Do you enjoy travelling abroad and surfing the web?
Got a flair for photography or writing and interest in all things
digital? Then why not combine your passions for the internet
and travel to make some serious profits online with even the
most basic of website designs. It is your unique content, your
experiencies, views, photos and words that are of interest to
the reader and potential paying advertiser.
A-M-P News
A-M-P Latest : 17th May 2009. v2 travel search box appears
to have developed significant bugs and we no longer recommend
its inclusion in pages. You should replace the search box with
an ad of your choice in any A-M-P templates you may download.
Users should update any pages already online. We recommend the
sunshine.co.uk
programme that you can join
via Affiliate Future . They feature a wide range of dynamic
banners and customisable search boxes. Your AF Affiliate ID
will also allow you to affiliate with many other travel merchants,
booking sites and holiday providers.
Join
Affiliate Future for your Affiliate ID and start earning today
A-M-P News Archive : 15th Jan 2008. Updated template
downloads now available, including v2 of the travel search box.
v1 is no longer functioning and users should update any affected
pages
Do your colleagues, friends and family use the internet, go
on holiday and know a good deal?
There is one often high value item that many people buy on
a regular basis, that is family friendly and fun, that is easy
to buy online and that you can make money from with a little
time and writing skills. That product category is holidays and
other travel related services, including flights and hotel /
apartment accommodation, and running even just a single travel
page can help you earn from your own knowledge and photos.
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Get writing, readers and traffic
The first thing to do is to forget about commissions, revenue
and percentages. Choose a holiday area or travel topic that
interests you and that you know a fair bit about. Think of different
sections for your site, various articles that you can write
and make your selection of digital pictures. Start to build
your site and publish your first few pages. Build your traffic
with a bit of website promotion and keep writing new articles
or other content for your site. Keep it fresh and give readers
a reason to keep coming back. Once you have generated a regular
and fair amount of traffic you can then start thinking about
the options available to monetise the site. You could choose
from PPC (pay per click) contextual ads, independent affiliate
programs or negotiated page sponsorship. One of the easiest
ways to tap into the holiday affiliate market, however, has
to be a simple package holiday search box which you can easily
include on your page by pasting a snippet of code into the html.
Do you want to get your own slice of the online internet marketing
pie?
Including a travel ad or holiday search box on a page at your
website can earn you some cold hard currency by helping your
visitors find great value holidays. You can cover your hosting
costs, make some additional income or even develop a fully fledged
business model. You gain revenue through affiliate marketing
commissions. Some holiday companies whose results will be searchable
via an ad on your site offer an affiliate program and reporting
from one of the UK's major affiliate networks, Affiliate
Future
Forget the internet marketing ebooks!
If you have been reading those ebooks telling you how to make
a fortune online then stop now! Those 'secret insider guru'
guides mostly recycle the same information that is already freely
available on various sites, forums and blogs. The truth is that
you CAN make money from your website by showing affiliate marketing
ads. Increase your traffic and visitors via SEO, SEM or other
means and your revenue can increase accordingly. An elaborated
strategy, special tools, tactics and analysis are, however,
merely the fine tuning of this understanding. Much can only
be learnt in action and in relation to your own sites so there's
no excuse not to start.
If all of this is completely new territory to you, but you
have an interest in earning travel revenue from a website, then
read on; this site aims to help you make your first affiliate
commissions with a simple holiday page, travel ads and search
facility. From there you can begin to learn more about being
an affiliate, checking and analysing stats, planning your own
marketing and promotion etc etc. Put very simply Affiliate Marketing
or 'AM' is a model where you make money when someone makes a
purchase, say a holiday, at another company's site that they
have found through an advert shown on your website. The more
bookings you generate, the greater the revenue you earn. Join
Affiliate Future for Free as an Affiliate Today for your Affiliate
ID
Combining Trusted Holiday Companies and a Trusted Network
Ads that you may choose from will be for established and trusted
travel brands plus newer specialist companies - between them
offering a wide range of individual travel products and holiday
packages (flight, accommodation and transfers) departing from
UK airports.
Receive Reliable Payouts. Choosing the right network is essential
when it comes to affiliate marketing. Affiliate
Future (IBG) is one of the UK's established networks with
a multimillion pound annual turnover and proven track record.
Payments are made by direct bank deposit to your account on
a monthly basis and commissions are verified regularly. Tens
of thousands of affiliates and hundreds of merchants, including
many major brands, have chosen the UK's
Affiliate Future . Join
Affiliate Future as an Affiliate for Free
Do you want to earn average commissions of £10+ when
your friends. family and other visitors find their holidays
through your travel page?
How much will you earn for each booking? Your commission will
vary, but commissions for holiday and travel products may be
less than 1% for flights, 2% or above for holiday packages,
and 5% or above for hotel accommodation. With many holiday bookings
exceeding £1000 it is easy to generate an average of £10
or above* from each one made. An average of one a day could
feasibly generate in excess of £3,650 in commission over
the course of a year. Getting one a day is, of course, a serious
challenge and may well incur significant additional costs for
website hosting, support and marketing.
Do you want Free Search Boxes, Templates and Sample Pics?
The network provides reporting and payment functions plus a
selection of creatives (adverts and links) from many travel
companies and other merchants in other sectors. Some will also
offer a live search box facility. You could also supplement
your pages with ads for luggage, entertainment tickets, portable
electrical items, summer clothing and more. The network tracks
all transactions originating from your site and payable commissions
from merchants. You are paid directly by the affiliate network.
You do not pay a subscription or membership fee to carry an
ad or holiday search box on your site; you earn revenue from
each holiday that is confirmed after being found through a search
box, text link or banner advert on your page; you are not involved
in aggregating and comparing the results or in the booking process,
not acting as a travel agent and you do not process payments
from holiday buyers. All of this is done on the network's and
companies' sites where everything is automated. Search boxes
frequently cover departure date and location, destination, price,
duration and flexibility all in a variety of standard web sizes
and easy to customise to match the colour scheme of your existing
site. We've even created a few simple free page templates for
you to use with a search box or graphical advert. All you need
to do is substitute your own ad or search box in there and insert
your site details and it's ready to upload plus we'll soon be
featuring a selection of travel related pictures for you to
use until you process your own
Join
Affiliate Future as an Affiliate for Free
Tips to make your site succeed
Consider giving your travel page / site its own themed domain
name and hosting - More about Domain
Names
Tell your friends, work colleagues and family about your new
holiday website where they can find great value breaks online
and direct from many of the UK's major holiday companies
Put a link to your holiday site in your signature at your favourite
forums
Place a link to your site in your email signature
Link to your site from your profile at your favourite social
networking sites and other online communities where you are
active
Publish travel related articles, photos and information at
your website in logical themed sections. Develop your site further
and create a regular community around it
Carry ads and reviews for further travel related products like
luggage and mobile SIM cards
Engage in a bit of SEO
- Search Engine Optimisation to give your pages the best
chance of being discovered from the search engines
Consider a bit of paid advertising : Search Engines - Local
Newspaper - Leaflets and Business Cards - Online Banner and
Text Advertising
Important : Things you should do and must not do
Do not spam other people or businesses by email, message board
post, blog, guestbook, whiteboard, SMS or other means of comment.
Unsolicited Bulk Communications are illegal, invalidate any
commissions payable and will incur the wrath of the webmasters'
and users' community!
Keep proper income and expenditure accounts and declare your
revenue to HMRC
Only use content that is original and which you have permission
to publish online
Abide by EU and UK legislation regarding data protection and
privacy amongst others
Publish objective and honest articles instead of just highlighting
those merchants with the highest commissions.
Useful Links
Tips
for the first time publisher for profit, monetising your site
through affiliate marketing and more about writing your own
content for a part time income
Affiliate Marketing Glossary
Affiliate - The website owner who shows ads for other companies
at their site on the basis that they will only receive revenue
should the visitors proceed to perform an action (usually make
a purchase) at the merchant's site
Affiliate Network - The network sits between the merchant and
affiliate, providing the ad serving and tracking technology,
collecting money from the merchants and paying it out to the
affiliates.
Commission - The fee received by the affiliate for showing
an advert that resulted in a visit to and action (usually sale)
on another website
CPA - Cost per Action (£ % or £ fixed amount commission
on a transaction). It is also used in marketing to refer to
'Cost Per Aqcuisition' - the cost of gaining a new customer
from a given campaign
CPC - Cost per Click
CTR - Click Through Rate
Merchant - In this case the holiday company at whose website
a holiday is booked and paid for, eg: Airtours, Manos, Argo
Holidays, Cosmos, Direct Holidays, Going Places, My Travel,
Thomas Cook or Olympic Holidays.
Override - The fee paid by a merchant to the affiliate network
in addition to commissions which are due to affiliates.
PPC - Pay Per Click
ROI - Return on Investment
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
SEM - Search Engine Marketing
This page is a free template created for use by travel affiliates
with an Affiliate Holiday Search Box. Information and template
downloadable for free at Affiliate-Marketing-Program.info
Affiliate-Marketing-Program.info is operated by EUclix.com
and Digital Freedom Ltd (UK) - This site and its operators do
not supply products or act as a 'dropshipping' portal. The Affiliate-Marketing-Program.info
domain markets third party networks and merchants to the public,
plus features on further network sites
* Assuming example 2% commission on £500+ holiday products
and packages. The nature of your own site, number and nature
of visitors, type of holiday products, flights and accommodation
booked, merchant commissions and destinations will all affect
averages and actual commission for individual affiliates.
