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Protecting Your Affilaite Links

January 9th, 2010

Copyright (c) 2009 Vivienne Moore

Promoting your affiliate website to earn commissions can be depressing and frustrating because your commissions are small in comparison to the traffic your generating for your site. Beware the unethical people out there may be stealing your referral links and replacing it with their id which is very devious. Or the main website may be getting your customers because it is a short URL and more presentable that the long complicated referral URL.

Implementing measures to prevent commission theft from the unethical thieves is important. It is an important to cloak or mask your affiliate links to protect your income. Cloaking disguises you’re affiliate link with another shorter and more effective website address. Your potential customers see a shortened more appealing masked website link only so customers don’t know the parent company website and the internet pirates are prevented from stealing your commissions.

The Good:Short readable affiliate links are generated automatically with the Viral URL program. Your free memberships enables you to cloak your affiliate links. It is worth upgrading your membership to receive the extra advertising credits and bonuses. The resources available are plentiful in the members area which allows you to easily jump start promoting. Building mailing lists,tracking statistics and earning ad credits is included with this program. Access to text, banner and email ads to promote your affiliate products is included in the members area to generate traffic using you cloaked link.

Website link cloaking is simple and easy with the instructions given. A tutorial video is available for the advanced cloaking methods. Viral URL affiliate program also allows you the opportunity to promote and earn commissions. Everything you require to promote Viral URL is included with your membership. With the upgraded membership the bonus area is full of useful extras. The member’s area would be good for the newbie because it is easy to understand and implement the techniques given.

The Viral URL system keeps the internet pirates away from stealing your commissions with cloaking referral links, gives you the opportunity to become an affiliate and offers 3 different avenues to generate traffic to your affiliate websites. Upgrading your membership offers a lot more potential for supplementing your income by promoting affiliate products. A ticket submission system is available to assist the customer with a prompt reply.

The Bad:Live support seems to offline a lot of the time and the drop down menu bars can be difficult to use. Dull and strange color scheme is very unattractive. The long introduction essay given for the benefits of promoting viral URL is a little boring and a little repetitive. Improving usability by reducing the padding up of explanation. I wasn’t really interested in reading all the information.

The Verdict:Definitely Recommend.Free membership and upgraded memberships are available. Free the membership still gives you a lot of benefits. Cloaking your referral links preventing the theft of your commissions with the added options of banner email and text ads to increase traffic. Promoting viral URL as an affiliate is easy as all the promotional tools are provided.

If you are serious about affiliate marketing and keeping your commissions this program is perfect for you.

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How to Easily Increase Your Affiliate Profits by 30%

January 9th, 2010

Selling affiliate products is a great way to start a new online business. It’s free to get started and you can begin making money right away! But there are some pitfalls along the way. One of the biggest problems in the affiliate marketing area is theft.  It is estimated that the average marketer experiences a 30% loss of affiliate revenue due to theft!

 

A good question that puzzles many new website owners suffering this fate is, “how does it happen”? The answer is straight forward; thieves view the source code of your web page and easily obtain the URL of the affiliate links along with relevant details. They replace Your affiliate ID with their own ID and create a new affiliate link. Then they use this new link to purchase the product. The result is, you lose a commission and the thief gets a discount. Most affiliate marketers are not even aware that they were robbed.

 

So how do you protect yourself against these thieves? The best way to protect your affiliate profits is to cloak your links. A good cloaking system hides your affiliate ID from these dishonest individuals. There are several cloaking techniques that you can use to protect your profits.

 

The first and easiest is to use is Tinyurl. This web service is free and is very easy to use. You simply go to the website and enter your affiliate URL into the text box. They’ll provide you with an alternate URL for that link. The new link that they provide effectively hides your affiliate ID. There are many other companies that provide the same type service but this is among the most well known.         

 

There is also software available that will cloak your links. Some of the software is quite expensive but inexpensive options also exist. So, stop those affiliate thieves in their tracks. Take back the 30% that they’ve been stealing and protect your profits with affiliate links.

 

Check out my newest ebook for some great ways to cloak your affiliate links.

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Road Map to Your Highly Success in Affiliate Marketing Business Review Affiliate of the Month

January 7th, 2010

The success proven road map in the “Affiliate Marketing Of The Month” training provided by Ewen Chia consists of affiliate marketing basics, unfair advantage to competitors, affiliate marketing traffic strategies and step-by-step of how to become a top affiliate marketing entrepreneur. With the affiliate marketing basics, you will learn the overview of affiliate marketing such as what the affiliate marketing is, how it works in general, how you can start advertising affiliate products in Click bank marketplace, and how to use basically multiple strategies to promote the affiliate products. You can learn and leverage those tactics to earn your first affiliate commission. Ewen leads some interesting basic strategies for promoting affiliate products. You will need to conduct your own website in order to take his affiliate marketing strategies into the action and start earning money. He also gives you 7 unfair advantage elements toward your competitors. With those 7 elements, I am sure that you will go ahead from your competitors. They are very valuable for beginners who just enter into the affiliate marketing business. Also, he challenges you with his example of fixed affiliate marketing business plan. He guarantees that if you can follow his plan seriously, you will earn big affiliate commission in the future. In my opinion, his affiliate marketing business plan in this section is realistic and challenge. I am also sure that you will earn huge affiliate commission online with his plan in this section. My highest recommendation is to take those strategies into the action seriously. You will see an absolutely great result in the long term, not overnight. Also, he gives you powerful strategies to build, run and grow your home based affiliate business from scratch. You can start your own business without any cost if you apply his strategies and follow to his instruction. Personally, I am very impressive with his 15 affiliate marketing traffic strategies. Some of them are unseen and hottest affiliate marketing secrets. Honestly, I admit that I have never seen and thought about those unseen secrets before. They are very new and interesting in the affiliate marketing business. I strongly believe that they are worthwhile to try and test in my home based affiliate business. With those hottest advanced secrets, you will boost skyrocket your traffic to your website and turn those visitors into buyers. The traffic is high quality and relevancy if you follow to his affiliate marketing traffic strategies. This final module in the Affiliate Of The Month video training is to step-by-step for building highly home based affiliate business from scratch. He gives you very clear instruction and steps in order to start your own affiliate marketing online business. With those 23 steps, I have no doubt that you can build, run and grow million dollars affiliate marketing business in the long term. Those steps are very valuable for beginners. Even you have experiences with the affiliate marketing business, they are very powerful strategies to grow your business in the long term as well. However, this section will be useless if you are the expert in this affiliate marketing business for a long time. Apart from those modules, he gives you two great golden opportunities to earn more money while you are learning and to grow your affiliate marketing career, like a rocket. You will receive his money up-to $500 every single month if you can be his top affiliates in each month. Also, you will receive the opportunities to work with the world’s top million-dollar internet entrepreneurs, like John Reese, Mike Filsaime, and Mark Joyner. Your affiliate marketing career and financial situation will be skyrocket when you work with those highly successful people. Personally, I accept that this is a golden opportunity to grow rapidly your career in the affiliate marketing field. Final thoughts, I strongly believe that the “Affiliate Of The Month” is very valuable for beginners up to experiences affiliate marketing entrepreneurs, not an expert. With those video sets, the road map to your success is very clear and realistic. Also, the opportunity to grow as a highly successful affiliate marketing entrepreneurs is opened. If you are looking for how to start, build, run and grow home based affiliate business for your success in long term, his video training sets are the final choice in the industry now.

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Promoting Your Affiliate Products

January 4th, 2010

Copyright 2005 Mal Keenan

Once you have your affiliate link, you’re ready to go!

All you have to do, as we’ve discussed earlier, is to pre-sell
your affiliate’s products by marketing the same through your
affiliate link. An affiliate link leads the would-be buyer to
the affiliate merchant’s payment processing page. Once you have
managed to do that, your job is done, and the affiliate merchant
will take care of the rest. This system makes affiliate
marketing a very convenient home based business for anyone!

Pre-selling, however, should be carried out through effective
marketing strategies to make this venture really profitable for
you. These marketing strategies should be able to ensure a high
conversion rate, or the power to convert the people who would be
exposed to your affiliate link into successful sales.

Here are some of the more popular types of marketing campaigns
being used as promotional tools in this home based business:

* Promoting your affiliate links through viral marketing. Viral
marketing is a very powerful strategy that would rapidly expose
your business message, or your affiliate links in this case, in
just a short period of time. Viral marketing tools usually
involve eBooks, special reports and other information products.
We will discuss this effective promotional tactic for your home
based business in the succeeding lesson.

* Marketing your affiliate links through forums. As we’ve
discussed in a previous articles, promotion in online
communities is an affordable and efficient way in spreading the
word about your products or website, including your affiliate
links. You could try to be active in these forums, befriend
other members if you have to, and before you know it, you’ll
have more traffic for your site and more referrals that could
rake in some good commissions for your home based business.

* Article marketing. As we’ve likewise discussed in a prior
article, writing articles and submitting them in various venues,
with your resource box firmly attached at the end of each piece,
is a magnificent way of promotions. People would scour the
Internet for information, and if you write something about what
they’re looking for, you’ll win their favor and expose your
affiliate links to them aswel. This could only redound to the
benefit of your home based business.

* Search engine optimization. As we’ve mentioned earlier in
these lessons, having your own website would help a lot in
marketing your affiliate links. If your website carries your
affiliate links, you could always optimize the same for the
search engines and drive a humongous amount of traffic to your
pages. Every visitor you’ll have would always carry with him the
chance of clicking on your affiliate links.

* Create your own mailing list. With a mailing list in place for
your home business, you won’t have to lose any visitors. You
could always “capture” them, warm them up for an offer later on,
or present to them new packages that they might be interested
with in the future. Most successful affiliates make a killing
with their mailing lists alone! We will discuss this in detail
in one of the the forthcoming lessons.

These are but some of the ways by which you could market your
affiliate links. If done well, they could assure for you a very
successful business that can be easy to sustain as well.

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Black Hat Affiliate Marketing – Legal? Yes. Ethical? Hmmm…

January 3rd, 2010

There seem to be numerous methods that affiliate marketers use to earn their commissions these days. Adding affiliate links to websites, emails, instant messengers, articles, e-books, pay-per-click ads, banners, and any other form of media are all popular affiliate marketing strategies. Success comes to them when people click those links, get tracked by a cookie uploaded to their computer and then make a purchase from the affiliate program’s website. Then the affiliate gets a check in the mail for all the commissions earned.
Recently though, there have been some new affiliate marketing tactics that are creating a bit of a stir in the affiliate marketing communities. It seems that an elite group of marketers are using some questionable methods to increase their commissions that have been labeled as “black hat” affiliate marketing tactics. So who are these elite, and what are their black hat tactics?
The elite group of black hatters is headed by a sly programmer named John Reel. He’s created a program that cloaks affiliate links like no other link cloaker you’ve ever seen before. That’s right; this one does a few things differently.
- One of the black hat features is that it will create framed links. This means that the link you see in the address bar will not be for the actual website you land on by clicking it. Also, the title bar in your browser will say whatever message the black hatter affiliate wants you to see.
- Another one of the more powerful features of this black hat affiliate tool is the ability to embed affiliate cookies into your links. This allows the affiliate marketer to load their affiliate cookie onto your computer before you even land on the destination URL, and therefore there is no need to use the affiliate code tagged onto the end of the URL. It will appear as though the link is not an affiliate link at all, and yet the black hatter will still secretly earn the commission.
- Taken a step further, this cookie embedding process can also allow the black hat affiliate to embed multiple affiliate cookies into their link for the affiliate program that they’re promoting as well as any competitors cookies. This way, if the customer doesn’t buy from the site you send them to and then later ends up on a competitors’ site, the black hat affiliate still earns the commission.
- Now taking this feature another step further, this black hat affiliate tool can secretly hide rotating affiliate cookies embedded within a webpage. This sneaky tactic allows for cookie after cookie to be added for numerous affiliate programs that are all tracked to the black hat affiliate.
- Going even further upon this feature is the ability to embed any link with multiple rotating affiliate cookies. Again this can load your computer with affiliate cookies for any and all affiliate programs that the black hat affiliate desires to earn commissions from. What’s more, is that this sneaky black hat affiliate link will innocently look like any other link, and can be published anywhere without anyone knowing what it’s capable of when clicked!
Sounds like the invention of a mad scientist trying to take over the affiliate marketing world through the exploitation of ingenious black hat programming loopholes.
So are these black hat affiliate tactics legal? Yes, if the affiliate program doesn’t specify otherwise within their terms of service.
Are these black hat affiliate tactics ethical? That all depends on your personal code of ethics, and whether you would use the tools ethically, or whether you would use them in every way possible to earn as many commissions as you can with no respect for your customers.
Do you want this black hat toolkit? Forget it! There are only 1,500 available, and by the time you read this they’ll probably already be gone. After that, John Reel will be parading as an angel, selling his white hat tools, but don’t be fooled by this wolf in sheep’s clothing.

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Understanding Merchants, Affiliates and Affiliate Marketing

December 31st, 2009

Selling of goods through internet is an age old profession. The merchants design their own websites to advertise about their latest products. For example Nokia has its own site for providing information regarding its latest mobile phone handsets. There are billions of websites available on internet. One can find millions of people online at a time but these people are scattered over various websites. The merchants invented a method to sell their goods to these scattered people. They chalked out a brief marketing plan for displaying advertisements on those websites, which are relevant to their products. It is the start of affiliate marketing .

The merchants need a website with several characteristics for affiliate marketing. The webmaster willing to join affiliate marketing should have well designed sites. The content of an affiliate site should be updated on regular basis. It is the content, which decides whether the site is relevant to a particular product or not. The most important part of an affiliate site is its traffic. The webmasters must remember that only high volume traffic sites are suitable for affiliate marketing. The persons visiting a websites are called its traffic. The webmaster should invent new ways to generate traffic to their affiliate sites.

The merchants pay commission to affiliates if they bring probable customers to their website. The affiliates can do so by diverting their traffic to the merchant sites. For this purpose the use affiliate marketing tools such as flyers, banners, e-mailers and lead generating forms. The merchants display their advertisements on affiliate sites through these affiliate marketing tools. The visitors of affiliate sites watch advertisements. The advertisements receive clicks from interested visitors. These clicks generate revenue for affiliates. They have to keep record of clicks for furnishing commission claims before merchants.

The technicalities of affiliate marketing have increased the task of merchants to manifold. They have to make affiliate programs for selling goods. The merchants also keep a close eye on affiliates so that they cannot make fake claims for commissions. The most difficult task for the merchants in affiliate marketing is to search for right affiliate site. It must have high volume of traffic besides having relevancy to the product. The webmasters, who wish to join affiliate marketing, sometimes make false claims regarding traffic on their sites. The merchants also find it difficult to work with multiple affiliates.

There is one online thing, which can do magic for the merchants. It is affiliate network. An affiliate marketing network provides common platform to both the merchants and the affiliates. It brings them closer for running affiliate marketing programs. Moreover it creates affiliate programs such as Cost-per-Click, Cost-per-Lead and Cost-per-Sale. One can get the membership of an affiliate network free of cost however some of the affiliate networks charge one time fees for providing membership. The affiliate network takes care of its members. It provides high volume traffic sites to the merchants for displaying advertisements. It is also the duty of an affiliate network to help affiliate in getting their due share.

The affiliate marketing network provides a strong base for online marketing in this World Wide Web. It uses software programs such as affiliate tracking software for keeping a close eye on affiliate sites. The merchants and affiliates can do their rest of the jobs smoothly by leaving the affiliate marketing on the shoulders of an affiliate network.

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How to Make Affiliate Marketing Work

December 30th, 2009

WHAT IS . . . Affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable online businesses. Its potential is endless and it works for you 24 hours a day, every day. So how exactly does affiliate marketing work? Every business wants to sell its products and most have discovered that they have a huge worldwide market when they get online. But this means advertising to bring people to your website to see your products, and this carries an associated cost. What better way to sell your product than to have someone else do the selling for you, an affiliate marketer, and pay them a commission on each sale! You could be this affiliate marketer. So, if you want to be an affiliate marketer, find a product that you believe in and could get enthusiastic about, and then look up the website and look for the “affiliate” link. Once there you will be given a special affiliate’s hyperlink that you can use to direct people to this particular business. This hyperlink also tells the business that the person who buys as a result of your advertising was sent by you. So, if there’s a sale, you, the affiliate marketer, get the commission! An important part of this whole affiliate marketing process is the advertising that the affiliate does. And there are a lot of sites on the internet that are there to help the affiliate marketer to do this. CONCENTRATE ON ONE Although in the beginning, the affiliate marketer will want to experiment a bit, it doesn’t take long to work out that it is far more effective to concentrate on one business, especially if that business has a 2 tier affiliate program. This means that any method that the affiliate marketer uses to advertise the business is concentrated and you aren’t spreading yourself too thin. PUT IN THE HARD YARDS The Macquarie Dictionary defines “Hard Yards” as “To go through with difficult and demanding work in order to achieve an end.” Whatever the promises that may be made, profitable affiliate marketing doesn’t happen easily. The money does not just start rolling in without a fair bit of hard work from you, the affiliate marketer, to begin with. But this dies not mean that you shouldn’t give affiliate marketing a go. In fact, when you achieve something after hard work it is far more rewarding that if it just fell in your lap. This is the case with affiliate marketing. BE WILLING TO INVEST A LITTLE It is true that you can be an affiliate marketer without having to spend any of your own money. And this may be a good way to start, so that you don’t buy any “dead ducks”. However, in the long run, once the affiliate marketer has settled on a particular business, it is probably worth buying some of the excellent affiliate marketing ebooks that are available to help you improve what you are doing. There are also various programs available to help you to set up your affiliate marketing selling and processing equipment and to improve your selling techniques. But don’t rush into these. LOOK FOR 2 TIER AFFILIATE MARKETS A 2 tier affiliate market is simply one in which you are paid for introducing another affiliate marketer to the business, and then when they in turn bring another person into the business you are paid again. This makes the whole exercise more profitable. There are plenty of guidelines to finding these two- or multi-tier affiliate marketing businesses if you simply Google up “2 tier affiliate list” or something similar. HAVE FUN! Affiliate marketing should be fun as well as profitable. Of course it must be taken seriously, but what could be better than sitting at home and working under your own conditions, with your own affiliate marketing business, and seeing the money rolling in. The secret is to keep the balance between enjoyment and diligence. If you do this affiliate marketing will bring you financial freedom. Ray Moore Founder http://flyfreeenterprises.com

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Affiliate Marketing the Secret to Your Success

December 26th, 2009

Affiliate marketing is the equivalent of having an army of sales people who will do the advertising and will only get a commission if a customer purchases.

Affiliate marketing isn’t for the weak of heart. If you want to be successful and make money from it, you need determination and motivation. Affiliate Marketing is simply the art of selling products for a company.

It’s like being a Car Salesman who works on commission, except as a car salesman you can’t sell just any car (in most cases).

Affiliate Marketing is that if a customer is not satisfied with the product he or she purchased they will usually go straight to the merchant to complain or request a refund. In rare cases, they may come back to your website and contact you through your information there, but that is really unusual.

Affiliate marketing is often overlooked by the traditional marketing community. The branding thing is touchy because many merchants DO use affiliates for branding which is really unfair, because affiliates don’t make a dime for showing off a brand.

Affiliate marketing is a huge business piece on the Internet. It is a cooperative effort between merchants and an affiliate’s website. Affiliate Marketing is selling on behalf of someone else in return for a percentage of the sale.

You stock no product, don’t need to package or handle, nor do you have the normal business overheads. Affiliate marketing is the original and purest form of performance-based media and a critical weapon in the customer acquisition arsenal for many online retailers.

Affiliate publishers can deliver a steady stream of online sales and actions in exchange for a commission, but affiliate marketing does not equate to “Build it and they will come”.

Affiliate Marketing is definitely a system that works. Affiliate marketing is another type of marketing which many business owners find to be both worthwhile and affordable.

For many the appeal of affiliate marketing is the affiliates are not compensated for their efforts unless the business owner sees some type of gain from the advertising.

Affiliate marketing is nothing more than commissioned sales on the Internet. The affiliate is a commissioned salesperson for a specific product or service which he is promoting through online advertising.

Affiliate marketing is the Home Business model that CAN bring you home business success, without outlaying a cent. If you have “The Affiliate Guide Book”, you will be armed with the information, method and strategies to successfully achieve your “Work from home dream”.

Do yourself a favor – DO IT NOW! Affiliate marketing is both an effective and powerful way to earn money online. The affiliate marketing programs are easy to join and implement.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning money online. This is an opportunity that gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet.

Affiliate marketing is often called, “performance-based-marketing”, meaning you don’t pay the advertiser until they sell something. Affiliate marketing ensures that you only pay when your ad results in a sale.

Affiliate marketing is really what you make of it. If you really put a great deal of work into your business, you will likely find success.

Affiliate Marketing is the most promising and lucrative business model on the internet. There are millions of affiliate marketers but there is more than adequate money for everyone out there.

Affiliate Marketing is way for advertisers to reach potential customers and only pay when a visitor takes some predefined action.

Affiliate marketing is not easy work but it’s is definitely a good way to build a side business that could have to potential to be a full time job. To be a part of third party companies like eBay Partner Network (formally Commission Junction) cost you nothing.

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Useful Tips for Affiliate Marketing Success

December 25th, 2009

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A Newbie Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing

December 25th, 2009

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