become an affiliate #3
Step three: first steps online as an affiliate.
Now you are an affiliate, you want to make money online with the affiliate program you have chosen. First get to know your admin and your options.
Every affiliate program has admin area for you to use. The admin is for you only and you have the password to log in. Remember that you see the items, the affiliate program wants you to see and they also have all the access. Admin area contains these basic fixtures:
- Account details
- Payment details
- Reports and stats
- Marketing materials
- Links / tracking links / profiles or what ever they call it.
- Any additional options.
Try your stats options, make sure you understand how to open new links and profiles, see all the banners, landing pages, mailers and so on you have to advertise with. Ask your account manager some questions regarding to make sure he/ she is professional.
The affiliate program must give you all the tools to make money online with your advertisements. You must have the power to analyze your traffic in high level in order to know exactly which of your advertisements the best are. Each banner and text link must have its own tracking and you can see in the stats which ones are the best. You can excel your revenue per link, day, game, option and more. All these things together will help you to maximize your benefits.
The most important thing to remember is that you are here to make money online; the affiliate program will make more money than you with your traffic. They must give you everything you need in order to do it best and if they are not….. Maybe you need another affiliate program.