Make Money with Affiliate Programs

Simply put, an affiliate program is a system that pays you a commission when people buy a product or sign up for a service after having found that product/service via a link from your blog, lens, or website.

There are many types of affiliate programs that deal with tons of different niche products, so you should be able to find a program to fit any web topic that you are interested in writing about.


Where to find affiliate program ?

While there are many types of affiliate programs, this lens will focus on the most common forms: pay per sale(PPS) or pay per lead(PPL). Both of these require that the referred person from your site complete some form of transaction on the affiliate site. There are many merchants that offer such programs, many are available on Squidoo listed in the moneymakers section of the lens modules.

If you don't find the particular affiliate links in the lens modules, or if you are looking for affiliate links for your blog or website many online companies offer referral programs that you can sign up for directly. In addition, there are many affiliate networks that host many programs consolidated under one sign up process. I will discuss more about that later, but first lets talk about some tips on affiliate marketing

Five basic tips for using affiliate links :

Know your topic. Write about something you are interested in and provide information that will attract attention of people with similar interest. Your level of enthusiasm will show in your writing, and this will keep your viewers' interest.

Know your topic. Yes, I repeated it. Your first mission should be to create an interesting and informative lens, with your reader in mind. An interested audience is more likely to stay captivated on your lens, which will lead to more sales.

Link to Quality Products or Services. Do not choose products solely on the amount of revenue they will give you. Represent companies with good reputations and quality websites. This will ensure your readers are happy, and may lead to free "word of mouth" advertising for your lens.

Use contextual Links when possible. Make your affiliate links flow inside of your text, instead of just having a banners everywhere. Readers are more likely to click on a particular product link if it is mixed in with interesting related content.

Genuine Personal Endorsements Work Well if you have experience with particular product, and you can honestly recommend it, then do so. Reviewing a product with details on its strengths and weaknesses will show you knowledge level, and if the reader is interested may lead to a sale. Recommending products you are unfamiliar with, and that may not be in your reader's best interest is a quick way to lose your reader's trust. DON'T DO IT!

Clickbank Affiliate

As an affiliate of Clickbank, you can access to Clickbank’s marketplace which has more than 10,000 information products that you can choose and promote in order to make money online. Most of the affiliate products of Clickbank offer a pretty generous commission but the problem is how to choose the right products to represent.

The anxiety arises because there are just too many digital products in Clickbank, making you impossible to evaluate each product to find out which ones are good for you. But, that doesn’t mean that you can’t find Clickbank products that suit your affiliate business.

Since Clickbank itself has sorted all the products into a list of categories, this immediately saves you a great deal of works in the process of finding the products that will work for your affiliate marketing business. Each product has assigned to a specific category. So, if you have planned to sell Internet marketing e-books, you can immediately go to ‘Marketing and Ads’ category of product and then get more specific info about the particular products that appeal to you. This way you can find the type of products you want to promote.

Clickbank also lets you search its marketplace by keywords. By typing in the most relevant keywords to the products you are interested, you will narrow down the selection of products to just those you would want to promote online. You can then sort the product list that you have found by popularity. The highly popular products mean that the products have attracted most affiliates. The reasons why so many people want to become affiliates of these products are probably the products are quality and selling well on the Internet. So, you may pick a few of the popular products for your affiliate marketing business.

But, keep in mind that if too affiliates have selected those products, the internet may be saturated with offerings of that product which causes a tough competition for you to sell the same Clickbank product on the net. Try to look for trends of sales and see if you can find a product that keep on rising in popularity but not reached peak yet, those will be your good money makers.

Other data you need to take into consideration are the referral percentage and gravity. The products that you pick should be the products that have at least 70% referral rate and a gravity of 50 or greater.