From Clickbank.com Written by: Simon Slade, Guest Blogger Those of us in the affiliate marketing world work hard to get visitors to our pages, so it’s disappointing when they turn on their heels and walk out without even clicking a HopLink. The disappointment is intensified if you actually paid for the traffic using PPC advertising. What can you do about this? Is it possible to still get value from visitors who are leaving your site? Do...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent...

Way back in September of 2008, Dan Safkow was kind enough to invite me to present a preview of my free online training course “21 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website” at his Orange County Internet Marketing Group Meetup.  With 90% percent of the videos completed and the interface all ready to launch (see here), a perfect storm of digital events swept the project away. The short version being that all of my source files died a...

In an ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, and product development. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business. Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions? Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions: 1. Know...

Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful ways of earning  money online. These programs give everyone a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pay a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now joining the ranks of affiliate marketers. However, like all businesses, there can be pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the...

An excellent way to pick out the best affiliate program to promote for your own pay per click campaign is to see what other advertisers are promoting. As an example, let’s look at the movie downloads market for an example of how to do this. First we think about the obvious keywords that people might type into search engines to find movies online. A good starting list of keywords would be; ‘movie downloads’, download movie’...