Know Your Audience – Your affiliate links need to be helpful to your readers. Consider why they come to site in the first place and choose your affiliate programs based around that interest. If you blog about baseball don’t include big ads for printer ink just because they have a high potential payoff. Your readers are there to read up on stats, scores and team gossip; printers are not likely to be on their mind at the moment. Purchasing a new replica jersey? Your content may just pique their interest enough that they go right off and do that.

Show that You are Trustworthy – Readers are savvy, they know an affiliate link when they see one. If you break their trust in your opinion by promoting a worthless or “dodgy” product that you do not believe in but, has a high payoff they will feel either ignore or possibly stop visiting the site. New rules governing bloggers are making honesty in blogging even more important. As of December 1^st bloggers are required by the FTC to declare in writing to their readers if they are being compensated in any way to mention a certain product or service, which is making a difference to the way bloggers are approaching their daily posts.

Be Helpful

Throwing together a quick list of your favorite books chocked full of affiliate links is unlikely to be successful. Writing a careful and original review of one, with the affiliate link added in a more subtle manner is far more likely to get the results you are hoping for. Think of affiliate ads and links as complements to your content, not simply standalone advertisements.

Remain Relevant

Keep up to date on all the latest offerings from your affiliate programs and change out your ads on a regular basis. Seeing something visually new and stimulating may motivate a regular reader to finally click on that link for a product or service he has seen on your site many times before.

This lands a lot of bloggers in a difficult situation, especially those who use affiliate links in their blogs. Affiliate marketers on the whole are not receiving free goods or services but they are in many cases using their blog to advertise product, but they generally only receive a payment if a reader makes a purchase on the destination site. Which makes their legal position rather murky.

Here is an actual example of a situation that the FTC considers a violation of their new policies, which is taken directly from their “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”:
“A college student who has earned a reputation as a video game expert maintains a personal weblog or “blog” where he posts entries about his gaming experiences. Readers of his blog frequently seek his opinions about video game hardware and software. As it has done in the past, the manufacturer of a newly released video game system send the student a free copy of the system and asks him to write about it on his blog. He tests the new gaming system and writes a favorable review. Because his review is disseminated via a form of consumer-generated media in which his relationship to the advertiser is not inherently obvious, readers are unlikely to know that he has received the video game system free of charge in exchange for his review of the product, and given the value of the video game system, this fact likely would materially affect the credibility they attach to his endorsement. Accordingly, the blogger should clearly and conspicuously disclose that he received the gaming system free of charge. The manufacturer should advise him at the time it provides the gaming system that this connection should be disclosed, that it should have procedures in place to try to monitor his postings for compliance.”

You can download the whole rather long and confusing document here.  As many rights groups are protesting the regulation of the internet’s contents as a freedom of speech violation, it will certainly be in any bloggers best interests to watch how the story plays out over the next few months.

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Knowing this, you can be in on the action with Anastasia’s Affiliate Program. With several program options, you can begin to make monthly commissions by simply sending traffic to the site.


With their “First Per Order” program, you can make up to $250 for each of your new member’s first orders. The “Per Each Order” program pays you each time one of your members purchases credits. These credits are used to correspond to the ladies on the site.

The easiest program they provide is the “Per Lead Program.” Registration to the Anastasia site is free and they only have to pay money if they want to write to the women. They figure even though signing up is free, most, if not all the men will still purchase credits, so they pay you each time you recruit a new member. The reason why this commission program is easier is because the “free registration” is less pressure for most internet users and has a better conversion rate.

As with most affiliate programs, you can also make money by referring people who also want to make money as an affiliate, too. This wonderful commission promises you 10% of new affiliate’s sales to you.
Not only is this affiliate program simple and straightforward, there is a high demand clearly reported for the product it represents, thus leading you to a better potential to make money. Along with the hundreds of banners and other marketing tools, up-to-date stat reporting and your very own free website to promote Anastasia Date, you get the peace of mind knowing that you are sending customers to something they want.
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