It's now possible to protect yourself from one of the largest growing internet scams, the theft of your affiliate links and the loss of your commission.

In recent years more and more people have become aware of affiliate links and people promoting others products. A lot of the time they are suspect of very long links, made confusing and lengthy by peoples affiliate ids, or if in doubt delete the id, so they're just left with the web address.

This causes you to lose your commission or they change the ending of the link to their id and get the commission. This is a very common occurrence among click bank users.

Viral URL gets you around this by cloaking your link in another id, an ID you choose so it's easy to remember. This means that should the person who sees your link go to change it after all your marketing efforts, it will render the site useless, it cannot be picked up. And they'll have no choice but to click your link.

Viral URL will provide you with a safe, impossible to crack link, and guidance on how to use it and promote it best. This affiliate program comprises of 20 promotional tools all aimed at helping you succeed with your ventures, and getting your website known. It also provides you with some brilliant email templates to push the boundaries even further.

It's all laid out in easy to understand explained steps, so you don't feel overwhelmed with all you can do.

Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important ways to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of money.

If your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

An absolutely invaluable feature in Viral URL is the tracking statistics of the links it provides the user with, and the flexibility of domain names. In the cloaking section you can create a link, fully protected by Viral URL, tracked and recorded as well so you can analyze the stats, and assign this fully protected, fully traceable link to any domain name you own.

You will always feel confident and comfortable when using Viral URL and it helps secure your links and commissions. This is a very powerful program for all affiliate marketers, especially click bank users and one step closer to getting rid of internet fraudsters and protecting your business.

In the early days of affiliate marketing it was enough to simply advertise the sales page of the product that you were promoting and be able to get sales. However, today with the fierce competition you need to do a lot more than send the prospect to the sales page.

This strategy may still work on sites like Yahoo or MSN where the search engine users are not that savvy. However, if you advertise to Google users these are very street smart so you will have a much harder time making sales.

The best way that I have found for you to get this to work is to do a lot of preselling. You need to send your visitor to a very good presell page. This will increase your conversion by 2 to 3 times.

Let us take a look at how you can create a very good presell page. I suggest that you include a case study with your experience of the product and also your results. So for example if you are promoting the SEO Elite software do a case study with pictures of how easy you found it to use the product. Let people see exactly how the software works then show what your results are. You just need to show that you made a trickle of money from the software and that you are only getting started. You will be surprised at the results that you can get from doing this.

Finally, also focus on building a list as this will help you to build trust with your subscribers and improve conversions.

The first step in making your affiliate marketing business a success is to treat it like a business. Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

1.How much time can I devote to this business?

2.Where will I work undisturbed?

3.How can I find two hours more a week?

4.How will I prioritize my working time?

5.What products or services will I market?

You may be working part-time as an affiliate, or may have more time available because you have retired or lost your job, or have a part-time job. Either way, you need to decide how many hours you can devote to the work, I suggest that 10 hours a week is the minimum.

Find a workspace without interruptions

The next stage is to make sure that you are working somewhere without distractions, such as a TV or the family, and that family members know that when you are working you are not to be disturbed. This is essential if you are only working 10 hours a week, but of course you can break off to talk about a problem with someone if you are working most of the day. However, make sure that you do not drift off to do something else and not do the work you set out to do.

When you are working a couple of hours in the evening, it is so easy to go and watch your favorite soap or some other program, especially if someone comes up and tells you this is something you must see. Resist the temptation or you will not get anything done.

How can you find two more hours a week more for your affiliate marketing business? The easiest way is to do some work at the weekend.

Allocate time to your tasks

Once you are working the time you allocated, the next important step is to work out what you are going to do with that time. The priorities are:

1.Find a suitable niche market, which could be something you know about

2.Find products that fit that niche exactly

3.Market those products

How do you go about these things? Well, do not just pick your hobby. First, find what the competition is by searching at Google with term you want to use in "" like this: "used auto parts".

There are 1.9 million sites promoting used auto parts, which is pretty competitive, but you really want something that is more of a niche than that, like "used import car parts". The competition there is much less at 1,900 sites.

You can easily search for affiliate products in your niche, but you need to make sure you will get paid a reasonable amount for each sale you refer.

Take your time during this stage, and do make sure that there is a big market out there for the product you want to market.

Now, you start marketing just one product or merchant's products. You need to select your method, and make sure you spend your time doing the various aspects of that work, which will probably include writing articles for distribution, building a niche website, and possibly advertising on Adwords.

To make this work, make lists of jobs, and carry over those not done to the next day. This is the route to success for your affiliate marketing business.

We all know that backlinks are the main thing when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Long-tail keywords and keyword density are all well and good when it comes to writing and marketing articles to get good search engine rankings. But when you go that 'extra mile', that's when you article marketing results will explode. And you will get more traffic, more leads, more referrals, and ultimate more sales and more cash!

So you want to know the answer to explode your results from this amazing traffic generation method?

Backlinks!

Just like optimizing your websites for top search engine rankings, backlinks are what's going to make a BIG difference.

So here's what I'm doing and you can follow my lead to generate huge results from your article marketing:

Take your 5 best optimized articles for search engine rankings (with keyword optimized title and good keyword density) and start building backlinks to them. Start using all the SEO backlink generating strategies that you learn about - social bookmarking, forums, blog posting and all those great link building juice.

When you spend a few hours or so building these backlinks just like you would for doing SEO for your own website, you will start seeing results in just a few days for the keywords you are targeting. Your search engine rankings will rise and you will get more traffic.

The probable result of all this little work: high search engine rankings for these articles for the keywords you target. Let me know how you get on with this surefire article marketing strategy!

By Meenakshi Wali

In order to become successful in affiliate marketing, there are a few basic facts that you need to adhere to. Let's just get a glance of these basic requirements for a successful affiliate marketing business.

The first requirement for affiliate marketing services is a standard website. You will need a website where you are going to promote your affiliate products. This can be done at a very cheap rate from a standard web designer, since you need not go flashy about your website. It just needs to be simple yet reachable. Once you have a website ready you need to host it too. This is important in order to reach out to greater number of people.

What is essential to run a good affiliate marketing services business without much investment is to dedicate more time into your business. If you are not putting in money, you need to compensate for it by dedicating more time to your business. Adding extra efforts will definitely get you beneficial results, which on the other hand will get you money too. Once you have money you can invest it in purchasing required affiliate marketing tools.

Once the initial set up is ready, the actual job of promoting your affiliate products begins. Most online buyers look for products first on the search engines. Hence, your target must be to rank high on these search engines. Targeting traffic from the search engines will increase the prospect of earning leads or sales from these reach traffic sources.

The success of an affiliate marketing service depends a lot on how organized and planned you are. Organizing your affiliate programme and planning out your marketing strategy will give you a set path to work on your project and hence shall be more beneficial to you than it is visible.

Get new and different with your affiliate marketing services. Give your clients something different and unique which they have not had yet. Unique and different ideas catch the attention of the clients and they are pulled towards your affiliate website.

Affiliate marketers should also work towards keeping their clients in loop and keep sending them newsletters or emails from time to time about the latest additions to your website or about the discount or offer that you are giving. This way you shall never go out of their mind and they will always come back to you when they need to buy something.