An Affiliate Link is bascially a website address like www.createyourfirstdomain.com however affiliate links include information about who is responsible for that link, most importantly you, the affiliate. If a customer clicks on a link you’ve posted and ends up buying the product you end up getting credit for the sale and receiving a commission. The affiliate link lets the website owner know who to reward for promoting his product.
Let’s talk about Clickbank links, since they seem to be the easiest to promote for the beginner. You will need a Clickbank ID when you register. It’s up to you what ID you create. You will use that ID from clickbank no matter how many affiliate products you decide to promote. There are two ways to create personalized Affiliate Links…at clickbank an affiliate link is known as a Hoplink.
The most common way is to create your Hoplink automatically using the Clickbank Marketplace. When you have found the product you want to promote, just click the ‘Promote’ button to the right of the product listing and it will generate your personal Hoplink. Then you can copy the Hoplink address by highlighting it and pushing the “Ctrl” button and “c” button on your keyboard. Now, put your mouse in a blank .txt notepad file and hold Ctrl and “v” together. This will “paste” what you just copied into your new notes file. Now you can save the file on your desktop. You can copy the Hoplink address and paste it anywhere you want to promote the product!
My Clickbank ID is 4045863. So, an example of a clickbank Hoplink for me would be: http://4045863.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net <<<this is not a genuine link, just an example. If you decide to create your link manually to make the HopLink work, you just replace VENDOR with the vendor’s ClickBank nickname. Some ClickBank vendors will have their nickname listed on their product website if they have a page for affiliates.
As a final note! Be sure to TEST THE HOPLINK so you’ll be comissioned for every sale you make! To test your HopLink to make sure it’s working correctly, you can either enter your HopLink directly into your browser’s address bar and hit Enter, or click on your HopLink directly if you’ve already posted it somewhere online. Once you’re on the vendor’s website, click their Buy Now button so you’re taken to the ClickBank order form. If you scroll to the bottom of the order form, you should see [affiliate=yournickname]. Mine would look like [affiliate=4045863].
Writing articles to drive traffic to your squeeze page is one of the best internet marketing tools you can have . It can seem like a lot of work, especially if you want to drive a ton of traffic…and of course you want to drive lots of traffic, right? So how do you do this without getting totally overwhelmed, and how do you do it in the shortest amount of time possible?
Well, I have an awesome answer…re-write your articles! I know this might sound a little nutty, but it’s not. And it will save you oodles (<-Carolism 
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You open an article you have already written and hopefully saved on your computer, go through it, paragraph by paragraph, and re-write each one. It’s really very simple. Just read the first sentence, and then say the same thing…in a different way. Here’s an example:
Paragraph Number 1. The quickest way to making money online is to build a list of people that want what you have to offer…and have come to know and trust you and your recommendations. Once you have a list built, you can find products and services that your buyers want and need and you can email them information and include a link for them to buy.
Now, let’s re-write that paragraph.
If you want to start making money online, you are going to need to build a list. Your list should be a group of people that look to you for info about products you recommend, and which services you use that they can also use and profit from. As you build a relationship with your list, they will trust that what you are telling them is true and feel comfortable buying the things you offer.
There you have it! You are basically saying the same thing, just in a different way. You are cutting your time and work in half but, the content is still there…you have already created it…now you are just going to say it in a different way. And actually, you can do this more than just twice. You can re-write an article three or four times. .
Article writing doesn’t have to take a lot of time. Neither do you have to come up with many different topics. If you use this method, you can write on four or five topics and end up with anywhere from seven to twenty different articles. This will put tons of articles out there to get you maximum exposure and drive a lot of traffic to your squeeze page. These are the best types of internet marketing tools—ones that are effective and save you time making you blissfully happy!
