What is affiliate marketing?
Basically,
it's a sales referral plan. You place merchants' advertisements, banners
and/or text links on your site and earn commission when one of your
viewers clicks on that link or banner and makes a purchase, signs-up,
or subscribes to their offer. Signing up with affiliate networks is
free and you don't have to pay a penny to use the service either. All
you have to do is strategically place the ads on your site and make
sure you get adequate hits to earn a good revenue. It's as simple as
that!
Making money from your Website
Do
you own a website? Or a Blog? Then why not put it to work? By signing
up with an affiliate network you can start earning commission on leads
and sales right away. You can use advertisement banners or text links
that are relevant to your site or page - with hundreds to choose from
there is bound to be something suitable. Then just sit back and let
it work for you. We have taken all the work out of searching for the
best affiliate network companies - use the
list below and sign-up today, registrations is free.
Building and publishing a Website
If
you like the idea of affiliate marketing but haven't got a website then
read our page on Building
Your Own Website...
Don't forget to
bookmark this page so that once you've published your site you can return
for sign-up details with the select affiliate network companies listed
on Homeworking4me.
Affiliate Networks to Join
AffiliateWindow
An excellent network with a good range of UK merchants. Offers
generous commission rates and pays out on reaching £25.00
twice monthly. Good report system that is updated regularly. Good
deep-link generator as well as content widgets to enable you to
display items of your choice on your website.You will need to
pay £5.00 to join but this is automatically added to your
account as soon as you become a member. Affiliate Window gets
5*
from us. Sign
up here. |
TradeTracker
UK 
You can make money instantly with this
network - they will give you a £10.00 Bonus just for signing
up! They've got hundreds of quality advertisers. Their platform
is easy to use and statistics are displayed clearly on your
dashboard. When a sale or a lead is made on your account you
will receive an email notification. You can choose how often
you'd like to be paid, but they pay up to 4 times per month
once your account reaches £25.00. A worthwhle network
to join. Become
an affiliate
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Paid
on Results  A
great UK company that has a good range of merchants, with new
ones being added often - good commission rates. Attractive, clear
website that is easy to navigate with an uncomplicated deep-link
creator that enables you to target specific products. Pays out
on £25.00 via BAC or cheque. Once you've issued an invoice,
using their invoice tool, payment follows very swiftly. They also
notify you via email at the close of the day when commission is
earned on your account.Register
here. |
TradeDoubler
 The
popular European network with a host of impressive UK merchant
clients. Good commssion rates offered. Register
here.
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Webgains
This
affiliate network has a huge database of merchants for you to
join and offers affiliates generous commission rates. A very
user friendly site with good customer support. Sends out regular
reports and pays on reaching GBP100.00. Register
here.
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ClixGalore
 A US company
with a good range of UK programmes. Pays out on £35.00.
Keeps you updated with news with regular newsletters. Sign up
now using the link on the right. |
Getting traffic to your Website?
1.
Have a Blogger Review your Site
- Get
instant traffic to your site by having your website reviewed on top
Blogs. Generating high volume traffic to your new site can be tough,
this programme really can help. You simply sign up and start a campaign
going. You can either choose which Blog reviews your site from the hundreds
listed or you can set your price and put your website up for grabs in
the marketplace. As well as getting traffic to your site, this system
provides quality inbound links which will help with your ranking on
major search engines. Prices start from as little as £5.00 ($10.00)
but you should expect to pay in the region of £20.00 ($40.00)
to get a Blog with a good volume of traffic to review your site. This
is a cost effective way to promote your website or product. For more
information visit any visit Review
Me
2.
Build a Squidoo Lens - What is a Squidoo
Lens? It's a webpage similar in characteristics to a Blog that allows
you to write about any subject you please. It can even be about your
business, so if you've got a website that needs promoting then you can
do so here. A Lens will increase your Pagerank on Google as well as
earn you a bit of extra cash from ads placed by Squidoo on your page,
and that's not all, it will also increase visitors to your site if you
promote it correctly - what a brilliant idea! It's fun and it's easy,
to sign up today click
here.
3. Sign up
to Preloved
as a business seller and get two months' worth of advertising completely
free of charge. You can place as many ads as you like, there is no maximum,
and they have a good range of categories to list under for ease of use.
If the campaigns work for you then you can continue with this advertising
medium for £23.50 per month (correct at time of publication).
You will need to give your credit card details during the initial sign-up
process, but if you cancel your membership before the two month free
trial period is up then you will not be charged a penny. Try it, you
might like it, we do!
4.
Use LinkReferral for FREE traffic. The concept
here is that you sign up, free of charge, submit your site with a short
description and have other members visit and review it for you - completely
free. The deal here is that in exchange for this you must also visit
and review other members' websites. This system really does work and
is well worth joining. Click
here for more details.
5. Get Yourself
A Blog to support your site, why? For a few reasons, firstly, Search
Engines seem to prefer Blog content as opposed to that listed on your
website. This is mainly because it's 'new' content and search engines
love copy that is updated regularly. You will also benefit from regular
visitors who want to know if you have anything new to say about your
product or service. Blogging also gives you the opportunity to add 'backlinks'
to your main website thus benefiting from a new flow of traffic plus
search engine optimisation. If you write frequent and interesting articles
other Bloggers will link to your Blog thus promoting your main site
and getting you 'out there'. But the crucial point in having a Blog
is to interact with your visitors. They will no longer see a 'website'
as a stationary project but instead know that there is a human face
behind that screen that is willing to help, advise, assist and give
regular updates on new products and information. Remember though that
Blogging needs commitment, there's no point in starting up a Blog and
only writing 'posts' once every month or two. Blogs need to be updated
regularly to be beneficial so you must be prepared to write, preferably
everyday but if not then at least once or twice per week. You can sign
up for a free Blog with Google. Click on the link below for more details:
6. Participate
in online forums. Find a forum that has the same theme or interest as
your website, there are plenty of them out there, and start posting
threads and signing off with your website link. Despite the fact that
quite a lot of forums prohibit the use of promoting your own site on
their forums, although some do allow it, they do permit the use of your
website link in your signature. So when you sign up to the forums make
sure that you add your URL to your signature in order to generate traffic.
How much traffic you receive depends on how popular the forum is, its
PR and search engine ranking. Try to find forums that have thousands
of posts as these are more likely to be long established and should
bring you a good flow of traffic. Regular participation is required
for maximum effects.
7. Get your
site listed on Free Classifieds for that extra rush of genuine traffic.
We highly recommend the award winning UK
Classifieds This site is listed in most of the popular directories
and search engines, which means that your ads will get maximum exposure
on the net so do pay attention to keywords when composing your ad. Classified
sites attract thousands of visitors per day. Give them a try, they're
definitely worth it.
8. Consider
purchasing a Cube at YouCubez
and start getting more traffic to your site. The concept of advertising
your site on YouCubez is quite refreshing. You buy a cube that you can
decorate to your liking from as little as £1.00. The cube then
goes onto the YouCubez website alongside other members' cubes where
visitors and members are invited to 'click' the cubes, which consequently
brings traffic to your site. But why would members click on your cube?
The simple answer is that they get paid to do so, as will you if you
become a member and decide to participate in the programme. The incentive
that YouCubez
has given its estimated 6000 members works well, and you will see a
stream of new traffic delivered to your site once you've purchased a
cube. Remember that you can join and take part in the 'earning' programme
without buying a cube but as the sole purpose of this article is to
drive traffic to your site then buying a cube would be in your best
interest.
You can also buy traffic from YouCubez
from as little as GBP1.00 for one hundred clicks. That's a mere 1p per
click. We think it's amazing value for money and can vouch that it works
too!
YouCubez
offers lots of incentives for increasing the value of your cube to give
it prime position on their site. If your cube performs well, you can
offer it for sale to interested members who would like your prime position
on the board.
We were so impressed with the concept that we bought
a cube ourselves, but don't just take our word for it, check it out
at YouCubez
and see if it's something that might interest you.
9. The real master technique of getting visitors to
your site is to make sure that your site has good SEO (search engine
optimization). This will ensure that your site gets good organic placement
in the search engines. There are many techniques that you can implement
yourself and although this might be time consuming, it is the cheaper
option. Do an online search to find out more about SEO or go the the
library and take out a book on the subject. We suggest the following
books, which you can buy now online:
Search
Engine Optimisation by Samuel Blankson
SEO
100 Sucess Secrets by Kody Ryals
The alternative is to hire a good SEO company to do
the necessary work for you. Do shop around though and get recommendations
as there are a lot of SEO companies out there that will take your money
and not deliver the goods. We will soon be adding a page on SEO techniques,
as well as recommended companies on this site. Sign up to our free newsletter
or bookmark this page for further details.
Help with Tax and registration
If you own a website, blog or are using paid ads and
are earning an income from it via affiliate marketing then you will
need to pay tax and national insurance contributions. The first step
would be to register as self-employed. To find out more read our Tax
and National Contributions article
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