Affiliate Marketing Guide

[bossmode]

I have just designed an affiliate marketing guide.

http://www.global-income.com/AffiliateMarketing/

Is there any other topics that should be covered?

Are there any mistakes?

Your feedback would be really useful.

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks for sharing your guide. I will leave it to some affiliates to give you feedback.

[Robban]

Your affiliate GUIDE site is very helpful !!!!!- at least to new comers like us. You asked for feedback. What I like the best is the number ypou threw out there. About needing to really be within Alexa 100K to make an impact. I have been looking for numbers. Some major spelling errors which is ok for forums but should be avoided on sites. You also talk about US market and over 200 mil people. Its way closer to 300 million. Great site. A definite bookmark. I have some interesting web projects cooking that I'd like to consult with you about. Good luck with your sites. Robban

[jackson992]

Unfortunately Alexa means nothing

[bossmode]

Nor does the money making claims made by people with websites ranked at a MILLION!

Alexa can give you an indication of how popular the website is.

If someone claims to be selling thousands of products from their website. Then a low traffic ranking would make me think twice about their claims.

However you can sell products and services as an affiliate by placing direct links in pay per click search engines and ezines. This would not get people to your website (hidden sales), that's a different ball game.

[Cedric]

Alexa can give you an indication of how popular the website is.

No, Alexa gives you an indication (and often a skewed one) of how much traffic a web site has. "Popular" implies "liked" and there is no indicator for how visitors feel about a site via Alexa.

Nor does Alexa give ANY indication of how much a site sells.

Alexa is like a parlor trick -- amusing, entertaining, and basically meaningless.

[Chris - WSO]

Some minor comments.

Cognigen - Taken with a large bucket of salt, I see their members signing up all over the place, never seen one make a sale...maybe I just attract the wrong members?

For once it would be nice to see a site that guided people to Merchant programs based on anything other than "hey I can get 2nd Tier for sending people here." Never seen one to date.

I mean lets face it your site is not so much designed to help affiliates as it is to help yourself, sell affiliate tools and books, which is cool, but lets tell it like it is please.

"A site designed to help people find tools and sites that you can promote and earn commission and 2nd Tier revenue from." In which case, yes it's very good affiliate site. :0)

Cheers

Chris

[bossmode]

What I mean by popular is most visited.

I think the term popular as used on the Internet means most visited (highest traffic).

We get sayings like "google is the post popular search engine"

We don't really know if people visiting google like it. What we know is that a lot of people use google, so it is ranked high.

Maybe my use of the word "popular" was not appropriate.

I'm not saying use Alexa as the only resource when you pass judgement on a website and it's claims.

Alexa is the only tool available for (the surfer) to view any traffic stats for a website.

Most webmasters that make big claims about their traffic hide their traffic stats from the public.

I would carry on using Alexa for a indication of the visitors to a website, until we have a better tool. Also use other information to make your judgement.

What is the webmaster pomoting?

Is the website just full of affiliate links and no useful information?

I'm not looking for the really high figures.

Before you start blasting out your replies:

You can boost your traffic by using artificial means (autosurf exchanges). Using this method would probably get your website frozen (used up all your allocated bandwidth).

It's better to get targeted visitors from pay per click search engines.