Dog Friendly Directory Affiliate Program Tips

The DFD Affiliate Program is free to join and easy to use. If you have a Web site, you can become an affiliate. If you are interested in earning revenue from the traffic that comes to your site, and enhancing your site, you can join our affiliate program.

An affiliate program is a partnership with an online merchant (that is, a Web site that sells goods or services). When you join these programs, you can put links on your site. As an Affiliate with DFD, you simply place links to DFD on your Web site. Each time a visitor clicks from your site to DFD to purchase press release distribution or writing, you earn generous referral fees. These links come in the form of banners, text links, and a number of other more sophisticated types of links. You can put these links anywhere you want on your site. DFD can help you figure out how to place your links so that they are most effective. Possible methods of linking include:

Textual/E-mail
Use textual links within content to tell visitors about the types of products that they can expect to find at a particular merchant's site.

Banners/Images
These highly colorful graphical links can be randomly rotated to display a different banner every time a visitor returns to your site.

We provide you with a colorful selection of banners that can be easily added to your site. Simply select a banner, graphic or text link and let us take care of merchandising to the customer. We take care of the entire order process: fulfillment, customer service, and distribution, and we track the sales generated from your site. All you have to do is decide how you want to link to DFD.

Tips to Help You Succeed

• Add well-written content, such as a personal recommendation.
  
• Just adding our banners to your site is a minimalist way to try to make money with affiliate programs.
  
• 99% of all those promoting an affiliate program only use banners, 1% use well written and well placed text. 1% of all those promoting an affiliate program are making 99% of the profit. To create real sales, you have to actually SELL the product.
  
• Our affiliate program is great for people who haven't managed to find advertisers, are too busy to find advertisers, or have vacant advertising spots on their site. They can also be promoted in all sorts of innovative ways to increase your income.
  
• Think of ways to make your site interesting or useful enough to attract traffic - and interesting enough to make people want to return again and again. And once you've reached the goal, aim higher.
  
• Write a personal testimonial about us in your own useful, interesting, opt-in newsletter. People may not visit your web site every week, but if you produce an interesting newsletter they will read your words every week.
  
• DON'T send SPAM (bulk unsolicited e-mail). Your reputation will be ruined, and your Internet service provider may close down your site.
  
• Suggesting products and promoting them on your site makes your site richer and keeps visitors coming back!
  
• Understand your specific audience, target your marketing efforts and save yourself from wasting a lot of time and money in useless advertising.
  
• You have to get the word out for people to find you.
  
• To help with creating initial exposure, manually submit your Web site to as many search engines and directories as possible using appropriate Meta tags, keywords and well-crafted descriptions. Begin with the top search engines and directories, and then add the smaller specialty engines as they apply to your particular product or service.
  
• Create your own opt-in newsletter for your visitors to sign up.
  
• Participate in discussions, post messages to bulletin boards. Always mention your Web site in your message or signature.