You may or may not be aware of the existence of these so-called web hosting affiliate sites, but a quick Google search will provide you with information about them, and as their popularity grows so will the number of unscrupulous web hosting affiliates that you will be paying to sign up with them for your web hosting needs.
In fact, a quick search should turn up a lot of hosting affiliate sites on the internet, however there are just a few that seem to pass this particular host marketing test, and we will talk about them in detail so that you should know how to identify legitimate affiliate sites from the tens of others online.
Method Of Payment
It’s a good idea to be allowed to contact either the web hosting company or a representative of their affiliate program directly, and it’s nice if an unlimited method is provided whereby a customer can simply click through to the affiliate and purchase from the site directly, but when payment is made there needs to be a method of payment, i.e. either online or by cheque.
A banner or advert displayed on the affiliate website will be linked to the affiliate program that you have signed up to; you will simply have to link and notify the affiliate that you have signed up to a particular program and you will receive a commission or a special code or number if that program is genuine, and this code may even include an affiliate link to the hosting company’s website if the affiliate program has an affiliate directory.
This is often simply referred to as a URL shortener or URL redirect, and it is simply a small piece of code that allows for the commission to be paid to the affiliate directly, but in many instances it provides a means by which you can pay the affiliate via PayPal or direct to the merchant’s website, and when payment has been made they will collect the payment from their chosen hosting company and ship the website to the customer for you to market.
Choosing A Good Good Domain Names
Many newbie webmasters overlook this important step of affiliate marketing for webhosting and think that all it takes to earn a commission is to buy a domain name and hyperlink to the affiliate website.
Unfortunately that is simply not the case. A website is of course nothing unless people visit it, so the first trick in attracting people to the site is to get the domain name out there in public and ideally for highly searched keyword phrases.
Unfortunately, for people that are doing affiliate marketing for webhosting, many of these affiliate websites will have already been re-branded and re-sold to many thousands of others, resulting in which you will be competing with enormous corporations for placement on search engines pages, and will be competing in a very tough affiliate marketing territory.
This is why it is very important to look for domains already in use and check around on the web for domain names that have already been sold, but successful affiliate hosting companies know that there is still an audience on the internet for generic phrases and keywords and are usually looking for small niches that have not been fully exploited.
Therefore, don’t download a ready made affiliate website to use as your own unless you find a niche or keyword that is completely new to the market, and is still only receiving a handful of people a month globally.
Choosing The Perfect Affiliate Program
This can be the most difficult aspect of affiliate marketing, so it’s important to do your research first to ensure that the product or service that you are joining up to is a worthwhile up-and-coming online one.
Things to look for include:
* A commission on each sale, not just for leads.* A good range of such products;
