Friday, April 11, 2008

WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING?

Affiliate marketing has quickly become one of the most popular and the most effective ways to advertise on the Internet. The premise of affiliate marketing is very simple.

A company, let’s say eBay, goes to another web site and asks them to place a banner or link to eBay on their site. Every time a user clicks on that eBay banner and visits the site, the owner of the original site gets a commission. It’s as simple as that.

The history of affiliate marketing goes back to approximately 1994 with the trailblazing music website www.CDNow.com. They were, as far as most people know, the first site to pay other sites for directing Internet traffic to them. Internet giant Amazon.com soon caught on and became the site most associated with affiliate marketing. Today, the practice of affiliate marketing is used by essentially every major web site in the world.

Why affiliate marketing? One of the reasons that affiliate marketing has proven to be so popular is that it is completely based on performance. In most cases, the company doing the advertising doesn’t pay a single penny to the site that is carrying their ad unless there is evidence that Internet traffic has been driven to the advertising site. There are, however, other ways of doing affiliate marketing.

Some advertising sites have paid the site hosting their link based not on the number of times an original IP visits through the link, but on the number of times the banner ad was “seen.” This method presents a whole host of problems since things like hit counts can be forged and there is no way to insure that just because someone visited a web page that had your logo on it that they even saw it or if they did, that they even knew what it was.

Other methods of affiliate marketing include paying only when a link is followed AND some kind of transaction takes place. This can be tough on the site hosting the link because the attention span of the average Internet user isn’t long enough in most cases to follow a link and then either complete a purchase, or fill out a form of some kind. The conventional method simply pays a host a commission for every time an original IP is directed to their site.

In a matter of only a few years, affiliate marketing has become one of the most cost effective ways to drive traffic to a site. Since, in most cases, both the advertiser and the host profit from the set up, there is no reason to believe that affiliate marketing won’t be a dominant advertising method well into the future.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

MoreNiche –my Favourite Affiliate Program

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MoreNiche is my favourite affiliate marketing program. Why? I am a newbie in affiliate business but MoreNiche has everything to start my Affiliate Business; MoreNiche makes me feel comfortable to start my affiliate business. In the beginning, I had no idea how to get started with MoreNiche, but thanks to the support and resources I received from MoreNiche. Now I am able to run my affiliate business and start to earn money from it. I am very impressed with Moreniche. They offer better support and resources to their affiliates than any other affiliate programs. MoreNiche is indisputably the best affiliate program and it is my favourite one.

MoreNiche prepares everything to promote my affiliate business, among others are:

· E books about Affiliate Marketing (it's very important and valuable for the newbies)

· How to promote guides (including lin trades know hows, article writing and starting your first site)

· Website templates

· All sorts of banners

· Huge selection of articles to be included in our website.

· And the most important one is full time support from MoreNiche and a Forum to communicate with other members.

Another feature that interest me so much is product price and commission ratio. Affiliate payouts are one of the most competetive one online. The payouts are very challenging - the more you sell, the more you earn.

Another MoreNiche product which gives me much income is 'Getting Referrals'. Referring people to join MoreNiche will make cash bonuses and a percentage of your earnings for life! It is not difficult to build referral group because MoreNiche also provide a guide on building my down line. There are 3 (three) options we should choose, and they offer bonus up to $30 per referal.

It's very challenging, isn't it? You can do it and everyone can also do it..It's so simple and it's all FREE ...... So, SIGN UP now and start getting money with MoreNiche.