Showing posts with label AFFILIATE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AFFILIATE. Show all posts

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3 Ways to Make More Money with Amazon’s Affiliate Program This Christmas

Earlier in the year posted here on ProBlogger 11 lessons that I’d learned on the way to making over $100,000 with the Amazon Associates program (I wrote a followup post with 10 more tips too).
In that post post I posted a version of the following chart of my Amazon Associates earnings:



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The Parable of the Lemonade Stand: Is AdSense Costing you Money?

My journey into affiliate marketing.
Before I start, I’d like to make two disclaimers:
  1. I don’t hate google or AdSense—this article isn’t a rant against either.
  2. I recognize that every blog is different—what I’m about to say may not apply to your blog. Regardless, I think you should ask yourself the question I’m presenting here.
Disclaimers finished; let’s get to the point:

The Parable of the Lemonade Stand

42549598_b0780fcbfe.jpgImagine a lemonade stand. The entrepreneurs get the ingredients, start up their business, and have dozens of customers per day. It earns twenty dollars a day. Not bad for a humble lemonade stand, right?
Now, let me throw in a twist: imagine the before-mentioned entrepreneurs are in their 30’s. They own the lot on which the lemonade stand is located. The lot is located along a major highway in a rapidly growing suburban area. All adjacent lots have businesses making thousands of dollars per day. Suddenly our lemonade stand seems rather silly.
This concept is called opportunity cost—the economic consequences of choosing one thing over another. I’m learning about this the hard way — I’ve been making pennies per click when I could have been making dollars per click.
Let me explain in a little more detail. As I’ve mentioned before, strongandfit.net is the first profitable blog I’ve ever had. As my traffic increased, so did my AdSense earnings. A few dollars a day ads up, so I was finally seeing checks come in at the end of every month (I’m new to making money online, so I’m easily amused).
But I started noticing something: a few products in particular kept showing up over and over on my blog (in the AdSense widget). “Wait a minute,” I thought to myself, “these products obviously convert well if someone is willing to spend money promoting them.” I realized I had inadvertently put myself at the bottom of the economic food chain: I was getting paid a few cents per click while someone else was earning commissions on sales produced by these clicks.
I did a little research and started directly advertising these products with affiliate marketing. So far it seems to be paying off—my blog is making more money.
But there’s another benefit: I have complete control over what gets advertised on my blog. It’s turning into a win-win situation: my readers are referred to high quality products, and I earn more in commissions.
I still use AdSense, but I’m devoting more of my prime “real estate” on my blog to affiliate marketing. Maybe you should also consider doing this.

Google and Amazon Partner Up to Integrate Amazon Associates Program into Blogger Blogs

In the last few minutes Blogger.com has flipped the switch on a new way for Blogger blogs to be monetized from within their system – an integration with Amazon Associates program. Expect an official announcement from Blogger/Google shortly on this new partnership (update: here it is) – but in the mean time, here’s the scoop.
Previously the ‘monetize’ tab on the back end of Blogger blogs only had options to set up AdSense – but today you can now do the same with Amazon.
If you’re a Blogger.com blogger log into your blog – click the monetize tab and choose Amazon Associates. Here’s what you’ll see:

Are you an affiliate marketer or willing to become one?

Are you an affiliate marketer or willing to become one?

You don’t have to be an affiliate marketer right now, but you need to be committed to the trade to fully realize the benefits of ePN. As an affiliate marketer, you’ll have to focus on selling products and converting your readers to buyers. These skills are different from generating traffic and producing content.
Still, if you understand your audience and have a relevant site, it won’t be too difficult to get your readers to spend money on eBay. But you may have to learn different skills to make ePN a viable income stream.

Do you have a quality site?

One of the reasons why I wanted to write this post for ProBlogger is because blogs that follow Darren’s advice are often great sites to run affiliate programs.
eBay is looking for relevant sites that have unique or value-added content. These types of sites tend to do well with ePN.
The eBay team published a white paper on Search Engine Marketing Journal titled The Coming Evolution in Affiliate Marketing: A Focus on Quality (pdf file). This paper was based on their advanced tracking and research of their affiliates.

Is eBay Partner Network a Good Affiliate Program for Your Blog?

A guest post by Dee Barizo
_wp-content_uploads_2010_03_epn-logo.jpgeBay’s affiliate program doesn’t get mentioned much in the problogger space, but it’s been the best monetization option for my collectible card game blog.
The program is called eBay Partner Network, or ePN for short. It’s been a great for my blog. AdSense was a flop because most of the ads being served were irrelevant. On the other hand, ePN earns over 10 times as much as AdSense. Also, I use simple text links to promote eBay so I don’t have to clutter my blog with big distracting ads.
I thought I’d write about ePN to give you another monetization option. It’s generally a good idea to have multiple income streams to diversify your earnings. I believe ePN can be a viable program for many bloggers.
In this post, I’ll give a quick overview of the affiliate program. Then I’ll share some questions for you to consider to evaluate if ePN is right for you. Hopefully, by the end of the post, you’ll have a good idea whether or not the program will work well on your blog.

ePN Overview

ePN is similar to AdSense because it pays per click (although AdSense also pays on a CPM basis depending upon what ads are served). However, ePN is an affiliate program rather than an ad network like AdSense. Therefore, your traffic must generate revenue for eBay or else you won’t get paid. If your traffic doesn’t convert, then your earnings per click can go down to zero and you risk being dropped from the program.
eBay originally paid affiliate marketers a percentage of the transaction fees. But just recenty, in October 2009, eBay switched to a payout system called Quality Click Pricing (QCP). In this system, affiliates are paid based on an algorithm that takes into account several factors including revenue from sales, the long term value of new users, eBay advertising revenue and PayPal revenue.
ePN offers several tools to promote eBay on your blog. These tools include banner generators, link generators, an RSS feed generator, product feeds, and an API.

Questions to Consider

How I write the Father’s Day Deal Post:

Step 1: Go to Amazon.com/fathersday to find potential products to promote
Step 2: Sort through to the appropriate section for your website and look for pre made “deal images” like the one above that can be used on your website (Amazon usually creates several of these for sales within each product category)
Step 3: Save the image and generate an affiliate link for the page it goes to. Use this in your blog post somewhere as people love to click images especially if they outline the specifics of a sale.
Step 4: Start writing the blog post and linking to Amazon products and the father’s day home page where appropriate (see above as an example)
Step 5: Optional I use an Amazon affiliate plugin like PHPzon, Review Azon etc. to quickly and easily toss product information into my blog posts but this can also be done manually instead
Important Note To Potential Shoppers: Yes, a knife holder would make a terrible gift for Father’s Day though lol so pick something different, remember that was just a joke example.
Step 6: Reinforce that you’ll keep the reader up to date on the best deals via your blog and then take the time to promote your newsletter so that they don’t miss out on any deals you will send to them over the next few days.
Step 7: Finish the post with another link to the Amazon.com Father’s Day page
Step 8: Over the next few days watch the Amazon’s Father’s Day page for Lightning Deals that are appropriate for your audience. When the deals crop up write a quick blog post about the product on sale and send an email to your newsletter. Remember to write the blog post and send the email quickly as the popular lightning deals really do go fast.
Step 9: Required Buy me lunch with your increased Amazon earnings next time you’re in Seattle, WA.
The important thing to remember is that you can make money and still provide value to your readers at the same time. People have either forgotten Father’s Day is coming up soon or they’re already starting the process to find a gift. If you’re the first person to tell your readers that Father’s Day is upon us AND there are some sweet deals on products he might like your readers will thank you for sharing this information. This is just one way I make extra money during the traditionally slow season.
Now that you’ve learned how I make money on every holiday with Amazon, I’d love to see people actually take the advice and use it. Share your father’s day posts in the comments below and let me know what you think of this strategy.
Chris Guthrie has been a full time internet entrepreneur since October 2009 and has been earning money online since 2005. When he’s not working or playing Xbox 360 he enjoys speaking in third person. If you learned something from this blog post you’ll probably learn more by subscribing to his blog.

How to Make Money with Amazon Today:


Now that you’ve read the tips above you may be thinking to yourself, ‘Alright that sounds great but, I’m still not sure where to start.’ Well, if your blog is in any way loosely related to consumer goods (almost everyone) there is an easy way to get started today by promoting deals for Father’s Day. Most bloggers focus on just the big holidays and shopping periods like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas. These are all great, but you can take it one step further by promoting products on almost every holiday without annoying your readers (I would skip this holiday though unless you have a blog about Pirates). Early last week I received an email from Amazon’s Associates team that stated Amazon would be running Lightning Deals for Father’s Day for the first time from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM PST on Monday June 7th through Wednesday June 9th to celebrate Father’s day on June 20th. Amazon frequently creates landing pages like this for holidays so for every holiday worth promoting just search for the respective holiday landing page and replicate this strategy below on future holidays. Promoting products around the holidays is the best way to make money without looking like it’s your only focus. First I’ll show you a simple blog post I’d write for my cooking website and second I’ll break down the steps I incorporate into most of my posts designed to make money with Amazon:
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Great Deals for Dad on Amazon This Week
Amazon will be running lightning deals from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM PST on Monday June 7th through Wednesday June 9th to celebrate Father’s day on June 20th. For those that aren’t aware – lightning deals run for only a few hours and the very best deals tend to sell out quick so be sure to keep your eye on Amazon.com/fathersday so that you don’t miss anything. In addition to the lightning deals there are already great prices on Shun cutlery products like this 22 slot bamboo knife storage block:

(Information pulled from an Amazon plugin I use)
Again, the lightning deals only run from June 7th to June 9th so watch Amazon.com/fathersday and if there are any great lightning deals on cooking products I’ll be sure to let you know on the blog here and via our free newsletter. Sign up for our newsletter now and get your free guide to Summer Grilling Healthy Meals and to ensure you hear about all the great Father’s Day deals that will be shared this week.
See more Fathers’s Day Deals at Amazon.com
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How to Make Money on Every Holiday

I made a little over $60,000 in the past 12 months using Amazon’s Affiliate program and it’s actually my primary income stream. Many people are turned off by Amazon primarily because of it’s short 24 hour cookie length, but I want to show an example on how I make money using Amazon by focusing on the holiday shopping season every holiday. The next holiday coming up is Father’s Day and will be your opportunity to make some money today. But before we get to that I highly suggest you read some of the tips Darren has written in the past on how to earn money with Amazon which can be found here, here, here and… here! I also shared my own Amazon tips to earn more, but in a twist I used Amazon tracking ID’s for every single strategy all through 2009 so that I could determine which specific tactics were the most effective in terms of how much revenue they generated. The results can be seen here and in doing this I found out which tactics should be avoided as well.

How to Increase Affiliate Income by Hitting the Affiliate Marketing Sweet Spot

At BlogWorld Expo this year, I presented some tips on affiliate marketing in one of the sessions I ran on monetizing blogs.
One of the most powerful affiliate marketing concepts—one that can make or break an affiliate campaign—is summed up in this slide:
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The key is to find the overlap between the intent and need of your reader, the product you’re promoting, and the message you use to promote it with.
To say it another way, the product, reader need, and your promotional message need to be related. The product needs to relate to your audience, and you need to promote it in a relevant way.
Let me give you an example of an affiliate promotion on a blog that I saw recently where there was no sweet spot.

Missing the mark

I won’t reveal the blog because I don’t want to embarrass the blogger but the blog’s topic was beauty and fashion.
  1. Reader Intent - The blog’s content focused on the topic of beauty and fashion, and the blog’s comments revealed that readers were there to explore that topic (so the reader intent was to learn and talk about beauty/fashion).
  2. Product – The product being promoted on the blog was my 31 Days to Build a Better Blog ebook. While I’m flattered that the blogger wanted to promote my book, there’s not a great deal of immediate overlap between the reader intent/need and the need that my product solved. My ebook helps people improve their blogs; the reader intent was to talk lipstick, skirts, and stilettos.
  3. Message – The promotion was a banner ad. There was no in-content promotion—the blogger had simply used one of our default banner ads in the sidebar. As a result there was no tie-in, or message that tried to close the gap between reader need and the product. Perhaps if the message had been a blog post written to highlight how the product could be helpful to other fashion/beauty bloggers, or a call to fashion/beauty bloggers to work through the ebook together (making things more relevant to the audience), the promotion might have been more successful. However, the banner ad alone provided no obvious tie in.
There was no sweet spot here. As a result, the promotion saw no conversions.
Take-home lessons:
  1. Know your reader intent and needs.
  2. Find affiliate products that solve those needs.
  3. Promote products in a way that’s relevant and that communicates how the product will solve reader needs.

Paid to search: MyHPF vs Scour

MyHPF.co.uk

MyHPF (http://www.myhpf.co.uk) is new address for MySearchFunds. Until now, MyHPF has change the search engine three times. First, they use Ask.com then Google.com and now they use Yahoo.com. Personally, I like MyHPF better when they use Google because I do lots of Google-ing more than Yahoo-ing. They pay approximately £0,01 per search. And they have three level of referral. It’s mean you will get paid for every friend you referred and
also from everyone that your friend refer. If you have many friends, your earning will piled up faster. Unfortunately, they have high payout level. Current pay out is £20. It will takes times for one man show. Payment will be made through PayPal.
Positive value:
  • 3 level of referrals
  • High pay per search rate. About £0.01 per search
  • Paying with £ which has better value than US Dollar
  • All country allowed
  • Integrated searchbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox
  • Payment option: PayPal, Check and International Bank Transfer (IBAN)
Negative value:
  • Payout is quite high. £20
  • Delayed statistic page. User must wait (min. 1 day) to see updated statistic

Scour.com

Scour.com just launch its service last July. It’s still in beta. With Scour,
you can search Google, Yahoo and MSN at once and have the result in one page. I like the concepts that they have combine result from 3 major search engine and user can vote or make comment to result page. This will be nice addition for search engine result. We have human reviewed. Although it has good feature, I think Scour need to protect their vote/comment system from spams and trash comments. It will be pity if the systems can be easily abused by spammy dollar-seeker.
With scour, every activities (search-vote-comment) are counted with points. When user has reached their minimum payout, points can be exchange with Visa Gift Card.

InstaForex: Welcome Bonus as a start

In the middle of my participation on Trading Competition at instForex. I received email from them telling me that I am eligible for $30 welcome bonus. At first, I ignore the offer because I still focus on my competition. After I close all my trading position, I re-read the email and decide it to take the bonus.
It’s only take hours before my real account funded $30 from the bonus. And I don’t even make any deposit yet. Great then.. So what should I do with this account.
$30 welcome bonus is available for every new member. So if you want to take it, you can do it now.
Here’s how:
First, you need to open an account with InstForex. Registration is free. Fill the form with your data and wait for email confirmation. Your account number will be sent to your email.
Second, prepare your ID for verification. Scan your passport or national ID and fill this form to claim the bonus.
Third, wait for the bonus arrived in your real account then you are ready to trade.
In my first 3 day of trading using only this bonus, I manage to make some profit. I hope it’s not just a beginner luck.
Live Trading result 21 - 23 October 2008
Live Trading result 21 - 23 October 2008
All trades with 0.01 lot (micro account) and I play with exotic pair.. GBP/JPY because I think she moves very sexy

Experiment with Scour: Search The Big Three to make money

What is you favorite search engine. Is it Google, Yahoo or MSN. How about you can get result from all those search engine with one time search? And also you can also can make money. How sweet! :D
Today I begin my experiment with Scour. A new Social Search Engine with opportunity to earn money. Scour is still in beta but I see it has potential to grow bigger. So what is Scour and how it works?
With Scour, Goole-MSN-Yahoo are searched at once for your request. Results are returned very quickly. Form that result page, member enabled to vote and make comment.
Excerpt from Scour about how it works:
Ever spend time searching only to find that the results you need are buried under irrelevant ones? With the Scour voting and comment system, our goal is to introduce the human element of searching allowing you and all other Scour members to speak up and help shape the results with every search. See a result that doesn’t match your search? Vote it down? See a site that is exactly what you wanted? Vote it up and tell us all why you liked it. After enough votes, the listings will move down in rank, placing the relevant ones where they should be, at the top! When using Scour you can read user reviews about websites based on your keyword taking a lot of the guesswork out of searching and getting to you destination quicker.
In Scour, members are actively participate to shape better search result and all member can get reward for their effort. I agree with Scour decision to reward its member with points which are redeemable for cash. This is will surely speed up Scour’s penetration.
Curious about the reward?
Every member can get point for searching, voting, commenting and refer friends.
Point rewards:
  • Search: 1 point
  • Vote: 2 points
  • Comment: 3 points
  • Install taskbar: 150 points
  • Invite a friend : 200 points
If you want to taste the “Three in one” search engine, you should try this

How to Get Started in Affiliate Marketing - The Easy Way

You have probably heard affiliate marketing is the best way to make money online. You just sign up for an affiliate program, get your affiliate link,a and then start getting your commissions from sales right? If you have actually tried doing this, you may have found that it is a little bit more difficult than that. You actually have to work pretty hard to start seeing those checks rolling in.

So how to get started in affiliate marketing?

There is a good and easy method that you can use straight away to start making money from affiliate programs. It may take around an hour or two to set up, and then you can just forget about it and let it do the work for you.



The method is to write an ebook on the subject of the affiliate product(s) that you are promoting. All you have to do is casually place your affiliate links inside the ebook wherever it is relevant. Then every time your ebook gets read, you have the chance to make affiliate commissions. For this reason you should make sure that you give away your ebook for free. You can give your ebook away at ebook directories.

It is actually very easy to write an ebook. You may be sitting there thinking that you cannot do it, and that it is "too difficult". This is not true. The most important thing you need to realise is that an ebook, or any book for that matter is just a series of articles organised into chapters. When you think of it like this, it may be easier to motivate yourself.

Your ebook or report does not have to long, say about 25 pages or so is the average. Make sure that your content is informative and interesting. The golden rule is that it should provide some kind of value for the reader. This will encourage your ebook to get passed around and recommended, which is exactly what you want.