last updated 4/27/10
Welcome to the epiphany in your affiliate marketing career. What I’m going to present here is a constantly updating mega affiliate marketing guide. It will be article links from blogs and forum posts. You will find everything you need to get you started with affiliate marketing, which means never again will you PAY FOR ANY AFFILIATE MARKETING INFORMATION. There’s too much quality free stuff out there for you to waste time and money buying something else. I’ve sifted through blogs to find the top informational posts that covers most topics of affiliate marketing. If you read every article in this guide and still go out and buy an affiliate marketing eBook without putting what you just learned to good use, you’re stupid. These articles will give you a very solid background into affiliate marketing and all the different techniques you can use. All you have to do is go out there and test what you learned. Keep what’s converting, and drop what isn’t. As I’m completely positive I haven’t covered every good article out there, make sure to contact me and hit me up with some links to add.
My CPA Networks and Tools
I’m just going to list out the affiliate networks I use, as well as the tools (paid and unpaid) I use when starting up a campaign. I recommend signing up for every affiliate network out there (even the ones I don’t mention), as each network has different offers with different payouts. You can be doing sweet on a niche, sign up with another network, and find out that they have a higher converting offer that pays out more. None of the paid tools are necessary, but each of them has their own special use to me and that’s why I use them.
My Networks
CX Digital
CPA Empire
Neverblue Ads
Azoogle
Copeac
Keyword Research Tools
Keyword Discovery
WordTracker
Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion
SEO Book Keyword Tool
Tracking Tools
Prosper202 Self-Hosted Tracking
Other Tools
Facebook Ads Manager
Plenty of Fish Ads Uploader
Keyword Companion
Complete N00bies
If you just heard from the grapevine that affiliate marketing is cool, but have no idea what it is, here are some background articles for you to gobble up.
Nickycakes Newbie Guide
Affiliate Marketing – Wikipedia
8 Beginner Questions and Answers
General Guides
Some general all around guides on affiliate marketing, and getting an affiliate campaign up and profiting as fast as possible. Good overall reads.
Free Affiliate Marketing Guide
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility – Part II
The Super Affiliate’s Guide to PPC Marketing
Choosing a Niche
Thoughts on ways to select a niche that will be profitable for you.
How & What To Promote
Using Brute Force to Find Profits
Picking a Niche is Everything in Affiliate Marketing
Strategy
Different affiliate marketing strategies and things to think about.
How to Build a Profitable Campaign on a Limited Budget
Landing Page or Redirect?
Diversification or Domination?
What PPC Engine to Start With
Affiliate Marketing On A Low Budget
Picking a Domain Name
Picking the right domain name for your web/product site.
9 Tips For Choosing A Great Domain Name
Tips for Selection a Domain Name
Landing Pages
What the user sees after they click on your ad. The landing page game is changing now, read up and get ahead of the crowd.
Landing Pages And The Urgency Of Time
Mad lib form style testing results
Impress Your Visitors with a Graphically Dynamic Landing Page
Creating an Adwords-Ready Landing Page
Landing Page Quality Score
Cloaking Affiliate Links
Landing Page Keys to Success
Design/Photoshop
What the user sees after they click on your ad. The landing page game is changing now, read up and get ahead of the crowd.
Photoshop Guide For Affiliates
Keyword Research
Researching keywords is something most people complain about, hopefully you’ll get some good tips and shut your yap.
Uber Keyword Research
Keyword Research Secrets
Tracking
Any good affiliate will tell you: track, track, and track. Testing and tracking are so important if you want to really take your campaigns to the next level.
Landing Page Rotation Script
PHP Keyword Tracking How-To
Keyword Tracking with Encryption
Split Testing Affiliate URLs
Advanced Tracking with DirectTrack
Writing Ads
How to write compelling ads that users want to click on.
18 Tips For Writing Better Pay-Per Click Ads
Creating PPC Ads That Stand Out From the Crowd
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Getting that CTR up in your ads.
6 Seductive CTR Tips
Tuesday Tips – Improving Landing Page CTR
Conversion Rates
Getting the user to convert once they make it to the landing page.
11 Ways to Improve Landing Pages
How To Build Landing Pages That Convert
CPC/CPM Advertising
How to advertise smart in search engines and on web/social sites.
The 1 Penny Tip
How Super Affiliate Set Their Bids
How to Increase CTR of Your Facebook Ads
PPV Advertising
Those annoying popunders you get when browsing your favorite sites. Yeah…that could be you.
Top 100 TrafficVance Targets
TrafficVance – Demographics & Tips
PPV Network Reviews
A Simple Way to Split Test PPV Landing Pages Without a Rotator
3 Ways to Increase Your PPV Landing Page CTR
Laser Targeting Your PPV Campaigns
Media Buying
Ready to play with the big boys?
Media Buying 101: Introduction To Inventory (A Step-By-Step Guide) – Part 1
Tips on Media Buying
Google Adwords
So annoying that it gets it’s own category.
Optimizing Google Content Campaigns
Google content network basic strategy
Conquering The Google Content Network
10 Adwords Mistakes
14 Adwords Tips for Beginners
49 Tips on Adwords
Traffic Guides
Guides written about utilizing specific traffic sources.
The Beginners Guide To Advertising On Facebook
Plenty of Fish. Plenty of Money.
PHP Codes/Tools
Write your own tools instead of paying for a programmer.
Free Geo IP Javascript To Increase Conversions On Your Campaigns
Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 1 – Intro & Tools
Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 2 – URLs, URL Variables, and using Live HTTP Headers
Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 3 – Basics of Assessing Your Target
Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 4 – cURL
Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 5 – A Basic Scraper
Monetizing International Traffic
Tricks
Misc. tricks that may give a small boost to some of your campaigns.
Increase Landing Page Relevance with Domain Aliasing
Advanced Tactics
Once you’re a beast at your niche, some super affiliate tactics.
Becoming An Advertiser : Part 1 (Overview)
How To Scale A Campaign
Case Studies
My favorite way to learn is by reading other people’s experiences and experiments that they post to the public.
CS1.1 – Pay Per Click Case Study Part 1
CS1.2 – Pay Per Click Case Study Part 2 – Keyword Research
CS1.3 – Pay Per Click Case Study Part 3 – Landing Pages and Tracking
CS1.4 – PPC Case Study Part 4 – Advice, Tips and Campaign Structure
CS1.5 – PPC Case Study Part 5 – Campaign Update and a Top Secret Tool
CS1.6 – Pay Per Click Case Study Part 6 – Stats Recap and Going Forward
How I Generated $1,700,000 in Auto Sales Despite a Weak Economy
Plenty of Fish Case Study – CPM Bid Effects – Results
How I made $7,144.00 using TrafficVance.
$10k PPC Experiment
$10k PPC Experiment Part II
Facebook Experiment
Case Study : Diet Pills – How I Ran It
Pay Per Click Network Challenge
Information-Packed Forum Threads
Threads that are packed with good conversation about affiliate marketing. You may find one or two gems.
NEW Facebook Ads
Plentyoffish Self Serve Advertising.
UKoffer Question Thread
Super Affiliate Mindsets
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Very Usefull Information.
Thanks for sharing
Keep up the good work…
Cracking resources
Thanks
What a Fantastic Affiliate Marketing Guide!
I’ll bookmark your page. Thank You!
Awesome list of affiliate resources. Definitely bookmarked for future reference.
I’ve also come across another really useful free resource for affiliate marketers that you and your readers may be interested in. It’s a video course called Clone Cash System. It’s well worth a Google as it shows you step by step how to make a success of affiliate marketing.
This is a really helpful guide. Bookmarked!
I think, as i m starting blogging , your post will help me a lot… thanks…
I dont like affialite marketing. :( Maybe I dont jnow how can I earn. If u have some informaton pls send me. Thank u
OK, I’m going through the archives, and this beauty pops up. How relevant is the information at present, and what about a nice up-to-date follow up to this one?
Very useful Information. Thanks for the sharing Paul.
Keep up the good work man!
Lovely info Paul. Thanks a lot for this:)
Great vid on Case Studies Part ! I learn some stuff I didn’t know about here like the google trend and keyword tool.I am a 110% newbie to all of this,I’m still stuck building a website but in due time I will gain knowledge.This was real helpful thanks Bro great job.
thanks for all the tips. couldnt have done it without you. here is to many successful years in the biz!
I’m new to affiliate marketing so this has been a really great help. Thanks!
Wow, this is a great find, so much relevant information, and it’s all free! Thanks very much for taking the time to put this all together and for keeping it updated. I’ll be reading for the next couple of months!
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Enjoyed it, Using it!
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This is a great guide. I am still a little new to the whole affiliate game–this will be my bible :)
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I must say, as a lot as I enjoyed reading what you had to say, I couldnt help but lose interest after a while. Its as if you had a wonderful grasp to the subject matter, but you forgot to include your readers. Perhaps you should think about this from more than 1 angle. Or maybe you shouldnt generalise so much. Its better if you think about what others may have to say instead of just going for a gut reaction to the subject. Think about adjusting your very own thought process and giving others who may read this the benefit of the doubt.
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information about so many tools and apps which are helpful for affiliate. But still lot of research has to be done to use all of them efficiently.
Thank uberaffiliate.com, for this guide and sharing.
I happy this information for newbies.
Thanks dude for the info :)