Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Making Affiliate Marketing via Google Affiliate Network and Secrets

About Google Affiliate Network
Google acquired the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate operations in March 2008. Together, we're creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion, and innovation in affiliate marketing.

Performics was founded as the first full-service affiliate network in 1998 and was acquired by DoubleClick in 2004. Today Performics Affiliate operates as Google Affiliate Network and remains committed to delivering affiliate channel growth for advertisers and publishers


Making affiliate marketing more productive

Google Affiliate Network connects advertisers and publishers who want to increase sales and drive leads through affiliate marketing.

As an advertiser using Google Affiliate Network, you'll discover pre-screened publishers who can refer consumer traffic to you. As a publisher, you can market your site to advertisers in the network; if selected to participate in an advertiser's program, you'll earn a percent of sales or a referral bounty.
Google Affiliate Network offers:

* Industry-leading advertiser and publisher service
* Rigorous network quality standards
* Reliable conversion tracking
* Detailed reporting
* Automated payments to publishers
* Simple link and creative delivery tools
* Flexible commissions
* Access to top brands on the web

Attract quality publishers. Drive more sales:

With Google Affiliate Network, you can manage a custom affiliate marketing program and attract publishers to grow your affiliate channel.

Affiliate marketing expertise:
Consult with our affiliate marketing specialists on planning and distribution, account optimization, and technical issues.

Network depth and breadth:
Choose from a wide variety of high-quality publishers based on detailed profiles and metrics.

Tracking and reporting:
Track conversions, evaluate performance, and optimize your program with actionable data.

Network quality:
Work only with qualified publishers who are continually screened, reviewed, and advised by our quality team.

Performance-based pricing:
Rest assured that cost-per-action pricing means our interests are aligned with yours.

Source: google.com


4 Google Affiliate Secrets To Help You Earn Thousands of Dollars Monthly
There is no doubt that Google affiliates rank as some of the most successful affiliates anywhere on the web.

Yet few understand the reason behind this success. Even the majority of Google affiliates who are yet to start making huge five figure checks do not quite understand why the Google Adsense program has flourished so much within such a short time.

Anybody who understands the real secrets behind the phenomenal rise of Google affiliates will be in a much better position to benefit and profit from it, whether or not they are current Adsense affiliates.

1. Google Affiliates Are Riding On The Most Dramatic Shift In The Advertising Industry In History
A few webmasters think that this Adsense and pay per click affiliate mania is a passing fad. All indications are that this is not the case. If anything mounting evidence points to one of the most dramatic and rapid shifts in advertising industry history. You can’t beat the deal to advertisers where they pay only for actual traffic to their website and more so when they can easily calculate their conversion rate on that traffic and predict their profit margin on the deal. This arrangement cannot be duplicated on TV or in any other offline media with so much precision and accuracy.

This means that advertising revenue will continue to shift away from other media and will move online at an even more rapid rate than is the case currently. And not just any online mediums like banner ads for example. The revenue will specifically shift to pay per click text ads. If you need some proof just look at the Google numbers in recent months, and most of it is being generated by PPC ad revenue.

What does that mean to a blogger or webmaster? It means huge and increasing profits as the number of advertisers grows and the competition between them for clicks grows fiercer.

It means that any expert in any tiny little niche will find it increasingly easier to make a good regular income from a low traffic targeted site with higher paying, more valuable Adsense keywords.


2. Google Affiliates Recognize That Content Is Not King, It’s Everything
Writers, or rather good writers are already enjoying a huge advantage as Google affiliates. Only well written content will attract quality traffic and only interesting engrossing content will keep that traffic coming back again and again. Only high-quality keyword rich content will keep a site high in search engine rankings and thus guarantee enough traffic to keep Google affiliate adsense earnings high.


3. Top Google Affiliates Are All Using The Blog Secret
Blogs were created for linking and everybody knows that links are closely related to traffic in two ways, firstly they generate traffic but more importantly, they help a site achieve high search engine rankings with usually opens the floodgates of traffic. Top Google affiliates are using this secret to keep those big fat Google affiliate Adsense checks arriving by special courier every month.

Most top Google affiliates have dozens of blogs loaded with the right keywords and engaging content. With just a little SEO (search engine optimization) skills, these new breed of high flying online professionals are able to get their sites to the top of search engine rankings. It is then minimal maintenance as they sit back and watch the traffic volumes flow to their blogs already loaded with Adsense ads. The result of all this is that the clicks happening at their sites shoots up and with it their Google affiliate Adsense earnings.


4. Google Affiliates Are Using The Secret of The Hook
In advertising it is called the hook. Journalists call it the angle or slant of the story. Both mean the same thing. It is all about picking up a subject and asking yourself, what aspect of it most interests your audience? If you answer that question accurately then your ad or your article will attract maximum interest.

Online this is becoming more critical by the day. Content that is not slanted to fit the interests and needs of you audience will not attract enough interest and this impacts on the traffic of your blog or site and ultimately on your Google affiliate adsense earnings.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Google Launches Google Affiliate Network
When Google acquired DoubleClick, the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics as one of its advertising program, until now. Google has renamed Performics as the Google Affiliate Network, and Amazon with its popular Affiliate Marketing Network called Amazon Associates have something to worry about.

The Google Affiliate Network works like your ordinary affiliate ad network, whereby publishers get paid for every successful sale transactions that their site brings to advertisers. The program works separately from Google Adsense but as Eric Schonfeld noted, it will just be a matter of time before Google integrates the two online ad program. But that is if the Google Affiliate Network succeeds in getting some good ground.

To get into the program, you need to sign-up and create a new account. Bear in mind that like all affiliate network your site needs to pass some criteria which relates to your site traffic. Specifically for the Google Affiliate Network:

* Manage a site that attracts a desirable audience.
* Can test advertising offers and nurture the most productive relationships.
* Are an expert in driving and converting visitor traffic.
* Adhere strictly to Google Affiliate Network quality standards and advertiser policies.

If you are an online merchant, I guess Google doesn’t have too much prerequisite except of course the ability to pay for those ad campaigns.

Anonymous said...

I doubt Google Affiliate Network will be any competition to CJ unless they convert all the Adsense publishers to affiliate marketers, which I have been trying to do for years! lol

Anonymous said...

Now, Google’s rolled out to the most lucrative markets online. I was just searching for months and thinking seeing the blue skies when Google would be entering into the CPA marketing. Well, these guys (Google) will not let slip even a slice of bread. Amazing they are!!! Looking for signing up with them as they are new may be they accept few early birds. Let me take my chance.

Anonymous said...

I think the ability for SME’s to run adwords and an affiliate programme all though a single account would be fantastic. Especially for those merchants that are unable to afford some of the larger setup up fees or simply don’t feel comfortable with affiliate marketing.

But that will have a knock on effect with some of the mid range affiliate networks who will lose a portion of their target market.

High end Big Brand merchant affiliate networks I don’t think will suffer (apart from if Google starts favoring it’s own affiliates in the rankings)

All in all I think it’s a good move on Googles part and I think it will regulate the industry and hopefully get rid of the low end/quality affiliate networks.