This is my favourite method for making money online and the one I know most about. The best way to describe affiliate marketing is by an example. Imagine you have just written an ebook. I, as an Affilorama review, will offer to sell your book for you, for a commission. Commissions usually range from 50-200%, so you can see how lucrative Affilorama marketing really can be. Since more and more people are going online to buy things, it really is a great time to get involved! And if you’re wondering about what sort of products have affiliate programs, my answer would be, what product doesn’t have an Affilorama review program??

So basically, the more targeted people you can send to sales pages, the more money you will make. It’s more complicated than that, but check out some of my other articles to make it simpler for you.

There are four main ways (There are a few others) that affiliates send traffic to merchant sites.

The first way is called Direct Linking. This is where you send someone directly to the merchants site, via your affiliate link. There are various ways you can do this, some of which will be covered in later articles. While this is the easiest method of affiliate marketing, it doesn’t always produce the best results.

Another method of driving traffic to merchant sites is by using what are called Landing Pages. Landing pages are designed specifically to make the visitor more likely to buy something and to then make sure they actually visit the merchant’s page. If used correctly, a landing page is usually more successful than direct linking, due to credibility.

The third method is to create Content Sites. These are sites packed with useful information that cause the visitor to return again and again. This way, the visitor will most likely make a purchase and in the meantime, you can make money off google Adsense, which will be covered in a future article.

The last, but not least method is the Squeeze page. These are very basic sites whose aim it is to “squeeze” the visitors name and email. This can be very useful, because it allows you to build a list of potential customers. Most people will not buy the first time they visit your site, so being able to contact them until they unsubscribe off your list is extremely valuable.

I just received the email from ReviewMe that they have launched their affiliate program and are paying out $25 per referral. Here’s what their blog states -

We are excited to announce our very cool affiliate program is ready for your blog! Not only will the affiliate program drive traffic to your individual listing at ReviewMe which will encourage review sales for you but it will also pay you $25 for any referred sale even if the visitor does not purchase a review from your blog.

I must admit that’s a good combination - you get paid for the review and the referral if they buy from your site, or if they buy a review from another site you still get the $25 referral fee. Needless to say, I have begun implementing my referral ID into posts here on my blog.

ReviewMe have also set up a badge you can apply to your blog that includes your affiliate ID and entices people to purchase reviews. The badge for Entrepreneurs-Journey looks like this:

Get In Now!

As a blogger who makes good money from affiliate programs I suggest you start promoting this one as soon as you can. The earlier you start the more you will make because the market is not saturated yet. Once everyone knows about ReviewMe it will be tough, especially for those of you with smaller blogs, to make any money from programs like this, but if you act early you have a much better chance of signing up new people.

Custom Pricing

ReviewMe have also changed their system so bloggers can determine the price to charge. I know for some bloggers this will be great because they can increase their fee and not impact their sales (perceived value anyone?). In my case I’m going to leave the pricing as is for now because I’m happy with the amount of review requests I receive at this time.

Praise For ReviewMe

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the service ReviewMe offers. The pricing structure is very rewarding and more often than not the review requests I receive are for very relevant and interesting subjects. Of course I get some that I either cannot do because they require too much research, or the topic is not relevant enough to my audience, or I’m traveling or too busy, but there are enough that I can do that it brings in a few hundred a month.

I’ve also offered some of the paid reviews to the Small Business Marketing & Branding writers whenever they come up, splitting the income with them if anyone volunteers to write the review.

That being said, writing reviews is a fine art and it can be hard not to feel like you are selling out just for the money. You have to think like you are writing the article because you are genuinely interested in the topic and not doing it for the cash, which, when the topic is relevant, is easy enough, but if it’s a little off-topic or a subject you no little about, it can be hard to make a review interesting.

Praise For Patrick Gavin

I don’t know if his companies are profitable yet given the focus at the moment appears to be on customer acquisition at both Text-Link-Ads and ReviewMe, but I have to give big props to Patrick and his partners behind the two sites.

Patrick’s come up with two very simple ideas for how to monetize blogs and offer advertisers great value. The services are perfectly positioned as middlemen in the transaction between advertisers and bloggers/site owners, both use a many-to-many business model so it’s possible to scale quickly without needing to increase resources significantly and the execution of the businesses has been great. The sites are clean and simple and the service is delivered with ease. I suspect both companies may well become multi-million dollar enterprises if they are not already.

I just wish I was as fast acting and thinking as Patrick and his team - they are definitely doing something right!

If all this is new to you, check out Text-Link-Ads where you can buy and sell text links and ReviewMe, where you can buy and offer reviews on blogs.

I also wrote an article when ReviewMe launched here - Should Bloggers Accept Money For Reviews?.

Yaro Starak
Reviewer

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