What is affiliate marketing you ask? It is when webmasters (some prefer webninja’s) sign up for a program like Commission Junction (CJ) to help with their product sales.

By paying others a commission to market your wares is a great way to encourage webmasters with high traffic sites to add your banner and send you some business. The banner below is not tied to an affiliate program as I did not register with CJ as an affiliate but wanted to touch on how to use affiliate marketing to help promote your website. This particular program pays 15% commission for sales.

This is one of the better marketing banners I have seen in the online marketplace. To be successful in online sales you need traffic, exposure, affiliates and a good marketing plan. No traffic, No mola (profit).

Dear Webmaster,

My name is ____________ and would like to propose a link exchange for our site http://www.__________.com/ with your website http://www.autoinsurancevancouver.com.  We have already placed a link to your site on the following webpage http://www.______________.com

Your Link details are As Follows:

<a href=”http://www.autoinsurancevancouver.com/” target=”_blank”>Auto Insurance Vancouver</a>  -  Auto Insurance Vancouver delivers all the information consumers require to make an informed decision on all your Vancouver insurance needs. We cover auto, motorcycle, boat, recreational, RV, home insurance and even help on how to import an automobile.

Kindly link back to our site with the following details:

Title  : Motor Insurance

Desc   : Immediate Quote Online for Motor Insurance at XYZ Insurance.

Url    : http://www._________.com

Our link code is :

<a href=”http://www.__________.com/” target=”_blank”>Motor Insurance</a> - Immediate Quote Online for Motor Insurance at XYZ Insurance.

If you wish to have your details on our webpage changed, We would be interested in modification as per your requirements.

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Thanks
Best Regards
Your Name

This is a great approach to securing good quality links.

Here is a simple draft letter you can use to request a link from another webmaster…

Hi (webmaster’s name),

My name is (your name) and I work with (website’s name) to help spread the word about their great (free products/services/content, etc.).

I was hoping you’d consider mentioning us to your users or linking to us on your (provide the webmaster with the specific page you’d like to see your link shown on, include the section, if necessary - be specific).

Please find a brief overview of what we offer visitors below.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via e-mail or with a quick call. I am a real person and will reply quickly.

Thanks again for your time & consideration.

(Your name)
(website URL)
(e-mail address & phone number)
__________________________________________

Brief run-down on what the site’s about and the value it offers.

Template you can use when considering hiring a link builder…

Require 100 links for my website www.creditfixscore.com It is a credit report, credit fix, credit score website. Keywords: credit score, good credit score, credit repair, credit score, credit score history, credit history, credit report, FICO score, FICO credit score.

Only links from directly relevant sites related to the target sites topic will be accepted.

- All links must be permanent one-way links.
- All links must be permanent one way static html links with the anchor text of our choosing with no rel=nofollow links in the code.
- The link from page must be indexed with PR4 or higher by Google, no redirects, javascript links, hidden links, or other unethical tactics. No Google banned sites or sites that will cause Google to rank my website lower.
- PR is for linking page not for site. The minimum deliver is 20 PR5 and 10 PR6 or better, $3 bonus for any link on page with PR7 or better
- We will check the ranking of each and every link via SEO software to make sure that link LANDING page is PR4+
- Link from page must be search engine friendly. (static page) ie no redirects, cloaking, etc. or db driven. Page must not be dis-allowed by robots.txt
- The ideal page will be a content page themed to the target sites topic. This is not a requirement; it is however, the preference.
- Link pages must be cached by Google and Yahoo
- You May Not Link From: link farms, link-exchange programs, blogs, FFAs, no banned sites by Google,
NO ILLEGAL/SCAM/SPAM sites, No adult sites, no classifieds or pharmacy, gaming, forums, political, guestbooks, dynamic links black hat links and just plain what we consider, poor Links.
- Articles will be accepted (as long as they have PR5 or above)
- Web directory will be accepted (as long as they are related and no more than 20 total)
- The linking page must have no more than 30 outbound links.
- One link per domain, all from different c-classes/different IP’s.
- English web sites only.
- All links must be static, standard href type links (no cgi etc.) and direct using provided anchor text.
- Links must be permanent, active and NEVER expire.

Please submit to us an Excel sheet of all pages with our links - URL of site, date submitted, URL of page, site PR, page PR. Payment When the links have been listed in Google, Yahoo or MSN using the link:www.domain.com” command.