Yesterday I explained what Affiliate Programs are, how easy they are to use, and how they benefit you. Today I am going to show you some Affiliate Programs and how to use them. Below are some example of Affiliate Programs and a brief description of them
Clickbank.com: Clickbank.com is one of the most productive affiliate websites on the internet and they are very easy to use. Most people who go about affiliate marketing use Clickbank.com and there is an obvious reason for that. Almost all products on clickbank are digital products, meaning there not physical (usually a Ebook, Subscription service, etc). Affiliating with companies that use clickbank make it easy for you due to the fact that you don’t have to worry EVEN if the customer gets the item, almost all the items on clickbank are digital!
Linkshare: Linkshare is a good site if you are looking to sell speicfic oriented goods. If you have a specific oriented sale site, then Linkshare is defiantly a choice to consider using. They are also easy to you.
Commission Junction (aka CJ): I have never used Commission Junction but from word of mouth I have heard they are one of the best affiliate marketing sites around.
These are your three main Affiliate Marketing sites you should be dealing with, there is a lot more, but these are the best to get started with!
I will now go over a brief overview on creating an Affiliate Website to sell your affiliate goods. For example, if you want to sell an ebook by the name of “MAKE MONEY TODAY” what you will need to do is go on “MAKE MONEY TODAY”’s website and see if they have an affiliate section. In the affiliate section they should give you their link and how to set up an affiliate partnership with them. Since this is an ebook and most ebooks use Clickbank for their services you will probably see something looking like this “http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net”
Affiliate is where you would need to put your username you signed up with clickbank for and vendor is the website code that the webmaster of the site decided to use as their affiliate identification. All you have to do now is just put your username instead of AFFILIATE and the rest of the link should be completed for you. The webmaster may also put up keywords, banners, and tricks to help you optimize their products (because they want to make money TO!) All you want to do now is advertise your site, and I will continue on with more things you can do to bring in sales tomorrow.
Today you learned
1 - Multiple Affiliate Sites that are free to you
2 - How to set up affiliate websites
3 - The special code affiliate sites have and how to use them