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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Does the Merchant Plan to Expand its Product Line?

Does the Merchant Plan to Expand its Product Line?

When you are looking for a new affiliate program to market look for an affiliate program where the merchant is constantly adding new products to its product line.

This will increase your income potential plus your customers will keep coming back to see what's new and exciting.

When you decide to join an affiliate program where the merchant is constantly expanding its product line, make sure the merchant supplies you with a website.

If the merchant doesn't supply you with a website what will often happen is that the customer will often bypass you and go directly to the merchant the next time they want to buy something.

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Does the Merchant Give You a Helping Hand?

Does the Merchant Give You a Helping Hand?

Many of the affiliate programs that I have researched the only marketing material that they provide you with is banners and links .The amount of marketing support you get from these companys is pretty much zero. It is in the merchant's best interest to help you the affiliate succeed.

Luckily there are some affiliate programs that do offer marketing support. Look for programs that provide you with a wide variety of marketing tools to help you succeed.

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Are Your Affiliate Sales Going Untracked?

Are Your Affiliate Sales Going Untracked?

Many affiliate programs use cookies to track your affiliate sales. This is a good method of tracking but this system has a few flaws in it.

Here are a few things you should be aware of:

1 .If a person buys from you and has cookies turned off that sale will go untracked and you will not get paid for that sale.

There is a solution to that problem. Some merchants have it setup so you cannot access some of their WebPages unless cookies are turned on.

Just to give you one example Topicia is one such company. A webpage pops up stating that you cannot access this webpage unless cookies are turned on.

2. The area on your computer where cookies are stored can fill up so that others won't be stored.

The so-called professionals claim that not more than 5% of cookies are lost in these ways

Make sure you have your cookies on your computer turned on. And remember what comes around goes around.

To learn more about different methods of affiliate link tracking see the article, "How does affiliate tracking work: A 'not-too-technical' overview!"

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