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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
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		<title>WidgetBucks: Monetize Your Website &#8211; Automatically</title>
		<link>http://myaffiliatetrainer.com/2007/10/02/widgetbucks-monetize-your-website-automatically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been looking for a tool that will monetize the content on your website without you having to do a lot of work to figure it out? Then you should try WidgetBucks.

This is a new tool that is paying out $25 if you sign-up now for an account so that you can add it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you been looking for a tool that will monetize the content on your website without you having to do a lot of work to figure it out? Then you should try <strong>WidgetBucks</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com/home.page?referrer=463004"><img src="http://www.widgetbucks.com/images/referral/125x125_A.gif" style="border: 0pt none" alt="Earn $$ with WidgetBucks!" /></a></p>
<p>This is a new tool that is paying out $25 if you sign-up now for an account so that you can add it to your website. You can also receive affiliate or a referral bonus for referring others. Need more details? Then click here to ==&gt;  <a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com/home.page?referrer=463004">Earn $$ with WidgetBucks.</a></p>
<p>Do you still have questions? Then visit their FAQ page, <a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com/faq.page?referrer=463004" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Learn more about becoming a Super Affiliate</title>
		<link>http://myaffiliatetrainer.com/2007/09/19/learn-more-about-becoming-a-super-affiliate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earned 436,797+ in 2002  and now earns MUCH MORE than that &#8230; just by selling other people&#8217;s stuff online!
In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.superaffiliatehandbook.com/cbae/?a="><img src="http://www.superaffiliatehandbook.com/images/SuperAffiliate4_3.gif" alt="SuperAffiliateHandbook" align="left" border="0" height="175" hspace="15" width="121" /></a><font color="red">Read the <strong>amazing <font size="+1">true</font> story</strong></font> of how one woman, with <font color="navy" size="+1"><strong>no previous business experience</strong></font>, <strong>earned <font size="+1">436,797+</font> in 2002 </strong> and now earns <strong>MUCH MORE</strong> than that &#8230; just by selling other people&#8217;s stuff online!</p>
<p><font color="black" face="verdana">In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the &#8216;Net. </font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="verdana">Frequently revised and updated to reflect industry changes, the Super Affiliate Handbook now consists of <strong>235</strong> pages and <strong>235 screenshots</strong> that will show you step-by-step how to become a Super Affiliate. , you&#8217;ll learn how to pick the best programs, negotiate a commission raise and <strong>save time, money and effort</strong> on everything from affiliate software to web hosting. </font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="verdana"> <strong>To learn <font color="red">exactly</font> how she does it</strong>, <a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/affiliatehandbook" target="_blank"><strong>Click Here</strong></a>.</font></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training:  Profitable Affiliate Sales</title>
		<link>http://myaffiliatetrainer.com/2007/08/26/affiliate-training-profitable-affiliate-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many internet marketers are making a lot of money promoting affiliate products. You don&#8217;t have to worry about developing your own products, setting up downloads if it&#8217;s an infoproduct, or responding to other problems people may have. You don&#8217;t deal with refunds.
You can spend your time marketing.
Not everyone, however, is successful in this arena. Just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many internet marketers are making a lot of money promoting affiliate products. You don&#8217;t have to worry about developing your own products, setting up downloads if it&#8217;s an infoproduct, or responding to other problems people may have. You don&#8217;t deal with refunds.</p>
<p>You can spend your time marketing.</p>
<p>Not everyone, however, is successful in this arena. Just what little secrets are the big guys using?</p>
<p>They are not really secrets. If you implement some of these strategies, however, you just may find your affiliate sales increasing dramatically.</p>
<p>The first thing you want to do is make absolutely sure the product you promote is a good product and worth the money. Once you make that first sale to a customer and they like the product and respect your opinion, it will be much easier to make additional sales later. That&#8217;s where the real profits are.</p>
<p><!--yt_video-->wHLMjR0MBDs<!--/yt_video-->By the same token, if you recommend a product and the product has numerous bugs in it or is poorly written or is simply junk, not only will the refunds be high, that customer will never listen to anything you have to say in the future and just may let others know of their dissatisfaction. It is one of the quickest ways you can destroy your business.</p>
<p>A good rule of thumb is to always own an affiliate product you want to promote and be certain it offers great value to your customer. After all, if you don&#8217;t own it, how can you convince them they should?</p>
<p>Many top affiliate marketers rewrite the sales page they receive from the products creator. While these ebook writers and product developers are great at what they do, they may know very little about copyrighting and actually selling the product.</p>
<p>If you own the product, you know some of the features that will grab your potential audience and make them want to own it. Your copy will be the copy that sells, putting you at a distinct advantage over other affiliate marketers promoting the same product.</p>
<p>Although there are many internet marketers saying you can make a lot of money as an affiliate without a website, not having your own website won&#8217;t allow you the opportunity to put together your own copy and may not project the right image to your potential customer.</p>
<p>A huge step the top affiliate marketers take is to capture their potential customers email address. This might be one of the best tips you can follow. You now have their address and you know their interest. Follow up with newsletters or autoresponders and keep your name in front of them. If they did not make an immediate purchase, you have a much better chance of selling them something later.</p>
<p>You can recommend other affiliate products to them that are in line with the original product they were interested in. Your newsletter should contain good, solid information that will benefit your reader and not simply be a sales letter. This is how you gain their confidence. As mentioned earlier, you are now an expert in their view.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing can be very lucrative but you need to be willing to put forth the effort to build your business.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training: What Are the Rules of Affiliate Marketing</title>
		<link>http://myaffiliatetrainer.com/2007/08/25/affiliate-training-what-are-the-rules-of-affiliate-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money. Promoting other’s services and products is not something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their own rules that you must follow.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have a problem. This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.</p>
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<p>Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements for the rules.</p>
<p>Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate for Folgers coffee. Your website would not be able to come up above the official Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee is used as the search term. The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel  as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who wouldn’t?</p>
<p>Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you need to stand to be a part of that program. This is the best thing that you can do for your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by that company for the best results.</p>
<p>You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself. Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training: Introduction to Clickbank (parts 3 &amp; 4)</title>
		<link>http://myaffiliatetrainer.com/2007/08/24/affiliate-training-introduction-to-clickbank-parts-3-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different ways to generate revenue online and some are more difficult than others.
Let’s face it, many people that first come online and find out they could make a few bucks realize really quickly that it&#8217;s not all that easy.
They start searching for information about making money online and find out all too [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many different ways to generate revenue online and some are more difficult than others.</p>
<p>Let’s face it, many people that first come online and find out they could make a few bucks realize really quickly that it&#8217;s not all that easy.</p>
<p>They start searching for information about making money online and find out all too soon that there are a lot of sites out there that will let them purchase information they can use to learn how to make tons of cash for themselves and shortly thereafter they realize that the next step is to go purchase even more tools, info and study material at an even higher cost.</p>
<p>The other problem many people run into is that they find the many different newsletters that are online and each one is promoting a different way of making money online. Some may talk about affiliate marketing, others are discussing how to use their blogs or the power of Web 2.0 and yet others review how to use AdSense and PPC (pay per click) to boost their business.</p>
<p>In both cases, the new and aspiring Internet marketer is confused, lost and all too quickly fed up and frustrated after just a short time and most likely a ton of money they feel was thrown out the window.</p>
<p>And yet, making money online doesn’t have to be difficult, you don’t even have to have a website, your own products are not needed and you don’t have to run a massive affiliate program of your own to at least make some money to help you get started and you can quickly plug that hole in your wallet where all those precious dollars have been falling out of.</p>
<p>One of the simplest and quickest ways to get started generating some revenue online is to use articles coupled with affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>Here’s a simple guide to help you get started:</p>
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<p><strong>1. Head over to <a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">Clickbank </a>and take a look at the many products waiting for you to promote them.  </strong></p>
<p>There are a few things you might want to look at while you are browsing around the Marketplace. <a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">Clickbank </a>has a pretty good guide that will tell you how to tell the difference between products that are performing well and those that are bombing, but here’s one simple tip to keep in mind as well. As you look through the Pitch Pages, think to yourself for just a moment, if I was interested in this product, does this page even grab my attention? Would you be likely to purchase what you saw?</p>
<p>Once you have picked out a couple of products you really like, consider purchasing them so you can provide high-quality reviews of them, but if the budget is tight, that sometimes isn’t an option, so you will have to make note of the features, benefits and any other important information you got from the sales page.</p>
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<p><strong>2. Write one article.  </strong></p>
<p>Yes, that’s it. Write one simple article that features some of the key benefits of the product you will be promoting. Keep it simple and don&#8217;t make it look like a sales page. For example, if the product you plan to promote is about Planning Your Wedding you could write your article based on &#8220;The Top 10 Things To Keep In Mind When Planning Your Wedding&#8221; and then list the 10 things (or however many you got) from the sales page that are related, such as Choosing The Location For Your Reception, How To Avoid Relatives Embarrassing You, How To Keep Your Bridesmaids From Looking Like Clowns. Whatever the information you found, write it out in a bullet point list and then add a few short sentences to each bullet point. It doesn’t have to be fancy, short and sweet works better. For example, if you are working on Choosing The Location For Your Reception, you could add a sentence or two about the things to keep in mind if you are planning an outdoor reception.</p>
<p><strong>3. The Resource Box or About The Author</strong></p>
<p>If you go look at some of the popular article directories, such as <a href="http://www.eZineArticles.com" target="_blank">www.eZineArticles.com</a> online you will find at the bottom of each article a section known as the Resource Box, or also called About The Author.</p>
<p>This is your place to shine. Your article was to the point, without any sales pitches, but now in this last part you are free to tell a little about yourself (and if you have a website you can add a link there too) and you can also suggest a helpful solution (the product you are promoting) that could further assist the reader with the challenges of planning their own wedding.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that you only have a few lines for the resource box, so you will definitely have to rewrite it a few times just so you can tweak it and get it just the way you want it, but ultimately, the goal is to have the reader click the link at the end of your article and purchase the product you are promoting, so make it straight to the point. A simple and yet effective example might be: &#8220;For more helpful information as well as awesome ways to save hundreds if not thousands on your wedding visit <em>youraffiliatelink.com</em> today&#8221;.</p>
<p>Again, you don’t want it to be fancy, but your call to action has to make sure the reader has no choice but to click the link and hopefully the sales page you are referring them to is good enough to close the deal and earn you some referral commissions.</p>
<p><strong>4. Last but definitely not least. </strong></p>
<p>If you go to your favorite search engine and type in &#8220;Article Directory&#8221; you will find hundreds of different websites where you can submit your article for inclusion. There are other ways to spread the word about your new article, but directories are a quick and easy way to get the word out there and they are all quite easy to use. Just search for the article directories and then submit your new article to as many as you can. If possible, try to submit it to at least 20 or 30, but the more the better.</p>
<p>What will happen is that webmasters, bloggers and newsletter publishers that search through these directories will come across your article and if it’s a good match for their readers and visitors they will be inclined to post your article on their website, or publish it in their newsletter and they will include your Resource Box, along with the link to the product you are promoting.</p>
<p>Bottom line this has the potential to get your article very quickly on thousands of websites, in front of tons of newsletter readers and ultimately you didn’t have to spend a single penny for all this exposure and advertising, you didn’t have to have your own fancy website or subscriber opt-in list and you didn’t have to create your own product.</p>
<p>This same method has been used for quite some time very successfully and has in many cases returned more than just a few hundred bucks within a couple of weeks, in some cases, 1 single article has returned over a thousand dollars in a month and the best part is that your article will continue to be out there, week after week for others to see, click your link and order the product, making you more commissions.</p>
<p>The final thing to help you get started is when you’ve gotten this far congratulate yourself. You have done more than many of the people &#8220;day-dreaming&#8221; of making it online; you’ve actually done something about it. Now get back over to <a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">Clickbank </a>and find yourself another product to promote, start back at step 1 and have fun making money.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training: Introduction to Clickbank (parts 1 &amp; 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[W_TMwqWg6tgIt is entirely possible that someone reading this article may never have heard of Clickbank. For those of us that &#8220;eek out&#8221; a living online, Clickbank is one of the core resources used to generate cash flow.There are several ways to produce income through Clickbank and they can all add up to a tolerable income [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--yt_video-->W_TMwqWg6tg<!--/yt_video-->It is entirely possible that someone reading this article may never have heard of Clickbank. For those of us that &#8220;eek out&#8221; a living online, Clickbank is one of the core resources used to generate cash flow.There are several ways to produce income through Clickbank and they can all add up to a tolerable income paid in two week cycles.The two main ways of creating income through Clickbank are &#8220;affiliate sales&#8221; and &#8220;direct product sales&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Affiliate Sales</strong><br />
There are thousands of downloadable digital products for sale at Clickbank in a variety of categories covering a wide range of topics. When products are added to Clickbank by the sellers they are given the opportunity to allow for affiliate sales. The product owner determines the percentage to be paid to the affiliate, if any.</p>
<p>Anyone can view all the products with affiliate sales potential at this link:<br />
<a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">http://clickbank.com/</a></p>
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<p>Once a category is clicked on in the Clickbank Marketplace, sub-categories and product listings appear. For example, today in the &#8216;Business to Business&#8217; category the top selling product listed is: Data Entry Ads Online &#8211; Join The Best! [Earn 50%].As an affiliate marketer, you would click on the [Earn 50%] link and fill in your Clickbank ID to capture the correct Clickbank Hoplink for the product. This Hoplink would be used in conjunction with all ads directing traffic to a particular product.</p>
<p>Each product Hoplink contains the ID of the affiliate and the ID of the seller thus making successful affiliate sales attributable to the correct parties.</p>
<p>Clickbank has an automated tracking system that determines which affiliate, if any, is to be associated with the sale. Although Clickbank feels their tracking system is &#8220;more fair and accurate than any alternative&#8221; it is still not perfect.</p>
<p>There are apparently ways for unscrupulous people to take advantage of the system for their benefit at the expense of those of us who do not delve into such matters. Link cloaking can be useful in these situations.</p>
<p>The benefits of affiliate marketing through Clickbank far outweigh any potential negative experiences that may arise due to an unscrupulous few.</p>
<p><strong>Direct Product Sales (Your Own Products)</strong><br />
A popular way for internet marketers to get their products to the public is by using Clickbank payment processing. Clickbank makes it very easy for anyone to sell a downloadable product through their service and their fees are not likely to be out of the reach of anyone with computer access.</p>
<p>Although not shy about being one of the most expensive payment processors on the Internet, Clickbank makes up for their several imperfections by general ease of use and reliable service.</p>
<p>It is simple to sign-up for a Clickbank ID; just go to Clickbank.com and create an account. You can begin to promote affiliate products immediately after your membership is confirmed.<br />
<a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">http://clickbank.com/</a> (then click on &#8220;Sign-Up&#8221;)</p>
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<p><strong>To sell your own products on Clickbank there is a seven step process:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Signup with Clickbank</li>
<li>Make a &#8220;Pitch Page&#8221;</li>
<li>Make a &#8220;Thank You Page&#8221;</li>
<li>Make a Test Purchase</li>
<li>Submit Product Approval Request</li>
<li>Pay $49.95 Product Review Fee</li>
<li>Set Your Product Price and Start Making Sales!</li>
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<p>It is not mandatory to offer affiliate sales of your products but there is at least one good reason to do so. Often sellers get to a point where affiliate sales produce enough income that they can stop using pay per click advertising to drive traffic to their site. What is lost in direct sales at the full item price is made up by the savings in pay per click marketing.</p>
<p>Overall, Clickbank is an excellent place to get a start in product sales on the Internet. Whether you are selling your own product or putting up affiliate links, the potential to create a viable income is available to everyone.</p>
<p>Anyone can view all the products with affiliate sales potential at this link:<br />
<a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/clickbank" target="_blank">http://clickbank.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training: Re-Directing Your Affiliate Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing can make you a decent amount of income on the side without having your own product and sales copy.
The trick is to be different and not appear like everyone else. One main way to look different is to re-direct or cloak your affiliate link.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing can make you a decent amount of income on the side without having your own product and sales copy.</p>
<p>The trick is to be different and not appear like everyone else. One main way to look different is to re-direct or cloak your affiliate link.</p>
<p>However, this article is going to tell you three other ways that re-directing your affiliate links can benefit you.</p>
<p>The first is Spam. When you use the same link coming from the same domain as everyone else, the spam filters start to pick up on that domain as being a sales letter email and blocking it as spam. i.e.</p>
<p><em>www.affiliateprogram.com/?id=111 </em></p>
<p>So when ever the filters see <em>www.affiliateprogram.com</em> in the email it will get blocked as spam and get blacklisted, especially if it is a large promotion.</p>
<p><span id="more-21"></span>By re-directing the link &#8211; it will have your domain as the link and help to make it thru the spam filters.</p>
<p>The second reason is search engine optimization. If you write articles and submit them with a signature file that has the affiliate link, the affiliate site gets the back links. Plus it makes it easy for people to get rid of your affiliate id.</p>
<p>By using your domain as a redirect to the affiliate program you get the back links to your site and better SEO rankings.</p>
<p>The third reason is that it will make you look more professional as a marketer and not just someone who is out promoting all kinds of affiliate programs. When potential customers see</p>
<p><em><span class="article_text_link">http://affiliateprogram.com/?id=111</span></em> they know it is an affiliate program and will be less likely to click on it.</p>
<p>However when they see</p>
<p><em><span class="article_text_link">http://yourdomain.com/affilliatename</span></em> or <em><span class="article_text_link">http://yourdomain.com/recommends/program</span> </em></p>
<p>They will view it more as your personal offer or recommendation.</p>
<p>There are many programs that offer to change your links. Many are simple software solutions and can have you changing all your links easily. The programs for changing links do not have to be pricey at all, and many are available as freeware or shareware through popular sites that offer these kinds of products.</p>
<p>Whatever program or software you choose, the key is to make your domain as the primary one. This will make your site seem more like the authority and have potential customers clicking away on your links in no time.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training: Monetizing Your Web Site or Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monetizing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been looking for a way to monetize your web site or blog? Do need ready-made ways to make passive income from monetizing your web site or blog? Then keep reading.
1. Text-Link-Ads: company created to give business owners ways to build targeted traffic with linking strategies. This is done by placing static HTML links [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you been looking for a way to monetize your web site or blog? Do need ready-made ways to make passive income from monetizing your web site or blog? Then keep reading.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Text-Link-Ads: </strong>company created to give business owners ways to build targeted traffic with linking strategies. This is done by placing static HTML links on high quality, high traffic web sites or blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=38154"></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=38154"><img src="http://www.text-link-ads.com/images/text_link_ads_C_468x60.gif" alt="Text Link Ads" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>2. <strong>Google Adsense &amp; Products:</strong> this is the simplest way to get started with monetizing your web site or blog (<a href="http://www.google.com/adsense)">www.google.com/adsense)</a>.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Affiliate Programs:</strong> such as <a href="http://www.CJ.com" target="_blank">Commission Junction</a> (CJ) and <a href="http://recommends.myaffiliatetrainer.com/recommends/linkshare" target="_blank">Linkshare </a>are a great source of different program for companies who have chosen to allow their product to be managed by CJ or Linkshare. Such companies as Wal-mart, American Express, Target, etc.</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong><a href="http://www.marketerschoice.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=530B623D-FF73-439F-B10A-CF9A0C9718FF&amp;pid=826ef2aba80a59ca3399eb61d10fbfbc">Click here to purchase</a> </strong></em><em><strong><br />
</strong></em><img src="http://www.theouchfactor.com/images/affiliate-marketing-book-co.jpg" height="482" width="422" /></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Training Video: Bum Marketing Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Beasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Video Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, you want a unique way to get into affiliate marketing? Then take a look at this video about the Bum Marketing Method.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, you want a unique way to get into affiliate marketing? Then take a look at this video about the Bum Marketing Method.</p>
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