Asokans Free Affiliate Program

I have just launched a new free affiliate program for my money making blog. This program is aimed to create a group of individuals who are interested in making money online.

How does this program work?

• First let me tell you that this is a free affiliate program. Anybody interested in earning online can join this program.
• You will be paid 20% commission for every sale that you generate. All you need is to send visitors to Asokans.Com. We have many services which a blogger can buy and you get 20% paid for each sale you generate. We will be adding up more and more products periodically and your chances for earning are high.
• If you have writing skills, you can write paid reviews for any advertiser and get paid if the advertiser accepts your review. You get another 20% of the of the sales for that.
• You will be receiving all the updates of latest earning programs online.
• You can submit your articles for publishing for free, subject to approval by our moderators( 1 free article a month, actual cost is US$ 30 as on today). You can increase your blog visibility by doing this for free.
• All you need to do is send visitors to this blog using your unique affiliate link. You can send visitors to any page on this blog and get the credit for your sales. We have tracking system enabled for each and every page of this blog.
• All the payments are handled through Paypal, so you need to have a Paypal account. There is no minimum payout limit, so you can get paid after the first sale.

Get started now, get your free account

Newsletters for your blog

Newsletters are one of the must have marketing tools for your blog. There are many advantages of having a newsletter for your blog

• Promoting your blog - You can promote your blog using the News letter. You can periodically sent latest information and changes about your blog, request feedbacks and keep in touch with them. There are cases where you would like to get some information from your subscribers.
• Monetizing your blog - When you have good number of subscribers to your news letter, you can get them to your blog and inform them about a new post. When you have more visitors to your blog, you get more advertisements and finally more revenue
• Special Announcement - There are cases when many subscribers do not visit your blog, you can send announcement about something interesting to them and bring them back to your blog
• Boosting your sale - Suppose you have a new product which you want to sell through your blog. You can send a news letter and increase your sales

News Letter Websites

I have used two newsletter service providers

Aweber and Getresponse - Both of them are paid services, but I feel its worth to have one, but you should use it periodically to send some announcements and information

Using Feedburner subscribe through email facility you can send your posts by email, but not special announcements.

Managing your affiliate links in Wordpress

You may have joined different affiliate programs and you may need to use your affiliate links to promote your affiliate program. Very often we need to refer to our emails or login to the affiliate control panel to find our our affiliate link. This is something time consuming and we may even not bother to do this many times. I always use windows live writer to do all my blog post and it has a Glossary feature, which I use to store my affiliate links. But again I need to do this manually and this is sometimes not working for me. I was thinking of some plugin for wordpress which could store all my affiliate links with some keywords which I use in my posts so that when ever I use these keywords, the links are created automatically with the target URL to my affiliate page.

I came across an excellent product which does all I want and its so simple to manage called WP Affiliate Pro.

Advantages of WP Affiliate Pro

• Add 1000’s of Affiliate Links
• Easy Installation
• Decide how many times the links should be created
• Monitor the performance with click tracking
• No need to know HTML or PHP
• Customize colour and style of your links

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Affiliatebot - Excellent earnings affiliate program

I have been promoting many affiliate programs and earning good from them. Today I would be giving out some information related to an excellent affiliate program from which you can earn good. Its free to sign-up and you can earn by selling their products.

AffiliateBot

AffiliateBot is a place where merchants sell their products and affiliate help them selling their products. Affiliates are paid commission for each sale. This is similar to CJ, but I found this more revenue generator for me. You can find a wide range of products that you can sell here. Once you sign-up, you need to give the information about your blog or website where you will be promoting their products, your address, no need of any credit card or bank information. There are many programs with high EPC (Earnings per click) which you can select and promote. Some products have Geographical restriction, so you should check that and ignore the once which has this restriction.

You need to first join a campaign before you start promoting it. I find the approvals instant and you can get different size of banners which you need to put on to your blog and wait for sales.

Its worth joining, have a try, Sign-up for a free account

Withdraw your PayPal funds to your Indian Bank Account

There are many Indians who are reluctant to use Paypal as they have problem getting the real cash from their Paypal account. I recently got all my Paypal money transferred to my account Axis Bank Account using this feature in just 4 days time. I got good conversion rate too. You need to set up your bank account details for this. You will also need the IFSC code of your bank which you can find on the cheque book of your account.

First you need to go to your PayPal account

Once you login, you will see the link “Withdraw” Just click that and go to the next page

In the image shown below, just click on the “Withdraw funds to your bank acount”

Enter the Amount that you want to withdraw and select the bank account. I have a bank account already selected so I see a drop down list which I can select from or I can add a new account

For adding a new account, just select the bank. The banks which are accepted for this are

HBSC BankYou need to enter your account number and the IFSC code of your bank, which you can find on the check leaf or you can get it from you bank

Thats it, in next 4-7 days, the money is in your bank

This is real money business. If you do not have a Paypal Account, just sign-up for a free account

How to manage organize your affiliate programs

I have signed up for many affiliate programs and I often get confused with the login information, login URL etc. When you have a blog, one of the biggest income generator other than private sales of ads is affiliate program. For example, I am an affiliate of Shaadi.Com and I did a post to promote few days back. I am an affiliate of different affiliate programs and to keep track of the earnings, promotion, banners are difficult if things are not organized well.

Ok let me explain to you, how I manage all these things. I am bit choosy while signing up for affiliate programs so I am not having much to manage, but I do it in an organized way. I will be in a stage when I will be promoting many affiliate programs using my blog and the traffic to my blog.

Tools I use for managing the affiliate programs and private sales of advertisements

Advertisements - I do sell advertisement space other than using Google Adsense. I have good number of websites with enough traffic. I am happy to say  that my traffic is growing everyday and I am working hard on that. 85% of my traffic are from search engines and some from referring sites. I have a very small budget for advertisements  and I usually use Google Adwords.

Let me come to the point now, to manage my Advertisers, I use OpenAds, hosted on my dedicated server and its working fine. I sell space on CPM basis and the advertiser need to buy minimum 10,000 impressions and the ads run till the purchased impressions are over. In fact I have already applied for an invitation for Google Ad Manager, if I get an account, the I could try that. The advantage of using Google Ad Manager will the the efficiency in delivering ads.

Affiliate Programs - To manage my affiliate programs, I again use openads. The ads are rotated along with other paid ads and I get to make some income from my the affiliate programs which I promote. I also have my in house ads running along with these paid ads.

I create a campaign for each affiliate program I promote and add up all the information about the program to the campaign details. I may have different login details for different affiliate programs, so to avoid any confusions, I keep these information updated in the comments column of the campaign.

In this way, by using OpenAds, now known as openX, is good and efficient. There are lots of reporting tools available which can help you in monitoring the performance of your ads and affiliate programs.

OpenX is a opensource program, which can be downloaded for free.

Analysing your blog growth

I presume that you have a new blog or a blog that you are really working hard and using some campaigns in Increasing your blog traffic, but how do you know that its working well? For this purpose you need a tool to check your website stats and I do use Google Analytics which is 100% free and I feel the best for managing multiple websites and domains

So how do you start off?

Go to Google Analytics and create an account. If you are already a Gmail user, just sign-in using the same login credentials and start configuring.

Click on the Add Profile Link as shown on the image above and enter the website details

You need to enter your website URL and the Time Zone and click on the continue button as you see in the image above

You need to select the code, I prefer to use the New code, Just copy that and paste it on the footer.php of your selected wordpress template file before the tag

Once you complete it, just click on the finish button, you will get the page shown above. Once you add the tracking code to your template and click on the Check Status link, you will get the message shown as on other websites (Please refer to the image above)

Now you are done, just go to the view report link and explore the different reporting system

I will be posting a page on using the reporting system soon

You should first Creating content for your blog, and do the necessary for Traffic for your blog, before you start analysing your traffic.

Alertpay, a paypal alternative

Many bloggers and affliliate managers are diched by Paypal, they either put the account on hold saying that there was a security threat by your account and your account is disabled for the time being. You cannot make any payment or receive any payments during this period.

This kind of emails are often received by small business accounts and I have received it twice. It take arount 1 month to this this sorted out.

There are many alternatives for paypal and one of them is Alertpay.

Account types in Alertpay

There are two types of account

• Personal Account
• Business Account

There are some limitation in personal account so for a blogger who want to use this for his business and get payments, its advisable to go for a business account

In a business account, you can do transaction under your business name, receive payments, send payments, use shopping cart, accept credit cards, use buy now buttons and IPN is also provided

Mass payment and unlimited emails are also associated with business accounts

Bidvertiser, Pay per click program

Bidvertiser is another pay per click program which the is a similar program like Google Adsense. You get paid for clicks and referrals in this program and its very easy to use. You can create banners customizing the looks and colors. There are different sizes of banners available and easy to sign-up for an account.

Its very important that you go through the terms and conditions of every program that you participate so that you can work accordingly and avoid account termination.

How to sign-up for a Bidvertiser Account?

Very simple, just to go the Bidvertiser Website and sign-up for a publishers account. You will have to provided the details of the websites that you would be using to display the ads as well as select a category for your website.

Pros and cons of Bidvertiser

Pros

• Customizable Banners
• Low minimum payout of US$10
• Often they announce free limited advertising for publishers
• RSS feeds advertising introduces
• Excellent reporting system
• Prompt Payments
• Referral Earnings

Cons

• Not much of ads
• Ads not relevant to the content of the page
• Payment only through paypal

Conclusion - In general, this is a good program for starters for getting some earnings from their blog or website. Do not click on your own ads or you will lose your account

Paypal, your payment processor

If you are running an affiliate program and you need to process the payment, then you need to have a shopping cart. You do not need to create one yourself, but just need to sign-up for an account with such service providers. Payments will be processed at their secure website and transferred to your account.

Paypal is one of such service provider and is the most popular one. To create an account just sign-up for free and verify your account using your credit card.

To start off

Go to Paypal website and sign-up using correct information. Your email is very important as the payments are processed using your email. You can add multiple emails after you create your account. You need to verify the emails before you start using it.

Once you create your account, you can login and view your account control panel

Here you see tabs like Send money, Request Money, Merchant services etc.

To use the shopping cart, you need to go to the Merchant services

From here you can select the right button or cart as per your need. You will find all the help and support at the website itself and its not to hard to set it up.

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