Archive for Affiliate Resources
Free affiliate training – Your layout and ad performance
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Follow up from September’s free affiliate training webinar “How website design can reduce or increase ad performance”
Her Affiliate has created a free affiliate training pdf, based on the notes from the webinar.
Click here to download Septembers Free Affiliate Training notes.
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→
Lots of free training webinars
Posted by: | CommentsSearch Marketing Now has a lot of free webinars that would be great for affiliate’s coming up. Affiliates need to think like a publisher when promoting their affiliate platforms (blogs, newsletters, social media accounts). The following two webinars will help you think strategically and increase your affiliate marketing efforts:
Does Facebook Like Your Brand? Info
Our rank and score for top brands across a variety of vertical industries
Which brands are “liked” and “friended” by their loyal customers
Ways to use paid and organic search and social to get more lift in Facebook traffic and search engine results
Powerhouse Holiday Marketing Strategies for Online Retailers info
The webcast will include an overview of online retail and how select categories performed — as well as discussion of how to evaluate your own performance from last year, and what opportunities may exist in the coming holiday season.
And don’t forget to register for our free affiliate training webinar - Friday September 15th 2011.
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 …
