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Author :: Karen Kari  |
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| Article Title :: Are Your Merchants Competing With Your Affiliate Site? |
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| The purpose of your site is to make money. Well, that’s true for everyone but the family hobby sites, charitable organizations (although they want your contributions) and some non-commercial research sites. So after you identified a niche and pulled together the site elements they want in terms of information and participation, you established affiliate relationships with merchants who sell the kinds of products and services they want to buy. Or maybe you have always had direct product sales on your site, and you added merchants with complementary but not competing products and services.But have things changed? Maybe you have changed the focus of the direct product sales on y (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliates and Charitable Contributions |
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| Mention online charitable contributions and listen to cautions and protests of the doubtful! How can affiliates become involved in ethical online contributions, to further both their business and the fundraising of charities?Some charities will pay affiliate commissions for the contributors they send them. Some merchants will also pay a small percentage of sales to a particular charity. When the commission paid is equal to or less than the costs of alternative methods of fundraising, the charity is a bonafide one, and there is a logical link between the niche of the affiliate’s website and the purpose of the charity, why not consider it?Consider the costs of printing, m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Links - To a Site or a Product? |
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| If, as an affiliate, you’re using text links in your content to link to products of your merchants, there are two ways to approach the hand-off of the potential customer: major keywords and specific keywords.There are two schools of thought. Some people would like to land on a merchant’s descriptive page to learn more about the company, and others would like to go directly to the page of the specific product. If you’re selling a high ticket product or service, it’s likely that the buyer will want to become familiar with the company, it’s specialties, product line, guarantees, return policies and the like. If you’ve reviewed a number of products, and have a link in t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Terms |
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| Affiliate Business – The business of linking web sites with special niches or content (affiliate sites) with advertisers or publishers who wish to sell goods or services to this specialized group. The affiliates gain by collecting additional income from their site, and the merchants gain by having a cost-effective way to add new customers. Affiliate programs are promoted by affiliate networks such as LinkShare and Commission Junction, as well as by individual companies.Affiliate – A company with a web site that displays advertisements for merchants’ or publishers’ products or services. The affiliate’s site is valuable as a selling venue because the affiliate provides v (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: How Smaller Focused Affiliates Can Compete with Offline Giants |
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| There are still big companies that think they can compete effectively online solely by virtue of the reputation they have earned in the offline world. And yes, people visit their branded sites for transactions, coupons, recipes and sweepstakes. But many of them have done nothing to create an environment that compels visitors to return regularly.Affiliates can use this to their advantage. You can create a site that has information and solutions that have value in themselves, without selling anything. You can give advice, review products and services, reprint expert articles, publish studies. Provide tips and detailed FAQ’s. Become a voice and an advocate of your niche. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Continual Updating for Repeat Affiliate Site Visitors |
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| Your affiliate site visitors are really getting pretty sophisticated in searching the web, and in addition many receive ezines, newsletters, RSS feeds, research subscriptions and other sources of information. They have a multitude of options for shopping and services both on the internet and off. They can easily find many of the merchants you have as affiliate vendors without going through your site.So why should these visitors continue visiting your site? Because you have spent your time creating an environment for the niche market they belong to. You provide them with value added products and services , and your site is the place they go to see what is new on your particular (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Search Boxes on the Affiliate Site |
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| Affiliates are always on the lookout for ways to add value to their site without cluttering it up, diffusing its niche feel, or
Confusing their loyal visitors. One way to give site visitors extra value is to add a highly targeted search box or two. There are many available for download to your site, on almost any imaginable topic. Choose from dictionaries, kids, business, health, law, maps and everything in between. A good place to start researching what’s available is
http://www.writerswrite.com/research/sbox.htm.By adding a search box, you give your site visitor the ability to look up information without leaving your site to go to a search engine. Consider this scenar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Karen Kari |
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| Article Title :: Affiliate Home Page: Your Billboard to the World |
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| You know your business well. Can you describe what you do and who you do it for in a sentence of two? Do you have a good tagline? This belongs on your home page along with options for the most important things you are and do, with prominent links to them. Make it easy for the search engines to find you by making sure your titles and subtitles are tagged with your company name and a succinct description. And make it easy for the visitor to find what they want by having easy navigation and a search box on the home page as well as every other page.And as much as you may want to, don’t put any advertising on your home page. Not even if the major purpose of your site is to be a pr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Janice Sharman |
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| Article Title :: Start-up Costs of Online Affiliate Marketing Exposed - Find Out The True Costs |
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| The uncertain global job market is forcing people to find alternative means of making a living. Statistics show that approximately 8,000 new home-based businesses start daily in the U.S. alone. This means that a new home-based business starts every 11 minutes! It is estimated that by 2010, a whopping 69% of all households will support themselves from some form of home-based business, and an affiliate business is a proven vehicle for testing the waters without needing to have the usual infrastructure and financial backing that a new business normally requires.So why are people still hesitant about the affiliate home-based business industry? Security! People are afraid to leave wha (read full article) |
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| Category :: Affiliate Revenue Articles |
Author :: Janice Sharman |
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| Article Title :: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Products |
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| Everybody dreams of being rich! Some of us don't just want to be rich... We want to be rich beyond our wildest dreams! We want to be able to live like the rich and famous, and we want our riches to continue for the rest of our natural lives.Anyone who is truly wealthy will tell you that you never get rich working for someone else. To make the kind of money you need to live a wealthy lifestyle you have to be in command of your own destiny, or marry well. Marrying well is okay I suppose, but it carries consequences. Going into business for yourself also carries some risks, but the risks are usually under your control. You’re at the helm and you sink or swim on your own performance. (read full article) |
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