I left off last needing ads for my new site. The package I am using comes ready for Ad Sense. How do I sign up for that you ask? Well either go to google.com/adsense or my preferred method, HubPages. HubPages is a not only an easy way to get your Google affiliate account set up, but an excellent place to find and deliver information and articles for exactly what we are trying to do here. Affiliate marketing. I am still exploring HubPages, and find it more intriguing the more involved I get with it.
Google limits the amount of ads allowed per page, and you tend to get repeating ads if you have a very specific niche anyway. So I need a different outlet for affiliate ads. Now what do I do? Well I did what most web savy do. Searched Google. I came up with 3 affiliate sites I am content with for now, and some I may sign up to in the future.
First ClickBank. At first I was confused as hell at what ClickBank was trying to do. I was baffled by their website. I was green and couldn’t fully grasp affiliate marketing yet. Once I understood what I was doing and where to get it, I was un-impressed by the product offerings. Just check out some of the sales pitch pages. Some of this stuff is garbage (to you and I, maybe not to Mr. XYZ), and some of this stuff sells itself. I even found things that I have been interested in buying in the past.
Next Commission Junction. Commission Junction makes it kind of hard to get where you want to be. To CJ you and I are Publishers. We are publishing the ads and the adveritisers are the people who want their products sold. Once you fill out an application for a publisher you are set.
I also signed up at Paydotcom.com. This site is similar to ClickBank, and I have not used it much as of today.
There are tons of sites for affiliate marketing, Ebay has one (they rejected my application), LinkShare, LinkConnector, and alot more. You can find a pretty solid list with reviews here http://www.affiliatetips.com/online-channels-affiliate-program.html, and several pages worth at http://www.affiliateseeking.com/netwo/23000002/1.html (I am not “affiliated” with these sites)
Next time — what do I do with all these ads?
