Pay-Per-Sale – This is the most common model in which you are paid only if there is a sale. If someone clicks on your affiliate link to visit the merchant’s site and buys something you will get paid. All merchants are different, but usually there is a time frame meaning if someone buys something from the merchant within 30 days of clicking on your affiliate link you will still get a commission.

Pay-Per-Lead – Pay per leads commissions are usually small, but don’t worry you can still make money on this one. With this one you want to get an email address from the visitor for example they sign up for a free trial. Every company will be different.

Pay-Per-Click – This one is extremely rare since it is exactly as it sounds every time someone clicks on your affiliate link you get paid. There is too much click fraud on the internet to make it profitable for the merchant.

Find out what the top keywords users are searching to find your site, which page they are going to the most on your site. Create save and edit custom reports the way you want to see them. Your dashboard has everything you want to see in one shot.

Once you installed the tracking code onto your website you will be able to see data after 24 hours. To get you tracking code:

1. Log into your account
2. Select Analytics Settings on the top left side of the screen
3. Select the profile you want to look up by clicking edit on the right side.
4. On the top right it says Receiving Data (Check Status) Click on that
5. Your tracking code can be copied and pasted

There are also directories you can submit your link to. Yahoo directories and Google directories offer free submissions. When linking to a directory you want to make sure your link is in the appropriate category for your niche. And make sure you are linking to a directory that has high ranks of its own.

The internet has become very community orientated. You want to become an expert in your field so everyone else will want to link to your.

1. Broad match – keyword
2. Phrase match – “keyword”
3. Exact match – [keyword]
4. Negative match –keyword

Broad Match – You simply enter your phrase into Google without any quotes or brackets around it. This is goggles default to add keywords. Google can look at the search term and add keywords around it, or if your keyword is apple pie, and someone searches pie apple or homemade apple pie your ad will still show up.

“Phrase Match” – This is the one that got me because it seems to be the exact same thing as exact match, but it’s not. For phrase match you write your keyword in quotes. The keywords in your phrase have to be exact, but Google can add other search terms around it. So if your keyword is “apple pie” and someone searches for homemade apple pie your search will show up, but if the search is on homemade pie apple your ad will not show up.

[Exact Match] – You write this keyword in brackets. Your ad will show up only if the search term is exactly the same as your keyword.

-Negative Match – This allows you to block your ad if certain keywords are being used in the search query. If you only want someone to look up apple pie you could add crisp to your negative words just to make sure your ad didn’t show up for apple crisp when a search query was done.

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