Affiliate programs, the ins n outs, the pros and cons

[garycocs]

Hi Lads,

Only if ye have time could ye give me an understand of what's required for an affiliate program, the ins and outs, etc, basically I'm wondering what I need, what's so good about it and how much work is involved.
Again only if you have time.

Nice one
Gary

 

[mneylon]

Do you mean running one?

 

[CiaranR]

As a merchant or a publisher?

 

[garycocs]

Sorry lads, meant as a publisher.

//Gary

 

[mneylon]

It's really up to you.

It can be as simple as setting up a few banners from the advertiser or as complex as building an entire system that hooks into their api ...

 

[garycocs]

So affiliate covers all bases, from advertising another persons site to basically hosting all their info.

I'm just thinking with one of my sites, irishvids.com I could set up a site selling Irish Videos from amazon or something? Obviously just testing it out.

Was also wondering what all those posts about trade doubler were on here too

 

[mneylon]

Most of the banner ads on here are from various affiliate networks...

If you want to add Amazon quickly have a look at their Astore thing - it's not as powerful as some of the more advanced options, but it's a good way to get started

 

[garycocs]

Thanks Michele,

I'll look into the a-store so. My understanding so is that even google adsense is a form of affiliate network??

If there are so many affiliate networks then why is there so many people still using adsense??

//Gary

 

[mneylon]

Thanks Michele,

I'll look into the a-store so. My understanding so is that even google adsense is a form of affiliate network??

If there are so many affiliate networks then why is there so many people still using adsense??

//Gary

Adsense is easy to implement, so it's got a low barrier to entry
In my own experience the affiiate networks can pay a lot more, but you need to work harder

 

[garycocs]

Cool, that's good to know, I might look into an affiliate so for my corkbroadband and galwaybroadband sites

Doing a bit more research into this, hmmm, there's a fair few different ones.

With irishvids.com I suppose I would set up an a-store or associate-o-matic, for the broadband ones it would be a CPA affiliate (is it affiliate program or network???)

Hmmmm so many to choose from!!!!!! Any recommendations starting off?? (Obviously the ones that will make me millions in about a week would be preferable!)

 

[mneylon]

Just sign up for all of them and experiment (links at the bottom of the page - please use )