Affiliate Marketing Program Affiliate Marketing Consultation From Targetem

Affiliate Marketing

What is affiliate marketing? Click to find out, or if you are already familiar with affiliate marketing, keep reading.

Contrary to popular belief, it can be a very search engine friendly addition to any Internet marketing campaign.

Targetem uses a recognized 3rd party affiliate system that allows you to completely avoid affiliate "networks" like LinkShare or Commission Junction who insert an extra layer of commission expense and actually "own" the affiliate relationship.

Affiliate programs work. And a SEO-friendly affiliate program provides something extra to both the affiliate and the merchant, a unique side-benefit - it can help improve search engine rankings. All this, while a recognized 3rd party system tracks everything, keeps the merchant honest and provides full reporting.

Here's how a SEO friendly affiliate approach works - first, it uses real links, with no weird looking code, no question marks, no ID numbers, no redirects - no giveaways that tell the world that the links are affiliate links. The visitor is clicking on a real link. The search engine sees a real link.

A traditional affiliate link looks like a link to your site but really does not go directly to your site. This is what a typical affiliate link looks like under the hood (source code view): http://click.linksynergy.com/rpth/stat?id=1QK6gjkFwMk&offerid=61989.103&type =4&subid=0

This means that the link is actually pointed to the affiliate network server, even though a visitor clicking on the link will end up on your website – that’s because at the affiliate network server, the visitor is redirected to your site. As you might guess, the above type of link does not count towards link popularity for the site that it ultimately points towards, and is easily recognizable as an affiliate link by anyone that cares to look.

With the SEO-friendly approach, the link will be a normal link yet offers the best of both worlds - affiliates are protected by having an independent 3rd party track and verify sales and provide reporting, while merchants set their own rules and pay no royalties to the network.

How can this be?   Call us to discover more about using a search engine friendly implementation of this widely respected affiliate program. There is much more to this than meets the eye, and for competitive reasons we don't publish everything on our Web site.

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