Spending time on affiliate marketing is something invaluable. Once you have spent a good couple of months reading, and a couple more playing around, you build a skills set, which can then be transferred to any form of online advertising. One thing I believe strongly in, is the difference between Search Engine Optimisation and actual Campaign Selection. Being able to drive traffic is a fantastic skill, but you need to drive your traffic to the correctly websites and landing pages. I have driven thousands and thousands of hits to certain landing pages, which have not driven any income what-so-ever, and then I have driven a little traffic to a landing page and earned 10 times the former.

Studying campaigns, relative to your traffic sources is key. If you are bringing traffic from a website which talks about travel and accommodation, then run relative adverts. This is a very obvious scenario, but it’s the foundation to successful online marketing. Early this morning, some partners and myself started running a campaign with TrafficSynergy and this campaign has proven to be excellent. We are running the Win a Trip to Mauritious campaign, which I’ve blogged about before, but this time we tried an alternative method, and it’s proven amazing thus far!

Here is some proof, but remember.. this is only 30 minutes after releasing the new campaign, and the funds are also still pending (obviously)..

FreshMeet is a TrafficSynergy Cost Per Click campaign, revolving around a social networking website. You will acquire R0.64 per advert click, and there are other ways to make money via related Cost Per Action campaigns for FreshMeet (50% per sale, and 30% per sub sale). The campaign looks like a strong one, and has the benefit of being a campaign without an expiry date at the moment, which means it’s worth jumping onto immediately. Social networking websites, as we all know, are massive traffic drivers, so refering people to this website is a piece of cake. I have been running some adverts on a website, and have seen a good number of sign ups per day already.

Give it a try, and see the power of social networking push up your monthly earnings.

JAM is an affiliate and membership management system. This system allows you to recruit, manage, and build an team of online affiliates that can help promote your products and services throughout the Internet.

JAM can be used to help you recruit and manage affiliates as well as give them exclusive access to marketing and promotional tools to promote your business. These tools come with unique tracking codes and the likes, allowing you to track your affiliates, and let your affiliates send recruited users to your system easily.

The download is free, and allows you up to 50 affiliates on the trial version, which is a decent amount of time to test things out! There is also a useful demo on the website, which you may take a look at before downloading.

Other reasons to try JAM

• Quick and easy affiliate signup and management.
• Brilliant commission management.
• Collection of marketing and promotion tools.
• Automatically email your affiliates.
• Analyse affiliate performances.
• Create PPC, PPA or CPM tracking programs.
• Easy to integrate with online payment system.

Give it a try, it really does seem like some useful software. I’m busy checking it out at the moment.

Search engine submitting is really important when it comes to increasing your traffic. Most of us have tried using software to submit to multiple search engines, but as I have found out, and most probably you too, these applications don’t work correctly, and just end up with added spam in your inbox. This being said, I have made a list below of some free submission websites, which take a few minutes to do, and they do work! Note that a couple of these are free submit websites, whereas the others are not as quick and simple. Start with the free submit ones, and enjoy some quick and simple search engine rankings..

Google & Netscape Search
Free Submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo! & Fast Search & Altavista
Free Submit: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/

MSN Live Search
Free Submit: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

AOL Search
Submit: http://www.aol.com/netfind/

Gigablast
Free Submit: http://www.gigablast.com/addurl

Good luck, and look out for some extra traffic to your blog soon!