A landing page is a form of direct marketing. The efforts put forward in driving traffic to your landing page – through banner ads, keyword searches, or pay per click advertisements – means little if the landing page cannot convert visitors into customers. Affiliate marketing sites use landing pages often; however, any business can capture leads, make sales, or provide relevant information with landing pages. Only 52% of companies and agencies that use landing pages also test them to find ways to improve conversions.

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Who is your ideal visitor? Knowing this information helps you to write better content aimed at these visitors, plus it also helps you to find out where the best places are to promote your website.

Building up a mental image of your ideal visitor will help you target everything on your site to appeal to these visitors. Questions that you need to ask yourself are:

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Here are the last 5 out of 10 ideas to help you produce your own unique content for your website. The more original, quality content you produce, the better your website will be! The better your website is, the easier it is to rank well in search engines, get new and returning visitors and, most importantly, refer sales. Read on to find out how…

6. Related Products

You can write about products that are related to or that simply work well within your niche. This can open up your site to include more content as well as linking to more products to earn commissions. Link to complimentary products, rival products or even products that are not directly related to your niche but would be interesting for your website’s demographic.

Similar to writing reviews, the amount of work that would need to be put into this section would depend on your niche and how many related products there are.

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The hardest job for affiliates is not designing the site, choosing merchants to promote or deciding what subject or niche to work in — it’s generating the actual content that will make a website interesting and encourage visitors to come back.

The more original, quality content you produce, the better your website will be. The better your website is, the easier it is to rank well in search engines, get new and returning visitors and, most importantly, refer sales.

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When you are a customer, what information do you need to know to be convinced to make a purchase or give a free trial a chance? With the web being such a resourceful tool, we all have a tendency to research and shop around for the best deals before making any purchase. Why not make this work in your favor? Let the customer do the research they need to do all in one place—your website! Discuss the competition and why the product you are promoting is best, giving the customer the information they need to compare the product to the others in the industry. Highlight the specific features that set the product apart from the competition. The trick here is to know your product, and to know it well! Do you know the features that set the product apart from the competition? What is new about this product that may entice a former customer to take another look? If you don’t know, read up! Find the product websites and stay current on any latest news/enhancements that are released. By staying up-to-date, you become a more credible website and also create another opportunity to get back in front of your audience!

When promoting a product on your website, it is a good idea to have your links open in a new window so that visitors do not navigate away from your website. Just follow these simple directions and you will have all your links opening in a new window in nothing flat! Log into your affiliate account, select the offer to promote and then the banner ad or text ad you will be working with. Copy and paste the HTML in its proper place.

After the first line of text in the HTML code you just need to insert target="_blank" in between the last " and the > sign.  For example:

First line of text:
<a href="http://www.example.com/>text</a>

First line of text with additional code:
<a href= "http://www.example.com/" target="_blank">text</a>

Be sure to test to ensure everything works correctly!

Assortments of people are presently enticed by affiliate marketing for the reason that it can be monetarily rewarding, even if you just hang about at home. Affiliate marketing agendas are preeminent substitutes to those who are pale and exhausted of their laborious every day work just to scale up the acclaimed corporate hierarchy. You don’t require merchandises to sell, you just need to promote them in your individual portal and you don’t need to be troubled about meting out the customers’ expenses and the consignment of the products. If you are by now into affiliate marketing, in all probability you were pondering about these advantages, too, before making up to join an affiliate program.

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It’s very nice to see Microsoft inside CJ Network. I think it is the first product from Microsoft in Commission Junction. Microsoft is already running their own Affiliate Program(s) at microsoftaffiliates.net where publishers can promote Windows Live OneCare, and Windows Live Toolbar but will they move all those programs to CJ? Let’s wait and watch.

Microsoft® Corporation is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Office Live Small Business has helped over 600,000 customers realize their potential by providing solutions to get online, attract customers and manage their business.

Office Live Small Business is an online service with powerful, do-it-yourself tools and templates that make it easier and more affordable for customers to grow their business online—it puts large-company technology to work for small businesses.

Join the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Affiliate Program to team up with Microsoft and help your small business customers realize their potential. Microsoft offers a competitive compensation rate for each completed Office Live Small Business sign-up you refer. The program requires minimal effort and signing up for Office Live Small Business is FREE for your customers.

Program Highlights:

• A recognized brand name that sells itself
• $5.00 per completed sign-up you refer
• Limited to small business customers in U.S. only
• No qualifying event necessary
• Customer sign-up for Office Live Small Business is FREE!
• A dedicated Affiliate Manager and team to support you

I’ve just applied for this program and my application got declined immediately :D. So, let me shoot an email to their affiliate manager to approve my application.

Source: Microsoft Office Live