Latest : 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
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Affiliate Future for your Affiliate ID and start earning today
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 serious profits online with even the most basic of websites.
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 skill. 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.
Do you want to get your own slice of the online internet marketing
pie?
Including a holiday search box on a page of 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.
All the holiday companies whose results will be searched from
your search box offer an affiliate program on 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 and search facility,
just like the one below. 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.
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Affiliate Future for Free as an Affiliate Today for your Affiliate
ID
Combining Trusted Holiday Companies and a Trusted Network
Results are from trusted travel brands offering holiday packages
(flight, accommodation and transfers) departing from UK airports
with companies including Airtours,
Manos,
Argo
Holidays, Cosmos,
Direct
Holidays, Going
Places, My
Travel, Thomas
Cook and Olympic
Holidays.
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
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Affiliate Future as an Affiliate for Free
Do you want to earn average commissions of £20+ 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 £20 or above*
from each one made. An average of one a day could feasibly generate
over £7,000 in commission over the course of a year. Getting
one a day is, of course, a serious challenge.
Do you want a Free Search Box, Templates and Sample Pics?
The network provides the live search box facility and tracks
transactions and payable commissions. You are paid directly
by the affiliate network. You do not pay a subscription or membership
fee to carry the holiday search box on your site; you earn revenue
from each holiday that is confirmed after being found through
your search box; 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. The search box covers 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 your search
box. All you need to do is substitute your own Affiliate ID
in there and insert your site details and it's ready to upload
plus there's a selection of travel related pictures for you
to use until you process your own
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Affiliate Future as an Affiliate for Free
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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: Thomas
Cook
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
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* Assuming 2% commission on £1000-£10,000+ holidays.
Holiday search statistics for our company to 23rd Nov 2007 showed
average of £40.29 per booking via AF Travel Services with
approx 1.5% conversion to sales from clicks. The nature of your
own site, number and nature of visitors, type of holidays booked,
merchant commissions and destinations will all affect averages
and actual commission for individual affiliates.
