3 Basic Ways to Make Money from Affiliate Programs.

1. Traffic numbers to your site - While this is not the most common of the payout forms, it is one that some advertisers use. This form of affiliate marketing involves having an advertiser's ad or banner on your site. That advertiser pays you per impression of his banner on your site, not the click through rate to his or her site. So, essentially the more traffic YOU get the more you get paid.

The ads on your site are also promoting the brand of the advertiser. The advertisers pay you to get their brand in front of your visitors. Visitors will click through to the advertisers' site depending on the effectiveness of their ad creative.

2. Pay per click - In this form of affiliate advertising, also known as ppc, an advertiser pays for every person who clicks through from your website to theirs. Special affiliate software or affiliate tracking programs are needed to keep up with the revenue, but when a web site affiliate program is set up right, this can be a real big moneymaker.

3. Direct Sales Commissions. Most affiliate programs will only pay out when traffic goes from your site to theirs and then makes a purchase of something. This form of advertising generally offers a higher payoff, but the conversion rate can be rather low. It's one thing to entice a visitor to check out another site, it's a completely different ball game to convince them to buy a product.

 

IMO, method 3 is the best way, and the fairest to both merchant and publisher.

 

Any ideas for promoting your affiliate link? I'm struggling to get anywhere near to traffic needed plus I'm on a very low budget!

 

Bum marketing is the way to go if you are on a low budyget.

 

number one way to market a product: SEO
It is kind of random,
yet i thought you guys should know
In addition to Frederik's great advice above, i would also recommend opening up a free blog and writing a very simple review of the product you want to sell. these get index and rank nicely in search engines ( = free $money$). Better yet, buy your own domain and hosting.

 

Best way that I have found in marketing a product is to have a great offer, for example what makes your affiliate link different that the hundreds of other affiliate links out there?

You want to give the customer value for money so I have found that you increase your conversions if you create killer bonus packages and then the customer gets more for their money.

The upside of this is that you can have an upsell and receive more for your efforts.