If you have created a basic website to promote an affiliate scheme, then it is a good idea to also use other avenues of revenue. So, what else might you add to the site to bring in more money?
Initially, the easiest and most simplest way of adding to your profits is through contextual advertising, for instance Google Adsense. With these schemes, you add the advert onto your site page and the provider reads the content of the page and chooses from the collection of advertisers available to it the most suitable adverts. They take time to work out which adverts are most prospective to be clicked on, as it is as vital to them as it is to you that the adverts are clicked ample.
To get started, you just sign up for an account with Google and once they have reviewed and accepted your website you go back to their website, tell them the shape, size and colour scheme that you want and then they provide a bit of code for you. Copy this snippet of code and paste it into your site where you want it to appear.
At this point you will test your web site and maybe not see the adverts and assume, wrongly, that it is not working and you have done something wrong. This is not the case - it frequently takes around 10 minutes from you setting up the advert on Google until it will actually display on your website. I have no idea why, it just happens!
Ensure that these adverts look part of your web site. This could either be a matching colour scheme or a complimentary colour scheme, depending on which works the best for you. Position it so that traffic straightforwardly see it and then if they do not want to visit the affiliate merchant’s web site, then there is a chance they will make you an extra bit of cash this way.
Keeping to no over a couple of advertising blocks per website, there are also other cash making opportunities. You might also add banners for other affiliate merchants. As for instance, if you are promoting hotels, holiday villas or other travel products, then a banner for holiday insurance might do well on the website. Take a look through the affiliate directory that you are using and work out what other merchants they are working with that may be useful.
Part of the success of this will be trial and error. You have to try a variety of different merchants and products and see what works best. You might do this by just changing the banner, say every week. But a few affiliate directories will do this for you. You might find that the directory will allow you to create advertising pools. With these you will select as many different products / merchants as you want to and add the banners to the pool. You then display a banner from the pool and the directory takes charge of randomly rotating through the banners. When you notice that certain merchants are doing better than others, only remove those that don’t perform so well to maximise your income.
After this, you could start trying to sell banner adverts and other tricks, but these take plenty more effort and are more advanced to find the advertisers and make an profits.
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