Viglink is Affiliate Programs made easy

Using Affiliate programs to monetize a blog or website can give you a greater return than Advertising programs such as AdSense - if you manage you affiliate programs  well.
With an affiliate program, such as for example the Amazon Affiliate program, you sign up with the individual merchant as an affiliate and then as you write your blog posts or website content you link back to that merchants products - usually using specially created links provided by the affiliate program. In this way the merchant is able to track your affiliate commissions.

One problem with Affiliate Programs though is that you will often want a fairly wide range of products and if you sign up to a lot of affiliate programs it can be difficult to manage all those programs and different types of links.


Rather than sign up to each merchant separately as an affiliate you can sign up for affiliate programs such a Pepperjam or Affiliate Windows which act as an intermediary between you and the merchants.  Even here though there are issues. There are a number of these types of programs so you will still have to manage a number of programs and different link types.

Viglink is a fairly new program which simplifies managing affiliate programs. You don't need to worry about finding and posting special links or even signing up to individual merchant's affiliate programs.  Viglink provides a simple code snippet that you post once on your webpage. From there on it converts all product and website links into affiliate program links behind the scenes for you. They are linked to a very large number of the best merchant and affiliate programs. This means that you don't need to go finding and joining separate affiliate programs and worrying about tracking your progress on each of them separately - Viglink does all the work for you.

I strongly recommend Viglink. If you want to monetize your website or blog but want the process to be as simple and quick as possible then Viglink is the program for you. Doing your Affiliate programs the Viglink way means that you can spend far more time creating content and improving your website. As any experienced blogger or website owner knows it's good, relevant and up to date content that drives traffic so that is where you need to be spending your time.  Viglink  means that you no longer waste time managing your affiliate links - you let Viglink worry about that and you are free to concentrate on the things that get people coming to your site.

Affiliate Program Teenagers

Be Special Be Yourself for Teenagers Affiliate Program Earn up 40% commission per sale with this Affiliate program that promotes a collection of inspiring stories for teenagers. This is a high rate of commission and the site sells the material in both e-book and hard copy format. This affiliate program is probably best used with a site that focuses on family issues and teen age problems and issues. The primary market for this book would be the parents of teenagers.

Remember that there are a range of ways for promoting your affiliate program once you have signed up. You can put up banners, you can write a short article on the stories, you can even promote the material through friends and colleagues. The strongest affiliate recommendations often come through people who have used the product , service or book themselves and who are then able to recommend it with some conviction.

Affiliate Program Beauty Shop

Beauty Shop Affiliate Program
The Beauty Shop Affiliate Program offers 10% per sale and a ninety day cookie. The Beauty Shop Website has a full range of skincare , haircare and cosmetics products and is very professionally presented. The website takes a full range of currencies and can be promoted in any market. This Affiliate program would be most suitable for matching with a women's or girls blog or a website aimed at women. To join the program just follow the link above.

Remember that the better you match the affiliate programs that you join to your website or blog then the more success you are likely to have with your affiliate marketing methods.

Is Adsense or Affiliate Marketing best for you

If you have a blog or website and you are wanting income from adverts to generate online income then which is best for you - AdSense or Affiliate marketing? The space on your pages is valuable and limited and so this is an important question.

AdSense is the most popular of the Pay Per Click advertising programs that are available. You will see AdSense ads on all sorts of Websites and blogs. There is a good reason for this - AdSense is easy to sign up for and easy to use and most importantly it is very easy to generate a steady stream of small scale income from AdSense.

To make a good income from AdSense though you really do need to get lots of people visiting your site. The amount that you get paid for each click is generally not very high and so you need lots of readers and lots of page views if you are aiming for a good income.

There are a number of ways of improving your performance with AdSense. One is to ensure that your site content is well focused and that the ads that AdSense is delivering are as high paying as possible for the niche within which you are operating.

At first sight it would seem that AdSense wins the AdSense versus Affiliate marketing competition hands down. But things are not that simple.

With Affiliate marketing you will get paid usually only when someone actually purchases the product that you are promoting. This is a much rarer occurrence than someone just clicking an advert out of curiosity.

On the plus side however you will find that the amounts that you are paid for a successful affiliate sale are much much higher than your standard payment per click through AdSense. If you target your site content very closely to your affiliate offers then you can considerably improve the percentage of people who come to your site looking for just the offers that you are promoting. It doesn't take many such sales for you to start making substantially more than you would with AdSense.

So is there a winner? Well not really. You must think carefully about how you match the advertising content of your site to the sites content. In many cases the best way to go is to use a combination of Pay Per Click advertising and Affiliate marketing. You may even be able to sell advertising space directly on your site.

Only careful monitoring and targeting of your content and the advertising on your site will produce good online income. AdSense and Affiliate programs therefore both have an important role to play in generating the maximum income from your website or blog.

Pepperjam Affiliate network

The Pepperjam network is a relatively new affilliate marketing network that I have recently joined. They don't as yet have an extensive portfolio of advertisers for affiliate publishers to select from but the list is growing regularly.

One of the good things about PepperJam is that once you have appplied and been accepted as an affiliate by any of the participating advertisers you can then create a pepperjam ad block which will include whatever sub-selection of those accounts that you wich to promote.

You could for example join a number of the specialist clothing affilaite programs and then create an ad block which only shows those clothing ads. You will see an example of a pepperjam ad block in the right hand column of this blog. This one isnt highly optimsed yet but it shows you the type of ad black that you can create. I addition most of the advertisers in the network also supply a range of banners, buttons and text links and many allow deep linking.

Many of the advertisers in the network are selling very niche products but this can of course be a distinct advantage when affiliate marketing.



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ClixSense affiliate program update

In previous posts I have written very positively about my experience with the Clixsense scheme. Just as a refresher here are the basics of the ClixSense program. As a basic member you earn small amounts of cash from simply viewing ads on the clixsense system. larger earnings become available once you sign up as a premium member. This costs a few dollars but this money is easily recouped. Clixsense have a five level affiliate scheme which you become part of as a premium member. This allows you also to earn when you refer new members and when they refer new members you also earn from them - up to five levels deep.



I said that I would give an update on my earnings so far - well I have decided not to reveal the actual amount at this time - largely because its now starting to be a very healthy sum of money and guess what? - its my business what I am earning. Suffice it to say that I now have fifty level one sign ups, ten at level two and four at level three and two at level four. best of all this shows no sign of slowing down. I don't see ClixSense as ever being a major source of my income but that was never my intention. What interests me is the possibility of converting the earnings into adverts on the clixsense system. This will be a great way of generating extra exposure for my other activities at no cost to myself.