Cross-Promote Your Site Through Affiliate Programs
by Bobette Kyle
It is often a challenge to attract targeted, interested visitors to your Website. There are several ways to do this, one of which is to cross-promote your site through affiliate programs. Offering your own affiliate program gives others an incentive to advertise your site to those they think will be interested. Additionally, by participating in others' programs you can build relevant and useful content on your own site. Affiliate Programs - Participating In As an affiliate, you place an affiliate link on your site and the merchant agrees to compensate you for visitors arriving through that link. Many times the compensation is a percent of any purchase the visitor makes. Other types of compensation agreements include a flat fee per sale, a fixed amount per lead, or (less often) per-click compensation. There are thousands of affiliate programs available to you. Multi-category affiliate directories include AssociatePrograms.com and iBoost Journal Directory. Affiliate Program - Creating Your Own Another way to leverage an affiliate program is to offer your own. A well-run program can enhance your business in several ways. Your affiliates will work to sell your product, leaving you to devote more time to other aspects of your business. Also, the links back to your site may raise your ranking in some search engines. Finally, the word-of-mouth created can enhance your company’s reputation.
Word-of-mouth is a two edged sword, however. Your reputation can be hurt considerable if you do not pay your affiliates as promised, provide insufficient support, or if you poorly administer your program in other ways. In other words, you cannot be successful by simply listing your program in an affiliate directory. The decision to offer an affiliate program is a serious one. Research your options carefully. Information sources include: Industry organizations such as The Internet Affiliate Marketing Association (iAfma). Affiliate program solutions providers such as the Affiliate Tracking network and My Affiliate Program. High-end providers such as Commission Junction. Low-cost providers such as ClickBank, (digital products only.). Their site seems a bit confusing and incomplete to some. For a good ClickBank summary, read "Working with Clickbank" by Tom Hua. You can get a copy, free of charge here. Additional Resource For more affiliate marketing information, visit WebMarketingPlace.com. About the Author Bobette Kyle draws upon 10+ years of Marketing/Executive experience, Marketing MBA, and online marketing research in her writing.
Bobette offers a range of marketing plan tools to fit your business and budget. Find out more at http://www.HowMuchForSpider.com or visit the Web Site Marketing Plan Network, http://WebSiteMarketingPlan.com. | DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this article is not warranted or guaranteed by Developer Shed, Inc. The content provided is intended for entertainment and/or educational purposes in order to introduce to the reader key ideas, concepts, and/or product reviews. As such it is incumbent upon the reader to employ real-world tactics for security and implementation of best practices. We are not liable for any negative consequences that may result from implementing any information covered in our articles or tutorials. If this is a hardware review, it is not recommended to open and/or modify your hardware. |
More Affiliate Promotion Articles
More By Developer Shed  developerWorks - FREE Tools!
|
Hear how IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management integrated solutions help teams put the right tools and processes in place to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of project teams and ensure that the business vision is being executed correctly. Learn how to automate and integrate requirements prioritization, top-down project planning, communications and controls, and methodology deployment to keep your scope, costs, and schedules under control. Tackle with an end-to-end approach the management of scope and scope changes, usage of methodology to control and empower project teams, and optimization of resources to align activity costs with the overall project plan.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Learn how you can extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). The Did you say mainframe? e-kit includes podcasts, webcasts, tutorials, white and red papers, demos, and articles designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise. This complimentary kit for mainframe developers is a practical, how-to guide for making the most of an existing development environment, including the skills and infrastructure already in place at an established enterprise.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition V7.0 to identify bug defects earlier in the software development cycle. Rational Software Analyzer is an extensible software development solution that reduces the expense of bug-fixes by enabling static analysis code reviews and bug identification very early in the development cycle.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid, which lets you schedule, execute, and monitor batch jobs. Because online transaction processing and batch jobs execute simultaneously on the same server resources, you can avoid costly duplication of resources. Compute Grid supports job types of Java transactional batch, compute-intensive and a new type called "native execution", which enables non-Java workloads to run on distributed end points.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Rational Build Forge Express Edition is an automation framework that packages the latest enterprise-grade technologies into a reliable, flexible and robust configuration designed and priced specifically for small to midsize businesses. The new Rational Build Forge Express eKit provides you with valuable resources – including a case study, podcast, demo, and articles – to help you increase staff productivity, compress development cycles and deliver better software, fast.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference on December 6 at 1:00 pm ET to participate in an agile application development discussion and get your questions answered on using IBM Rational Method Composer in a distributed environment.Get your questions answered!
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Learn the basics of the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS). With a hands-on exercise, learn how to get your first CICS application up and running on your desktop using TXSeries V6.1 for Windows. The tutorial shows you how to download and install a free trial version of TXSeries V6.1.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Join this webcast to discover the key requirements for successful change and release management. Learn how to extend your .NET environment to improve productivity and collaboration, and address core problems afflicting team development. In this webcast, we’ll review typical challenges faced by customers and how to resolve them with the IBM Rational Change and Release Management solution, including Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge. Replay is available for 9 months.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox for connectivity. The SOA Sandbox for connectivity provides a trial environment with the tooling and components to help you explore how to effectively connect your infrastructure and integrate all of the people, processes and information in your company. Use the hosted sandbox to explore SOA techniques that streamline connecting existing IT assets together, as well as learn how to connect them to new business logic.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference, to hear how Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) eliminates the need for tedious and error-prone low level coding, so developers can focus on business requirements. EGL extends the Rational software development platform with a simplified programming language that enables developers who have little or no experience with Java, Web technologies or Service Oriented Architecture, to create enterprise-class applications and services quickly and easily. It also allows developers who may have little or no mainframe programming experience to quickly create traditional mainframe components.
FREE! Go There Now!
| | | |
All FREE IBM® developerWorks Tools!
| |
