Affiliate Marketing
Dipping Our Toes In PPC – Part 2
Our first PPC campaign was officially underway. I checked our YSM account the next morning and it was missing our daily limit amount. We did not believe it at first but five people actually clicked on our ad. The daily limit was reached so soon because the bid amounts for the keywords were way, WAY [...]
Dipping Our Toes In PPC – Part 1
We made our first attempt at PPC advertising a few days ago. While working on Niche Site 1, we got an idea for selling a type of product for the affiliate program we joined. Some of the related keywords showed decent demand without much competition. The commission rate was not very high but we thought [...]
LinkShare
Our first affiliate program is through… LinkShare! Ta-Da! Fortune 500 type companies allow affiliates to market their products using LinkShare. They needed our EIN but opening the account was simple: fill out a few online forms, choose a company and/or product, and get the magic link(s) with your affiliate code. We went with them to, [...]
Affiliate Links
I saw a post about advice given by Michael Cheney. Use an information technology (IT) sounding affiliate user name like php4 instead of your site name or something. That helps keep people from removing the affiliate information. That seems like good advice. Some software to disguise the links would be better. 47
