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ClickBank Tracking Script

Here is a simple ClickBank tracking script written in PHP that you can install on any of your websites free of charge. It can be used to track sales from AdWords and sales from EzineArticles and other article directories.

Installation

Installation is simple, just copy the index.php file shown below (after modifying it slightly) up to your web hosting service. If you’re doing EzineArticles-friendly domain serving, install it in the root of the server, otherwise you can just create a new folder and install it there. For example, I might create a folder called “burnthefat” and place the index.php file in there. Any subsequent access to “http://www.mydomain.com/burnthefat/” would invoke the script and do a redirection.

Before uploading the script, be sure to modify the default $affiliateid and $vendorid values. They are currently set to ‘egiguere’ (my primary CB affiliate ID) and ‘burnthefat’ (the vendor ID for Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle). Set them to appropriate defaults. You can override these settings when invoking the script. (If you’re planning on using the domain with EzineArticles, you MUST set the affiliate and vendor ID values correctly because you can only link to the root of the URL with no parameters.)

Now this is totally optional, but you may also want to add these lines to a .htaccess file that you place in the same directory as the index.php file:

<Files *.log>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

These lines ensure that no one can download the .csv files the script creates — you’ll have to fetch them yourself using an FTP client. (Like I said, optional…)

Tracking EzineArticles and Other Sites

The script looks at the referrer header and tries to build a tracking ID that incorporates part of the domain name and some kind of unique identifier. For EzineArticles, for example, it uses the “id” field (the article identifier). So you can easily tell which article of yours generated the click. It looks for “id”, “C” (which is used by GoArticles) and “kw”. You can easily modify it to look for other things.

The tracking ID generated in these cases consists of the date and time (in MMDDHHSS format — 8 characters long, i.e. “03091347″), some portion of the domain name (i.e. “ezineartic”), and the article ID (i.e. “672234″). So when you see this show up in your ClickBank report:

03091347ezineartic672234

you’ll know the click came on 13:47 on March 9 from EzineArticles article #672234.

Tracking AdWords Clicks

The script has some built-in features for tracking AdWords clicks, but only if you use a special syntax in your destination URLs, like so:

http://www.yoursite.com/?ag=rf01&nw={ifsearch:s}{ifcontent:c}
&kw={keyword:none}&pl={placement}

This is what the values mean:

• ag — an identifier for the ad group or whatever unique thing you want to track, i.e. if you have two different ad texts you might want to assign two different values here
• nw — the network being used. Note the special “{ifsearch:s}{ifcontent:c}” syntax. On the search network, the value will end up being “nw=s”, on the content network it will end up being “nw=c”. This is how you tell where the click comes from.
• kw — the keyword that triggered the ad, if known, or “none” if not known.
• pl — the website the ad was featured on if it’s shown on a third-party site.

As you see, you can pack a lot of information into the destination URL. The script will store all this information in the CSV files it creates and it will use it to create a tracking ID. The tracking ID will start with the date (MMDDHHSS as before) followed by “aw” (for “AdWords”), followed by one character for the network (“s” for search, “c” for content, “u” if unknown), followed by the ad group (the “ag” value), followed by as much of the keyword (the “kw” value) as will fit. (Tracking IDs are limited to 24 characters, remember.)

Other Sources

If the script doesn’t have enough information to create a (semi)human-readable tracking ID, it generates a random number and prefixes it with the date (in MMDDHHSS format) and uses that as the tracking ID.

Overriding Affiliate and Vendor IDs

You can set the affiliate ID and vendor ID explicitly by using the “affiliateid” and “vendorid” query parameters, as in:

http://www.feedthemuscleburnthefat.com/?vendorid=4idiots

This is useful if you want to use the same script for multiple redirections.

Analyzing the Data in Detail

The tracking IDs the script creates are meant to be easily eyeballed in the ClickBank sales report. But if you want to know more about the context of a particular tracking ID, the script stores information in simple CSV (comma-separated value) files that you can easily download and load into a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel. A separate file is created for each day, so the clicks for March 8, 2010 are found in “clicks.2010-03-08.csv”, in the same folder as the index.php file.

So when you see a click in your ClickBank sales report and you want to know more about it, look at the first 4 characters of the tracking ID to extract the month and day to know which file to download and open in Excel. The following data is stored, in this order:

1. The full date and time
2. The tracking ID
3. The final affiliate ID
4. The visitor’s IP address
5. The full path that was requested, including any parameters
6. The referrer URL, if any
7. The user-agent header, if any (useful for discerning robots from humans)

The Script

Here it is. Either download this text file or copy the text below; place the text into a file called index.php and copy it up to your webserver.

<?php

//*************************************************************
//
// ClickBank Tracking Script
// Version 1.0
// Copyright 2010 by Eric Giguere
// ericgiguere@ericgiguere.com
//
// You may use this script for free on as many sites as you want.
// You cannot sell this script or otherwise claim ownership.
// This script is provided as-is, no warranties are implied.
//
// For installation instructions, see
// http://www.memwg.com/clickbank-tracking-script/
//
//*************************************************************
// Modify these values to set your affiliate ID, the vendor ID,
// and any additional data (i.e. '&page=1928') to append to the
// final hoplink after the tracking ID.
//*************************************************************

$affiliateid = $_GET['affiliateid'];
$vendorid    = $_GET['vendorid'];
$extra       = $_GET['extra'];

if( empty( $affiliateid ) ) $affiliateid = 'egiguere';
if( empty( $vendorid ) )    $vendorid    = 'burnthefat';

//*************************************************************
// You shouldn't need to change anything below this point.
//*************************************************************

// Gather information about the visitor.

$ip       = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$browser  = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$request  = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$reqtime  = date( 'Y/m/d H:i:s T' );
$logfile  = 'clicks.' . date( 'Y-m-d' ) . '.csv';
$prefix   = date( 'mdHi' );
$source   = '';
$tid      = '';

// Check query parameters to determine if we are being called
// from AdWords. If we are, gather the requisite info. If not,
// try to figure out where we're being called from using the
// referrer header.

if( !empty( $_GET['kw'] ) || !empty( $_GET['ag'] ) || !empty( $_GET['nw'] ) ){
    $nw      = strtolower( $_GET['nw'] );

    if( strlen( $nw ) != 1 ){
        $nw = 'u';
    }

    $source  = 'aw' . $nw;
    $keyword = $_GET['kw'];
    $adgroup = $_GET['ag'];

    $tid = substr( $prefix . $source . $adgroup . makealphanum( $keyword ), 0, 24 );
} 

// If we weren't called from AdWords, check the referrer header and
// see if we can suss out an identifier of some kind and combine it
// with the domain name to create a tracking ID.

if( empty( $tid ) && !empty( $referrer ) ){
    $referrerparts = parse_url( trim( $referrer ) );

    $host = ( $referrerparts['host'] ? $referrerparts['host'] :
               array_shift( explode( '/', $referrerparts['path'], 2 ) ) );

    $params = parse_query( $referrerparts['query'] );

    $hostparts = preg_split( '/\./', $host );
    $tld = count( $hostparts ) - 1;

    if( $tld > 0 ){
        $domain = $hostparts[$tld-1];
    $ids = array( 'id', 'C', 'kw' );

    foreach( $ids as $param ){
        if( !empty( $params[$param] ) ){
            $source = makealphanum( $params[$param] );
        }

        if( $source ) break;
    }

    if( !empty( $source ) ){
        $tid = $prefix . substr( $domain . $source, -16 );
    }
    }
}

// Last resort: we weren't able to create a tracking ID, so
// generate a unique string to server as our ID.

if( empty( $tid ) ){
    $tid = substr( getfaketid( $prefix ), 0, 24 );
}

$afflink = 'http://' . $affiliateid . '.' . $vendorid .
           '.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=' . $tid . $extra;

header( "Location: $afflink" );

// Write out the data to our CSV file

$fp = fopen( $logfile, 'a' );

if( $fp ){
  fputs( $fp, logmsg() );
  fclose( $fp );
}

//*************************************************************
// Functions used by the code above...
//*************************************************************

// Convert the string to a lower case alphanumeric-only string

function makealphanum( $str ){
    return ereg_replace( '[^a-z0-9]', '', strtolower( urldecode( $str ) ) );
}

// Parse a query string into its constituent parts

function parse_query( $var ){
    $var = html_entity_decode( $var );
    $var = explode( '&', $var );
    $arr = array();

    foreach( $var as $val ){
        $x          = explode( '=', $val );
        $arr[$x[0]] = $x[1];
    }

    unset( $val, $x, $var );
    return $arr;
}

// Encode URLs for saving in the CSV file by converting
// quotes and commas to URL escapes.

function csvencode( $str ){
    $str = str_replace( '"', '%22', $str );
    $str = str_replace( ',', '%2C', $str );
    return $str;
}

// Create the line of CSV data to append to the log file

function logmsg(){
    global $request;
    global $ip;
    global $referrer;
    global $browser;
    global $tid;
    global $reqtime;
    global $afflink;

    $msg = "$reqtime,$tid,$afflink,$ip," . csvencode( $request ) . ","
         . csvencode( $referrer ) . "," . csvencode( $browser );

    return $msg . "\n";
}

// Generate a fake TID with the given prefix.

function getfaketid( $prefix ){
    return uniqid( $prefix );
}

?>

Final Thoughts

OK, user-friendly this isn’t, I admit it. It’s very geeky. But if you’re even a bit technically inclined you should be able to install this script and use it. If you have questions about it, please leave them as comments here rather than mailing me, it’ll be more useful for others

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Easy ClickBank Conversion Tracking

In my last post, How To Create EzineArticles-Friendly Affiliate Links, I talked about creating a simple PHP script to install on your web server to redirect visitors to an affiliate link. I briefly showed how to use the ClickBank tracking ID feature to flag which sales came from visitors to that web server. But with a little more work you can create unique tracking IDs that give you a lot more information about where your sales are really coming from. That’s the real key to affiliate marketing success: conversion tracking — determining which sales “funnels” lead to actual sales. Once you know what’s working, you can spend more time and energy (and money, in the case of PPC) on the profitable funnels while abandoning the unprofitable ones.

ClickBank Tracking IDs

As I explained last time, a ClickBank tracking ID is any combination of up to 24 letters and numbers. (It used to be limited to 8 characters, which made what we’re doing here a bit harder to do, but still possible if you were clever.) The tracking ID is appended to the ClickBank hoplink (affiliate link) and passes through ClickBank’s system. If a sale is made, the associated tracking ID (if it was set) shows up in the affiliate’s sales report.

For example, here’s a hoplink with a 5-letter tracking ID:

http://egiguere.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net?tid=memwg

The tracking ID actually shows up on the ClickBank payment page as part of the affiliate ID. If you click the link above and go through to the payment page, you’ll see this at the bottom:

[affiliate = egiguere.memwg]

You should always test your affiliate links to make sure the tracking ID is being passed correctly.

Note that tracking IDs are not case-sensitive, i.e. “ID001″ is the same as “id001″.

What To Track?

So what should you track? Here are some ideas:

• Date — Knowing when your affiliate link was followed is valuable information. Sometimes the sale happens days or even weeks after the initial visit. For example, if I refer someone to the Rocket Spanish product, they may first sign up for a free 6-day Spanish mini-course before purchasing the full course. So a click that occurred on (say) February 15 might generate a sale a full week later. If I’ve changed promotional methods in the meantime, I might mistakenly attribute the sale to the new promotion, when in fact it was the old one that actually worked.
• Time — Knowing the time of day can also be useful if you’re promoting products via AdWords ads. If the majority of your sales happen late in the day, you can turn off bidding for the other parts of the day and reduce costs by avoiding the tire-kickers.
• Geolocation — The IP address of the visitor can be mapped back to a geographic location. As with the time, this information can aid you in targeting your ads. (See my article What A Website Knows About You.)
• Referrer — When you click a link, browsers normally send the URL of the originating web page (the page the link was on) to the web server. This is called the “referrer” or “referrer header”. Examining the referrer (which the user can prevent the browser from sending, so don’t count on its presence) can tell you the source of that particular click.
• Additional Information — You can embed additional information in the link. For example, AdWords has a keyword insertion feature that lets you automatically insert the keyword that triggered the ad click into the destination URL.

This probably covers 99% of the things you’d want to track via a ClickBank tracking ID.

How To Track?

So how do you track all this information? You can stuff a lot of it into the tracking ID itself, which is my favorite way of doing things. You have 24 characters to work with, so let’s see how we can encode things:

• 4 characters for the date — 2 digits for the day, 2 digits for the month. (Don’t bother with the year, because that only matters at the end or beginning of a year and you should be able to figure out what year the month and day apply to.)
• 4 characters for the time — 2 digits for the hour, 2 digits for the minute.

That takes 8 characters of the 24, leaving us 16 to work with. We could track IP addresses (they can be encoded with 8 characters quite easily) but there’s no point doing it because ClickBank’s sales reports include the buyer’s country.

What can we do with 16 characters, then? How about extracting some useful information about the referrer. Clicks from EzineArticles include the article ID in the referrer URL. Clicks from search engine traffic include the keyword term. Clicks from AdWords ads can also include the keyword term (if you use the special {keyword} syntax in the destination URL) and even information about whether the click originated on the search network or the content network. The possibilities are almost limitless.

Here’s another tip: any information that can’t be stored in the tracking ID itself can still be stored in a file or database.

If there’s interest, I can post a simple tracking script that generates ClickBank tracking IDs with some of this information in it.

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Make Money With Credit Card Affiliate Programs

If you’ve been around affiliate marketing any time at all, then most of you know that Web Hosting Affiliate Programs pay some of the top commissions in the industry. What many of you don’t know is that Credit Card Affiliate Programs pay a lot more than Web Hosting Affiliate Programs in most cases.

While most web host will pay you between $25 and $100 per sign up, there are many Credit Card affiliate programs that will pay you $50 to $300 per sign up. Some of these affiliate programs will pay you every time someone fills out a credit card application while others just pay you whenever someonen you refer qualifies for a credit card.
Why Credit Card Affiliate Programs Can Be More Lucrative Than Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

Well, it’s simple really. How many people do you know need Web Hosting? Now how many people do you know need a Credit Card? Yeah, now you’re seeing the potential.

While you may have a hard time getting people to sign up under your webhosting affiliate program, simply because most people don’t need it, most credit card programs work well simply because you’ll be steering people to the sign up page with your affiliate link. Most of these programs have multiple cards to choose from, so if your Customer has bad credit, no problem, there’s a card for that. Do the want a credit card with reward points? No problem, most programs have those cards available. Have someone who wants a credit card with balance transfer? You guessed it, most programs have cards available for that also.

If you choose a Credit Card affiliate program that pays you per applications filled out, (which they pay around $2 to $5 per application), you may find that you can get more people filling out CC applications than are approved for the Cards. It just depends on what type of traffic you’re targeting.

Once you realize that it’s quite easy to steer people through your affiliate link, you start to realize the potential available to you to make money with these programs. In many cases, it’s as easy as putting your affiliate links where people who need credit cards will find them.
How To Get Started Making Money With Credit Card Affiliate Programs

There are a lot of credit card affiliate programs out there today. Due to the credit crisis we’ve fast over the last year or so, the number of credit card companies using affiliate programs has declined, but there are still plenty of others out there to make this a profitable venture.

One program that Beginners can get started in the Credit Card Affiliate business with is My Credit Card Cash. When you sign up with them, they give you a website already pre-populated with nearly 100 card offers. All that you must due is to promote your affiliate website url. Since they’ve already made the site for you, there’s no site building or other technical knowledge required.

Then, each time someone goes through your website and is approved for a credit card, you earn a commission. Some of these cards have a payout as much as $121. Most are in the $30 to $75 range. It doesn’t take long to see that there is a lot of potential here.

As of this writing, they’re offering a 14 day trial for $1. After that, they’ll charge you $37 per month until 4 people have been approved for credit cards through your website, then it’s free. I was able to get 4 sign ups easily within the 14 day trial so my website was free. Click here to learn more about this program.

Most of these types of programs will charge a fee until you have a certain number of sign ups through your website. This is in part to keep people from signing up for their affiliate program and then doing nothing. They only want Affiliate Marketers who will be promoting their affiliate sites. This is why most will give you the website after you’ve signed up a certain number of people that are approved for a credit card.
Ways To Promot Your Own Credit Card Website

The nice thing that I like with credit card affiliate programs is that offline promotion is very effective. Once I had my website, I went and had some free business cards made up. The first batch simply said “Bad Credit? Need A Credit Card?” across the middle of the business card in bold print. Below that my Website url. I had 500 business cards made up the first time and left these everywhere I went. Grocery stores, drive-in’s, bulletin boards around various businesses (especially cafe’s) and so on. This is how I managed to get 7 sign-ups within my 14 day trial.

And that’s the trick to making credit card affiliate programs pay off, just as with any affiliate program, get your affiliate link in front people who want what you have to offer.

You could try having some free biz cards made up with your affiliate URL on them and then leaving them every place around your town. Laundry Mats, C Stores, Cafe’s…a lot of these places have community bulletin boards and would be worth a try.

Although I haven’t tried it yet, a Classified Ad in small Local and Regional newspapers may also do just as good. In my area, I could take out one ad and have it placed in 8 different local community newspapers for about $90 per month.

Ways To Promote Your Credit Card Website Online

Now that I’ve showed you a few effective ways to market you credit card affiliate website offline, let me show you a few ways to do it online.

Basically, the way I started out marketing my own credit card affiliate website was the same method I used in the January $2500 Challenge. I signed up in several forums and answered questions about debt, finance, family related questions and questions about credit cards. My signature had a link to my site in it. In some post, where it was relevant, I left a link to my site.

I also promoted my affiliate website on Yahoo Answers and Wiki’s whenever I answered a question and where a link made sense and was helpful. If you go in and start throwing links all over the place, you’ll be banned in no time flat for spamming, as you should be.

Another good way to promote your affiliate link is through article marketing as well as building a network of sites over family and personal finance. Although this will take a while, once you have the traffic coming in, this could be a very good money earner.

And that’s how I make money with Credit Card Affiliate Programs. I did it for a while and once you get your system down, I think you’ll find that this is a pretty good way to earn income. I find it a lot easier than promoting some other affiliate programs, but everyone is different. You may find it more difficult or easier. If nothing else, sign up for a trial and give it a try to see if you’ll like it. You never know, you might have a big earner on your hands.

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Ways To Make Money With Parked Domains

A while back it occurred to me that I had quite a few (over 100) parked domains that I had done nothing with! They were just sitting there, collecting dust and advertising for the domain company should you type a name in. This got me to researching how to make money with parked domains. What I learned is that if you have a lot of domains, those domains can be another source of income for you. And if you’ve followed me any at all, you know I’m all about extra streams of income!
After a few months, my research has taught me several things. One is that no matter what, to make good honest money at anything online, it takes some patience and effort. Finding ways to make money with parked domains is no different. I tried several methods to make money with my parked domains and I’ll share some of my findings with you below. Let me just say this though, if you’re expecting a story about how I made a killing with parked domains, you’d better go read something else!
To be honest, the only people I’ve ever heard of, or know of, who are making a lot of money with parked domains are those who have thousands of domains. These are your domain brokers and domain speculators. I don’t know of anyone with a few hundred domains who are making huge profits. But then again, the whole notion behind a parked domain is that the only traffic it gets is type in traffic, so unless you have a few super popular domains that are one or two word keywords, you’re not going to get the traffic that you need to bring in huge amounts of dollars!
So, here’s my findings over several months.

Adsense for Domains

If you have an Google Adsense account, then you have access to this feature from Google. Basically what happens is whenever someone types in your domain name, for example; example.com, and comes to your site, you’ll get a small amount of money if they click on one of the ads on that site. These ads are very similar to Adsense ads (afterall, it is Adsense we’re talking about!).
I moved 10 domains over to Adsense for domains to see how well they’d do. I didn’t know what to expect, but I didn’t expect much. And it’s a good thing, I hardly made any money at all. But after all, they are just domain names with no content so I shouldn’t have been that surprised!

Domain Parking Sites

Chances are at some time or another you’ve typed in a domain name into the address bar of your browser and got a generic page with a bunch of ads on it. Maybe you misspelled the name or you thought the domain you wanted was adsenses.com rather than adsense.com. Whatever the reason, the generic page you see with all the ads are generally hosted by a Domain Parking Site.
In a nutshell, here’s how most domain parking sites work. You transfer your domain dns to their servers. This is generally really easy to do and most web hosting companies have a feature on their hosting dashboards to make this easy. If they don’t, you need a new host or some written instructions!
There is usually no charge for you to transfer your domain’s DNS to their server. I would be suspicious of any company who wanted to charge you to do that. These companies usually make money by putting ads up on the generic pages that pop up when someone types in your domain name. Most of these domain parking sites keyword target their sites so you have a good chance whenever someone clicks on an ad.
Don’t try and pin down any of these sites as to how much they’ll pay you per click. The price varies by how much the advertiser pays for the ads and how much of those dollars the domain parking company wants to keep.
Again, I transferred a little over 10 domains to one domain parking site to see how well they would work.
All I can say is that they paid just about as much as the Adsense for Domains did. I didn’t make enough money to get my blood pressure up, but again, the only way most people get traffic to a domain without a website is if someone just types it into a browser.

Affiliate Programs

Probably my favorite way to make money with parked domains is using affiliate programs. But the downside is it takes a lot more work!
For starters, there are two ways you can go about this.
Method number one involves getting a hosting account. One where you can host unlimited number of domains! Like I said above, this take some work but it can pay off a lot better than the other two methods.
Then you create a mini site. You add a page or two of content that is keyword targeted to whatever your domain is. You’ll also want to add a privacy, contact and about page to make the search engines happy (you know, just in case one of them may actually rank your site)
You’ll then find an affiliate programs that is in the same niche as your domain name. For example, if your domain is rustyoldbottlecaps.com, then you’d want an affiliate that is about rusty old bottle caps! Don’t try and feminine products to people who are looking for rusty old bottle caps, that’s affiliate marketing 101!
You can promote this mini sites the same way you promote any other site, but the whole point is that these domains are ones you don’t have time to fool with, so you throw up some content and affiliate ads and forget them.
Method number two can be easy or hard depending on your host. Some host allow redirects, others don’t. Some make it easy, most don’t! (this is also called ‘domain forwarding’ by some companies)
The thing here is that you’ll redirect (or forward) the domain to a site that closely resembles the redirected domain so your traffic is targeted. If you have a parked domain like rustyoldbottlecaps.com, you wouldn’t point it at a site about online dating. However, perhaps you have a site about antiques and that site has an affiliate program that you’re making a few bucks off of. You may do yourself a favor by having your type in traffic from rustyoldbottlecaps.com domain redirected to your antique website!

Summary

At the end of the day, I didn’t make a killing with any one method, however creating a mini site with affiliate links did end up making me the most money. But it does take a lot more time, which is why these domains were sitting in the first place, I just didn’t have time to build on them! Obviously if you have thousands, or even a few hundred domains, the mini site method won’t work for you unless your a mini site creating monster!
So what I did was to plan to take a few hours each week and work on putting up a mini site or two on each domain.
These are just a few ways to make money with parked domains. There are others, but I’d say these three ways are most popular.

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21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

Top Web hosting affiliate programs are some of the highest paying affiliate programs around. Now before you run off and start signing up under every web hosting affiliate program you can find, let me tell you that it’s also one of the most competitive. You’d better have a game plan and some deep pockets or great resources before you decide to tackle this industry.
If the truth were known, most people make little money off of Web Hosting affiliate programs. Most bloggers and some Webmasters just stick a banner or text link from their host provider on their sites and get a few conversions over a period of time.
Unless you’re prepared to enter the affiliate marketing hell, that’s probably the best way to do it!
Note: Click on the link if you’re looking for reviews about blog web hosting providers.

How I chose the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

It would have been easy to just search web hosting companies and find who pays the most and stick their names here. But there’s more to choosing a winning affiliate program than simply picking the company that pays the most.
Even if you have a Web Host provider paying $200 per sign up, it doesn’t mean squat unless they can convert traffic!

Here are the factors I looked at when choosing the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs.

• I only went with web hosting companies that were under affiliate networks (CJ has the most that I’m aware of). When I go looking at stats, I want to go to only a few websites, not 10 or 15 different sites to see how much money I’ve made. Plus I feel like (for the most part) that the Networks will keep the Web Host honest as far as reporting goes. (I know for a fact that Sharasale will)
• I looked at the 3 month Network earnings for each provider. Any affiliate program can have a few big sales in a week that will inflate their 7 day earnings per click. I want to see how a program has performed over time. A high Network earnings number means there are people making money from the affiliate program.
• Not all Networks report reversals. Shareasale does and I take that into account when I can find the number. What good is it if you make 90 sales and have 89 of them reversed?
• Terms. Some web hosting companies make it easy to make a sale. Some make it difficult plus some only pay on a hosting sign up while others pay you on everything from Domain names to SSL certificates. Some will not allow you to use PPC and some will not let you use email. It pays (pun intended) to read the terms before signing up!
• Of course I looked at how much each company pays per sign up. That should be the last number you look at. There are companies paying out $150 per sign up, but their websites don’t convert. Then you may have a company who only pays out $75, but their sites converts you traffic into sign ups like crazy. Who would you rather be signed up with?
• Referal length. Sometimes a person doesn’t sign up right away with a web hosting company. It may take them a month or more to decide to buy web hosting. If they go to your web host 32 days after their first visit and sign up for web hosting, I want that commission! I like long referral periods!

So, without further ado…drum roll please…I bring you AffiliateWatcher.Com’s pick of the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs! (in no certain order)
DreamHost - (Independent program, click here to go to their website for more details)
Referral length: N/A
Commission amount: $97 or 10%
Incentives:
Comments: DreamHost has probably one of the most unique affiliate programs of any web hosting provider. You have two choices when signing up. Either a one time payment of $97 for everyone you sign up plus $5 for every that your referrals sign up or you can opt for 10% of all fees paid by your referrals to DreamHost for as long as they are customers plus you’ll get 5% of any fees of the people your referral signs up. This can be a very lucrative web hosting affiliate program for those of you sending a lot of referrals! It’s one of my favorites.
Affiliate Network: Independent
HostRocket
Commission amount: $150
Incentives: HostRocket has a traditional incentive program. The more you sell, the more you make. I like that incentive! One of the highest paying Web Hosting companies on the web!
Affiliate Network: Independent
TechnoHosting
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $80
Incentives:
Comments: Customer must remain a client for at least 31 days in order to qualify for referral fee.
Affiliate Network: CJ
1&1 Hosting
Click Here to visit their website for more information or to sign up.
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $2.50 to $300
Incentives:For commissions exceeding $1000 you can receive a 1 time bonus of $100
Comments: Actions lock 60 days after the event. NO Junk Traffic, Email Spam, or Search Engine Spam allowed. No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval. Very lucrative for affiliate marketers who can send quality traffit to 1 and 1 hosting.
Affiliate Network: CJ
WebsiteSource
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $85
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ
WebHosting Pad

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $100 to $125
Incentives:
Comments:They include many free and unlimited services with their accounts which makes them very popular with people looking for low cost web hosting. This makes sign ups easeir for the affiliate marketer.
Affiliate Network: CJ
Apollo Hosting
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $70
Incentives: For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 10 increase commission by 5.00%. For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 25 increase commission by 10.00%
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ
Netfirms
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $30 to $115 per sale. $2 for every domain registered.
Incentives:
Comments: No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval.
Affiliate Network: CJ
Gate.com
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $30 to $115 per sale. $2 for every domain registered.
Incentives:
Comments: No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval.
Affiliate Network: CJ
Dotster.com

Referral length: 90 days
Commission amount: $100 on hosting plans, 20-30% on other products
Incentives: Many different incentive plans depending on the product.
Comments:Very popular with many affiliate marketers due to their incentive programs and varing levels of payout.
Affiliate Network: CJ
BlueHost
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $120
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ
EasyCGI.com Web Hosting

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $110 to $150
Incentives:
Comments: For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 25 receive one time bonus of $250.00 USD, greater than 50 receive one time bonus of $500.00 USD, greater than 100 receive one time bonus of $1,000.00 USD. Very popular due to referral length and the amount of payout.
Affiliate Network: CJ
HostMonster

Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $90
Incentives:
Comments: This is a very popular web host for Affiliate Marketers because of the ability to host unlimited amount of websites on 1 account.
Affiliate Network: CJ
ixWebhosting
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $50 to $150
Incentives:
Comments:Claims to have CJ’s #1 converting affiliate program. Pays out on several products and services.
Affiliate Network: CJ
www.GoDaddy.com

Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $30 to $105
Incentives:Godaddy offers plenty of Incentives, too numerous to list here. Just make sure you use a GoDaddy Promo Code to save money on your initial setup.
Comments:They only pay one time per occurrence which is odd considering many others pay for unlimited occurrences. This can limit your ability to make money with Goddady. Still, it’s probably the easiest for Newcomers to make money with due to all the products and services they pay on, including their domain auctions. Worth a try due to this reason and the fact that they have a strong brand name recognized by many “none techie” people.
Affiliate Network: CJ
Homestead
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $80 – $100
Incentives: Base starts at $80, more than 10 actions, commission increases to $90, more than 25, commission increases to $100 per action
Comments: Several packages for a visitor to choose from
Affiliate Network:Linkshare
PC Digital
Referral length: unknown, contact affiliate manager
Commission amount: $ 73
Incentives:
Comments: accepts traffic from all countries. Commissions are for a sign up under the 1 to 2 year plan. Commissions for the 3 to 6 month plan are $51.
Affiliate Network:Azoogle
Ultra Website Hosting – Flux Services
Referral length: NEVER EXPIRES!
Commission amount: 500% – Yes you read correctly
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: Sharasale
PowWeb.com

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $95 per sale
Incentives:
Comments: Good long term Network earnings per click. Excellent referral length, one of the the best in the Industry.
Affiliate Network: CJ
EasyASPHosting
Referral length: 90 days
Commission amount: 35% per sale
Incentives:
Comments: High 7 and 30 day sales and commissions
Affiliate Network: Sharasale
ServPro Web Hosting
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $30 per sale
Incentives:
Comments: Nice earnings Network wide despite the $30 payout
Affiliate Network: Sharasale
Okay, so there you have it. My pick of the 21 top paying web hosting affiliate programs. Remember, do your research before joining up. You can also go to most of the Web Hosting company web site’s and join there, although you won’t be joining through an Affiliate Network in most cases.
You should only pick one or two Web Hosting companies to begin with. It will be easier to track the stats and make sales. Good luck and I hope you’ve found this list helpful!
21 top paying web hosting affiliate programs

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The Ultimate List Of Adsense Ready WordPress Themes

WordPress Themes For Adsense

Let’s face it, Adsense is the simplest affiliate marketing program there is. (although technically Adsense is not an affiliate marketing program, but don’t tell anyone)
The easiest way to incorporate Adsense into your site is an Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. I use a variety of WordPress Themes for Adsense. The one I choose depends on the type of blog I running. I’ve compiled this Ultimate List of Adsense Ready WordPress Themes for your enjoyment. I have to be honest and say the idea for this list came about when I saw Dosh Dosh’s list of 17 Adsense Ready WordPress Themes and realized I had those plus a few more in my folders and bookmarks. I just didn’t realize how long it would take to put this list together!
Even though I say it’s the “Ultimate List” we both know it’s not. 5 minutes from now someone else will come out with one. Also, if you know PHP or use the Adsense-Deluxe Plugin, you can turn just about any WordPress Theme into an Adsense ready blog.
If you want to learn advanced Adsense strategies, I highly recommend “Desktop Adsense Cash Machine“. I learned many good tips and tactics that increased my adsense earnings by double on most of my sites. And if you haven’t yet, take a look at “The Next Internet Millionaire“. This reality based show will be sure to teach you some Adsense tactics that the Guru’s keep under wraps.
My criteria for a WordPress Adsense Theme is:

1. Easy to use – I don’t want to spend hours upon hours modifying a theme. I don’t know PHP or CSS so I need a simple plug-n-play theme.
2. Easy on the eyes- You don’t want an ugly WordPress Theme! I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but an ugly theme will cost you money!
3. Widget Compatible- A WordPress Theme for Adsense should be widget compatible, although some in the list are not. Not that I will use them, but I prefer to have that option if I find myself wanting to use a widget.
4. Optimized Adsense Placement – Preferably the WordPress Themeyou choose will already have the Adsense blocks placed in the theme and all you have to do is ad your AdsensePublisher ID code. Not all the themes that are listed are like that. The ones that aren’t designed that way are still easy to set up by adding your code to the PHP files. All you have to do is replace the developers Adsense Code with yours. It’s easier than it sounds.
5. SEO Friendly- I want organic traffic! The WordPress Themes in the Ultimate List are SEO Optimized and Friendly or they are darn near close!
6. Customizable- You don’t want your blog to look like everyone’s else. While not all of the WordPress Themes listed are easily customized, many are and that goes a long way in my book (remember when I said that I didn’t know PHP or CSS?)

The pictures of the themes are either from the developers website or taken from screen shots of blogs running these WordPress themes.
If you use any of these WordPress Themes, please visit the developers website and donate some green to their tip jars (if they have them) and always link back to their site. Also, should you have technical problems with any theme on this page, (although I can cut and paste with the best of them ) go to their website for help, I’m not a techie and I won’t be able to help you.
Some of these WordPress Themes require you open a file and replace existing Adsense Pub-ID with your own. If you don’t know how to do that, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add your Publisher ID to an Adsense Ready WordPress Theme.
Also, some of these Adsense Ready WordPress Themes walk a fine line in the grey area concerning Google Adsense TOS. Always check with the Google Adsense folks about any concerns you have with any theme, whether they are these or not. And always save your emails from them!

#1 – Ad Flex Blog & Niche Themes

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AdFlex WordPress Theme Review
I use this theme on several of my blogs. It’s my favorite theme for Adsense because it is so customizable. In fact, I don’t know of another Adsense ready WordPress Theme that is more customizable than Ad Flex.
In addition to that, this baby comes SEO ready!
This theme has Ad Links at the top and an ad block above the content and an ad block below the content. In the screen shot of the blog above, the blog owner used the 468 x 60 ad block, but I’ve used all sizes. I’ve also used other affiliate program codes in the ad blocks (for example, Azoogle ad code) and all have shown up wonderfully.
While the screen shot above doesn’t show it, you can also put pictures above the Adsense. Whoa there buddy, I know what you’re thinking “It’s against Adsense TOS to put pictures next to Adsense ads”Well, not exactly. I have several websites and blogs with pics near Adsense ads. What Adsense doesn’t want for example, let’s say, images of cell phones next to Adsense ads about cell phones so that the surfer thinks he’s clicking on a link to a particular cell phone. In other words, don’t try and fool a surfer into clicking on an adsense ad.
I have a travel site using this WordPress Theme and have put images of tropical get-a-ways and other vacation looking pictures next to Adsense ads. I then followed up with the folks at Google Adsense to ensure that these were not in violation of the Adsense TOS. I received a reply that they were acceptable. The neat thing is, if you’re concerned about the Adsense TOS, you can turn the pictures off and on with a simple tick in a check box in the WordPress dashboard.
Neat. But that is how this whole theme is. Everything is so easy. If you don’t want certain items such as the Category section to show up in the Nav bar on the left side, just check “NO” in the field. Want the Nav bar on the right? No problem, there’s an option for that.
Here are some other features you get with this theme.

• Meta tag description that is based on the content of the page
• Non duplicate content prevention feature
• Adsense Banner Management
• Blocking Cookie
• Theme can be switched between wide and narrow
• Approximately 150 controllable features

Try this them with some of your blogs. You’ll be amazed at the results!

#2 AdsMinded Adsense Theme

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AdsMinded WordPress Theme Review
I use the AdsMinded theme on 2 of my blogs. This is a great WordPress theme for Adsense with high CTR due to the adlinks at the top. Tip: If you’re not taking advantage of adlinks, you’re losing money!
This theme is SEO optimized plus you can customize the layout and ad placement several ways. On one of my blogs, I left out the 2nd column with the Adsense ads on the main page. They’re only visible once a surfer clicks through to read the entire post. Also, there are several other areas where you may put other affiliate codes from other companies. This really maximizes your earnings potential!
This 3 column layout comes with an optional square ad placement on top of the sidebars. It comes with some very useful WordPress plugins.
You can get this WordPress Theme in a narrow or wide version.

#3 Merah Putih

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Merah Putih WordPress Theme Review
This is a nice clean and simple WordPress Theme I found. It needs some customizing, such as a logo in the upper left corner if you want one and you have to insert your Adsensepublisher ID into the sidebar.php, header.php file and single.php file which is pretty easy to do. All you do is open the PHP files with an editor like Notepad ++ and replace the existing Adsense Publisher ID’s with you own, save the files and upload them to your template folder or modify them in the Theme Editor of the Dashboard and BAM, you’re off and running. It takes me about the same amount of time to do it as it did to type this.
I’m a sucker for clean and simple WordPress themes such as this one. I like the ad placements and an added bonus is that once a surfer clicks on an article heading, the article page has the 300×250 Adsense block in the upper left of the article. That’s the sweet spot and heat maps provided by Googlestates this is the best place to put an adblock in an article.
The side bar has a 300×250 and a 160×600 ad block plus an adlink block at the top of the pages.

#4 SEO Adsense

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SEO Adsense WordPress Theme Review
This is another clean and simple Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. I like this theme for my review type sites. It’s laid out very well and Adsense code is easily added. This theme loads quickly and is designed to accept three ad blocks and one ad link per page, the maximum allowed by Google Adsense TOS. You can also use Google Adsense for search for some additional income.
The advantage of this WordPress theme in my opinion is that it is SEO optimized out of the gate. The title and H1 tags contain most of the information. Category pages carry the category name as the title and on post pages, the post name is carried as the title.
The Adsense code is in three files with this theme. The header.php, the sidebar php and the footer.php files. You also have the advantage of using Google Adsensefor search in the searchform.php
Sometimes less is more when you’re trying to get surfers to click on ads. With that being said, SEO Adsense gives you a great advantage over other WordPress Themes when it comes to the layout and ease of using Adsense to it’s maximum potential.

#5 WP Colors

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WP Colors WordPress Them Review
This is a snazzy looking 2 column theme for WordPress plus it’s Adsense ready and is widget compatible. This WordPress theme is also SEO optimizedand ready to rock once you’ve added your Adsense Publishers ID.
One of my main gripes of other “Adsense Ready” themes is that the sidebar info comes before the main content info in the source code. This is not the case with WP Colors. They’ve coded this theme so that the main content info is read by a Search engine BEFORE the sidebar info!
There is a 728×90 block at the top of the theme below the header image and a 120×600 tower in the sidebar plus a 300×250 box at the top of the sidebar.
Personally, I’d like to see that banner be a 468×60 at the top of the post and a adlink at the top, but hey, with a WordPress Theme that looks this good and is easy to use, you can’t complain about much!

#6 030106 WordPress Theme

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030106 WordPress Theme Review
Okay, this is a mystery WordPress Theme. It has a number for a name! Call it what you want, I call it a high CTR Adsense ready WordPress Theme!
I love this theme for my tech review sites. Very professional looking and good-to-go right out of the box. You can use your Adsense Publisher ID or any number of other ad codes with this template (for example; YPN, Chitika, Azoogle, etc)
This WordPress themehas a place for a adlink banner at the top, a 300×250 box at the top of the sidebar and a tower in the sidebar as well as a place for a smaller box ad toward the bottom.
The single post pages has a place for a box ad at the bottom of the article. I’ve used these boxes for a pre-sell on offers after the article to snag some high paying commissions.

#7 Problogger Clean WordPress Theme

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Problogger Clean WordPress Theme Review
This 3 column WordPress theme reminds me of my #4 WordPress theme, SEO Adsense. However, there are differences.
This WordPress themehas a feature called the Adsense Click Safety (so you don’t click your own ads while working on your blog). Some have had concerns that this may violate Google Adsense TOS. Click here to read Googles reply to the developers question.
I haven’t used this theme in a while on my blogs. I did have some problems early on but I got my blog to work with this theme (don’t ask me how because I don’t remember!). I’ve since changed themes on that blog. Anyhow, just be forwarned that they were having some problems with this theme and I’m not sure they have them all worked out.

#8 MW WordPress Theme

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MW WordPress Theme Review
I absolutely love the name of this WordPress Theme. MW. MW stands for “Monetizing the Web”. That get’s a big “Hell Yeah” from me! Trust me, you can certainly monetize the web with this Adsense Ready WordPress Theme!
This is a 2 column, fixed width, left navigation WordPress Theme with a load of options.
This theme has a banner at the top with a 468 banner between the content about halfway down the page. You also have several options for Adsense and other code for different affiliate programs.
This is just a slick, easy to use Adsense Ready WordPress Theme with a professional look. Give it a try.

#9 Adsense Theme

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Adsense Theme For WordPress Review
This is a smooth, quick loading theme with Adsense blocks in all the right places. Very user friendly and it has basic SEO features. There are no images which contributes to its fast loading times.
I haven’t used this theme as much as some of the others (hey, so many blog ideas, so little time) but when I did use it, I liked it.
To get you Adsense Publisher ID to work with this theme, you’ll need to add your ID to the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php. Not a problem. If you don’t know how to do this, there are instructions with most themes. It’s quite easy. All you need is an editor like Notepad ++.
Note: I’ve not used the following WordPress Themes so I can’t comment on them.

#10 Blue Sense WordPress Theme

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#11 Citrus Sense WordPress Theme

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#12 Adsense Ready WordPress Theme

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#13 TypoXP Reloaded WordPress Theme

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#14 Connection with Adsense WordPress Theme

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#15 Almost Spring SEO with Adsense Ads

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#16 Bubbles Adsense Theme (comes in 4 colors)

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#17 Blix with Adsense WordPress Theme

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#18 Elite Circle WordPress Theme

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#19 Adsense Bogpod WordPress Theme

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#20 Tigopedia Reloaded WordPress Theme

(there’s also the Tigopedia original but I won’t count that one)
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#21 Simple Corners

(this one seems to be down right now or my bookmark is bad, when I click to their site, I see a message from their host with a “suspended” message) I’m going to leave it up in case they are just short on their bandwidth.

#22 Adsense Ready K2 Theme

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#23 Rockin Newspaper Red WordPress Theme

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24. Activate WordPress Theme
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Okay, I give up! That’s all the Adsense Ready WordPress Themes I have or could find. I hope you enjoy them and again, don’t forget to throw a bone to the developers!
I’ll try and keep this list updated, so check back when you’re looking for a good Adsense Ready WordPress Theme!

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Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

Affiliate marketing for beginners can be confusing and downright costly. But it doesn’t have to be.

Many new people to affiliate marketing don’t know how to get started so they end up jumping in to a program or system. Generally this leads to failure and they’re looking for the next quick money maker. They can spend a lot of money and time on programs that do not work. After they fail or make little money for their effort, they’re ready to proclaim to the world that affiliate marketing is a fraud and scam.

This doesn’t have to be the experience you take away from affiliate marketing. With a little patience and planning, affiliate marketing can be enjoyable and profitable. But it won’t be overnight!
Affiliate Marketing May Not Be For You

Let’s face it, affiliate marketing may not be the right way for beginners to make money online. Some do not have the knowledge or the ‘want to’ to spend large amounts of time building websites and blogs, doing keyword research, learning SEO in order to get their websites and blogs ranked high and researching the best affiliate marketing program for their needs.

Some people just want to jump in and start making money online. That’s alright too. There are programs for beginners and those who just want to make some quick money without going to the hassle of building websites.

Project Payday is an unique program that allows anyone to get started making money quickly without special skills or knowledge and without a website. If you can surf the Internet, you’ll probably be able to make money with Project Payday. I think it’s one of the best ways for beginners to get their feet wet making money online. In fact, it’s so easy that they guarantee that if you’ll follow the 4 easy steps outlined and do not make money in 24 hours, they’ll give you $100. It doesn’t get much easier than this!

Freelance Writing is becoming more and more popular due to all the Companies and Individual Internet Marketers looking for Web Content. Some freelancers will go at it on their own while others choose to get started making money quick by joining a membership site like Freelance Home Writers. Members of this site get to choose which freelance writing jobs they want. Companies and Individuals alike can post writing jobs at the site and the Members can pick and choose which jobs they want to accept based on the project or how much the job pays. Normally with this kind of membership site, you can choose how much, or how little, you want to work.

Other affiliate marketing beginners find eBay a very attractive start. There are a ton of ways to make money with eBay. You can simple get started by visiting Garage Sales in your area looking for bargains and reselling them on eBay. You really have to know what you’re looking for and how much the item is really worth or you could end up with a house full of junk that you can’t sell. That’s why the beginning eBay Entrepreneur should get one of the many starter kits out there designed to show you what you need to know to become a good Seller on eBay. Most of these kits, like the eBay For Dummies Starter Kit, will also have resources to wholesalers and DropShippers should you ever want to really make it big as a Power Seller on eBay.
I Really Want To Get Started With Affiliate Marketing

But for those who don’t mind all the long hours and hard work of building and promoting websites that sell affiliate products, a great reward awaits those who learn the proper way of making this business work. Some will fail, having spent a large amount of money along the way. But for those who put the time and effort into learning and doing, there can be a Rainbow at the end of their Journey.

There are many paths to making an income from affiliate marketing for Beginners. That’s what this blog is all about. Showing you different ways to start an Online Business and growing it into something that will provide income for you. There are also many pitfalls that await those who blindly stumble through this business. I’ll try and show you how to avoid those. Sure, you’ll probably make mistakes, we all do. It’s how you deal with them that matters.

So pull up a chair (as if you haven’t already done that), take some notes and start planning your path to Internet income. Affiliate Marketing for Beginners isn’t that difficult, but it will require some time and attention to details on your part.

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Why Super Affiliates Are Super Reviewers

Have you ever wondered what super affiliates do differently? How do they earn such high commissions? What tools and marketing tactics do they use that you can use as well? While there may be a number of things a super affiliate does successfully, chances are they’re also a super reviewer.
The Amazing Power of Reviews

A review is more than a valuable piece of content you can publish on your website, blog, or article directory. A review is perhaps one of the best ways to pre-sell a product or a service. As an affiliate marketer, you know that the best way to earn commissions is to pre-sell your affiliate products.

Reviews get the job done because they offer unbiased information. They highlight the pros and cons of a product or service, summarize the benefits and then tell a reader where they can buy the product or service.

However, a super affiliate takes their reviews a bit further.

A Super Review is:

1: Benefit focused – It highlights what problem the product solves and stresses the benefits. It answers the question the reader really wants to know: “What’s in it for me?”

2: Personal – It shares examples or tells a story about how the reviewer benefited from the product or service. This turns the review almost into an endorsement. Personal experience is very persuasive.

3: Unbiased – It provides an honest look at both the pros and the cons of the product or service. If a review doesn’t list any flaws, then the reader is going to be suspicious and not trust the opinion of the reviewer. Nothing’s perfect.

4: Factual – It provides the raw data too. People make buying decisions based on their emotions. This is why it’s so important to stress the benefits and what problem the product or service solves. However, they reinforce their buying decision based on facts. These facts include price, features, and even where the product can be purchased.

5: Purposeful – It includes a call to action. While you may have a few links to the sales page throughout the review, a super review always ends with a call to action. For example, “Visit LINK to learn more now.”

For a great example of a super reviewer, visit Rosalind Gardner’s website, netprofitstoday.com. She reviews most of the products she uses to build her affiliate empire. Rosalind Gardner is a fantastic example of a super affiliate and a super reviewer. Her reviews are benefit focused, personal, unbiased, and factual and they all end with a call to action.

To make more commissions and become a super affiliate, take steps to write reviews. Incorporate these ideas and steps to become a super reviewer and watch your profits soar.

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