Friday, November 23, 2007

Affiliate Article Marketing Software

Affiliate article marketing software is meant for managing an affiliate marketing program which enables one to drive hoards of traffic to the site where one's articles are published. Associate programs are one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your site while rewarding your affiliates for their participation. You provide your affiliates with a special link to your site, whether it is a text link or image or even a picture of your product. The affiliate displays your link on their site and then you sit back and watch visitors start traveling to your site. You then reward your affiliates for sending traffic your way.

Affiliate article marketing software will help increase your web sites traffic volume where the article is published thereby raising sales. You can reward your affiliates on the basis of sale, click, or lead basis. You can even customize the commission schedule for individual affiliates.

There is customized affiliate article marketing software developed exclusively for use. Such software is developed with flexibility in mind and can link to most any e-commerce system. It is amazing Software that, at a minimum provides tracking and reporting of commission-triggering actions (sales, registrations, or clicks) from affiliate links.

Affiliate merchants that run complete in-house affiliate programs need to find, and possibly customize, affiliate article marketing software to handle various transactions tracking and reporting related to the affiliate article marketing. The Solutions include free, partly -free scripts and also expensive software packages. One can choose as per the requirements and capacity.Affiliate merchants that use affiliate networks do not have to directly manage the affiliate software, although integration must occur between the affiliate merchant's site and affiliate network's software.

In order to run a successful affiliate article marketing program, it is crucial to have the right software for the task. Affiliate tracking software is very complex as it needs to perform a variety of roles namely Affiliate link generation ,Cookie setting ,Commission calculation ,Banner/Text link display ,Affiliate reporting ,Administration reporting ,Multi-tier calculations ,Payment processing,Mailing functions and Anti-fraud functions

There are many affiliate article marketing software products and services now available. They can be summarized into these categories: 3rd party affiliate article marketing, remotely hosted software (merchant administers) and locally hosted software.

The price of the Affiliate article marketing software may vary. The third party and remotely hosted solutions may carry maintenance and/or commission fees. The review of this software could be time consuming. There may also be hidden traps and fine print. Nevertheless, a thorough review is mandatory to ensure that one is not taken for a ride.

By: mary rose

Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com

The Author, Mary Rose has authored several books,including books on Article Promotion, Article Marketing etc. For more information log on to www.casanads.com/bm/articles.htm


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