We haven’t been releasing many coupon codes for the Kidorable Affiliate Program. This one is valid thru September 15th 2010, so log onto your affiliate account to get your unique Kidorable affiliate link and share this great coupon with your affiliate url.

Receive a free umbrella with a $20 purchase at Kidorable.com . The codes can be found in the coupon feed at CJ & Share a Sale.

‘Aging Baby Boomers’ it’s a buzz phrase. It’s also a realty for many my age as we face the growing concern of caring for our aging parents while caring for our own children (having started children a bit later in life).

A great Niche affiliate subject – take a fly around Google Keywords and see the traffic generated around searching for elderly care tools and concerns.

SecuraTrac is happy to provide their affiliates with new banners this month targeting Elder care. If you haven’t registered yet – check out the 25% commission and  $5 signup bonus offer (contact us for details & conditions).

Become an affiliate today

The keys to earning money on your blog/s are:

1) Have unique content.

2) Blog about something you know so you can provide valuable content.

3) Treat it like a business and have a plan.

4) Know how to design a layout that encourages ‘conversion’ not just clicks. Regardless of how your advertisers pay you – if they don’t see a return on their investment, they will not return.

So let go of your generic blog and  plan to build 1-3 NICHE content blogs.

So here’s some tips to figure out what your blog niche should be:

1. Make TWO LISTS – One of your passions & One of things you do well.
2. Make a list of all the things that are in BOTH lists and select 2-5 of these.

Here’s my example list:
Childrens fashion
Early Childhood Education
Homeschooling

Now that you know what topics you likely have enough knowledge and interest in it’s time to dig deeper…

You need to understand what people will search (keywords) to get to your site and how much potential traffic those keywords (your niches) have.

Google has done the homework for you. They KNOW how many people have searched for your topics, and that information will tell you what sort of traffic potential your blog has.

3. Go to Google Keywords and search for your topics..

Here’s some interesting results in my searches under ‘childrens fashion’:
The top search was clothes girl 1,500,000 and the competition wasn’t hat high (about 3/4 bar)
baby girl clothing came next 1,000,000 and the competition was really high.
An interesting surprise was ‘smocked clothing’ 40,500 and not too high for competition.

4. Now you need to consider the money making potential.
Go to Google and search for your keywords- look to see how many ‘sponsor ads’ you find in the side bar.
Check The top three Affiliate networks to see what sort of CPA program offers are out there. What sort of commission do they offer ? Most campaigns need a min 12% to convert. Check their EPC rates.

It’s the publisher hat I am always talking about. You need to know your audience and your publication/blog’s potential reach if you want to earn ad revenue on your blog.

A great converting program in the Share a Sale affiliate network, TotSites offers a 30% commission to their affiliate partners.

New banners are now available in Share a Sale. If you haven’t become a partner yet you can sign up here.

Key word suggestions
back to school
saving money
coupon organizer
couponizer
school supplies

]]> http://heraffiliate.com/2010/07/couponizer-back-to-school-offer/feed/ 0 http://heraffiliate.com/2010/07/not-earning-affiliate-revenue/ http://heraffiliate.com/2010/07/not-earning-affiliate-revenue/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:55:18 +0000 Her Affiliate Manager http://heraffiliate.com/?p=842 A few common reasons why you may not be earning affiliate revenue:

1) You have too many outgoing LINKS on your pages. (Side bars can kill your affiliate revenue if you have too many banners, buttons, and things that don’t earn you revenue.)

2) Your affiliate links aren’t generating enough clicks. (see number 1)

3) You aren’t promoting your affiliate links across more than one venue. (i.e. you are only placing links in your sidebar.)

So how do you solve this? Take one of your programs (we’ll use TotSites as an example here ) and create a plan.

1) Place  a converting banner in the top fold of your side bar. I hate to say it – but 125 buttons do NOT click. Their click ratio – well stinks-  compared to a 160 by 600 skyscraper. What is it they say – go BIG or go home use an ADSERVER to get the most of your space.

2) Use your old content. Go through your old posts and  put the 500×100 banner across the bottom of your posts. This way you don’t take away from your post’s content  but give your readers somewhere to click when they are done reading your post.

3) Create a weekly post on a  relevant topic that contains the sites KEY WORDS. For Tot sites these could be any post related to your children. Schedule them to come out over the month.

4) Social Media->  If you have a Facebook  page or group share your affiliate links on your wall. Tweet your links out using a free service like hootsuite.com  to schedule a unique tweet every 3-4 days.

5) If you have a newsletter, plan to feature one of your affiliate programs in each one. Email the program manager and ask for a product ‘bio’, product image, and company logo.(if you don’t have a newsletter – it is time to get one- check out Mail chimp. It’s free for up to 500 subscribers.

6) Promote your affiliate links onsite, through social media, and email.(OK I repeated that – but it is important to NOT put all your eggs in one basket.)

7) Build traffic to your site.

Have realistic expectations of the numbers it takes to convert an ad on the Internet. Less than 4% of the clicks to any one ad will result in a sale.

9) Create quality SEO ‘d posts and pages relevant to the ads located on the page.

10) Unless you have a VERY niche site with very targeted banner ads – The side bar banner ads won’t be  your bread and butter. Your pages are. Place your banners and text links in your content.

Grab your affiliate tracking link and a 300 by 250 banner ad for one of your affilaite programs then go through your OLD posts. Try to find relevant content. ( i.e. a post on school, education, or learning would be a great place to promote your TenMarks Math affiliate banners. )

Take relevant words from your articles and hyper link to your affilaite url. Insert your box ad banner about two lines into your post (align left).

Your archived content is already indexed and an often ‘forgotten’ source of affiliate revenue streams.

So TOTSITES is giving one of their affiliates a
$50 Spa Treatment!

Not a partner yet? Join today at Share a sale. Click here

All you have to do to enter … is promote your TotSite Affiliate link between now and August 15th in one or more of the following ways:

• Daily Tweet (shorten your url)
• New banner in the top fold of your site
• In your newsletter
• Within an ad campaign

Come back and let us know how you promoted the program by filling out the form below and you are entered!

Extra entries:
Leave a comment telling us who you are.
leave a comment telling us each time you promote your link in a new way (i.e. I wrote a post, I posted to my facebook group, I sent an email to my subscribers) – One comment for each post.

Some more interesting news over at SecuraTrac’s affiliate partner program .. new banners and a new shopping cart experience.

SecuraTrac, also allows Trademark bidding for their PPC affiliates. Check it out.

So how do you get the search engines to bring you those visitors ? With some blog SEO.

There are some ways to automate blog seo. If you have a wordpress blog there are a few blog seo plugins. However if you don’t understand why you need seo and how to seo your blog posts manually maybe you should hold off on the seo automation.

Quick and dirty tips (ok not really dirty) for blog post SEO

1)  CONTENT -  Google bots will read every word in each of your posts. For the best results you need at least 2-3 paragraphs and each post should relate to a specific topic. Know your topic ahead of time.

2) Know the keywords you need to include. You may think that ‘coupon organizer’ is the blog seo keyword that will get you the most qualifying traffic, but Google and the search engines HAVE the numbers. The KNOW what keywords people search.

So use a handy sidebar tool like Wordtrack SEO blogger or Google’s keyword generator and use the top searched keywords.

Using Wordtracker SEO Blogger on I  typed in ‘grocery coupons’ and it gave me a list  of 30 TOP searched keywords on Google to include

3) Title tags – The top keyword should be in your Title

i.e. Organize your ‘grocery coupons’ savings with the couponizer

4) Meta tags: Blog Seo means including your keywords in your meat tags along with a description using your blog SEO keywords. This is a bit harder in blogger or blogspot. There are many great videos on you tube explaining how to create SEO meta tags in blogger.

Good SEO is about quality content rich in keywords.

If you are creating content for a specific affiliate program, consider writing 2-5 posts at once, using a different  but relevant ‘content idea’. Then schedule your posts over a three month period.