Website Affiliate Program Making Money for You on Internet

A website affiliate program is undoubtedly the best way for a beginner to make money, because you don't need a product to sell. Instead you send people to a vendor's site and get a commission for every sale that the site make as a result.

Affiliate Elite is not for you if you are short of money. I'll show you other ways to do research if you can't afford this program. However, if you can afford it, it will give you a major advantage in making money. You could think of it as a program designed to spy on the most successful affiliates, so that you can copy their ideas. You can do the same yourself if you don't mind spending hundreds of hours on boring research.

They obviously know that it works, because there is an ongoing membership fee, and nobody would pay that if it didn't work. Click here to find out more.

Build Affiliate Website

Web publishers (that's you) - the first thing you need is to research what people want and what is selling well, so you should have followed the advice in my first step in your business plan.

To become a wealthy affiliate you can't afford to miss out the planning step. Join Clickbank, because it is the easiest affiliate network for beginners to use. Later on you can branch out to other affiliate programs.

Search through the thousands of offers (yes, it does take time, that's why Affiliate Elite is worth it if you can afford it) at Clickbank, and make a note of ones that interest you, so that you can come back to them.

Don't consider anything below $50 commission. Lower commissions are fine for people with a quarter of a million visitors per day, but as a beginner you will start of with less than a hundred visitors per day.

Go for items with high gravity, unless you are a good copywriter.

If you can write great sales pages, you can look for good products with gravity of one or less that have terrible sales pages. When you find one, write your own sales page, then send your visitors to the page that comes after the official sales page. In other words you are bypassing the sales page. Don't do this until you know how to place a cookie on Clickbank or you will get no credit for your sales.

You can corner the market in that product, because all the other affiliates are struggling to send people to the bad sales page.

Web hosting affiliate

This is one case where I would recommend that beginners try it, even though it's not Clickbank. You get around a hundred dollars commission, and everybody needs a host. The only trouble is that most go through CJ.com and I don't trust them any longer.

Webhostingbuzz is an exception, and they are so cheap that they are easy to sell and they are not with CJ.

Sales affiliates with sites that have nothing to do with hosting (golf, gardening, bungee-jumbing) can simply put a link in the footer of each page saying "Powered by budget-price Webhostingbuzz" In the link put "rel="nofollow"" to avoid sending page rank to webhostingbuzz from every single page on your site. You want your own affiliate cash vault...not to increase the page rank of the vendor!

Also use Click Here as your target text for affiliate links, but never for internal links. Click here is a good instruction, but for internal links you want the target text to have your good keywords.

One Pre-sales Page per Vendor

You can link words in a general article to point to your vendor, and you will get an occasional sale, but it is much more effective to write one pre-sales page for each vendor that you represent. You will have to plan your navigation, so that visitors to your site can find your pre-sales pages of course.

Commission Theft

There are criminals out there trying to steal your commissions. So you should disguise your affiliate links. Once you have joined snipurl.com you can create a special url to disguise your affiliate one. In the nickname section, put a meaningful name. If you put the word flying as the nickname your url will be http://snipurl.com/flying and you should create a meaningful URL for each of your affiliate URLs, and record it in XL or Treepad, together with your unaltered affiliate URL, and the name of the vendor.

That's not what I use. I have a program that disguises links, and keeps track of everyone who clicks on the link, and draws pretty graphs to show which links are getting most visitors. It can even tell me if all the visitors are from one website, so I can demand a refund if I've used Pay Per Click to get visitors to the link.

Unfortunately, version 1 has been taken off the market while waiting for version 2 to come out, so I'll just have to let you know when the improved version comes out. It is really good value for money.

If you have followed my advice and made all your html files into php files you can create redirect files like this. Create a php file with only the following in the file.

<?phpheader("Location: http://affiliateURL");?>

Replace the affiliateURL with your affiliate link. When someone visits the redirect file, they will be redirected to the affiliate URL.

Give the file a name relevant to your affiliate promotion, and save it in a folder that you reserve for redirect files. Now use the name of the file for your links, instead of the long URL.

Create an entry in your robots.txt file to keep the search engines away from your redirect files. I intend to write an article about the robots.txt file, and probably put it in the create own website section, because it affects everything, not just your website affiliate program.