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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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