Content Ads Guide

Affiliate marketing is promoting a web-based business. When the visitor you refer from your website subscribes or becomes a customer of site, the affiliate is paid either a percentage of the sale or for the lead. Affiliate programs are attractive to the merchant because they only pay if the campaign is successful. In other words, their return on investment is guaranteed. Affiliate marketing reportedly was the brainchild of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. The story goes that he was at a dinner party and was approached by a woman who wanted to sell books on her website. Bezos idea was that he could link the woman to Amazon and could pay the woman a commission for the books she sold. That idea later became known as the “Amazon Associates Program” and linked associate websites to Amazon through the use of a banner ad. Affiliate marketing works effectively for the merchant and the affiliate. To the first, he gains opportunities to advertise his products to a larger market, which increases his chances to earn. The more affiliate websites or hard-working affiliates he gets, the more sales he can expect. By getting affiliates to market his products and services, he is saving himself time, effort and money in looking for possible markets and customers. When a client clicks on the link in the affiliate website, purchases the product, recommends it to others who look for the same item or buys it again, the merchant multiplies his chances of earning. On the other hand, the affiliate marketer benefits from each customer who clicks on the link in his website and who actually purchases the product or avails of the service provided by the merchant. In most cases, the affiliate gets commission per sale, which can be fixed percentage or fixed amount. Read the rest of this entry »

aStore by Amazon is a new Associates product that gives you the power to create a professional online store, in minutes and without the need for programming skills, that can be embedded within or linked to from your website. With aStore you can create a dedicated shopping area on your website in minutes. Going through some simple configuration pages, you can create and customize your aStore in minutes. No programming is necessary. The aStore setup tool will guide you through the process and generate a URL to which you can link or embed in your site. Amazon now announces a new release of aStore that will allow Associates to: Build and maintain multiple aStores using a single Associate ID; Specify products to feature on Category and Sub-Category pages ; Create multiple instances of individual categories and sub-categories; feature up to 54 products on the front page of your store rather than the current limit of nine; Write longer custom product descriptions; Better control the layout and design for use in frames by providing the capability to remove the store header and category navigation.
All Associates of Amazon referal program have access to aStore, and there are no fees associated with building a store for your site. Referral fees are handled the same as in your current agreement. So you can start using aStore now if you already are an Amazon associate.

Welcome to Content Ads Guide. This is my first post, myname is Rui Augusto. I was thinking of doing a website like this for a long time. Never had the time, until now. I spend the last few months improving my websites and testing and researching better ways to have a better income from them. I think now is the time to share some stuff and to provide some services for other people. One of the Goals of ContentAdsGuide.com is to became in the future, a good source of information about the Microsoft Contextual ad program and other contextual advertising programs.