Steinar Knutsen
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of leveraging search engines to help drive traffic to website. The goal is to have your content rank higher in search results for phrases that are 1) directly related to your content and 2) highly relevant to those conducting the search. There are two major forms of search [...] Read more »
Driving traffic to your website is critical to effective affiliate marketing. The key is get traffic from people that are interested in potentially purchasing the product you’re promoting. There are several methods of driving traffic to your website. Some of these include blogging, search engine optimization, social media, video marketing, podcasting and a number of [...] Read more »
What is ClickBank? Clickbank is an affiliate program network that offers products from individual developers, like you and me. You can find software, ebooks, or video and audio courses on Clickbank. Clickbank commission rates are much higher than other affiliate programs … usually in the 40% – 60% range and up to 75% in some [...] Read more »
What is ShareASale? Much like LinkShare, ShareASale is an online affiliate program network that includes over 2,500 individual company affiliate programs across numerous industries. ShareASale is unique in that they provide real time stats on performance, which is helpful if you want to see how your sales are doing today. How do I setup ShareASale? [...] Read more »
What is LinkShare? LinkShare is a fantastic affiliate program directory that includes 1,000’s of affiliate programs from companies in 100’s of different industries and markets. It’s a very easy system to use and because each program is managed by an individual affiliate program manager, there are some unique opportunities to build relationships with these companies [...] Read more »
What is Amazon Associates? Amazon.com is one of the leading online stores for all kinds of products, including books, magazine, music, movies and a plethora of other tangible home and office products. It’s amazing just how many different products are on amazon when you start researching products for your affiliate program. Amazon Associates is Amazon’s [...] Read more »
What is Adsense? Adsense is a pay-per-click advertising program owned by Google and is by far one of the most popular affiliate programs out there. Advertisers setup and pay for ads using Google Adwords, and marketers or publishers such as yourself use Adsense to display these ads. Every time someone clicks on one of your [...] Read more »
As an affiliate you will promote another company’s products by joining their affiliate program. The affiliate program includes guidelines for promoting their products and the links you’ll use to drive traffic to their product to earn your commission. Some companies have their own affiliate programs but most companies use an affiliate program network, such as [...] Read more »
When you search on Google (or any search engine), the phrase you put into the search form is called a keyword phrase. If you search for something very specific, we call that a long-tail keyword phrase. The search results you see have been indexed by Google because Google thinks they are relevant to your query. [...] Read more »