Top Affiliate Networks And Directories
Affiliate Networks act as brokers between merchants and affiliates. A major benefit of Affiliate Networks is that affiliates have access to a variety of affiliate programs at a single source. With affiliate Networks you will not have to go to different websites to sign up for their affiliate programs.
Furthermore, affiliate Networks administrate all affiliate programs associated with their network. The Network will pay you a single commission check comprising your total earnings from all the affiliate programs they administer that you promoted. All affiliate Networks maintain a list of affiliate program by category.
Most affiliate networks are free to join. Once you become registered in the Network, you can browse through their products and then choose the ones that interest you.
Affiliate Networks And Commission Offered
Below is a list of the top affiliate networks and the type of commission these networks offer.
CPL: Cost Per Lead. You earn a commission for every person you bring to the merchant that signs up.
CPC: Cost Per Click. This type is for people who own websites. You are paid each time a visitor to your websites clicks on an advert on your site. These programs are open to lots of abuse so they are usually scarce. An example of this is Google AdSence.
CPS: Cost Per Sale. Here you earn a commission if the user makes a purchase. CPM: This means cost per impression. This means getting paid for the number
of times an ad appears on your website.
CPA: Cost Per Action. Used interchangeable with cost per sale although it is a general term.
Top Affiliate Networks
1. www.ClickBank.com: They specialize only on digital downloadable products. Because of the nature of their products, they offer very high commission since their profit margins are usually high. You can earn commissions of up to 75% of the purchase price of their products you promote. Their programs are mainly of the CPS type.
2. Commission Junction (www.CJ.Com): This is the top affiliate network for companies that sell physical products. Some of the biggest internet properties have their programs here. They have programs of the type CPL and CPS.
Others include:
3. www.Performics.com
4. www.WebSponsors.com
How To Write Google Ads
Now that you’ve known what affiliate programs are and how to choose profitable ones, let us now learn how to advertise them for the best results.
Google Ads is the most popular Pay-Per-Click program on the internet. It has earned several people from many different parts of the world lots of money and it will continue to do so. Google Ads are displayed to the right of search results each time a search is made on google.com.
They are also displayed on thousands of other websites which partner with Google.com on their AdSense program. On the average Google gets over 200 million searches every day so your ad reaches a vast number of people.
When you create a Google Ads advertisement, you choose specific keywords that will trigger you ad and then you specify how much you are willing to pay for each click. Your ad will start running in less than 15 minutes after you set it up and submit your billing information.
Maximizing Your Google Ads Campaign
Read, learn and study Google ads optimization tips, you will find it here
• Until you gain more experience, keep your bids on keyword as low as possible.
• Start with a low daily budget; say $5 so that you can test things without getting your fingers burnt.
• Watch your ads very closely in the beginning and change them when necessary.
• Put your keyword list together then draft your advert.
• Target your keywords, don’t use generic terms. If you are advertising
‘red tennis shoes’ don’t use only ‘shoes’ or ‘tennis’.
• Try using the same keywords or phrases you used in the title of your ads. This will that get you a higher click through rate.
• Test and adjust your ad copy as you go. Constantly tweak your ad to get better Click Through Rates (CTRs).
• Include both the singular and plural versions of the keywords you use.
• Use keyword matching to achieve higher CTRs. This can be done by putting your keywords in a bracket e.g. [red tennis shoes]. With keywords enclosed like that, your ads will only show up when and only when ‘red tennis shoes’ are typed in that order. Your add won’t show up when ‘tennis’, ‘tennis shoes’ or any other terms are searched except the keyword matched ones.
• Create a separate ad group for your misspellings list and another one for your abbreviated keyword phrase etc.
Tracking Your Campaigns
You will need to keep track of your campaigns and make sure that you are making money and not losing it. Log in to your affiliate program, visit the statistics/reporting section and see how much commissions you have earned.
Then log in to your Google Ads account and see how much the corresponding campaign cost you the same day. Subtract your cost from your commissions and whatsoever result you get is your profit.