So you've got a decent amount of traffic to your site and want to
know how you can make the most money from the affiliate programs
you have joined. Well there are a number of ways in which you can
increase your affiliate check at the end of the month.

But first I am going to make sure your doing the most important
thing necessary to being successful as an affiliate.
That thing is of course to TARGET YOUR MARKET.

When you use banners to promote products, you should to put it at the
the top of the screen or the middle, these are the places where
most people will see them. The banners which always get a higher
click-through are ones that appear as though they are part of
the website, these banners are commonly known as 'fake banners'.

Other ways to integrate your affiliate URL into your site with text
links include writing an article related to the industry of the
product which your affiliate URL promotes and have links to your
affiliate URL throughout the article. Don't forget about your links
page, make sure you have your affiliate URL at the top of the bunch
with a nice description of it too.

However the most powerful way to use simple text links in to put them
in personal recommendations. Some Internet marketing guru's suggest
that personal recommendations can increase click-throughs to
an affiliate URL by 400%, which in turns means a massive increase
in commission. They are very powerful, it's best if you actually
own and love the product your recommending yourself, this way it
will seem more genuine. If you have a quality site with lots of
valuable information people will value your opinion and check the
product out. If you have an Ezine, be sure to place a personal
recommendation in that too, imagine you had 10,000+ subscribers all
seeing the recommendation around the same time, your commission
would surely skyrocket.

Classified ads are an easy but extremely profitable way to promote
your affiliate URL in your Ezine this is because users value and
trust you as the publisher of your Ezine and know that you won't
allow poor products to be advertised in it. If you had an Ezine with
10,000 subscribers you could make hundreds even thousands of dollars
just from that one ad.

Another excellent way to gradually increase your affiliate check is
to place these banners, text links and personal recommendations in a
free ebook(s) that you give away.

A method that has brought some people success is one that uses
pay-per-click engines, like overture.com and findwhat.com.

The final method you could try to increase your check is time
consuming, its involves posting in newsgroups and forums with your
affiliate URL in your SIG file. You will also want to watch out for
posts where people are looking for others to recommend a good product
or posts which give you a chance to direct others to your affiliate
URL, but never spam as other posters will report you and you will be
banned from your affiliate program for life.

Well that's it, hope you can use these tips to your advantage.