Tripology.com Review
December 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Tripology.com allows you to register an account with your travel plan details. Then Tripology has up to 3 travel agents in their network contact you for travel quotes. The Tripology.com network contains thousands of travel agents, that can handle any kind of travel trip around the world. They have been featured on MSNBC, Motley Fool, and Travel Leisure.
Tripology.com affiliate program is apart of the Shareasale affiliate network. Affiliates earn $5 per lead (account registration). You can earn an additional $5 dollars by just referring other affiliate marketers into the program. They will manually review affiliate accounts before being accepted into the affiliate program. They are not set on auto-deposit, but their program uptime history is excellent in shareasale. This is a well known travel site, with a long standing and good paying affiliate program. This is a good affiliate program for any kind of travel related site. One other great thing about Tripology, is they have over 2.7 million landing pages you can link to, which helps maximize conversions. Join Tripology.com affiliate program.
Benchmade Knives
December 7, 2008 | No Comments »
LAPoliceGear.com specializes in security and military clothing and equipment including Benchmade Knives, flashlights, holsters, footwear & boots, hats, flashlights, packs, pants, shirts, and other related gear. LaPoliceGear.com was founded by L.A police officers, so they know what they are doing. Don’t forget to sign up for their newsletter, so you can receive updates on specials and coupon codes. They have many deals for the holidays from a free hat with $125 dollars or more purchase of BPG gear, free Surefire G2 Flashlight for every Luminox watch you purchase. All orders right now will come with a free Schick Quattro Titanium Razor for a limited time until supplies last.
LinkConnector Review
December 7, 2008 | No Comments »
LinkConnector is a small affiliate network, but there are some useful affiliates for certain niches. Linkconnector has one nice feature that other affiliate networks have, called naked link technology. Instead of a encrypted or funny looking affiliate link, it looks just like a normal url thereby increasing click rates. Unfortunately, not all merchants use teh naked link technology. You can’t modify their html code for affiliate cloaking because then it won’t track clicks properly. You can use the same affiliate link on multiple websites.
Linkconnector has datafeeds, but they don’t have 2nd tier affiliate programs, coupons, or the ability to deep link custom affiliate links. They also don’t give EPC earning rate history or any kind of compliance tracking or auto-deposit information to affiliates. This makes it tough to know the reliablity of affiliate merchant in the network.
Payments are done by check when you reach a $25 dollar balance. You have to be paid $600 previously in payments before eligible for paypal payments. If you are using whois privacy protection, LinkConnector will require you verifying ownership of the site for getting into the network. This can be done by creating a special hidden page.
Join LinkConnector.com Affiliate Program
Survey Software
December 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Inquisite.com is the best place to get premier online Survey Software. Inquisite Survey is their enterprise feedback management software platform that is available in multiple configurations for either the individual, enterprise, or workgroup, to help it fit your business. Inquisite Customer Insight analyzes each customer touch point through what is called the customer life cycle. This ultimately helps you see how your business is interacting with the customer.
What Option is More Profitable: Adsense or Affiliate Programs?
December 3, 2008 | No Comments »
If you have read some of my past articles, I have stressed the importance of putting up more than just Adsense on your website. While Adsense pays great, putting some affiliate programs on your page can usually enhance your earnings.
How well affiliates can earn you, really depends on your niche and what you are marketing. I have a few websites on one subject, where the affiliate sales are outpacing adsense by a large margin. You have to pick affiliate programs that will work well for your visitors. It should be something you think your visitor will be highly likely to buy when visiting your site.
Some website demographics do better than others for affiliate sales. For example, I have a blog that talks about making money for blogger and it’s the hardest website I have to get affiliate sales per unit of traffic. I think this is due to the fact that many that come here, are skeptical of anything talked about dealing with money online. I also think its because users who tend to come to my site are more web savvy than the average net user and more likely to have “ad blindness”. I have read from other bloggers who cover similiar topics as as this blog, who also reported smaller earnings compared to their other sites.
Many might think putting up affiliate ads might decrease Adsense earnings and thus your overall profit. It may, but once again that would depend on the website. The only way to know for sure, is if you test it with affiliate ads. If after a few months, your Adsense earnings drop and aren’t made up by extra revenue from the affiliate ads, you may have to change affiliate programs. It could take some trial and error a few times to find a good affiliate program. Even if you lose a little adsense earnings as a result, I would never get rid of affiliate ads. You should always diversify your ad sources beyond just Adsense.
Displays
December 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The God Frey Group Inc. specializes in trade show displays, booths, and exhibits. Whether you are looking for indoor or outdoor trade show displays, display rentals, poster frames, table throws and banners, video and audio, retail showrooms and interiors, or many other display types, The God Frey Group does it all. Log on to GodFreyGroup.com to learn more.
How to create a very effective affiliate marketing site
December 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Affiliate based websites come in many different forms, but most essentially have one common goal: to get the user to click on a affiliate link. Once a user clicks on a affiliate link, most affiliate programs give a cookie on the user’s computer for 30 days at the minimum. Sometimes a person doesn’t buy from the store for days or even weeks later, but we get credit for those sales down the road because of this tracking cookie left on their computer. If you are getting many clicks everyday, someone from the group is bound to convert to a sale, even if it is not directly after visiting your affiliate link that day.
The most common types of “thinly veiled” affiliate marketing sites I see are; review sites, coupon sites, price comparison, and shopping malls. All of these sites give the impression they are informative or quality sites, but they are really nothing more than doorway pages with window dressing for affiliate links.
How are users fooled into not noticing it’s nothing more than a thinly veiled affiliate site? You have to remember, most internet users are not webmasters, so they don’t think like us. When they go to a website they usually don’t think about how a website is making money or understand how affiliate links work. Sometimes they just don’t care, even if it is because some may find the review or price comparison your site gave them, actually helpful. Now you can’t just slap up a website and expect a high click through rate, you still have to put some work into your site, if you want to maximize the clickthrough rate.
The first thing you should do for your affiliate site, is cloak the affiliate links. This makes them look like legitimate urls, that encourage users to click on the link. Normal affiliate links are usually very long and ugly and not inviting to clicks. Some affiliate programs automatically use cloaking techniques built into the link code, but usually you can make better ones by cloaking them yourselves. Cloaking links work especially well for review sites, where users have less of a tendency to click on affiliate links if they feel the review was “bought”.
The most important thing a affiliate marketing site needs to do, is try to make their site as professional looking as they can. This can be done by having a professional design and using a content management software such as joomla, wordpress, etc. You also should be adding many things, such as an about page, user registration, newsletters, blogs, forums, etc. Even if most of it is superficial, overall it gives the impression of a professional and quality site, even if most of it is just visual fluff. Most users won’t look deep enough into your website anyways, so all that matter is you have it there. The average users looks no more than 2 pages into a site and hopefully after that, they will click out from a affiliate link on your site.
Honda motorcycle parts
November 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Cruisercustomizing.com is the best source for motorcycle parts and accessories, including honda motorcycle parts, Yahama, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Harley, Victory, and other brands. You can save up to 40% right now through Thanksgiving on purchases at Cruisercustomizing.com and that includes free shipping options. They are also BBB certified store and accept all major payments including paypal.
Western Hats
November 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Cavenders.com is the #1 source for western wear, cowboy boots, western shirts, western pants, and western hats. They sale all the popular western brands including Wranglers, Laredo, Miss Me, Wolverine, Lawman, Cruel Girl, Cinch, Durango, Justin, Ariat, Lucchese, They also offer free ground shipping on orders over $50 and returns on all boots.
Takemi Select
November 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Takemi Select wholesale outlet is now already having their special Christmas season sale on massage chairs. Takemi Select is offering free home and office shipping on all products! Their chairs come with a 3 year full warranty and a 30 day moneyback guarantee. Now is the time to get high quality Massage chairs from Takemi at the lowest prices possible.
