Tips for making money in affiliate marketing
COMMISSION AUTOPILOT – By Paul Ponna
One program you can promote.

Affiliate marketing is all about getting paid for selling products you don’t own and not getting arrested for. Someone else goes through all of the trouble to develop the software programs, service, or digital content products. The creators of products will do all the work and pay you a commission on every sale that you make.
Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing arrangement between the product developer, known as the affiliate
merchant and the affiliate marketer who is anyone that is willing to promote the sale of the product by advertising the product using any type of legal means available.
The relationship will allow the affiliate merchant to grow their revenue by paying only for the advertising that results in a sale. The affiliate marketer will profit by making a percentage on a sale that he does not have to manage after the sale.
Getting paid
Getting paid all depends upon how the affiliate program is set up. Some merchants will run their own affiliate program. They’ll have special types of software that assigns each affiliate marketer a special link that’s used in promoting the product.
The software will track sales of every marketer and the merchant will pay the commission on aperiodic basis using either PayPal or another method of payment.
Selecting products or services
Your income is directly tied to how well your selected product or service sells, and the size of
the commission you earn, which makes it very important that you choose carefully when it comes to choosing the affiliate merchant you’ll be partnering with.
Choose programs that you aren’t embarrassed to promote and programs that you’ll feel comfortable recommending to your family and friends if they were to ask you about it.
You’ll do much better if you promote products that you fully understand and are already familiar with. This way, you’ll be able to write better ads without having to strain yourself coming up with the right things to say.
You should only promote products and services for companies who have gone through the trouble to provide you with training programs and sales aids such as banners and other marketing materials that you can either use directly or model the one you own after.
Be on the lookout for programs with commission rates no less than 50%. You should give preference to programs that pay commission on multiple levels, which means you’ll also have to earn commissions on sales made by people who buy the products through your link then go on and become affiliates themselves later on.
Protecting Your Affiliate Commissions
There are numerous software products on the market that range from 15 – 50 dollars for special types of software that will assist you in protecting your affiliate marketing commissions. The effectiveness and ease of use for the programs range greatly, so before you buy one, you should always learn as much as you possibly can.
Banner servers
Banner servers not only serve banners, as many of the more recent servers will also display text links as well. The link coding that’s associated with served ads is normally long, so that the visitor won’t be able to see on the status bar where the redirect is heading.
Click tracking software
Click counting software will not show the target URL as the links point inwards to the software, which is normally installed on your own website. Once someone has clicked on the link, the click tracking application will then redirect the visitor to the URL that you have specified within the script. The click tracking software will also provide a great way to monitor the usefulness of your ads and not just relying on the reports that merchants will provide.
Protecting your commissions is extremely important, as you want to get paid for what you do. Even though fraud is possible with affiliate marketing, you can protect yourself. Fraudsters have certain techniques and tactics they use, which you can protect yourself from.
If you own your own business, the last thing you want to experience is either credit card fraud or affiliate fraud. They do happen on a regular basis, simply because those who have it happen haven’t taken the necessary steps they should have to protect themselves.




