Affiliate network – Paul's Tech Talk

Best Advertising Practices for Affiliate Marketing!

PaulJanuary 6, 2013

Advertising is an Art form!

Not all things you do will be perfect and that goes along with Adsense. Even the most professional blogger out there will tell you that how to put your Ad placements and which ones work. It is after all more of person preferences than what works and what doesn’t. It is something that will take a lot of time and patients to find out how to make money with Affiliate Marketing. I’m however going to give you tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Affiliate Marketing in terms of making money!

What is a blogger to do?

When you think of a blog do you think it is people who are scheming to get your money. Some would argue that this is the fundamental prospect of working on the Internet. There by getting the clicks and the money for a link. I am probably one of the few bloggers who want to be honest about my Affiliate Links but that is only because I think my readers should have the choice to click or not click on products that I recommend. I will not recommend anything without at least doing all the research I can. I have even tried some products out like the Glasses USA [Affiliate Link] and believe they are the best choice out there for good quality frames and lens.

Recommendations for Other bloggers:

Be Honest — Honesty is the best policy!
Be transparent — Don’t try to sneak a link here and there hoping you get a few extra bucks.
Have Integrity — Don’t recommend something that you know anything about.
Commitment — Think of your readers and don’t over do the ads placement.
Create loyal readers — make connections and try to keep them wanting to come back and use your links.

These are what I call the simple truths to making money with your affiliate links. I don’t think this is something that should be overlooked. You will be more happier and make far more money if you try to keep an honest commitment to your readers.

Don’t be afraid to ask for support!

I occasionally like to remind my readers that supporting this site helps me keep this website alive and also helps to support my efforts. So never be afraid to ask for help, you will be surprised what your readers will do to support your blog. Don’t underestimate your readers because they are a valuable asset and should be treated as such.

Got any more tips? If so just drop a comment. I’m sure someone will find that useful maybe I will find it useful.

Paul Sylvester

How I intend to make money with my blog!

PaulJanuary 5, 2013

Earning Money through Blogging!

When you hear that from someone what do you think? Is it just a full of hot air or do they actually have a plan? In today’s society people are always wanting to make money online using such things as Adsense or Google Affiliate network.

I’m sure you probably heard this before from other bloggers. I know I was skeptical of anything like this before, but I also know in the past I did make some money. The money wasn’t like 1,000 dollars a month but it was enough to help pay rent or something like that. So I know it can be done but you just have to be ready to take it by the horns and run with it!

How I am going to make this happen?

When I first thought of this idea last month, I was not sure if I could. After all I’ve got a full time job and obligations that I must do day by day. I did some really long hard thinking and even planned some of this out and your the first that I am sharing this with.

Connect with my Audience!

This isn’t going to be the easiest because I sometimes don’t know what my loyal readers are thinking about my blog or what they have to say, so it will be a challenge to get them to open up and tell me just how I can improve my blogging skills and my blog to make my blog that much easier for them to read my posts.

Giving Free stuff out!

This is something that sound counter intuitive but if you give your loyal readers something they seem to want to give back to you. It is something that I’ve found to work really well in the past and I just had to stop that because of money and my situation at the time. I’m right now waiting to find out what my readers are interested in, so I know what to give away.

Blogging more regularly!

This is where it will get tough for me because I will be not getting as much sleep at night. I am going to start trying to blog every day for the next month at least and then see what happens after that. So it might be stuff that you may or may not expect. It just depends on my mood! If you would like me to talk about something you can always contact me and tell me. I will say I’ve already started this, if you haven’t noticed. I started this the first of the year. So I am hoping this keeps up until February 1st.

I really don’t know how well this will help me but I am looking forward to the future and the possiblilites which are endless. It is a time game right now and I hope you sit and spend some time with me every day.

Paul Sylvester

Have you Tried Squarespace? [Affiliate Link]

Why I use Google Affiliate Network!

PaulFebruary 20, 2012

Google Affiliate Network Summit 045 (Photo credit: Affiliate)

There’s More than one way to skin a cat!

When all said is done, you have a big selection of affiliate networks that you can choose from. You might even wonder which affiliate network is the best for your situation. In this blog post, we will talk about some of the things that you can do to choose which one might be the best for your situation. Not all Affiliate networks will be the same but this will at least let you understand which ones are right for you.

An affiliate network acts as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and merchant affiliate programs. It allows website publishers to more easily find and participate in affiliate programs which are suitable for their website (and thus generate income from those programs)

[Wikipedia]

Finding what works for you!

There are so many different networks you can use that you may have trouble knowing which one will work for you. I will say before we go on that I do not know every single affiliate network but I have tried all the major affiliate networks and I will give you my opinions on each of them.

Google Affiliate Network — I’ve been using this network from the get go, I will say that I’ve had some modest luck with this network. I’ve made some money with network because of Glasses USA (Affiliate link). I’ve always got paid for my commissions and they do actually care about your website and helping you get your commissions.

Commission Junction — I’ve tried this network and gotten some commissions from this network but it hasn’t really been a good relationship for me. I didn’t really feel like they had my own website in mind. I had to apply for all the merchants and never really had any luck with merchants wanting to have their advertising on my site.

Linkshare — Another good network that I didn’t have any luck with. I know they have a wide variety of things that might be good for you but I really didn’t find anything that fit well with my website. It always seemed to be more about page views then commissions. They would always be someone wanting to be on my site that was unrelated to my blog. I really didn’t feel that was a good fit for my website.

Linkconnector — I recently signed up to find out which programs they have on this site. I haven’t been on their long and have already been offered to be part of merchants that are unrelated to my blog again. These sites that were offered are nice for blogs or advertisers who is related in one way or another. I bet these guys don’t even check the website they are offering to.

Mal-Advertising!

Malware Advertising is something that I have come to understand just a little more and thus it is always going to be a problem for the affiliate networks because someone will come along and offer a service but are rarely understood because of the nature of advertising. I am not saying that every time you sign up for a new advertiser that you are going always going to have one when you sign up but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t at least do your research before you start using their ads. I’ve been happy with my selection of using Google Affiliate networks but I would love to hear which ones you use and why. Just leave a comment and tell me and others who you recommend.