I keep talking about. In the previous article about the conversation was about banner and contextual advertising.
These options for generating income for many sites are a priority, but besides them, there are many more opportunities to squeeze all the juice out of your project. In this article, I plan to talk about such an option of earning as affiliate programs.
Affiliates are a fairly versatile way to generate income. You can deal with them both using your resource as an advertising platform, or have nothing at all. In the second case, advertisements are placed using, for example, contextual advertising or indicated in signatures on forums.
But let's start from the beginning. What exactly are affiliate programs and how can you make money on them?
What are affiliate programs and how do they make money?
A referral program is a kind of agreement between the seller and partners, concluded for the purpose of selling a product or service. It enables the seller to reduce the cost of attracting the end buyer, and the partner to earn his own percentage of the income from the sale of a product or service.
Affiliate programs can be single-level, when you only earn interest from the purchase made by the person you attracted (referral). And there may be multilevel.
For example, with a two-tier scheme, you can earn not only a percentage of the purchases of a product or service by your visitors, but also receive a percentage of the income of those users who also became partners of this program by following your referral link. Those. in this case, you also earn by attracting new referrals. Sometimes it is possible to earn on referrals of your referrals (third level), and so on. Below I will give an example of a ten-level affiliate program.
For, to start earning on any referral program, usually it is enough to register in it and receive a special referral link, including a unique identifier, which will determine that the visitor came precisely thanks to your efforts, and not directly.
You can place the link wherever you like. At least on your website in the form of a hyperlink or in the form (either in specially written for this case or just thematic articles), at least in the signature on the forum, at least in the ad contextual advertising. The main thing is that they click on it or on the banner and it would bring new visitors to the seller's resource who will potentially be interested in his product or service.
For example, many exchanges for webmasters have their own affiliate programs designed to attract new users (your potential referrals, on which you can earn money). Thus, they may not spend money on advertising at all, because you will be doing this in an effort to become a referral. The network has a directory of affiliate programs Actualtraffic.ru, where you can pick up something suitable for the subject of your resource.
After you register in any of these exchanges or affiliate programs of another type, you can get a referral with which you can start recruiting, for example, visitors to your own site. It's called becoming a referrer. If one of your visitors becomes your referral, then you can earn a percentage of his total income on the exchange. you can find in the article below.
14 universal affiliate programs on which I earn
First I I will give universal partner options, in which you can attract a very wide range of users (as they say - suitable for everyone). It’s like universal earning tools are obtained:
- bestchange is a popular online e-currency exchanger. Almost everyone who is somehow connected with the Internet, and even more so those who are trying to earn money in it, sometimes bother with the problem of exchanging one for another or withdrawing money in real. Actually,) helps to find the most profitable option (read more about it at the link provided).
The affiliate program of this service is three-level, and therefore pays not only for the actions of the users of the service you attracted, but also for the actions of their referrals up to the second generation. And judging by the above screenshot of my income for three months, it pays very generously.
- 60 sec is a cryptocurrency exchanger with a very profitable two-level referral program. Incomes are very, very decent, especially during periods of growth in cryptocurrency rates:
The referral programs of several other exchangers also show very good results:
- Binance is the most popular cryptocurrency exchange right now with a very profitable affiliate program (20% of the exchange profit from the referrals you brought). I've only recently started working with her, but I'm already very pleased with the results.
You can get a referral link after registering on this page (the interface is translated into Russian, but it’s not very easy to find the affiliate section there, so I provided a direct link to it).
- Popov's partner- you can sell his courses yourself, or you can recruit recruits (refs) who will do this for you (up to four levels are paid).
I once took . It's true, it's been a long time...
- Etxt- probably the best of the copywriting exchanges, at least in terms of income from referrals.
Here you will find .
- Vktarget- service for . But there is also a rather generous affiliate program, through which it will be possible to receive quite decent passive income (you just need to find a way to attract refs to it - for example, they constantly try to slip reflinks from Vktarget in spamm comments, and this is about something yes He speaks).
- Rukapcha- another option of "earnings for everyone", which means that it will not be difficult to attract here through an affiliate program, because absolutely everyone will do. Again, the conditions and honesty of accruals / payments have been checked and approved by me.
Read more about the service in the article:
- Workzilla— so far I have just started experimenting with an affiliate program, but the results are already very good. Let's look further...
- Qcomment- I previously wrote about, but both on PR customers and on their performers. You can also read about other services where they offer.
- AppCent- the affiliate program is to attract those who want to earn money on their smartphone by installing various applications there, the owners of which need to wind up the required number of downloads and installations. You will receive 10% of the funds they earn in the system (promo code 4ZVQD1). Read more at the link.
- AdvertApp(promo code 2p2sq3) is also a mobile app for earning, which users like and allows the referral to earn money. The principle of operation is described in detail in the article.
- CourseExpert is another ref program for monitoring exchangers, which also demonstrates excellent conversion. In addition, upon registration in the affiliate program, you will immediately receive $1, which will not be superfluous.
- — CPA affiliate program for those who work or are ready to work in the beauty and health niches. There are 1000+ offers in 60+ GEOs in the affiliate program and new ones are constantly connected. There are exclusive offers with some of the highest rates on the market, fresh precasts and landing pages.
And if you first copy the referral link, and then cut off its ending? a=gatypa , then, of course, it will not work and you will not earn a pretty penny from this respected user. Why many people are not too lazy to spend time trimming the end of the ref is not very clear to me.
After all, almost all of your potential referrals know that this will not affect their future earnings in this affiliate program. It seems that here ours is manifested in all its glory - you won’t be able to get rich on me (I won’t be a ref), even if it doesn’t cost me anything! Oh well, thank God there are plenty of ways to protect referral links from clipping. I will talk about them a little later.
So, a person who clicked on your affiliate link to the resource of the organizer of this scheme for a certain time (depending on the specific program), will be considered as your referral and you will earn your percentage for all purchases or services ordered by him at that time. The price of a product or service for your ref will not change in any way and will be exactly the same as if he himself found the seller’s website (affiliate owner) and went to it via a direct (not referral) link.
The information that this person is exactly your referral is stored in the so-called cookies of the visitor's browser (your referral). The duration of Cookies is determined by the terms of this particular program.
Briefly summarize everything you need to do to work with any affiliate program:
- register
- get referral link
- protect this reflink from possible truncation of the unique identifier (I'll tell you how to do this a little later)
- place it on your resource or somewhere else (for example, in social networks, in a signature on a forum or in a contextual advertising ad)
- draw attention to the affiliate link of interested visitors (you decide how to do this), who can become your referrals
- the money you earn is usually withdrawn using or, so you will need to register in them first. Well, it’s quite good if you, like me, to be honest with society (or just to sleep peacefully).
After we've covered a number of affiliate programs just above, you may already have a plan in place and are ready to get started. Therefore, it's time to talk about the various ways to protect reflinks from being cut off. There are several possibilities, consisting either in a kind of redirect from one address to another, or in using substitution using Java Script technologies, or in using a link shortening service. Probably a little unclear, but now I will talk about it in more detail.
Refs protection via PHP or Html redirect
- So, the number one way to deceive potential referrals, which is redirect via PHP file. The method is very simple and effective. All you have to do is create a PHP file with the following content:
Naturally, instead of http://www.rotaban.ru/?a=gatypa you will have to substitute the address of the referral link of your affiliate program.
Save this code in any text editor or notepad (better, of course, like Notepad plus plus) with a PHP extension, in my case it will be Rotoban.php. Then, using the FileZilla FTP client, upload it, for example, to the root folder of your site (it can be called htdocs, or public_html, or something else) and as a result, the address of your ref, which you will place, will look something like this:
Http://your_site_address/Rotaban.php For each referral link, taken separately, you will have to create a PHP file in the same way and upload it to the hosting.
- The second way to protect refs is to redirect via HTML file. Of the advantages of this method of deceiving referrals, you can indicate that the affiliate link in this case will look more natural (the end will be HTML, not PHP, as in the previous version).
This method can also help you if your resource is based on hosting without PHP support (although now you can even find it).
As a result of applying this method of averting the eyes of your potential refs, you will get:
Http://your_site_address/rotaban.html
So how do you do it? Pretty simple.
Create in any text notepad (Notepad++, for example) an Html file with the following content:
Again, I will make a reservation that instead of http://www.rotaban.ru/?a=gatypa you will have to substitute the address of your referral link. By analogy with the previous redirect option, you save this file with the HTML extension and upload it to your hosting (for example, to the root folder) using FileZilla.
If, for example, you named your file rotaban.htm , then, accordingly, your new secure hyperlink will look like: http://your_site_address/rotaban.html .
- The essence of the third way to protect and deceive future referrals is to special design of the reflink. You need to give it the following look: Banner Advertising Exchange
Here is an example of an affiliate program link that works according to this algorithm: Banner Advertising Exchange. As you can see, when a potential referral moves the mouse cursor over this tricky design, you will see the following address in the status bar of your browser: http://rotaban.ru/.
And if a meticulous future ref does not move to look at the source code, then he will not even guess that this is not a simple thing, but with a catch. After clicking on this referral link, the transition will be made exactly along the path specified in onclick="this.href="http://www.rotaban.ru/?a=gatypa"" . True, there is an opinion that when opening such a link “in a new window”, the ref-ending will still be lost. I can't say for sure, but it's a bit confusing.
- Well, the fourth way of protection is also other online services, which will not only protect your referral link, but also allow you to track the statistics of clicks on it and choose the best place for its placement. A very good option, but there is a chance that with the untimely death of the reducer (closing of the service), all refs placed with such difficulty will become inoperative.
Let me remind you once again that if you have a successful experience of using an affiliate program that is not described here, then unsubscribe to me (in the comments or by mail). In case of confirmation of the effectiveness of your option, I am ready to thank not only morally, but also financially (only no offense - any work and information that brings profit should be paid).