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Generating Traffic
Generating traffic is the biggest challenge to driving your affiliate earnings. Many affiliates will also buy traffic and send it direct to the merchants, however you must check with merchants if and what is acceptable.
The most popular pay per click search engine. You choose your keywords and place your advert. You advert is then listed on that keyword. The position of the advert will depend on how much your paying and how well it's clicked through.
Overture - www.overture.com and Miva - www.miva.co.uk
Both large pay per click engines where you simply bid for the keyword in question.
Pop-unders/ups.
These are often seen as the most annoying thing on the internet and they do provide a cheap method of traffc. Most networks will not allow you to run affiliate links as pop-ups, please check with them.
Inbound Links
Many websites will link to you because of whats on your site for free.
Link Exchanges
By providing a link to your site someone may link back to you.
Banner Exchanges
Placing a banner on your site you will earn credits which you can exchange into banner impressions on other websites. You can also buy extra impressions.
Advertising
You can buy adverts on other sites or offline.
Viral Advertising
Creating emails that people will forward to their friends is an excellent way to drive traffic and quickly with no cost.
Affiliate Programmes
You can run an affiliate programme and pay for traffic.
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