Uber Affiliate Marketing Guide
last updated 7/9/2013
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.
I also stay up-to-date on affiliate industry blogs using AffPosts.com, so check that out for recent news.
My Networks
PeerFly
Neverblue
Integrate
MundoMedia
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.
Affmen Free Affiliate Marketing Course
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing FAQ
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.
Hot Affiliate Niches in 2013
How to Research Affiliate Niches
Researching Affiliate Niches in 2012
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
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.
Setting Up Your First Landing Page
Types of Landing Pages
Landing Pages And The Urgency Of Time
Mad lib form style testing results
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
Keyword Tracking with Encryption
Split Testing Affiliate URLs
Writing Ads
How to write compelling ads that users want to click on.
Writing Your First 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.
How to Split Test Your Landing Pages
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.
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?
Google Adwords
So annoying that it gets it’s own category.
Getting Cheap Traffic on Adwords
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
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
Excellent reference guide! :) I really need to start implementing these Affiliate marketing strategies.. thanks!
WTW
WOW, this is the greatest. I needed it like 2 years ago. Thank you and I am referring it to friends. WTW
Thanks for a great article, like a godsend to someone who’s barely touched upon affiliate marketing before. I’ll be sure to keep this bookmarked for future reference. WTW.
That is an amazingly long list with some amazing resources on it. It makes me wonder though if it wouldn’t have been better served to be broken up into several smaller posts. That way the list isn’t so overwhelming and can be digested a little bit at a time?
WTW
Paul,
I discovered this post a few weeks ago – but I’m back because of G. Park’s Winning The Web contest.
ATTN NEWBIES: Don’t scour the web looking for tidbits of info on how to make money online. All you need is this post. Read it. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
WTW
Fantastic list of resources.It’s amazing how much free useful info is out there for the affiliate marketer. WTW
This is such an awesome list of important affiliate marketing building blocks. I started returning all those crappy Clickbank products when I saw this. Sorry to be cheesy but, thanks for empowering us Paul!!
I feel stupid asking but… what does WTW stand for?
Winningtheweb sent me here and am very glad he did. Thanks for all the great info. WTW.
You know I’m a huge fan of yours Paul, and your advice is always top notch. WTW
WinningTheWeb.com
WTW :]
Paul, is this your never-ending post? Yet another that has broke 100 in comments. Good job, man. Keep it up. This isn’t just for WTW, but ..
WTW
Definately bookmarking it. Looking forward to digging deeper. WTW
You forgot Azoogle in your networks section
Wow this is like the Guide to All Guides of Affiliate Marketing. Very nice! Thanks!
WTW
A wonderful collection of links that is worth bookmarking.
WTW
What an amazing list! Sensational information – thank you. I’m going to bookmark this page and use it as a place of reference in the future ;-)
WTW
That’s a lot of great free info. You got a subscriber. Oh, and I heard about you from WTW.
What a great resource! This site is very well organized and provides great tools. It took me about 6 months to find all these tools when i was getting started, nice work.
D Navarro
awesomeautodeals.com
wtw
WOW! This is an unbelievable resource. Found thanks to WTW
I primarily find the Experiments section useful. It helps me on some research knowledge
WTW
This is THE GRANDADDY of ALL affiliate resource sites. Thanks WTW
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Good content here, for both newbies and intermediate affiliates. A must read if you ask me. I preach a lot about learning things for yourself, but it’s also nice to learn things from people that have already been through it. Saves some time, money, and aggravations.
thanks for you links
Wow, hell of a list you have here…bookmarked.
I like the articles about how to choose a domain name. People really need to use the Thesaurus more often. That’s always been my most effective tool when choosing my domains. In my opinion, choosing your domain name is one of the most important parts of starting your own site. The worst feeling is regretting your domain name after your site is already established.
WTW
Awesome resource, I’m bookmarking this but it’s another one of those information overload things for me. Let’s hope I can keep track of everything :)
WTW
Thank You for this great post. This guide helped me to find best ways to create good keywords list for my campaigns.
WTW
Wow this definitely is the grand-daddy of em all, when it comes to affiliate marketing information. I’ve bookmarked the page and will definitely be coming back when I have more time to delve deep.
WTW
Paul,
I’ve been following your blog for the past couple of months and I must say this is the best guide I’ve seen so far. Great work.
WTW
Information overload. I’m going to try out those tools you recommended and sign up with some of the affiliate networks. Thanks for the guide. It’s bookmarked.
I came here from WTW.
Using the PHP Tracking code from CPA-Affiliates I have been able to significantly reduce my costs … which I guess is as good as money earned.
WTW
I like the keyword tools you chose but what about Googles and Microsofts keyword tools? They are surely good assets that could be included.
WTW is the SHIT!!!
lol. Paul, I’ve been a regular reader on your blog forever but have never taken the time to check out this guide. It’s way more advanced than I imagined it would be and I’m really impressed (though I should be used to it with the quality of your post). Only minor “request” I would personally have would have is it would be really cool to see a good handful of actual case studies from the inception of the campaign all the way though to the end with stats and earnings/losses and such (though profitable would be better of course). Might not be the best thing to do with active campaigns but maybe if you kept notes on current campaigns and then when they get old or you move on then you could post them, in complete detail, so you don’t get screwed with too much direct competition or give away your current niches. Regardless, great guide!
And thanks of course to gyutae of WTW for bribing me into finally checking it out!
Excellent write up paul
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Damn man! You definitely outdid yourself with this one! I’ve been trying to read every single one of these and it’s taking forever! But patience is part of the key, right? Well… I guess I’m a little impatient! LOL!
Jay
awesome, this what all i need to get start, thanks
I agree with the overall idea of the post. The problem is that the devil is in the details. Put up a landing page that people don’t like and you’ll lose your shirt. My take on this is try writing a few articles and test different landing pages. At least you’ll get some useful data before you go on a spending binge with adwords. Also, the pharmacy thing is also correct. I think you can click on the request exception and actually get around that because you are not promoting prescription meds.
Weight Loss Guy
Wow, everything in this post is amazing. I am still learning about affiliate marketing before I jump into it and this has exactly what I need all in one post! Great job. I love this blog. Top of the line stuff.
This information is invaluable. I am basking myself in affiliate marketing. I can not thank you enough
Awesome, its posts like these that really help newbies.
this is sure a sweet list and i havent even noticed it yet but all the same it is very cool…good write up paul!
This post is really helpful when starting out like i am right now :)
Thanks,
Roger
great article!