Why would you want to hide affiliate links? If you know what cloaking affiliate links mean then chances are you’ve been in the affiliate marketing game for a while now… And if you don’t then here’s a quick explanation: Cloaking affiliate links, or hiding affiliate links, is the practice of redirecting affiliate traffic through a normally looking URL instead of using the actual affiliate link. So for example, if you’re an affiliate for some ClickBank product then your link can look similar to this: random-character-string.clickbank.com Using such a link publically is fine, but you’re letting everyone know that this is...
Start a video game website sounds awesome, doesn’t it? It’s probably because you get paid to talk about your love of gaming. It’s also probably because you want to give back to the community. Whatever the reason, it’s an awesome idea. That’s not to say you won’t have challenges when building this gaming site. There are some big, established players in the market. Plus, lots of online personalities across Twitch, gaming forums, and in-game soaking up the attention. It takes a lot of hard work to go pro as a video game streamer. The gaming website will definitely help with that....
WP Coupons and Deals Affiliate Program: Overview WP Coupons and Deals is one of the best plugins for adding coupons to a WordPress website. The light-weight plugin gives flexibility and function like you find through other, major coupon sites like RetailMeNot. This plugin includes click to copy functionality, hidden codes, and an expiration counter to increase clicks and conversions. The light-weight, responsive, widget-ready plugin is perfect for affiliate marketers looking to increase their online revenue. The WP Coupons and Deals affiliate program pays up to $159.99 per sale through its 40% commission payment model. The price structure of the plug-in...
WPCoupons Affiliate Program: Overview WPCoupons is the #1 coupon plug-in for the WordPress platform. The plug-in, intended for affiliate marketers, allows the site owner to easily style and embed coupon offers throughout their website using a light-weight code, widgets, and shortcodes. This plugin works across all devices, includes stellar support, and can lead to higher CTR and conversions to coupon offers. The WPCoupons affiliate program is straight-forward and quick to join. Partners in the program will enjoy its 20% commissions on all sales (pricing from $34.95/yr to $174.95/yr), a 60-day tracking cookie, and simple-to-use affiliate platform. The WPCoupons Program: Pros...
Shopify Affiliate Program: Overview Shopify is an accessible e-commerce platform built to help entrepreneurs and business owners realize their dream of selling online. The easy-to-use platform pairs WSYWIG/drag-and-drop workflows to build beautiful, functional e-commerce stores in minutes. Shopify is in an advantageous position since other e-commerce platforms either try to offer barebone features or all-in-one suites. Shopify uses an a-la-carte set of options where they provide the platform but allow users to add features through free and paid extensions. Shopify removes the need for design skills and compiles all necessary items for operation in one location. This includes the online...
The low barriers to entry for starting a blog and making money with affiliate marketing are what makes it so exciting. If you have a good idea, the energy to pursue it, and keep blogging, then you’re bound to begin earning money by promoting other people’s products and/or services. However … The average blog dies after 100 days. Affiliate marketing (and blogging) requires you to learn and implement a wide range of skills and strategies. Many of these skills are difficult for the beginner because there's more to it than following a step-by-step guide. The upside is that the community...
It’s crazy to believe only 1 in 3 websites are using meta tags. That means only 1 in 3 sites are getting the most from their SEO. There’s a huge gap in the use of meta descriptions and canonical content tags, too! BuiltWith.com has meta tag usage broken down by the numbers – it’s shocking… (more…)
We’ve created a website traffic checklist. We could go on-and-on about different traffic generation strategies – explaining each – but you’re a busy person. In fact, you may know how it’s done… it’s the timing and routine that’s the hard part. This website traffic checklist is to streamline your ability to reach the 3+ billion people using the Web. Follow (and check) each of these and you’ll get more visitors, likes, shares, and sales. The AffiliatePrograms.com’s Website Traffic Checklist Does this contain every traffic generation strategy? No. You’d spend too many hours trying to do them all. You’d...
Doing affiliate marketing without a website seems impossible. Tell that to the people doing it. The truth is a site does help… but it’s not the only way you’ll make money doing affiliate marketing. This is what you’ll learn: Monetizing your social feeds Using free hubs to make sales Creating videos that’ll convert The nice thing about all this is how the costs are kept low and you’re not stuck managing a site. Making Money on Social Media as an Affiliate Marketer This one is easy: Sign up for an affiliate program to share offers your community would...
