Archive for Affiliate Articles
How to earn affiliate revenue with Product Data Feeds
Posted by: | CommentsAll of the programs I manage either have a product data feed or plan to launch one within 4 months of launch. The question is how do you tap into that product datafeed to generate affiliate revenue. (I am assuming in this post that you are new to product datafeeds.)
If you already have content in the form of a site or blog, consider how you can present products to your visitors. Maybe you will simply create a weekly post featuring a merchants product, or your are considering creating an online store as an addition to your current site or blog. Maybe you want to create an online store with a specific theme.
Product data feeds can help you do all these things and more. To show you what a product datafeed can do, I created an entire site from scratch in three days using the product data feed from a merchant that sells one thing. Pajamas.
First I selected a topic or niche that I thought would perform well in the next few months. I considered how I can promote it and what sort of budget I have to promote it. My promotions will focus on: PPC (google adwords), organic traffic via social media, organic traffic via optimized SEO.
I then determined a keyword friendly domain url and I obtained some affordable web hosting that supports WordPress. I installed wordpress and the plugins that optimize SEO and user experience.
Then I signed up for a third party Data feed service ( i.e. popshops or datafeedr). I decided on Datafeedr as I like their ability to create categories. Datafeedr was easy to use and has a WordPress Plugin. I then created the images, navigation and store.
A product datafeed, and a third party data feed service allowed me to create an entire product specific website/store without needing to worry about the overhead costs of running an actual eccomerce online store. By partnering with established merchants my ‘online store’ was up and running in just three days (a realistic time frame would be two weeks).
View the site at www.PajamaTree.com
So how can you utilize the product data feeds for your merchant programs?
Website traffic generation tips for affiliates
Posted by: | CommentsTo recap… it’s not just ‘TRAFFIC’. It is about getting the RIGHT traffic or visitors to your site.
Today’s tip is Article writing.
Write some quality, unique, articles on topics relative to your website or blog. Consider what type of visitor you are looking for and write content for that audience.
For example, if you blog about family, write a series of short articles related to parenting. Something as simple as ‘Funny things children do’ sharing stories of your child’s antics would be unique and well received. Read More→
My affiliate banners didn’t generate any revenue
Posted by: | Comments“I don’t tend to use affiliate advertising as, to be honest, it didn’t generate any revenue.”
You’re right. I hear that from bloggers a lot. Why don’t they convert? There are a few reasons but the top two are;
1) Your content is not a close enough match or to generic.
2) You have too many outgoing links
Allot of bloggers find that sidebar affiliate banner ads don’t convert. Affiliate ads can be tricky, the content has to match (i.e. seo’d posts). They work better as they create organic search engine sales down the road …
So if you have a generic parenting blog skip the sidebar banners this month but don’t just give up on affiliate ads. Instead look at your archived content.
That’s’ why we offer a 500 by 100 banner that fits on the bottom of posts. A lot of our affiliates simply place the banners on old archived posts that are relevant each month – keeping their new content clean while monetizing their older content.
Give it a try, you won’t see large volume or immediate results but you will build more consistent ongoing affiliate revenue down the road.
A lot of bloggers find that sidebar affiliate banner ads don’t convert.
Affiliate ads can be tricky, the content has to match (ie seo’d posts). They work better as they create organic search engine sales down the road …
What is an in house campaign
Posted by: | CommentsI was asked yesterday what I meant when I said ‘promoting an in house ad’ onsite.
As a publisher you have limited prime ad space on each of your pages. With each page you create you are faced with the decision of what to place in these spots (ideally you will have an adserver tag which will rotate your offers/campaigns but that is another training post).
An in house ad would mean that you are promoting an offer to your visitors that benefits your website over an advertisers campaign.
Here are some examples of possible inhouse campaigns:
1) Announcing something new on your website such as a ‘giveaway page or new tool’.
2) Encouraging sign ups; (register now) or newsletter subscriptions (get offers to your inbox for free)
3) Featuring another page of your website
4) Visitor surveys
Sometimes (especially with a new site) increasing your subscriber base is more important then a paid advertisement . Why? The value of your ad space is based on your traffic volume. So until you have enough visitors and subscribers (those who return to your site) the spot has little or no value as a paid advertisement.
To recap:
1) In house campaigns are not paid advertisements but your own ads and offers that increase your traffic /subscriber base or announce new features on your site.
2) When you first create your design and page layouts the top spaces should be used to increase your followers and encourage return visits to your website.
