Today I would like to revisit the topic of Viglink, an amazing service for affiliate marketing that I believe should be a part of every bloggers monetization efforts. It’s by far the quickest way to higher affiliate earnings that I have found.

– Keep reading.. I’m giving away free stuff just ahead

VigLink – The Solution to The Affiliate Tax

If you live in the US, you’ve either been affected by the affiliate tax laws like those in California and Colorado. These laws are essentially keeping people from engaging in affiliate marketing. If these laws have hit in your area or if you would like to simply take precautionary measures and prepare ahead of time, I encourage you to continue reading.

Maximize Affiliate Earning

Not only does VigLink provide a solution where the affiliate tax laws are hitting hard, but this post will reveal ways to maximize your earning potential in affiliate marketing as a whole.

What exactly is Viglink?

Viglink is a service that makes it possible to become an affiliate of hundreds upon hundreds of merchants so much easier.

Overcome Affiliate Tax Shock

If you live in a state that has been hit by the affiliate tax law, you can still be an affiliate if you participate with Viglink, because Viglink is the actual affiliate and not you, even for places like Amazon. That’s the part I like because VigLink being the actual affiliate, the earning bracket is MUCH higher.

Getting accepted to be an affiliate by merchants with Viglink is super easy, because again, Viglink is the affiliate getting approved – not you!

So, if you’re new to affiliate marketing, or if your traffic isn’t quite high enough to pass the acceptance rules, you can bypass the hassle by getting approved automatically simply by signing up VigLink.

How VigLink Works

If you enroll in an affiliate network like Commission Junction or Shareasale, you must apply to each individual merchant in that network. Sometimes those merchants reject applications for various reasons! VigLink fixes that!

VigLink Tracking

VigLink has a powerful tracking dashboard where you can see all activity meaning all clicks. You’ll see what your readers are clicking on, what links are affiliated by VigLink, which ones are not.

With over 12,500 merchants from across 20 different networks there’s never a lack of products or services to promote as an affiliate.

Sharing My VigLink Secrets

I signed on with VigLink several months ago. Over time I have pieced together a system that works very well for me. In fact, I’ve found a way to fully automate my linking, leaving me free to focus entirely on my writing.

Free Stuff

With the holidays approaching I thought it would be fun to spread the cheer by giving away my own Automated Affiliate Linking System. Click Here to enter your details for instant access.

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Once you have written your free report and inserted links to various products offered by your affiliates, the next task on your list is going to be finding a home on the Internet for your free report.

You will also want to develop strategies for promoting the free report so you can generate some interest in both the report and the affiliate links contained therein. Here are some ideas to help you make a permanent place online for your free report, as well as publicize the report in the right places.

One potential means of finding a home for your free report is to start up your own web site. These days, it is very easy to get excellent pricing on the joint purchase of a domain name and a basic hosting that will only cost a few dollars a month to operate.

The advantage of having the free report on your own web site and hosted on a remote server is that you can update the report whenever you like.

Also, you have control over which affiliates can post ads on your free report pages, and certainly can update the links in your free report whenever you like. This makes creating free reports very simple, as you can have several free reports that are posted under one domain name, just on different pages.

Once you have a permanent home on the web for your free report, you can begin the process of promoting it. One of the best places to begin is on web sites that allow classified ads.

Write a short blurb, no more than a paragraph that will let the reader know what your free report is about. Include something that will serve as a teaser, catching the interest of the reader. Include the link over to your free report. Try to use classified ad web sites that rate high with the search engines. This should produce some traffic to your free report in just a few days.

Another alternative is to get your free report listed in listings of E-book directories. Look for directories that focus in some manner on topics that are related to the subject matter of your free report. This will make it easier for people to come across the link to your free report while looking for information online. This approach is a little less direct than the classified ads, but can still lead to some excellent traffic for your free report.

Another avenue of promoting your free report is to target web sites that invite authors to write articles on a variety of subjects.

Write a two hundred to five hundred word article about a topic that involves some aspect of the information found in your free report. Include a link to the free report either in the body of the article, or in the author description. Make it a point to go with one of the article sites that tends to rate high with the search engines, and you may find some great traffic coming to you from that angle.

Making sales with your free report involves three basic elements. First, you must have a free report that is entertaining and informative. If the report does not hold the attention of the reader, then chances are he or she will never even notice the links. Hold their attention long enough and well enough to entice them to give the links a try.

Second, make the information relevant to the links. No one wants to link from a free report on raising funds with a canned food drive to a site selling makeup. The leap must make sense.

Last, make sure you include as many links as possible without littering the report too heavily. The more links included, the better your chances of a reader clicking through, seeing something he or she likes, and deciding to buy a product or products. Keep these thoughts in mind, and you will find that producing free reports is well worth your time.

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