Action Items
Here are some action items for you to consider in order to make money from your web content with affiliate programs:
Understand the mechanics of affiliation
Identify merchants with affiliate programs that mesh well with your content
Evaluate affiliate programs
Explore, and sign up with, affiliate aggregators
Identify individual affiliate programs that may be small but targeted to your niche audience
Become an Amazon associate
Integrate creatives as HTML links, banners, and search boxes on your website
Test your affiliate links, using a “secret shopper” if necessary
Monitor affiliate statements for traffic, click, conversion, and sales commission statistics
Experiment with your choice of merchants and their creatives to optimize your returns
Add seasonal and sale creatives as appropriate
Keep tweaking the use of creatives on your site to maximize return
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