I must to admit that if I had not made money from affiliate marketing most probably my montly income stream were not as it is now.
I always reccomended to my readers to don’t fail into the trap to monetize their blog through one method, only. There are different ways to make money online and affiliate marketing is one of most profitable.
The reason is quite simple. Affiliates can earn anywhere from $10(for example my WordPress theme on nickdeiana.com) to about $30(for example my WordPress theme on the3dtechnologies.com). However, there are also cases study of affiliate products that make earn commissions of $200 for every sales as well.
How Does Affiliate Marketing Works?
The concept behind affiliate marketing is pretty simple. You join to an affiliate program with a merchant (for example a web hosting company like Bluehost) which they will give you an affiliate link, like this:
“www.website.com/affiliate-link_refer.php?id=345372″
The reason why affiliate marketing is so popular is very simple, there is always somewhere for you to adapt in the affiliate marketing space and still make money. All you have to do is send traffic to the sales page via those links, and whenever someone makes a purchase you get a percentage of the price.
When it comes to promote something and send traffic to merchant, often people will use programs like Google AdWords, others build a strong mail list.
Even, if you have a blog or website, you could just as well use your published articles for the same purpose. However, if you have been blogging or working with affiliate marketing websites for some time, you probably could have affiliate commission theft.
Effective Affiliate Marketing Strategy: How To Avoid Affiliate Commission Theft
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Imagine the situation…..You’ve just set up your site/blog, and you’re looking the better ways to make profits through it. So, you’re thinking to start making money through affiliate marketing.
So, you’ve joined to affiliate network such as Commission Junction, Pepperjam, and so on. Once choosen a profitable affiliate program you go to select your affiliate link, when you notice a long and ugly affiliate link.
So, what can happens now?
Well, once your readers see your affiliate link, they now have the knowledge that there’s a chance you’re only promoting a product for it’s excellent commissions, so they are in serious doubt whether to buy or not.
Link CLoak WordPress Plugin has served me well for every of my affiliate links, but I’ve had problem with WordPress 3.0 and I’d admit that once tried MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plugin, I can not do without due its many features.
So, this week I finally decided to purchase one. When I startd using the plugin I was really surprised by its potentiality and how he allows blogger to select some keywords and make the plugin turn into affiliate links.
How To Redirect A Website To An Affiliate Website, Best Plugin To Redirect Affiliate Link
The task today is to redirect your affiliates links. In this case MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate is the best solution out there. I can attest it because I use it on some of my affiliate link too.
Once Installed the plugin and activate it, go on “Tools” then click on “Mbp Ninja Affiliate”. Ok now you should to see a page like this below.
In the first row, add the phrase or single word you want that will appear on your article, for this example I have choosed “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”.
In the second row, you need to add your affiliate link that you can get from any affiliate program(for instance Bluehost) or affiliate newtworks such as Clickbank, Commission junction, Shareasale, Pepperjam, and so on.
In the third row, you need to add the url(without “http://”) of the affiliate product home page, in this case “www.mbpninjaaffiliate.com”.
Once done click on ” save” and you’ve created your first affiliate link. You can create new affiliate link for any of your affiliate product.
Ok, once set up your affiliate plugin, you need to add your affiliate link on your article. In particular you must:
1. Select the link name
2. Select the phrase or particular words you want to turn into affiliate link. That it!
For those like me whom likes to mess around with plugins. Here’s a quick rundown of the ninja WordPress features:
- Affiliate links managemnt – You can put them in groups, sort and so on.
- Link redirects – It integrates a redirection system to protect your plugin.
- Customization – You can set up what affiliate text will appear on the status bar of your browser.
- Keyword management – You can select what keyword you want to transform into affiliate links, and select the number of keywords per post to avoid making them seem spammy.
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MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate will cost you $97. However, if you want to a great tool on how to redirect traffic to an affiliate home page, I can attest that it worth to invest on it.
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To our success,
Nicola Deiana
Affiliate marketer
Does it also provide stats on number of clicks etc.?
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Nicola Deiana Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 12:52 am
@Harshad, Thanks Harshad! It allows to track how many people clicked your link(both unique clicks and raw clicks). Also by clicking on referrers icon under Options, allow you to know where your visitors are coming from.
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Harshad Reply:
July 3rd, 2010 at 8:43 am
@Nicola Deiana, Thanx.
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Thanks Niola, that’s some great advice. I never thought of it like that however after reading you blog it makes complete sense. I’ll be sure to purchase and add it.
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Nicola Deiana Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 12:55 am
@Ismail Mansoor, Thanks Ismail! I think I’ve made a good investment that will allow me to grow my affiliate conversion.
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Thanks For the Kind information bro! actually i thought of joining the affiliate networks, i think its a right time to Read this post and follow win win Strategy! Thanks for Sharing !
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Nicola Deiana Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 9:20 pm
@Karthikeyan, Thanks Karthikeyan! Yes, in my 4 years experience with affiliate marketing I can attest that is the best way to make money online. So I reccomend to start doing this.
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Great post as ever. I have been an affiliate for many top programs like amazon and chitika but never had any luck with any of these programs. These points will certainly help me in understanding the tactics behind successful affiliate marketing. Keep it up
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Nicola Deiana Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 9:24 pm
@Aswani,Thanks for comment Aswani! Yes, my top affiliate networks are Shareasale, Clickbank, Commission Junction and Pepperjam. I highly recommend you to use these.
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That’s a great plugin to hide affiliate links
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Ninja Affiliate is a better plugin
thanks Nicola for sharing your experience.
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As usual a wonderful post Nicola!! Wonderul technique you’ve mentioned here, I have ailed at affiliate marketing using my blog, but I will start of again once a start getting stable traffic.
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Wow awesome post. I am gonna try out these tactics to make some affiliate money.
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Nice post keep it up and really useful tips to implement on every blog which uses affiliates.
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Thanks Nicola for answering this.. I was just wondering if there is some other way apart from using WordPress plugins because I’m not on WordPress. Also wanted to ask something not related to this article.. Do you provide Blogger to Wp Migration service also ? I checked your service page but didn’t see it mentioned there..
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This is a good method to use for redirecting in WordPress. I also like to use a page redirect with PHP and then I use the SmartLinks plugin which will automatically link to that php redirect page.
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I’ve recently began a blog, the knowledge you provide on this web site has helped me tremendously. Thanks for your whole time & work.
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