How to Add Affiliate Links to Your Site

Ensio Matthews    – Phoenix, AZ
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

How to Add Affiliate Links to Your Site

Affiliate marketers are everywhere these days, as are the companies that use them. The reason for this is that it’s both a great way to make an additional income on your site, and companies have a global network of marketers punting their products, for no upfront cost!

Affiliate links also don’t look like advertising most of the time, so you can include them fairly unobtrusively on your site, unlike conventional online ads. Here’s how you can become an affiliate:

• Sign up for an affiliate program, either through an online store, or through an affiliate directory, like ClickBank.
• Receive your unique link – a url that takes anyone to the advertisers’ site, and lets the site know that you sent them.
• Make mention of the product or service you are advertising on your site – whether in a related article, or as a review or standalone article.
• Include your affiliate link, with something like “for more information, click here.”
• If anyone buys his or her product using your link, you earn the agreed percentage on the sale.

The trick with affiliate marketing is volume. The more visitors you have, or the more visible your affiliate link is, the more likely you are to achieve a high sales volume, and the more money you make.

For this reason, many affiliates don’t restrict their marketing efforts to their website or blog. They make use of article marketing, forum and blog posting, free ads sites like Craigslist, and even social networks – I’ve seen quite a few affiliate links on Facebook and Myspace these days, and you have probably too.

One of the very best, and largest, options in the affiliate-marketing arena is Amazon.com. Whatever business you are in, from consulting to childcare, there is probably a product that matches your niche in their enormous catalogue of products for sale. That’s why they have so many affiliates working for them.

Of course, on the other hand, you could use affiliate marketing for your own products or services as easily – and get your own global sales force working for you!

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