• If you’re an affiliate who pays for advertising, not understanding what’s not working and why can cost you a lot of wasted time and money.
• If you use free promotional methods, you’ll still waste a lot of valuable time if you don’t analyze your efforts and make improvements based on that analysis.

In this post I’ll show you several ways to analyze your efforts by using the Clickbank TID. Please note, this guide also can be implemented on other affiliate or CPA network. On other platform instead of ClickBank usually the TID is same with subid, sid, etc.

Analyze Your Efforts by Using ClickBank TID / ClickBank Tracking ID

Said I’m promoting a WordPress plugin called “WP Subscribers”, the hop link / affiliate link for that product is: http://zzzzz.wpsubscrib.hop.clickbank.net/ and the encrypted version of it is http://98984pi7hz9m7tcgxi240-3hp1.hop.clickbank.net/.

So how do I add tracking ID to the hop link? Simply by adding ?tid= at the end of URL plus your own tracking ID, then the hop link above will become:
http://98984pi7hz9m7tcgxi240-3hp1.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=blogpost. You can create your own tracking ID, examples: blogpost, banner300x250, tweet, fbstatus, sidebarlink, etc. I usually crate ClickBank TID based on the position of the URL and its traffic source. So that I know which is working and converting well and which is not. I can easily find the best method, for the best I’ll continue use and optimize for maximum result and for the methods that don’t work I’ll stop them.

Please visit ClickBank official site to learn more about ClickBank TID.

Smart Affiliate Links WordPress Plugin

Smart Affiliate Links features a unique approach to track and cloak your affiliate link, wherein you can cloak your affiliate links as well as track the clicks, views, traffic sources, other stats and track the TIDs.

You can generate the TID using Smart Affiliate Links WordPress plugin to become keyword or click ID, it’s up to you. Each click will give you a quick overview of the stats.

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Hopefully this article can benefit you so you now can track and analyze your marketing efforts. So that you know exactly which methods that work and which don’t. Eliminate the losers and keep as well as optimize the winners, is the main goal of tracking your campaigns.

But I think why I didn’t try to sell products, both physical and digital products. I think it more profitable and able to generate a huge of income. This is truly huge income potential and also a long term business, we saw people buying and selling anywhere and anytime. Isn’t it?! As long as there is life, people will buy and keep buying.

My First amazon Affiliate Sale

Here’s the screenshot of my amazon affiliate sales report:

The sale is generated by review blog posts, I post review about products related to my blog niche. Although the blog still use the default WP theme and just a bit pages are indexed on Search Engines, but it made me one sale. So then I decide to manage the blog seriously, I create custom WordPress theme for that blog.

What I’ve done is as what Chris Guthrie taught on Niche Profit Course – amazon Affiliate Course.

• Write review articles about amazon products and/or use ReviewAzon WordPress plugin. This plugin allows you to quickly import information from amazon.com such as: the title of the product, image, overall star rating, pricing information, and customer reviews. However Google can be picky about duplicate content, so write unique articles for the product description. You can customize how you want the information to be displayed within the plugin settings as well.
• Improve the blog design. I do it myself creating custom WordPress theme to fit my needs to build reviews blog. Also: link to the products within content, make product images clickable, and use strong Call To Action image button (examples: Buy Now, Buy from amazon, Order Now).
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO). On page optimization and also link building.
• Put In Ausoresponder Newsletter Form. The simplest way to make money from the Autoresponder newsletter list is to create a follow up sequence of email promoting products related to my niche. I also send newsletter about tips, trick and how to guide to the newsletter list. I use Rapidresponsebot (Manage unlimited subscribers and unlimited autoresponders) to manage my list. It’s the cheapest best Autoresponder service I’ve ever found, only $4.08 per month – regularly $9.95.

There’re many tasks to do to build reviews blog. The four points above are just what I’ve done until now.

Learn How to Make Money with amazon – The Tools and Sources

I’ve mentioned two sources/tools to make money with amazon Affiliate:

1. Niche Profit Course by Chris Guthrie – How to create income generating blogs from scratch that focus on using the amazon Associates Affiliate program to make money. This is a video course and has many case studies as well. For both beginners and advanced.
2. ReviewAzon – It’s a WordPress plugin to quickly and easily import information from amazon.com. So you can create review posts quickly and easily. This plugin works with amazon to display product information that helps save a considerable amount of time.

There’re also several quality ebook and video courses teach you how to make money with amazon Associates. The sources below focus on selling physical products online – using the amazon Associates Affiliate program – to make money online.

• Amazonian Profit Plan – The complete blueprint for how they average $10K a month promoting amazon products, by Paula & Wanda. Even on November 2010 they were $19,023.09. There’s no video, this course only contains text (PDF). This course emphasizes on website/blog quality, you’ll realize how importance the quality rather than quantity.
• Deadbeat Super Affiliate by Dan Brock – A highly recommended course to anyone who wants to become a successful Amazon affiliate. This is a video course and text as well, for both beginner and advanced. Almost the same as Niche Profit Course but has little case studies.

If you want to make money online with amazon Associate program, I recommend you to use those sources. I think you can use only one or two of them. Since they are just a bit different, please choose which is you’re familiar with its learning method. Overall, all the courses mentioned above are really good and able to become your main source to learn how to make money with amazon Affiliate program.

If you’re currently are T3Leads member, you probably already received an email from T3Leads regarding the new version of T3Leads.

Built on next-generation core technologies, T3Leads is proud to announce the launch of our third generational lead optimization platform. The system offers a quick, concise way for Affiliates to gage performance while employing the newest tools to further enhance the T3Leads experience.

The dynamic core system includes:

• More than 20 fully customizable JavaScript iFrames
• Upgraded launch support
• Innovative conversion tracking
• Enhanced reporting
• Competitive conversion rates among top-quality leads
• and more!

T3Lead’s new platform is user-friendly, efficient, and designed to handle the most demanding Affiliate operations.

T3Leads at a glance

T3Leads is your premier destination choice for quality leads and market opportunities rivaled to none. T3leads focuses on the finance industry, which happens to be one of the most lucrative industries on the Internet. T3Leads directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.

Merchants: Extend your customer reach and open new revenue streams through our proprietary lead generation platform which filters out the junk to bring you unparalleled performance. Our technology will truly impact your business sales flow while lowering your advertising costs.

Affiliates: Gain a competitive edge with our diverse network of lead products, along with the latest in lead optimization technology. Ensure that you are driving the highest revenue for your traffic while promoting the strongest offers in the market with the latest in lead optimization technology. Our customizable solutions provide the tools you need to scale your business, while our proven lead technology maximizes your lead revenue. Learn more about affiliate marketing solutions.

Affiliate Program Detail

• Minimum payout: $100
• Payment options: ACH, Check, ePassporte, Paypal, WebMoney, or Bank Wire Transfer
• Affiliate tracking software: In-house proprietary platform
• Realtime statistics: Yes
• International acceptance: Yes

Last but not least, if you’ve been planning to attend to Affiliate Summit East 2010 (August 15-17, 2010 in New York City), you can meet the T3Leads team, T3Leads has been registered and will be attend there.

Click here to join T3Leads

Affiliate marketing is basically where the affiliate gets paid for bringing buyers to the merchants. When the customer makes his purchase, you get a percentage of the sale as a ‘commission’. The percentage you get varies from vendor to vendor. But as an affiliate, you get to choose the best option for you. Therefore, if a prospect buys a $100 product and it pays 50% commission, you will receive $50 as a reward for your work. Quite simply, you find online methods to introduce your chosen product to interested people and leave it up to the vendor to do the rest.

For some people, affiliate marketing is becoming the first choice at the start of an Internet marketing career. It’s an easy way to get a taste of online marketing without having to create your own product or deal with supply and support issues. Technically, you don’t even need your own website and you can start right away. You can choose to work part time to build a generous residual income as affiliate marketer.

What you should look for before promoting

Now we are going to talk about affiliate programs and what you should look for before joining or promoting them.

It can be more difficult to sell something that you have no interest in, so pick a product or program that you would be interested in purchasing yourself. The chances are there that many others are also interested in the same program and products. This is basic consideration for choosing products you would to promote – Yourself is as measurement to choose products that you would to promote.

Of course, you can’t just base your decision to promote an affiliate program on weather or not you like the product, but it is a good place to start. Now let’s go over some other thing you should consider.

1. Quality of Product – Look for a product or service that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in your chosen niche. This way you will know that the standard is likely to be good.

2. Popularity – Pick a product that caters to a growing target market. This will make it much easier for you to make sales. There are plenty of ways to find out what products are popular, including looking at the best sellers on Amazon and EBay, but if you are selling something related to a niche that you are interested in, you will know what a popular item is.

3. High Payout – Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice.

4. Lots of Tools and Resources – Selecting a vendor who provides you with lots of tools and resources (such as: banners, articles, templates, product images, and more) will help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate programs have these capacities.

5. Knowledge – Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program that you intend to promote. Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will help you anticipate and prevent any problems you may encounter.

6. Pre-Requisites – Be aware of any minimum quotas that you must fulfill. Some affiliate programs impose pre-requisites before you get your commissions. For instance you may have to make more than a $100.00 or make five sales before you receive your payment. If the sales target is too hard to achieve you may want to rethink joining.

7. Has Good System – Check out weather or not the program has an automated system that allows you to check your referral statistics and compensation at any time.

8. Rewards and Incentives – Does the program offer strong incentives for customers to make additional purchases or for members to renew their memberships. Affiliate programs that provide continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain more customers. These things can assure the growth of your business.

All these points above are able to ensure that you’re promoting the good and profitable program. Once you have got a good hold of the ropes of Internet affiliate marketing and your commissions are rolling in, you may consider giving up the day job and joining the many of affiliate marketers making a substantial income online.

Regarding to the new features, PeerFly has made a complete post on its blog. All new features are really awesome, as publishers you definitely will love them. So here’re the new awesome features.

Early Payments

When it comes to affiliate marketing, there are times when waiting for Net-30 just won’t do and you need money right away to pay off a credit card or other bill. Whatever the reason, PeerFly now offers an emergency (within 8 hours) and early (3 days) payment request feature.

Tiered Payment Schedule

PeerFly now has a tiered payment schedule system whereby you are eligible for faster payment turnaround times based upon how much revenue you generate each month. For example, if you generate under $1,000 a month with PeerFly, you will be paid on a Net-30 basis. However, if you generate over $1,000 a month you will be paid once every 2 weeks.

RSS/XML Feeds

PeerFly now has XML/RSS feeds to help publishers and developers take advantage the custom interface at PeerFly. You can use feeds to get the information such as: All Offers, Popular Offers, Paused Offers, Account Info and Daily Earnings.

PeerFly Stats Firefox Plugin

The Firefox plugin / addon displays your current day’s total as well as unpaid balance in the bottom right corner of your Firefox browser. The plugin is very simple and easy to use and is a great timesaver for people who constantly checking their stats. If you’re currently a publisher on Peerfly, I guess you have already received email from Peerfly about this Firefox addon.

Also, Tyler Cruz has made a complete and nice post on his blog regarding these new features – PeerFly Launches 4 New Awesome Features. Just check it out!

Last but not least, BBB has determined that Peerfly business meets BBB accreditation standards (BBB Accredited business since 6/15/2010). This makes a proof that Peerfly really want to build long term and trust relationship with publishers and advertisers.

Because of their custom built software that they are using, this allows them to offer features and services that other networks can’t, like these awesome features. I highly recommend PeerFly and encourage you to sign up with them if you haven’t already!

There are many different ways that you can use to make money starting immediately. Just remember that in order to do that, you have to advertise whatever way you choose to use.

1. Affiliate programs or affiliate marketing – You can promote many of other people’s products or services, you earn money for any sale or lead you generated. You just need to find a few of affiliate programs, sign up with them for free and then start marketing them right away. You can easily make money immediately with this way because when you sign up you are given everything you need to get started, including a website.

2. eBay store and use eBay auctions to sell products. Many people will start making money immediately from it. I have many friends who are making money on eBay. It doesn’t matter what products you sell, just try and find products that are in demand. So now you are sure that you can make money right away selling them.

3. Freelancing. Many people are really looking for a good freelancer online to offer them valuable services. Writing, website design, copywriting, advertising and many other things are the services that many people are seeking. You definitely can start making money today if you have good skill at any of these things.

4. Business opportunities. There are many different business opportunities online that you can use to start your own business online. These opportunities provide everything you need, including a website, to get started promoting it immediately. Take your time and find a legitimate opportunity that offers a good profit to promote it. Business opportunities usually are MLM online, membership referral program, and many more.

5. Create your own product. You can create your own information products online to sell. You can also create other types of products at home such as clothes, books,  handicrafts or any other type of product you can create that people would want.

These are just a few of the ways that you can use to make money online today. Choose the one that you will enjoy the most and get busy marketing your new business. The more marketing you do, the faster you will make money. Just don’t give up no matter what because there is definitely a lot of money that can be made online by anyone.

Just reminder, don’t take all these ways at the same time period. Just focus and concentrate on the one that you will enjoy the most. If you take all these ways, I can assure your focus and concentration will be divided and fragmented, it will not generate maximum result and it will waste your time and effort.

There are a couple of free tools on the Internet that allow you to compare CPA offers across multiple CPA networks. You’ll love it since you’ll be able to compare and find highest paying CPA offers across multiple CPA networks without having to log into multiple CPA networks.

OfferVault

AffSpy.com

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Please note, selecting the highest paying offer is not the best option. There’re other two factors you need to consider when promote an offer, instead of only consider the highest paying offer:

1. The Landing Pages. Although a CPA offer might pay out $1 more than another offer, the landing page may convert at a lower rate resulting in a lower EPC (Earnings Per Click). On the contrary, a CPA offer might pay out $1 less than another offer, but the landing page convert well, better than the previous offer that has high payout.
2. EPC (Earning Per Click). Some CPA networks may be skimming some of the leads you generate in order to give out a higher payout. As a result you probably see the same offer has different EPC in different CPA networks. The best test is always to split-test the same offer between two networks to see which network generates the higher EPC. You can rotate similar CPA offers for your traffic in order to determine what works best. You can do this by using a rotating script.

Conclusion

So there’re about three factors you need to consider to start promoting a CPA offer:

1. The Payout
2. The Landing Pages
3. EPC (Earning Per Click)

Don’t judge an offer is the best since it pays the highest payout than others, you’ll don’t know exactly how well its conversion until you run and test it, and also consider the other two factors (Landing Pages and EPC).