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Affiliate
Marketing Tools
As the range of goods and online services offered via the Internet has grown
at an incredible rate over the last few years, therefore so has the competition.
Web site visitors need to have a very good reason for clicking on a link or banner.
how to choose the right banners for affiliate
marketing tools
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In most affiliate programs, you are offered a wide variety of banners to place on your site
but very few of them will be effective.
If you can attain a clickthrough rate of 2%, then you are doing very well.
It has been our experience, and this is generally speaking,
that graphically rich banners do not perform as successfully as their simpler counterparts.
The main reason for this is download time.
If a banner is the last thing to load on your page and the banner ad is excessively byte "heavy",
by the time it has loaded your visitor may already have scrolled down the page - missing it entirely.
Heavy banner ads can also slow down the loading of your pages, or critical elements of your page
and you can lose your visitors altogether!
A graphically rich banner can also confuse the actual message -
the artwork and
marketing blurb can be imbalanced.
For these reasons, we suggest that banners you implement be no more that 15kb wherever possible.
Banners that have "extreme" animation, such as rapid flashing,
are also something to consider very carefully.
While these do achieve high clickthrough rates, they are also highly annoying.
If you do decide to implement this form of banner advertising, use it very sparingly.
When selecting any form of graphical advertising, try and keep the theme of your site in mind -
while graphical ads are meant to stand out and catch a visitors eye,
it shouldn't be to the point that everything else on the page is totally ignored.
Wherever possible, ensure that all banner ads uses a link that opens in a new window.
That way, if a visitor does choose to visit one of your advertisers it is easy for them
to return to your page and review what they actually came to your site for!
Pop ups and pop unders
Many companies, but mostly agencies representing a number of advertisers,
now give their affiliates the options of using pop up and pop under ads.
Our opinion - pop ups are evil.
They annoy visitors and are usually closed before they even have a chance to load.
Go for pop-unders and preferably those that only display once per visit.
Using Text Link Ads.
One of the most successful forms of
advertising are text link ads.
They are bandwidth friendly, don't take up a lot of space
and can be easily implemented into most page layouts.
Good text links ads don't just scream "buy me!",
they also offer some information as to why your web site visitor should investigate the offer.
A company should also supply you with very short text links which only state the product or company name.
The reason for this is so that you can implement the links directly
into the content of related articles and reviews.
Articles and product/service reviews
Now, this is where a bit of hard work comes in.
Your regular site visitors will view you as an authority ......
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