Associate Programs Newsletter #467 Allan and I both love affiliate marketing. What we don’t love is hearing that 90% of affiliates never make a sale. Well, this week we’ve got something special for all those who’ve never had the thrill. CONTENTS: 1. Take A Peek Inside Dan’s Affiliate Training – Your Gift 2. PPC – Are you paying too much? 3. Thought for today: The right company

Generating traffic to your website is hard process, but you should try pay per click programs because it will generate laser traffic to your site. Internet marketers were favoring the search engine traffic because it is free, but that was in the past. Free traffic sources become history because everyone in the internet knows that to rank in google you must get critical mass of links which you will pay to get it. The big different between PPC and free source of traffic that in pay per click programs you can get instant traffic, but to rank and to get traffic from search engines you must wait for more than month until you get real traffic.

As a website owner, you would want to analyze the progress of your website in terms of who is visiting it and how many times. This information would help you improve your website. However, to fetch this information, you would need a web analytics tool. Although, you could find all such information the log file; it can be a tedious task to read through a log file that has so many records in it. A web analytics tool serves as an ideal utility to explain you the traffic flow of your website with simple and sorted data. Web analytics is a useful exercise and you must know how to use it. Following is the description of the same.

You can be a proactive PPC manager but there could be elements of your account that may be quietly hindering your performance. There is so much going on within any PPC campaign that it can be difficult to keep track of all the moving pieces.

As you know, the world of Internet marketing is extremely complex. It seems like every day there is some new challenge that arises, whether it be the launch of a new social network or Google making a change in the way they rank websites or some new strategy that everyone is raging about. Quite frankly, it can be pretty daunting, even to those of us who have been around awhile. So how do we keep up to speed with the rapidly changing world of Internet marketing without going crazy and remaining competitive? The answer that I would submit to you is dual fold in nature.