You won’t find many people who will disagree that Affiliate Marketing is a great way both to increase sales and aid search engine optimisation.

The beauty of only paying for results and the huge increase in back links that a good affiliate network can bring can really lift a website to an altogether different level and make the difference between a ‘fairly good’ site and a ‘hugely profitable’ one.

But how do you set up an affiliate program? How can you monitor sign-ups, clicks, sales and commissions?

Well the good news is there is lots of software available on the market to take care of it all. A good affiliate software will automatically create an account when an affiliate signs up, it will generate unique image/text ad code that affiliates can simply add to their websites to promote your products. It will record real-time impressions, clicks, sales and commissions that both you as the website owner can control/authorise and your affiliates can see in their control panels.

A highly featured affiliate software will also support a number of payment options to calculate commissions due to your affiliates and perform automated or manual payments.

In fact, once set up, a good affiliate software will run automatically with the minimum of attention.

As established web designers with many customers running affiliate programmes we need a highly featured and robust affiliate software that our customers can trust which is why we recommend Affiliate Trail.

Affiliate marketing is the practice of selling your goods or services through other websites in return for a commission on each sale.

Your ‘affiliates’ place links on their sites to drive visitors to your website and subsequently purchase your products.

Affiliate marketing alone is an excellent way to dramatically increase your sales. However, there’s a huge additional benefit, as we’ll explain.

As you probably know, ranking high in search engines depends heavily on the number of links there are on other sites to your own site (known as back-links). The more links there are pointing to your site the better the search engines think your site must be, and the higher in their search results your site goes.

Therefore, because affiliate marketing results in many links from your affiliates’ websites it’s also great for increasing your position in search engines.

Affiliate marketing can be applied to almost any site selling products or services so if you’d like to increase your sales and at the same time increase your search engine rankings give us a call on 01709-373911.