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Well seeing as i started it....

I thought i'd better be the first to post in here.

Hands up whos involved with Affiliate Marketing, lets share some hints and tips here!

I'm pretty new to Affiliate Marketing and don't get involved with PPC at all, i'm interested in 100% natural traffic. I've set myself a target this year of getting one site to a position of earning £1000 a month by the end of the year.

Its currently doing around £100 a month at the moment and does not get alot of traffic (at the moment) but what it does get it converts pretty well.

I had my largest sale today selling a £1798 item through comet netting me £50 odd commission, so a few of them a month would be handy!  :lol:

Hi Gid.

Personally i've never had a great deal of luck, frankly their affiliate terms suck, a visit must click through and show and intent to purchase (presumably and add to basket) for a cookie to be lodged for any later visits.

Trying finding some suitable affiliate schemes which match your sites subject, their are loads of networks out there. Obviously being UK based i don't know many US networks, i'm sure Yourweb can advise.....

The rewards from affiliate marketing potentially far outweigh potential PPC income in my opinion, although quite often i still have Adsense ads on a page aswell. (but usually lower down the page so i can be pretty confident they would'nt have clicked through my affiliate banners. )

Affiliating marketing if done right can bring you a lot of income. The key word here is done right. Most of the affiliate sites I have run across will not tell you or let you know what they do to make the income they do. Why should they, when they are making money and your not. Would dig into their profits.

As for what to pick and what to not, that is pretty hard to say. If you have say a dog site, than it is easy to pick out what ads to run. Than comes what affiliate program to run. Just to name a few you have linkshare, commission junction and many more.

What program to use, well that would be up to what site you have and if you like what that program does. On my site I have about 10 different affiliate programs, maybe more since I have lost count. Why so many you ask, not all affiliate sites will have the same affiliates.

What to look for are the ones that will pay you on time, what type of thrush hold you have to have, the good ones will have a 25 dollar or less. What kind of ads they offer, what kind of cookie they have, do they offer text as well as the many different banner ads. 88x31, 120x60, 120x90, 125x125, 468x60 plus many other sizes. You want the banner ads to fit on your site and there fore you want to build your site the way you want it not the way that some affiliates want you to build it.

You can also get the all inclusive affiliate. The best kind you can get I think.

Now there is more infomation on this than what I have posted here. It is just a start.