Affiliate Marketing Survival Tips

Affiliate Marketing Survival Tips

Once you've signed up for what appears to be a
great affiliate program, you've already developed
your strategy, selected your banners, and other
materials for marketing.

Once you've figured everything out, you may still
have problems developing marketing strategies and
find yourself wondering what's wrong. Below,
you'll find some of the most common issues that
affect sales commissions and leads.

Soggy cookies
A lot of merchants use cookies for tracking your
referrals. As a majority of customers don't
purchase on the first visit, cookies allow for
potential referrals to be tagged with your ID so
that if they do purchase later, you'll get the
credit for the sale.

The durations for the cookies will vary from
merchant to merchant. Some last as short as a
single session, while others can last for years.
If the visitor flushes their cookies on a regular
basis, has cookie blocking software, or the
program from the merchant isn't operating correctly,
there really isn't anything you can do.

Multiple methods of payment
If you've joined an affiliate program through a
network that processes payments of products on
behalf of merchants, it's not uncommon for merchants
to offer several methods of payment. While this
is great for customers, it's bad for affiliates.

Before you begin to advertise any products or
services as an affiliate of a network, always
check the merchant site carefully. If you have
any doubt, contact the merchant before you proceed
any further.

Monitoring your arrangements
Even the most honest of merchants will have
problems with their affiliate software at some
point in time. Therefore, it's important to
regularly check cookies and merchant sites for
any changes that may affect your pay.

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BONUS : Affiliate Marketing Tips

No matter what you may have heard about affiliate
marketing, it's impossible for everyone to make
5,000 - 10,000 dollars a month, as there is simply
too much competition. There is also no money that
will fall into your hands without you doing anything
for it.

With that in mind, you'll find some high level tips
below that will help you make money with affiliate
marketing programs on the internet.

1. Google and Overture
Even though the days of free traffic aren't completely
over, they are surely fading away quickly. You can
choose to work hard creating web pages that score
well in the search engines, although it's very hard
to do.

By paying for clicks with Google and Overture, you'll
have the top three positions on the search engines
that matter the most. If you hope to generate web
traffic from Yahoo, all you need to do is be at the
top of Google.

2. Your own email list
Sending offers to your very own email list is the
ideal way to build freedom and residual income.
Instead of sending traffic away then hoping for
the best, you should instead have your own email
list to which you are able to send multiple offers.

3. Your own affiliate program
If you knew that each filled out form on your site
generated .50 cent in revenue, would you still be
willing to pay someone else .25 cents to generate
that same traffic?

The most overlooked ways of generating traffic is
having others generate it for you. There are many
advantages to this method, including the fact that
others will be getting your traffic for you.

When it all comes down to it, everything involves
paying for traffic in one way or another. To
make more income, you'll need to invest very
wisely in advertising.

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