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Consultants - Writing Articles for the Internet Blankets the World with your Expertise and Style
Copyright 2005 Off the Page A Consultant could be an Expert about Absolutely Anything Calling yourself a “consultant” demands further clarification. A consultant who… What specific problems do you handle? And who needs what you know? Everyone?...
MLM and SEO. Bad Business! No Business!
MLM has been around way before the Internet. It is a few steps above a chain letter. Well, maybe more then a few steps. MLM has paved the way for people to have their own business. It can start out as side money and flourish into a very profitable...
Optimum SEO Keyword Density – A Real-Life Case Study
So you’ve built your website, you know what keywords you want to target (i.e. what words your customers are searching for), and you’re ready to write your copy. You’ve been told that you should use your keywords frequently so...
Using Blogs to promote your Home Business
A trend that has been rapidly growing on the net has been the use of blogs, also known as web logs. These may be very useful to you since e-mail applications such as ezines have been very hard hit recently from UCE (unsolicited commercial email),...
Using Free For All Links Pages as an Effective Marketing Tool
Free For All Links Pages have been given a bad name in recent history . The "green" internet marketer who posts to an FFA page and receives thousands of emails and very few sales for his efforts may find them too much of a hassle to deal...
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My Story of Lifetime "Unpaid" Commissions
Yesterday I found a site that I have been an affiliate for a long period suddenly disappeared. This site let me make about $100 commissions every month. Not much but because I only used automatic methods like article marketing to promote it, thus it was a nice residual income. And since the site made sales, I have absolutely no idea why the site and its owner disappeared from the net.
If you have been in internet marketing industry for a period, you should know the situation in my story is very common. Sites and their owners disappeared everyday. As an affiliate, if the site you are promoting suddenly goes away, what leaves to you will just be lifetime unpaid commissions...
So do you want to protect yourself from this situation? Here are 2 suggestions that I want to share with you:
Select Affiliate Program Carefully
Is the site exist for more than 1 year? Do you know the site owner? Heard any good things about the site? Was the site owner written good articles? If you answer YES to any of these
questions, then the site you are going to promote will have greater chance to keep doing business on internet.
Protect Affiliate Link
If you own a website, you should use redirection script to protect affiliate links. For example, I use http://www.marktse.com/recommend/affiliateclassroom.php to redirect to my Affiliate Classroom affiliate link.
The importance of using redirection is if the site disappears, you can redirect the landing location to another affiliate program as soon as possible. Therefore no traffic will lost from your past promotion.
If you do not have your own website, I highly recommend you get one first. Or if you like you can use short url service like tinyurl.com.
To your affiliate marketing success,
Mark Tse
http://www.marktse.com
About the Author
This article is written by Mark Tse. Mark shares free tips, articles and downloads about Internet Marketing. You can visit his Internet Marketing Blog and read his latest posts here:
http://www.marktse.com/blog/
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