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Basics You Must Know Before Signing Up At Affiliate Networks

Recently lots of affiliate networks are popping up over the net, and it started to be hard to know which ones are reputable and fair. We won’t talk about the scams and abouts, but things to find out before going head first into the unknown or different affiliate network.

What Is Revenue:
It can be defined differently from network to network or even program to program, so make sure you’ll be earning as much as you think. Some programs will only pay commissions based on profit, their definition of revenue, instead of the actual sale price of the item.

Returns:
Generally speaking you can expect a negative amount applied to your account balance within an affiliate network. This is not unheard of in big programs like Amazon and even eBay, so be aware of it and what policies are before signing up.

What’s CPC/CPA/CTR:
CPC: More often than not CPC is the most important when it comes to marketing budget, CPC means cost per click. Illustrious for CPC is of course Google. This is how much you would pay the msn adcenter every time a traffic clicks on your ad. Depending on the merchandise and goods your promotion your cost per click will vary. I’ve seen CPC rates as high as $15 per click in as little as 5� per click.

Plainly the more competition there is in your advertise the more money you will be paying to keep up with that competition.

CPA: it means cost for action or cost per acquisition. The type of action could be simple lead entering an email or completing an online form. This has been the new thing since 2007 when it became a big deal. You will find different types of CPA Networks showing up all over web.

Even as an advertiser you can figure out what each lead is worth to your business and put a price on it. Let other professionals market your business for you and you pay them per performance so to speak.

The gorgeous thing of CPA is that your prospects don’t have to buy anything they just have to take some type of action as stated in the previous paragraph. You will pay anywhere from $1 to $100 for various lead generation.

It’s one of the easiest ways to generate money online as long as you know how to drive traffic to those landing pages and get people to enter their information.

CTR: CTR is the “click through rate”. This is the percentage of visitors who click through on your ad. For example, if your ad was displayed 100 times and only one person clicked on it then your CTR will be 1%.

What Gets Commissions:
If a program within an affiliate network offers a news feed, sign up to it. You’ll get valuable information that can save your wallet, like if they are removing certain items from their commissioned list. Just recently Amazon.com removed the Wii console from their list of items that qualify for a commission.

Cookie Duration:
Obviously the longer a tracking cookie remains the better, but know how long they last and how they are written over if at all. Some are as short as one day, like Amazon, and most are up to 30 days.

Payout Threshold:
Know what kind of payout threshold the affiliate network offers, it sucks to sign up for a network, only to give up on it down the road just below their payout threshold. Therefore your earnings stay with the network, in limbo until you make more commissions or forget about it. There is currently a trend to lower payouts if you do a bank transfer or Paypal and a higher threshold if you need a check snail mailed to you