I'm just learning about this stuff so forgive the noob questions. But what works better, a dedicated domain/landing page specific to what it is you are selling? OR...a blog etc which some affiliate advertising on the page somewhere?
Blogs as well as URLs work well for affiliate marketing. Word Press sites are really easo use and add content to. Make sure you are focusing on either a certain niche merchant or you can build a coupon code site, which works well. I would suggest joining CJ and Linkshare and start applying to as many programs as possible. Then you can go in and grab links and put them on your site or blog. Then you need to just bear down and start writing some good, original content. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I will thanks. I've got amazon on my www.flashculture.com site currently, but I'm wondering if they make any real money.
Affiliate programs dont work... You have to work for them.. lol CJ, linkshare, azoogle are the top affiliate managers
Wow man killer PR 6 on your site! You can definitely post some product reviews of products from affiliate merchants on here and it would rank well. You have a lot of potential to realize! IM me if you want to chat: AIM: webvicious MSN:
thanks, I recently did a book review of a Flash animation book, which everyone seems to like (including the author, who's a real nice guy), so I thought I'd put a amazon link in there, but apart from that, I'm not sure what else to go in there. The site has a decent PR but it doesn't get high traffic yet, only 1000UV's for this month. Traffic something I want to build, but in regards to affilaites im not sure.
so the landing page is on a different domain? or do you stuff it all under one domain? so the blog is on the main page? or the blog is a page off of the landing page? I'm not doing that for flashculture, but for other sites just want to know whats the usual way of doing it.
It depends on what kind of advertisement you depend. If you depend on natural traffic, you should start a blog and add fresh quality content so you receive natural popularity and traffic from SEs. If you depend on PPC advertisements or other kind of paid advertisement, you should use as simple as possible landing page which covers the visitors needs and convinces them to buy the product.
You can join some affiliate programs that sell flash related products or Adobe themselves' affiliate program. You can put other software products on the site or write software reviews and then post the affiliate program banner under the post. But relating to landing pages these are used for PPC campaigns where you are building a 1-page site that "presells" the merchant's services or products, which is basically an advertisement for the merchant. But if it converts well and has ROI its a good strategy. Keyword research is paramount to the campaign and great design to the landing page.
I prefer to promote more independent/niche products rather than CJ Stuff etc as you find you get more webmaster promoting the same thing on those networks. Seek out good new products to promote rather than follow the herd. All can work- why not cover you bases a bit and choose a product, set up a site or two, some free blogs, hub pages etc -all promoting the product and main site etc as a start? Hope that helps
I definitely recommend using your own domains/pages. This way you can build up long term SEO success and presell your affiliate products for better conversions.
but how much can they make? roughly... Also how important is the design of the landing page? what sort of designs/colours work better?
It depends on how much efford you put in it. The landing page should be as readable and simple as possible, but you need to use some light and attractive images. For text colors, you should bold and color the points that you want to be noticed. Use big, readable fonts and have good whitespace. Of course they do. Some affiliate marketers make six digits monthly.
I make my living with affiliate programs. So yes they make money. Actually, they don't make money, what I mean to say is that they are able to make money, if you ... make them make money! Is it easy? No. It takes a lot of work. A lot of trial & error. Lots of failure. I'd say 99% of my attempts have failed. But the 1% have become income streams that make me money rather consistently. That adds up.
I want to learn about affiliate marketing too. I have a blog. If I put some affiliate ads on it like my adsense ads, will it work?