Let’s say you have a product you have created and are selling on your website for $97 (In this example the product will be an e-Book).

Visitors arriving on your site, pay $97, and can then download the e-Book. Your profit is $97 less any payment processing fees (credit card, etc).

With an affiliate program, you pay a commission for every sale of your product or service that is made by a referral of your affiliate. You pay for results only, no sales means no payment.

This means you are getting someone else to market and promote your web site for free!

What does this mean? More targeted visitors of course as more visitors are sent to you by the affiliate.

It’s highly likely that a large portion of the visitors may never have found your web site, so in many ways these sales could be thought of as bonus sales, above and beyond those you would ordinarily have mode.

The downside is you need to share a percentage of the sale with the affiliate but you should also remember that it is quite possible the customer will buy more from you in the future.

This is the power of affiliate programs and affiliate marketing in general. Not having an affiliate program is an area where lots of marketers fall down.

Assuming you have an opt-in in place, then not only have you made a sale, but you now have a customer you can promote more products to in the future! One of Marketing 101’s golden rule is that it’s far, far easier to sell to an existing customer than to a brand new one. After all they loved your product enough to buy it, right? You have established a relationship with them at this point, and provided that your product has great relevant content they will be hooked!

The other thing to keep in mind is that it’s likely that you will have a higher percentage of sales from your affiliates visitors because (hopefully) the affiliate has already pre-sold his customers on your fantastic product. More than likely the affiliate has built up a solid reputation from his customers (who more than likely have purchased from him in the past) and because he has recommended your product, they come to your website already pre-sold that your product is a decent and worthy one, and at this point you have a visitor who already trusts and believes in your product because of the relationship they have with the affiliate recommending your products.

You need to think beyond the commission you are paying the affiliate and look instead at the long term relationship you have the potential to build with your new customer.

Make sure you look at using affiliate programs to maximize web site traffic. Payment is only required if the visitor purchases an item, so you have no upfront costs.

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The answer is that yes, we do allow this. But before you place your ad code on the same page or site as another publisher, here are a few important points to keep in mind:

• The maximum number of products per page will remain the same.
• If you don’t own the site, you’ll need to receive permission from the site owner to display your ads on their pages.
• We’re unable to divide earnings between accounts, so any revenue generated will be credited to the account associated with the ad unit that was clicked or viewed.
• Any shared site that displays Google ads must also comply with our program policies.
• You’re responsible for the content of any page where your ad code appears. Before placing your ad code on another publisher’s site, we recommend reviewing the site for any policy violations.

And one final tip before giving your code to another publisher — try using our Allowed Sites feature to monitor where your ads are appearing and keep your account in good standing.

Article source: Adsense Blog

These tips are visual and audio then you do not need to read them as usual. You can connect to your speaker and listen to voice. Further, you can read and listen at the same time.

Thanks Google for prompt response to us.

Chitika ad units were known in the past to work best on websites that centered around consumer products or were product-related. If you were hesitant to use Chitika on your website because your site didn’t fall into a consumer product category, then there is great news for you. Our new ad unit, Chitika Premium, caters to websites and blogs of all types not just product-related. Instead, it serves content ads related to topics such as travel and finance, to name two examples:

What everyone needs to know about Chitika Premium

Because this ad unit is “behaviorally targeted” it does not display on websites as our other ad units would; only when it can display premium ads specifically to a visitor to your page. All you have to do is paste code on your site to integrate the unit just like any other; however viewing it on your page will not be as simple as “save and refresh”. While there is a preview tool you can use to view how your ad unit will display, this still leaves you with what to display when Premium cannot target your visitors’ interest:

Here are two great revenue-boosting options:

1. Place the Chitika Premium ad code where you currently have no other ad unit on your page(s). So when it does not display, it will simply “collapse” and show nothing at all.
2. (Recommended) Place the ad unit in prime locations on your page, such as near your blog/article titles or within the content of your page with an “alternate URL” ad as a backup, so Chitika Premium can earn you great revenue when displayed and supply your space with another ad when it cannot so you are continuously earning revenue.

Setting an alternate URL for Chitika | Premium is easy. Follow these steps for using an alternate ad such as Google Adsense, in the event your behaviorally targeted Chitika Premium ad unit cannot display.

Here are the details and hope you will boost your revenue with this change.

Windows Live OneCare $3.00

Most of you know about the fabulous OneCare $3.00 payout per trial download—but have you checked out the newest marketing materials? There are some great banner and text ads of various sizes to update your promotions! We have even added some longer copy to support those affiliates that have blogs or review sites. Check it all out by logging into the Affiliate Account Center.

Windows Live Toolbar $1.00

Please be sure that your links are up-to-date (as of March 08). I still see many of you with the old landing page URL, which will not track your activity correctly! Plus, we are revising this new landing page to optimize your conversion rates, so stay tuned! Simply log into the Affiliate Account Center to ensure you have all of the correct links placed.

Many of you have asked about more detailed information on the Toolbar product to better promote it to your customers. Check out WindowsLive.com for details on the cool features and customizations that set the Windows Live Toolbar apart from the competition!

General Updates

• Commission: We will run May commissions on June 1, so be sure to turn in your W8 or W9 before the end of the month to receive payment. We must have this on file prior to the 1st for you to be eligible for payout this month.
• Communication: We are striving to increase the communication effectiveness within the MSAN. This newsletter is the first version of the weekly newsletters that will come your way—but we are working to create a slicker email template and enhance the MSAN website, microsoftaffiliates.net, to become more news oriented. So get ready for changes to begin this summer!
• MSAN Affiliate Survey Part II: Thanks to all of you who participated in the first MSAN Affiliate Survey in March. Not only did we have a great response rate, many of your suggestions are helping us to enhance the program. Did you miss your chance to comment? Now you have another shot—check out our latest survey where we are looking for more information about YOU! This data will help us optimize our offers for you and your customers.

Thanks for reading my blog!

Switching to PayPal is a simple task to undertake:

Login to Kontera’s Publisher Center and select the “My Account” tab.
Follow the “Payment Method” link. Now click on the dropdown menu and select “PayPal”. Then type in your Paypal account name.

Here is a point to remember: Your PayPal Address and your Kontera account user name have to correspond. In the event that they are not the same, you’ll need to change your account email address. Go to the “Account Info” link and change your email address.
The next time you log in to the Publisher Center, recall that your login name has changed.

Any change you make to your account information, tax information and or selected payment method will be immediately updated in our system

Report – Starving Crowd
This report reveals a profitable niche market and a high demand affiliate product that you can sell to the niche market. These information is useful to you if you are interested to make money online with affiliate marketing.

Online Web Building Tool
Synthasite is providing a free website builder. There is no download required in order to use this free website builder because it works in your browser. No technical skill is needed as well to use the web builder. You can use it to build different types of sites for making money online

What this mean is that I will not allow to sell this blog. With the traffic and income I get now, I should be able to sell this blog for more than USD30,000 if I no longer want to blog anymore.

If you are serious to start a blog for making money online, you should register a custom domain name and host your blog on the custom domain. There are several benefits you can enjoy from hosting your own blog on your own domain name:

You Get Total Control
You will have full control over everything about your blog. You can transfer the domain name to any other hosting company if you find that your existing web host service isn’t what you want. Once your blog have built in consistent traffic and bring in good profit, people may start contacting you asking you whether you want to sell your blog. If the deal is good, you can immediate sell the blog.

Easier to Memorize
By hosting your blog on your own domain name, the visitors can remember your blog easier. A free blog domain name generally is long and hard to remember.

Better Security
You will get added security. As the domain name and the blog are owned by you fully, this means that you don’t have to face the risk of getting your suspended or even deleted. When using a free domain name on your blog, the company that provides you the free domain name can delete your blog anytime when they find that your blog content is against their policies.

You Make More Money Blogging
You give a professional image by having your own custom domain name and own logo. More people will contact you to find out whether you sell banner ads or text links which will mean more advertising revenue to your blog. I do get a lot of advertising inquiries from visitors of this free blog even though I didn’t tell any of my visitors that I sell advertising space, probably because this blog ranks high in Google. But, if this blog is hosted on my own domain, I would have get even more businesses

Recently, I found that PayDotComm has designed their own widget where you can place it on your blog. The widget will recommend the top info-products of PayDotComm related to your content with your affiliate links included. As the widget display top products related to your content, it will draw the attention of your blog readers and visitors.

When a reader clicks on a link to check out a recommended product and then purchase the product, you will earn a percentage of affiliate commission.

For those of you who like to monetize your blog with affiliate programs, you may like to test drive PayDotComm widget.

Here is a video demonstration from Paydotcom that describes how it’s widget works and how you can make money with it:

http://paydotcom.com/widgetlp.php

Now, Michael has more for us. He has convinced a successful PPC marketer to do a free tele-seminar this Thursday, 6pm EST. This successful PPC marketer has made hundreds of thousands dollar using PPC advertising and he is going to share with you his success strategies in the tele-seminar.

Interested to attend this tele-seminar? More info about how to join this tele-seminar can be found here.