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Author :: Karen Kari  |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Auditions |
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| Why should a site visitor buy from your site and not just go directly to the merchant or vendor site? Because you provide value added services. You don’t just slap links on your site, you carefully review merchants to make certain they’re appropriate and that they remain so as both your sites change and grow. You perform affiliate auditions.Before you join an affiliate program, roam around the company’s site, evaluating the environment, products, advice, articles, ease of use, shopping cart and customer service options. Scrutinize the images and descriptions. Buy something. Return it. Ask questions. Check your credit card bill. Then go on a search engine and see how (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Merchants and Mystery Shoppers |
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| Retailers routinely pay mystery shoppers to evaluate their stores on a specific set of criteria. They rate their experience in everything from the availability of sale items to the cleanliness of the changing rooms. What do you, as an affiliate, want to know about your merchants? Have a contest and recruit some mystery shoppers from your target group, give them an assignment to buy a product in a certain category at several merchants or and have them tell you specifically about their experiences, in depth, with a certain merchant. Depending upon the product, pay them or pay for the product they buy.Ask about the feel and experience at a site, the product depth and breadth, disp (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates, Style Setters and Merchant Agreements |
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| Are you among the cool group in your city (usually in cities)? Are there others like you or who want to be like you? Are you an acknowledged style setter? If so, you’re in the position to not only craft a website to communicate with like people, but you stand to effectively monetize your position, without the cloud of crass commercialism that would turn off the members of your group.Think about it – What did the athletic shoe makers do to make inroads with the inner city kids who shoot hoops, dance and skateboard? They knew they had to immerse themselves into the culture. If you are a style setter, in clothing, footwear, music, etc. you can pull together a site that rea (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Information Product Sales for Affiliates |
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| When you have a clearly defined niche, you want to provide every possibility for your site visitors to immerse themselves in your site’s purpose, subject or information. You’ve established arrangements with merchants of products as well as service providers. Information products are another avenue to pursue. These are digital products –ebooks, audios and videos, and software provided as downloads of files.The commissions on these products are very high compared to products, typically 50% or more, because the only cost to the seller is a small fee to an affiliate information marketplace (if they sell that way), and a commission to you. A good place to start investigating i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Link Building for Affiliates |
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| Once you’ve found out the number of links to your site by using www.linkpopularity.com or another link checker, It’s likely you will want to add quality links to your site. There is software that can do this, but beware of any software or service that promises you a large or automated increase in links. Some of these companies simply create reciprocal links among their clients, regardless of the appropriateness of the links or the content on the sites. The patterns of site reciprocity created by such companies has been identified by the major search engines, and they will discount such efforts in your rankings.The better approach, from a business as well as a site ranking vi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates- Narrow Down your Niche |
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| The temptation in creating an affiliate site is to develop on that will meet the needs of the masses, so you’ll be able to sell a wide range of goods and services. But stop and re-think. Amazon.com already exists as do the sites for the mega-box retailers. Most people know the sites that meet their needs for favorites such as music, computers and office supplies.So, how do you decide the subject and scope of your site? You need to develop a niche site, and balance the scope of the site with the number of potential visitors. For example, if you decide to create a site for the pachysandra, your research (begin by Googling the term) may tell you that there isn’t enough demand (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Cybersquatting and the Affiliate |
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| You’ve spent the time and effort to create a site with rich content that provides real value to your visitors. You have a special environment and niche, and a name that is getting known in your industry or by your user groups. All of a sudden your site traffic is slowing. Your affiliate commissions aren’t grinding to a halt, but they’re slowing also.What can you do? Check Whois to see if another site has registered a name that’s close to yours, perhaps in an attempt to do business based upon your reputation. If this is so, check with the affiliate programs you’re enrolled in to see if the offender is registered. If so, register a formal complaint, and provide them w (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: How the Right Keyword Linking Text Helps Affiliates |
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| In perfecting your affiliate business model, the devil is in the subtleties. Once you prepared useful content, product reviews, articles and the like, most likely you added banners and PPC ads. Then maybe it became obvious by studying your visitors behavior, that you should add affiliate links to buying opportunities in or around your text. Or you may want to link from an article to additional facts, photos, charts or diagrams.It’s simple to just put in a click here button for the information or product. Even easier to put it next to or at the end of the text. But there are good reasons not to take the easy way out. Statistics have shown that many more people will click on a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates, Whose Keywords Are They Anyway? |
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| Attracting users to your affiliate site is supposed to be easy – just be certain your headlines and content are full of the right keywords and key phrases, and that your content and links are focused and of high quality. If only it were that simple! Take a hard look at how you describe your site focus – if you use the term golf clinic and they use the term golf lessons or golf vacation, your best customers won’t make it to you. You’ll be so far down the ranking list that they will have found your competitors who speak their language, without ever learning you exist.Just as you do in offline marketing, identify the ways your customers describe your products and services. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates and the Importance of Backlinks |
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| Backlinks are incoming links that point to your web page. If many other sites point to your website, it is assumed by search engine algorithms that these sites value the content or products on your site. Search engine rankings are positively affected by a large number of backlinks, as well as the quality of these links. There are two ways for a site to get a higher number of backlinks:
Some backlinks are created when another site links to yours because you have information of product they feel their visitors want. These sites provide links to complementary sites, not competitors.
Some sites work together to exchange links, by mutual agreement. These are called reciprocal links, (read full article) |
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