Part II: Increasing Your Affiliate Payout on a Continuous Basis

Continued from Part I of: Increasing Your Affiliate Payout on a Continuous Basis


Host your own website.

It is easier for visitors to come back to your page and click through the ads if they can remeber your internet address. At least have a domain name that is short and easy to remember.

You certainly wouldn't expect a visitor to remember a very long and incomprehensible URL. And if that's so, you also wouldn't expect her/him to visit your website any time soon.

That means less traffic for your page and the less chance for your affiliate ads and links to be clicked and less earnings in your pocket.

It is also a good idea to create a private website and offer access to it to anybody who clicks on any of your affiliate ads. Visitors usually get interested with these private websites.
Private websites also gives you a venue to promote your back-end affiliate products.



Write your own affiliate ads.

As long as you ask permission from them, many merchants usually wouldn't mind if you write and design your own ads for their products. You will have to present them your ad before posting it on your site though.

This gives you a greater advantage over a lot of other affiliates who must be advertising the same affiliate products.



Promote your product chat rooms, discussion boards, and forums

You can start your own chat or join an existing chat related to your product. You don't have to promote your affiliate product at once, but find the chance to advertise and promote it as you go along.

The same would be true for message boards, discussion boards and forums.

If you use to ignore them before, then it is time for you to start focusing your attention on them.



Create a free ezine or newsletter.

Ezines and newsletters are periodical publications whose aim is to inform a group of people about a certain subject.

In your ezines and newsletters, you don't always have to promote your merchant's product for this may greatly annoy your subscribers. Rather, find a way to insert your affiliate ads and links on some portions of the letter.

Also, don't forget to promote your ezine or newsletter on your website.

These are but a few guidelines on how you can increase your affiliate sales and continually grow your affiliate checks. Sure there can be a lot of other tips that out there, and if you think they would work, we won't discourage you from following them.


What's important is that you be able to find a way to: attract more traffic to your site, induce your visitors to click on the ads on your site, and be able to promote your merchant's products even outside the boundary of your website. If you can do these, there's no reason for you to fail in affiliate marketing.