Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs

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Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs

I appreciate so much interest on my last post on Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs, and with so many of you interested, I am going to share with you two strategies that I am using. I don't think I can cover everything you guys and gals have requested in this one post, so today I will share two strategies and the other requests in my next post.

How Many Clicks Does It Take

The first thing I want you all to know is that every program pays out with a different amount of clicks, so when you first start promoting these programs it will take most people three to four months before they see their first payday. These programs are not a way to earn an income, but they are a way to supplement your income. I just don't want anyone to be thinking this is going to be an easy way to make money, but I do feel it is worth promoting these programs since you are able to earn with clicks and by sales.

How Vig Links & Skim Links Works

You will find these programs in Vig Links and Skim Links more than any of the other affiliate networks, and neither of these are considered affiliate networks. They both are good sources of affiliate programs for bloggers, but they are not considered affiliate networks technically. With these programs you will not see any money going into your PayPal account for the first four months, and this is because the affiliate programs pay them quarterly. It is similar to when you start a new job, you have to work at first without getting paid until you have paid into their payroll account.

How The Pay Per Click Progams Work

You really don't need to research which companies are paying the most per clicks, and the reason is you just never know what they are paying from one minute to the next. If they are making money they will reward you with higher click ratios, and when their revenue is down you too are going to be seeing a drop in the amount they are paying you. I saw a dramatic drop this month with people out of work, so the economy actually dictates the amount a company is paying at any given time. You will find Vig Links & Skim Links has the highest pay per click programs than affiliate networks, and this is because most of these affiliate programs join Vig Links & Skim Links. So when you join an affiliate network, and find a program that pays per click, you get paid according to the affiliate networks pay program.

Vig Links & Skim Links

These as far as I know are the only two programs that automatically inserts affiliate links into your blog posts for you, and it takes time before you will start seeing links inserted automatically. That is the reason you have to insert a code on your website so these two programs can monitor your blog posts, and I added Vig Links plugin which works much quicker than inserting their code.You do have the option of inserting any of the affiliate programs that is a merchant, but with so many programs, you will more likely experience links inserted from merchants you didn't even know were available.

Vig Links Dashboard

With Vig Links dashboard you have daily information how many clicks each affiliate program you promoted that day received, and how many sales and even which programs you are receiving the most sales and clicks from. So this takes the guesswork out by being able to view your stats as often as you want, and this tells me what programs to promote and which programs to let go. Since joining Vig Links I never check Google Analytic anymore, and the reason is I am I receiving much better information from my Vig Link dashboard. I would not be earning money every day if I was not using Vig Links, so if you do join pay per click programs from affiliate networks and individually, you are going to be promoting them in the dark.

Strategy Number One

When I first started I was promoting these programs manually in my blog posts, and within a month I was starting to see my stats increasing gradually from my dashboard. This did encourage me and gave me faith this is going to turn my business around, but what really jump started my income was when I took all the programs I could find on Vig Links in my niche and added them to an online store. You see this really increased my clicks and my sales by being able to insert my store link into my blog posts, and this put all the programs into my readers eyes with one simple click. All my affiliate programs in my online store are pay per click programs, but I do have business resources for my readers that I am not earning anything from. The way I figured it is the more I can offer my readers that they value, the more they are going to visit my website and my store, and I publish four newsletters that I insert my online store link and that is bringing me the majority of my sales.

Social Media Marketing Strategy

I am promoting nothing but pay per click programs on my social media pages as well, and I post my blog posts, but I also post my online store. You see I can get away with posting my blog posts and my online store on my social media pages, and even on Facebook that banned me years ago for promoting affiliate links. Facebook sees my online store link as a website link just like my blog posts, so they have no idea that I am promoting affiliate links on their website. Most of my affiliate links are posted on Twitter since they have no problem with people promoting affiliate links, so you can promote your affiliate links on Twitter with your blog posts to get a lot of clicks and sales easier than any other social media website. If you are not promoting your affiliate links on Twitter you are losing out on a lot of traffic and sales, and of all my social media websites Twitter is bringing me the most income. Now you are supposed to include a hashtag in any posts on social media pages that includes affiliate links, and as stupid as this is that is the new law now. I mean how many people don't know that most of the product links are affiliate links, so in my mind this is just another way to make affiliate marketing more difficult for bloggers and website owners.

Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs

I am not promoting any programs that isn't paying me for clicks at this time, but sometimes some of my programs stop paying me for clicks until their revenue started to increase again. So you can't depend on how much you are going to earn with these programs, but the way I see it getting paid for clicks and sales has been a big part of my success online.

Read My Post On Vig Links

I did publish a post on Vig Links, so if you want to learn more about it you can read my post by going to my profile and blog. Some folks want me to do a post on Skim Links, so that will be in my next post and since I have never used the program myself, I am going to have to research and talk to some people who are using this program.

Newsletters

Again I want to encourage you all to start a sign up form for subscribers for a newsletter, you can do like I did and start with one and see how it goes? Anyone you ask who is earning a steady income online is going to tell you the majority of their sales are coming from their email list, and even with people not working I still am receiving subscribers, so that is how powerful a newsletter is for your business success. I am using the Newsletter plugin which is very easy to use right after you install and activate it, and being able to do everything on your website makes life so much easier and quicker for you.

Any questions feel free to contact me at anytime,

Jeff

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Great info here, Jeffrey, and you make a very valid point about how these programs should only be about supplementing your income rather than being your main source of it.
I missed your previous post on the subject, so I'll bookmark them both for future reference.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Rich :-)

I am happy I made it clear about supplementing your income, I just don't want people to be disapponted

So if I am understanding you correctly, when viglink starts putting the links in my posts (which they have done), I will get a little money when someone clicks on them even though they buy nothing?

I don't have to pick the merchant that will do that? That's my understanding. I hope it's correct.

Thanks!!

Most of the programs pay per click as well for sales, you also can go on any website and check if they are a merchant of Vig Links if you install the browser extension and insert your own affiliate links as well.

I insert the affiliate links I want in my posts, and any Vig Links inserts are bonus links you can earn from.

Thanks for that information, Jeff. Much appreciated.

Thanks Jeff.

Happy to share

Awesome! I appreciate you sincere assistance and info.

I thank you for reading and commenting on this post, I have had a lot of interest from members with these types of affiliate programs

Good stuff, Jeff. Thanks again

Hello, Sonny
So do you have everything thing set up with Vig Link yet

Hey Jeff,

I added the script in the footer and I updated the ads.txt file.
I think it's all set.

Thanks for asking!

Sonny

Hello, Sonny

I just added the plugin on my websites, I thought it was so much easier and quicker for me to do but as long as you have the code on your website you should be good

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