Yesterday I shared 5 lessons on making money with affiliate programs on your blog.
As I read through the comments on that post and pondered it some more thoughts came to mind that I think are worth adding:
Test and Track Results
I’ve written numerous times on ProBlogger about testing and tweaking advertising on your blog (for example [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 04-Sep-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 1 times
In the last 24 hours I’ve been interviewed 3 times and on each occassion I was questioned about affiliate marketing and how to make money from it.
Here are 5 lessons that I found myself touching on in each interview.
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1. Relevancy between Audience, Product and Content
One key to high conversion when promoting affiliate products [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 03-Sep-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 1 times
Today the recently announced Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick) launched a new interface to publishers. You can access it at Connect Commerce.
The look and feel of the site is very ‘Googlesque’ and at a first look it all seems fairly straight forward to use.
Ultimately the interface is secondary to performance so we’ll see how it [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 08-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 2 times
Amazon have launched a new handy Video Widget that will interest many bloggers wanting to combine the use of video and the Amazon Affiliate program.
The widget allows you to make a video and then upload it to Amazon to be hosted where you can add little pop-up product links and pictures that appear throughout the [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 04-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 3 times
One of the innovative new affiliate networks to hit the market in the last 6 months is Pepperjam Network - and today they are offering you $10 as a signup bonus for becoming one of their publishers.
If you want to earn money by recommending products from companies like eBay, Cartoon Network, StarTrek.com, Jelly Belly, Sesame [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 4 times
Yesterday Jeremy Shoemoney Twittered to tell me that the review that he wrote of the ProBlogger book generated 38 sales of the book through his Amazon affiliate link. He went on to say that he made money money from the other things that people then went on to buy after clicking through on the link.
The [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 17-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 5 times
If you have a blog with a music focus the Amazon Associates program have today announced a widget that you’ll want to check out - it’s an MP3 Clips Widget that lets your readers listen to clips of music live on your site.
You can hand select songs to be included on the widget or [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 16-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 6 times
Almost a year ago I started experimenting with a new technique (new for me at least) of creating ‘Best Seller Lists’ as a technique to drive more sales at Amazon’s Affiliate Program.
The concept was simple:
Analyze the things that customers have bought previously from your affiliate links to Amazon (they give you this information in their [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 6 times
The Amazon Associates program have announced a new widget in the last day or two - it’s called the Carousel Widget. You can see one in action below with six blogging books.
Amazon.com Widgets
The unit above is a ‘carousel’ format (horizontal) but they also have a ‘ferris wheel’ format (vertical). Each come in [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 12-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in affiliate programs Read 5 times