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		<title>The Different Types Of Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These types of affiliate marketing are based on the different levels or tiers in the affiliate network by which payments are made.  In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are only paid based on the direct sales or traffic he has referred to the merchant.  All the previously mentioned affiliate marketing types (i.e. PPS&#60; PPL, and PPC) fall under the single-tier classification.</p> <p>• In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is not only paid for the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant's site, but also on every traffic or sales referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his recommendation.  Multi-tier affiliate marketing works the same way, although the affiliate gets additional commission for a wider number of affiliates in different tiers in the affiliate network.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, both the merchants and the affiliates can see clearly that affiliate marketing can work for both of them.  The merchant sees affiliate marketing today as the chance to advertise their products at a lower cost.  The affiliates, on the other hand, sees affiliate marketing as an easy way of earning profits online by doing what they like most, and that is by creating websites.</p>
<p>Just as the popularity of affiliate marketing has shifted into greater heights, so has the people&#8217;s outlook about it changed.  No longer is affiliate marketing considered today as an alternative method for the merchant to advertise his products, or as a source of additional income for the affiliates.  For merchants and affiliates alike, affiliate marketing is now considered as a main source of profits and revenues.</p>
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<p>So the question now is what type of affiliate marketing will work best for you?  Are all affiliate marketing programs the same?  Are the benefits the same?  Or are there affiliate marketing programs that work better than the others?</p>
<p>There are actually different types or classes of affiliate marketing, and the number of types will depend on how one will classify them.  The most basic affiliate marketing programs, however, falls under two categories: pay-per-click (PPC), and pay-per-performance (PPP).</p>
<p>• Pay Per Click (PPC)</p>
<p>PPC is the most popular type of affiliate marketing for affiliates with small websites, and probably the easiest way for them to earn money.  In this affiliate marketing type, the merchant pays his affiliate whenever a visitor is referred to his site, that is whenever someone clicks through the merchant&#8217;s banner or text ads.  The affiliate gets paid a certain amount even if the visitor he referred does not purchase anything from the merchant&#8217;s site.  However, typical fees for PPC affiliate programs are small, usually not exceeding a dollar for every click.</p>
<p>• Pay Per Performance (PPP)</p>
<p>PPP affiliate marketing is the most popular among merchant and is also the most lucrative type for the affiliates.  In this type of affiliate program, the merchant only pays the affiliate whenever his referral translates into an action—that is whenever the visitor he has referred actually buys something from the merchant&#8217;s site or when the visitor becomes a lead.  This means a lot of savings for the merchant.  On the other hand, it becomes the most lucrative type for the dedicated affiliate, for commissions in PPP affiliate marketing usually comes in the range of 15% to 20% of the actual product sales.</p>
<p>Pay-per-performance affiliate marketing can be further classified into two popular types: pay-per-sales (PPS) and pay-per-lead (PPL).</p>
<p>o Pay Per Sale (PPS)</p>
<p>In a pay-per-sale type of affiliate marketing, the merchants pay the affiliate a certain fee whenever the visitor he has referred to the merchant&#8217;s site actually buys something from the merchant&#8217;s site.  Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee.  But no matter what the basis of the fee is, it is generally higher than the fee paid to affiliates in a pay-per-click affiliate program.</p>
<p>o Pay Per Lead (PPL)</p>
<p>The pay-per-lead type of affiliate marketing is a slight variation of the PPS type and is often used by insurance and finance companies and other companies who rely on leads for their company to grow.  In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever the visitor he referred to the merchant&#8217;s site fills up an application form or any similar form related to the business of the company.  Compensation for this type of affiliate marketing is based on a fixed fee whose rates approximate that of the fixed fee in the PPS type.</p>
<p>Aside from these three specific types of affiliate marketing, a lot of other affiliate marketing types exist.  If the classification is based on the depth of the affiliate network, it can be classified as single-tier, two-tier, and multi-tier affiliate marketing.  There is also another type of affiliate marketing that pays the affiliate each time the customer he has referred purchases something from the merchant&#8217;s site.</p>
<p>• Single-Tier, Two-Tier, and Multi-Tier Affiliate Marketing</p>
<p>These types of affiliate marketing are based on the different levels or tiers in the affiliate network by which payments are made.  In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are only paid based on the direct sales or traffic he has referred to the merchant.  All the previously mentioned affiliate marketing types (i.e. PPS&lt; PPL, and PPC) fall under the single-tier classification.</p>
<p>• In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is not only paid for the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant&#8217;s site, but also on every traffic or sales referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his recommendation.  Multi-tier affiliate marketing works the same way, although the affiliate gets additional commission for a wider number of affiliates in different tiers in the affiliate network.</p>
<p>•  Residual Income Affiliate Marketing</p>
<p>In residual income affiliate marketing, the affiliate gets paid not only once for every customer he has referred to the merchant&#8217;s site.  Rather, the affiliate is also paid whenever the customer he has referred returns to the site and purchase another product.  Compensation for such type of affiliate marketing is based on either sales percentage commission or fixed fee basis.</p>
<p>The different affiliate marketing types would virtually work differently for merchants and affiliates alike, and each would generally have their own list of benefits.  Which type of affiliate marketing will work best for you?  It is not really for me to tell.  Rather, it is for you to choose which type of affiliate marketing program will suit your needs and characteristics best.</p>
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		<title>How Do You Make Money Online? &#8211; a Breakdown of the Process of Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is affiliate marketing? It&#8217;s a question asked time and time again on the internet. Basically it&#8217;s a way of <strong>making money online</strong> by promoting other companies products. It&#8217;s a very popular and lucrative way of making money because the marketers get a % commission from every sale they generate and it doesn&#8217;t cost the company anything for the publicity.</p>
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<p>There are literally thousands of products and thousands of marketers promoting each product, so it can be quite a daunting prospect when you first start up. That&#8217;s why a sound plan and strategy is needed for anyone who is new to it all, but the rewards can be very appealing and a lot of money can be, and is, made if things are done correctly.</p>
<p>There are ways you can make money online without any money to start with, or any computer knowledge. If you go about it the correct way and put enough time and research into making it work, you will make money and eventually you can make enough for a very good living. In fact there are people who have become very rich.</p>
<p>The way to go about it from the very start is a little like going fishing. If you just turned up, cast your hook into the sea and then waited, you&#8217;ll never catch anything. You have to learn how to find where the fish will be and the best bait to put on your hook. Then once your sure you have that part right, you attract the fish to your bait with more bait.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the same thing with <strong>making money online</strong>. You find out who you are going to promote to, then the best product for that particular field. Once you have done that you attract the potential buyers to that product.</p>
<p>If you have done the required research and put in the work you will be on your way to a happy and worry free life.</p>
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		<title>How to Earn Extra Online Income Fast, Without Spending a Dime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed lately how many people are searching for how to earn extra online income fast? Indeed, there are many people who are all making a very good living on the internet, freely. On the other hand, though, there are also countless others that are less fortunate and have yet to make a dime, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you noticed lately how many people are searching for how to earn extra online income fast? Indeed, there are many people who are all making a very good living on the internet, freely. On the other hand, though, there are also countless others that are less fortunate and have yet to make a dime, much less a bundle.</p>
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<p>So to get you on a good standing, and helping you make the best decision about how to earn extra online income, here are a few guideposts you can follow:</p>
<p><strong>Know Thyself</strong>:<br /> Learning how to earn extra online income fast can be as simple as <strong>doing what you love most</strong>. In other words what are your interests and hobbies? When you answer to this question, you can usually find the gifts or your special interests, and then connect it into the ideal online income opportunity, that will soon be revealed to you.</p>
<p>There are lots of people with no passion for a niche or in helping people, and so, hoping that they will be able to learn how to earn online income fast, however, in this scenario they miss out this basic guidelines, then paying the huge prize later.</p>
<p>It that regard, It is certainly advisory you learn how to earn extra online income fast from the right source, then next, you willingly put in the investment of time, patience and of course, a little money into what you&#8217;re doing to foster stability and longevity to your online income.</p>
<p>That is because, if you body and soul interested to learn how to earn online income, then you have to adequately be prepared and stick to a proven online money making system that will give you the quickest and biggest return on your investments of time and resources.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, not minding the clutters you are constantly bombarded about how to get rich quick on the internet. As a beginner, its humanly impossible you will net a million dollar in trimester online, so stay away of fictitious and bogus claims, and be extremely careful whose advice you take and were you put in your hard earned-money.</p>
<p><strong>Join the Right Online Income Program</strong>:<br /> If you want learn how to earn online income fast, and even start earning a perpetual and stable online income, then you will have to join a good and reputable affiliate program that will always make you money much faster than you, trying to develop and promote your own product which can burn a big hole into your pockets and still not guarantee you success. This online business opportunity is known as affiliate marketing business, and in this business, getting many referrals is the key factor to earning continuous commission checks.</p>
<p><strong>Meeting </strong><strong>People&#8217;s</strong><strong> Need</strong>:<br /> In affiliate marketing business, making huge incomes is all about <strong>finding out what people want and giving it to them</strong>. And since you have no products to create, ship and deal with angry customers, this can be the best business decision you&#8217;ve ever made. Because all you basically have to do is help promote other people&#8217;s products, and then collecting your commissions!</p>
<p>In conclusion, nowadays, it can be a huge and tiring challenge finding a genuine online money making resource to learn how to earn extra online income from, as you would inadvertently have to spend money testing and trying what works and what does not, but in affiliate marketing business there&#8217;s no risk or dime to spend, joining and making money from as an affiliate is 100% free and the profit revenue is also scalable.</p>
<p>Do you want to discover the simple and free steps you can use to begin earning extra online income as an affiliate, without spending any dime? Then check out my resource box below:</p>
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		<title>Find A Thriving Affiliate Program with People Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A niche of people search is growing on the Internet. Almost 1/3 of all searches in Google and Yahoo are people related. This means that billions of personal information searches are performed in each month. So there is obvious demand for a search engine, which is designed to perform only people searches and find related information. ACME People Search is an affiliate program and it was created to utilize this growth.  </p>
<p>When you join this affiliate program, your own people search engine is created at the same time. It is customized so that you can make free searches by using name of a person, phone number, email and social security number (SSN). In addition, it is possible to run a background check, which  is important for example in employment screening. At the moment, it is possible to perform a people search and find related information in the 50 states of the United States.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the affiliate program of ACME People Search is available worldwide. You can easily create your own search engine in a couple of minutes and start earning. Many succesful Internet entrepreneurs have created multiple streams of income from different sources, which form the basis of their fortune. This affiliate program has several digital products you can promote, so there is an opportunity to create multiple streams of income. At the moment, there are 8 different income streams built in to this people search engine. </p>
<p>I joined the affiliate program last spring. Since then, new features and one new income stream have been added to this program. In addition, there is available a support forum, where you can get help from experienced and succesful super-affiliates. By my experience I can say, that this affiliate program works. Should you decide to join and get $125 immediately, you must complete the following 3 steps; affiliatize, monetize and advertise. This way your people search engine is advertised in Google, Yahoo and Bing for free. It is the fastest way to get your web site visible on the Internet.</p>
<p>However, you should not rely only on this free PPC advertising. In order to succeed, you must promote your people search engine by yourself. Naturally, you can start your own PPC campaign in order to get targeted traffic to your web site. On the other hand, there are many free ways you can promote the search engine. You can submit your web site to directories, write articles and use social media. This kind of activities are beneficial, especially if you like to get results in the long-run. When you have own search engine on the Internet, you can not write content on your web site. This content, which is related to your people search engine must be found elsewhere. At the same time, when you create content, you also create backlinks to your web site by using the before-mentioned methods, so that it can be found in search engine result pages (SERPs) of Google, Yahoo and Bing. This is a long-term strategy and requires work and time to be completed.</p>
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		<title>What Makes Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody likes to make money, but the questions is what to do to make money. What makes money? There are a lot of things we can do to make money. The internet is a good environment to make money. There are a lot of things that you can do to make money through the internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody likes to make money, but the questions is what to do to make money. What <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.what-makes-money.com/">makes money</a>?</p>
<p>There are a lot of things we can do to make money. The internet is a good environment to make money. There are a lot of things that you can do to make money through the internet and the good thing is that you do not have to be a rocket scientist to make money over the internet. Here below I am listing some of the important ways you can make money through the internet.</p>
<p>1- Affiliate Marketing: You can sell a lot of things thought the internet, from vitamins and nutritional supplements to cars and lands. You do not even have to see the things you sell and you don&#8217;t have to buy them before selling. You can sell the others&#8217; products and earn commissions. It is free to sign up for affiliate programs. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you will have an affiliate ID and link and if someone orders a product through your affiliate link, you will have a commission. Some of the most famous affiliate programs are ClickBank and LinkShare. Each of these websites have thousands of products that are ready for being sold by you.</p>
<p>2- Blogging: A blogger is someone who has a good writing skill and is able to write about a topic. Everybody knows about something very well. You maybe a painter, cook, mechanic, programmer, photographer and&#8230; . You can blog about what you know. It is very easy to have a weblog. You can sign up for a free weblog at blogger.com or if you like to work more professionally, you can register a domain name and have your blog under your own domain. If you succeed to attract readers, you can make a lot of money.</p>
<p>3. Freelancing: Internet can connect you to millions of potential clients and customers. Freelancing is another thing that some people make money through it. If you are good in writing articles, you can write for the others and get paid (of course you can become a blogger and write for your own website/weblog too). If you are a programmer, you can find thousands of customers through the internet and make a lot of money as a freelance programmer.</p>
<p>4. Internet Marketing: You may have a product. It can be software, handicrafts, carpets, photos, clothes, shoes and everything that you can imagine. I know that you know how to sell your products, but if you do not promote your products over the internet and you are just happy with the traditional marketing methods, you are losing a lot of money every day. You can have a website and sell your products through it. You can even run your own affiliate program and let the others to sell your product. You can sell your products on big auction websites like eBay.com. You can advertise on pay per click search engines and&#8230; . And believe me that you can have more customers through spending a very smaller budget.</p>
<p>Think about running an online business or promoting your products through the internet. The sooner, the better <img src='http://cloakedlinks.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>How to Stop Your Affiliate Links from Getting Hijacked</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you made an amazing auto-responder email series, you wrote tons of brilliant articles, and you have an extremely catchy landing page that sucks in the leads. Yet somehow you&#8217;re getting almost no sells and you don&#8217;t understand why. Sound familiar? I know this is a pretty common problem, but it&#8217;s unfortunate that people still haven&#8217;t figured out what&#8217;s causing it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try to explain a little of what&#8217;s happening to your sales throughout this article. Contrary to what you might be thinking &#8211; it is completely possible that your sales funnel is making tons of sales, but you&#8217;re not seeing any of the commission. Obviously this is a pretty big problem that you&#8217;ll want to take care of as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Basically what&#8217;s happening is this: the user is changing your affiliate ID to their own, or spyware on their computer is doing it. Both of these will stop you from getting credit for the sale even though you&#8217;re the one who made it. There&#8217;s no way that you can stop them from doing that, unless you cloak your link.</p>
<p>Link cloaking is when you program a redirect on your website that hides affiliate ID&#8217;s and makes it impossible for spyware or users to stop you from getting sales.</p>
<p>I hope you realize the difference this could make, you could be giving someone else all of your sales already. Instead of making money from your sales funnel you might be just handing it off to someone else.</p>
<p>Even if you make sales all the time without problems, some of them might still be stolen. It shouldn&#8217;t hurt anything to start cloaking your links so you lock in the sales. The problem is that it can be hard to make a good link cloak, unless you&#8217;re a programmer (or something of that nature).</p>
<p>Instead you can use one of the many link cloaking services on the internet, but I wouldn&#8217;t suggest you just use the first one that you find. Many of these will actually mess up the tracking cookies and you STILL won&#8217;t get credit for the sale. You need to make sure that you&#8217;re using a cloaking service designed for affiliate marketing &#8211; and there aren&#8217;t nearly as many of those.</p>
<p>I have heard horror stories of people who used redirection services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly &#8211; apparently they are notorious for often screwing up affiliate links and not giving you credit for any sales. Most other link shortening services will have these problems as well.</p>
<p>The best link cloaker is one that you can put on your own site so you don&#8217;t have to worry about anything breaking down or not working properly. As I mentioned earlier though, this can be difficult to make if you aren&#8217;t a programmer &#8211; or willing to pay one.</p>
<p>I recommend you go here and get this free report about link cloaking and the best services for affiliate marketers: {!reportlink}. I don&#8217;t know of any better place to learn what works, and what doesn&#8217;t.</p>
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<p>I run several websites, some database others turnkey. Making an income on four sites has created for me now a full time career. </p>
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		<title>Use Affiliate Marketing For Extra Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If you want to work from home because you are a stay at home mom or are looking for the best money making method to earn some extra income outside your regular job, you might want to consider affiliate marketing. It is something you can do on your own time and convenience and can be started for free except for your internet connection costs.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing allows you to get started in this business without having to come up with your own product because you will be selling someone else’s. You can sign up with one of the affiliate product sites like Clickbank.com and choose from thousands of electronic how too books to sell, you can find books on an incredible amount of subjects.</p>
<p>You can and should set up many sites selling multiple products that you can promote. Keep in mind that affiliate marketing is not a get rich quick scheme, it can take a good amount of time to be successful. For this reason, you must have a lot of patience and don’t give up when things appear to not be working for you. Keep at it and it will eventually make it.</p>
<p>Follow methods that other people are using to be successful, don’t try to reinvent the wheel with this. You can start out using free sites like Squidoo and Blogger to build your own web sites to promote your products. This way you can start to generate some income with no cost to you and invest some of this money back into your business to help it grow.</p>
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<p>If you are looking for a way to earn some extra income, discover how you can make money doing affiliate marketing with the best <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.squidoo.com/my-1-week-marketing-review/">Money Making Method </a>. Many people have used this method to finally discover what it takes to make some money on the internet.</p>
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		<title>Blog And Ping Does It Work?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing an experiment with blogging and pinging, one of the ways which supposedly gets your site listed and ranked higher quicker. Firstly I&#8217;ll explain what blogging and pinging is. Blog and ping is a technique you can use to get your site listed in search engines. The idea is that search engines [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been doing an experiment with blogging and pinging, one of the ways which supposedly gets your site listed and ranked higher quicker.</p>
<p>Firstly I&#8217;ll explain what blogging and pinging is. Blog and ping is a technique you can use to get your site listed in search engines. The idea is that search engines like blogs because of the ever updating content, so they keep going back. By writing a blog and placing some site links in the posts, the search engines will spider the links, and pages shortly after you blog.</p>
<p>Pinging is when you send a &#8220;ping&#8221; to let the directories, which keep lists of blogs, and when those blogs are updated, know that you have added content to your blog. These are allegedly closely watched by the search engine spiders, so they can spider any new content and add it to the search engine which controls them.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to my experiment, does blogging and pinging really get your site noticed?</p>
<p>Well my results have been encouraging. I have tested by only using a blog as the front page of a new information site I started. http://www.informationpagesonline.com has only been advertised by way of the blog to announce new content, and then pinged through http://www.pingoat.com which distributes the blog entries to several large ping sites.</p>
<p>Following a week of adding content, and then posting an announcement of the new content to the blog on the front page and pinging with pingoat, the site seems to be getting visitors to most of the sections, which I can see from the log files. I can also see some of the traffic is coming from search engines, and also a lot of spider activity can be seen on the site, where the search engines are crawling the content.</p>
<p>So I have to conclude that blogging and pinging  is a way of getting listed on search engines, or at least of getting noticed by them quickly.</p>
<p>Should you be blogging and pinging?</p>
<p>Of course that&#8217;s up to you, but for the time it takes, it maybe worth trying blog and ping for yourself and tracking the results. A quick blog post (use http://www.blogger.com if you don&#8217;t already have a blog) and then ping with pingoat takes only a few minutes, and may help a site into all the search engines quickly.</p>
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		<title>Link Cloaking and Affiliate Marketing ©</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you made an amazing auto-responder email series, you wrote tons of brilliant articles, and you have an extremely catchy landing page that sucks in the leads. Yet somehow you&#8217;re getting almost no sells and you don&#8217;t understand why. Sound familiar? I know this is a pretty common problem, but it&#8217;s unfortunate that people still haven&#8217;t figured out what&#8217;s causing it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try to explain a little of what&#8217;s happening to your sales throughout this article. Contrary to what you might be thinking &#8211; it is completely possible that your sales funnel is making tons of sales, but you&#8217;re not seeing any of the commission. Obviously this is a pretty big problem that you&#8217;ll want to take care of as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Basically what&#8217;s happening is this: the user is changing your affiliate ID to their own, or spyware on their computer is doing it. Both of these will stop you from getting credit for the sale even though you&#8217;re the one who made it. There&#8217;s no way that you can stop them from doing that, unless you cloak your link.</p>
<p>Link cloaking is when you program a redirect on your website that hides affiliate ID&#8217;s and makes it impossible for spyware or users to stop you from getting sales.</p>
<p>I hope you realize the difference this could make, you could be giving someone else all of your sales already. Instead of making money from your sales funnel you might be just handing it off to someone else.</p>
<p>Even if you make sales all the time without problems, some of them might still be stolen. It shouldn&#8217;t hurt anything to start cloaking your links so you lock in the sales. The problem is that it can be hard to make a good link cloak, unless you&#8217;re a programmer (or something of that nature).</p>
<p>Instead you can use one of the many link cloaking services on the internet, but I wouldn&#8217;t suggest you just use the first one that you find. Many of these will actually mess up the tracking cookies and you STILL won&#8217;t get credit for the sale. You need to make sure that you&#8217;re using a cloaking service designed for affiliate marketing &#8211; and there aren&#8217;t nearly as many of those.</p>
<p>I have heard horror stories of people who used redirection services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly &#8211; apparently they are notorious for often screwing up affiliate links and not giving you credit for any sales. Most other link shortening services will have these problems as well.</p>
<p>The best link cloaker is one that you can put on your own site so you don&#8217;t have to worry about anything breaking down or not working properly. As I mentioned earlier though, this can be difficult to make if you aren&#8217;t a programmer &#8211; or willing to pay for one.</p>
<p>I recommend you go here and get this free report about link cloaking and the best services for affiliate marketers: I don&#8217;t know of any better place to learn what works, and what doesn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>How Do Affiliate Programs Work</title>
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<p>Affiliate programs are one of the web’s most effective marketing techniques. They create a win-win situation by which site A refers a visitor to site B, and site B pays site A a commission if the visitor makes a purchase.<br /> Affiliate programs are one of the web’s most effective marketing techniques. They create a win-win situation by which site A refers a visitor to site B, and site B pays site A a commission if the visitor makes a purchase. The referrer site (affiliate), can make money with no overhead (no product, no warehouse, no collection risk). On the other hand, the destination site (vendor) receives a steady stream of qualified leads from hundreds, maybe thousands of affiliate sites, and doesn’t have to spend a dime unless a visitor makes a purchase.</p>
<p>The way it works is like this: the vendor gives the affiliate specific HTML code that it must use on its site to create a link to the vendor’s site. This code contains an embedded ID number that allows the vendor to know when an incoming visitor comes to them by clicking the link on the affiliate site.</p>
<p>The vendor’s servers will then set a cookie (a time sensitive electronic identification mechanism) in the visitor’s computer so that every time he comes back to the vendor’s site, the vendor’s servers will ‘remember’ that he was originally referred to them by the affiliate, and will pay him a commission when the visitor makes a purchase.</p>
<p>This makes it possible for the affiliate to make a commission even if the visitor doesn’t purchase anything the first time, but comes back and buys later. Also, it is not necessary that the visitor enter the vendor’s site through the affiliate’s link other than the first time, since the vendor’s servers will identify the cookie and will know that the visitor was originally referred to them by the affiliate.</p>
<p>At the vendor’s discretion, the cookies can be set up to expire that same day, remain active indefinitely, or anything in between (vendors usually call the duration of a cookie the “referral period”). For this reason, it is better to choose vendor partners that offer long referral periods (120 days is considered very good). This increases the affiliate’s chances of success, since very few people will buy on their first visit, although exceptions do occur with vendors that enjoy superb brand recognition and feature user friendly interfaces, like Amazon.com (the pioneer of affiliate programs) who, in spite of keeping cookies alive for only 24 hours, is able to generate a significant portion of its sales in the first few minutes after a visitor has clicked into their site.</p>
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