eHow Experience: Day 28 - Affiliate Links I

The family that I had in town staying with me has finally left and I can now spend more time on my eHow ventures. I'm particularly excited about finally starting my eHow affiliate link experiment (see Day 25 post).

Before I get started let me give you a recap on where my eHow earnings currently stand:
  • 128 articles
  • $16.75 in total earnings
  • 9,740 views
Since learning that I can put affiliate links in my eHow articles three days ago (Day 25 post) I've been desperately wanting to go through my old articles and revise the resources sections to include applicable affiliate links.

The only thing that's stopping me now is that I have no idea how to do this (a small problem).

After searching the internet for information about affiliate programs I found and familiarized myself with ClickBank. There's a lot of stuff going on with this site that looks very useful for making money online but unfortunately right now this is all so foreign to me that I know it's going to take a while to even understand it, let alone implement it into my eHow articles.

The good news about ClickBank is that signing up is easy, free, and for now the only section you need to worry about is the Promote Products section.

I'm also reading a lot of good things about Commission Junction.

Right now the best advice that I can give you regarding affiliate programs is to check out ClickBank (which seems to primarily promote eBooks) and Commission Junction.

Finally, I also signed up for the Amazon.com affiliate program. I figure that there will be lots of instances where I can refer the readers of my eHow articles to a particular reference book related to the topic. In fact if you want to start out simple the Amazon.com affiliate program is probably the way to go.

I'm not sure how long it's going to take to review and update all 128 of my eHow articles (probably longer than I think) but tomorrow I'll let you know what kind of progress I made.
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  1. Linkshare is also a good affilite program but be careful with them. If you sign up with them just go with one or two affiliate programs that are relevant to your content. You will have to learn how to add their banner or text link codes to your site and what sizes but the main point to make here is that affiliate programs will deactivate you if you dont have sufficient sales, they figure the reporting aspects have to be made worth their while with sales of their products. Affiliate programs are great but you have to have tons of traffic to make any money with them. I do advise you to start out with Amazon, they really dont care if you sell anything.
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