Comments on: How to Choose Affiliate Programs for Your Blog

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:16:39 +0000

Your own affiliate program is the best, practice, practice.. Otherwise i would go with the most profitable company, and pays good commissions to it’s affiliates.

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:46:08 +0000

Good stuff on choosing afftiliate programs. If you can write/blog about something you know AND find an affiliate product to go with it, you’re ahead of the game.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:29:32 +0000

not deleted – just changing servers and some comments were lost while things were propogating. Sorry.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:39:10 +0000

Hey, Darren, why was my last comment deleted? All I did was point out that MLM isn’t affiliate marketing. Let me know.

By: Malachy Godfrey, Godfrey Aeon Investing

Malachy Godfrey, Godfrey Aeon Investing — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:18:37 +0000

One thing that I have found to be very important with regard to affiliate programs is not to leave your potential customers out in the cold. In other words, don’t just think ‘Cool, I’ve been paid…I can ignore them now’. If you do decide to ignore them then you will have little chance of building a downline in any affiliate program that you work woith.

Instead, you can kill two birds with one stone. I personally pre-write a response that will be mailed out to anybody joining a particular affiliate program. In this response, I will congratulate them on their decision as well as reinforcing that they have made the right decision. Also, I will offer my contact details and invite them to contact me with any questions so that I can help get them started. This, of course, ensures that they feel like a person rather a statistic. Finally, in this e-mail response, I include details about how to market their affiliate link. Other than being helpful to your downline, this will also help yourself as they join the various free traffic programs that are recommended and earn advertising credits for you by their own efforts.

You may be thinking that this sounds like a lot of work. However, by spending the hour or so up front to write a decent response, your downline feels important and you improve the popularity of your own website. What could be better than that? The moral here is “Don’t try to take shortcuts when dealing with your downline”. After all, you only get out of life what you put in!

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By: domain freek

domain freek — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:33:13 +0000

I really think the adsense is a wonderful programe.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:24:06 +0000

@jhay,

Question for you. How many visitors do you have per week to your blog and how much money do you make via Adsense every week? You can email directly at info@blogkits.com if you don’t want to answer here. I’ll keep it private I assure you.

@rangga

Yes, shareasale is an awesome network. The offers there are no less valuable than cj or linkshare, and many, many people would argue that their zero tolerance spyware policy is by far leaps and bounds better than any other network.

The thing about affiliate networks in general is they don’t cater to bloggers who don’t know affiliate marketing. We’re changing that.

By: rangga

rangga — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:49:36 +0000

One more for the list, shareasale.com. Even tough they’re less attractive than cj or linkshare, (less banner and some unpopular merchants) they probably give better payoffs if you pick the potential partners.

one more advantage is you can make the customize referral link to refer directly to any of page within the partner’s website, instead to the homepage

By: jhay

jhay — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:16:37 +0000

Affiliates still don’t work my blog, it’s still quite young and maybe in year’s time. In the mean while, Adsense and TLA does the trick for me.

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Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:32:42 +0000

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By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:23:38 +0000

@fivecentnickel, it’s an art really. You need to think of your readers as friends. Let me ask you, if you were at a friends house and they said “hey, if you go to joe blow store and use my name if you buy something I get $5″, do you think your friend would?

Yeah, they would. So on your blog, if you just throw up a bunch of ads and not make an effort to educate or even ask your friends to help you out, you’ll find that they’ll just think they are ads and ignore them.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:17:44 +0000

Good stuff Darren. Glad to see someone finally promoting the cpa model.

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:15:57 +0000

I’ve mostly been relying on Amazon and CJ, although I recently applied for Azoogle. My main problem right now is that affiliate-type programs don’t work very well on my sites (for whatever reason), so I haven’t been utilizing them as heavily as I could.