate acceptance policy, and others will want to review your site and then decide if they will accept you. When a company rejects you don't get mad or upset, their are a lot of reasons they may not feel that your website portrays their company, they may not like other companies on your site with them, or they may have suspended their program. Usually, with in a week or so you will get an e-mail, stating you have been accepted or rejected. Now if your accepted some will e-mail you banners to place on your site. Look at them very carefully, if your affiliate ID number is not there, you will not get credit for sales coming from your site. I always wait awhile and go to the affiliate managers site to down load the banners, that way I know my ID code is embedded in the link. To download the banner that I want, I copy and save it to either my google documents or my google notebook. That way if i mess up pasting it into my website, I don't have to go back to the affiliate management site and download it again. It took me awhile to figure this out, I wasted a lot of time going back and forth.
(NOTE)-If you don't already use your computers hot keys to, cut, copy and paste, learn too. This will save you a lot of time, frustration and headaches. I initially used just the mouse and found that sometimes, when you placed the cursor where you wanted to go and then moved the mouse up to the browsers copy button, the cursor would disappear from the area I was pasting too. So i would go back and forth trying to do it, if it doesn't work once it more than likely will not work the second or third time either.
Ctrl & X= Cut
Ctrl & C= Copy
Ctrl & V= Paste
Once i had everything, banners etc.., on my site I went back into the manage my website control panel and updated my site description and keywords. Any time you change anything in your website, save it before you do or go anywhere else. Why? If you don't as soon as you leave, you will lose all your changes, slow down and save, save, save. I spent a lot of time redoing things because I got in a hurry, started thinking too much and forgot to save my changes.
Working with Keywords and keyword phrases is boring, but it is really important. First review the content on your site and list words and phrases that you would put into a browser to find your website. Ask friends and relatives for ideas also, when you complete your list find a keyword generator. I had a google AdWords account and so I used their tool to get additional key words and phrases. Be aware of negative keywords, when I first started i had one of those turn key websites to sell a 2 day acne cure. Well, I used AdWords to try and generate traffic. I found the keyword with the most hits, ACNE, and i got a lot of traffic but no sales or click through as they call them. So I went back to AdWords and read the help section and learned about negative key words. These are general or specific words or phrases that will generate a lot of traffic but no sales. In short use keywords that describe your website, as with my acne site instead of just acne, I used words and phrase like buy acne cure, 2 day acne cure etc..if your selling something use words that will bring you buyers, not someone looking for information about causes of acne.
Your site is now ready, all your products are listed and the links work, your site description and keywords are perfect, let the cash roll in. Not that easy, we still have something left to do, get your website on search engines. Your web building site will have an offer to list you with over 200 search engines, for a low price of 50 bucks, or something similar. You can use that service, just like you could pay someone else to build your website. What's the point, are you going to pay-out lots of money to pay some else? To make a lot of money, you have to repeat what works and fix what doesn't. These sites will hopefully make you money, and either way you are learning. That's the whole point, keep learning and growing, keep doing it if you want to succeeded. Like I said at the start, if your not willing to pay the price you will not succeed, the roadside is littered with people who got tired, frustrated, its to hard, to much work, I don't have the time. Again, you can work on your business for 80 hours a week or 2 hours a week, the difference? Working 80 hours a week you will get there quicker than working 2 hours a week, but as long as you keep on keeping on, learning, and applying that knowledge, you will get where your going, or like most people sit on the side of the road.
Back to the subject of search engines. You can go to the following search engine websites and enter your website your self. It is very simple and straight forward to complete the forms and submit them. Then you wait, most will take anywhere from a week to several months for the directories to crawl your website. Crawl your website is a phrase that means the directory has an automated system that reviews your website and determines its content, links and a bunch of other secret things they look for to rank your site for its directory. The major ones; Google, Demoz, yahoo, and MSN have other directories that are associated with them. Those other directories have different schedules, that is why it may take up to 3 months to get picked up by the sub-directories.
Now we are up to date, this is basically where I am at right now. With that said I want to restate a couple of things to make sure they are clear. I started doing this to make money, but my whole life I have never cheated anyone, lied to make money or get ahead, and believe that in the long run honesty and integrity are the values that really count. Now for the questions your dying to ask. How much have you made on your website? Earlier this week I submitted my site to the directories and have made $.70 from my website, and that was from an item I bought myself. I am also on Mylot and have made $.75 so far. With that said, I am always working to find out what I am not doing and what I can do better. That is where I am now, and my text post we will talk about some of those other things I am thinking about and starting to do.
Last but not least, I have listed some of the links I talked about in my link box. there are only two of them that I make anything from, the first is my website, but only if you decide to purchase something and the second is this Share A Sale link.
Thanks for reading this blog and as always, ideas, comments, and constructive criticism is highly appreciated.
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