How to Earn More

Here are proven strategies and resources you can use to increase your commissions at Chai-Direct.com. Of course, not all of them may be appropriate for you and your website. Some require specific knowledge. Others do not. So you can opt to employ just a few simple techniques, or you could apply them all and generate huge commissions. Just keep in mind, the more of this you do, the more you will earn!

Provide useful, relevant information Make links easy to see and read Use Image and Text Links together Create lots of links, place them above the "fold" Recommend "must-have" products Recommend a series or category of products Increase your website traffic Verify that your links are working

1. Provide useful, relevant information. If you have a related website, amplify your website's credibility further by offering useful information or specific advice. This often results in a higher ranking by major search engines, too, as they are always content hungry. For example, you could offer some online recipes, or simply create an index of links to recipes found elsewhere! At the end of recipes, add some links to more information on the subject. Link directly to specific products at Chai-Direct.com using our product URLs. Don't forget to include your affiliate ID in the URL. That is, you should add &AffID=Enter Your Affiliate ID Number the the URL, if it is not already present in it. Of course, this presumes you have some knowledge of chai, and can determine that the products are relevant to the recipe.
2. Make links easy to see and read. This is rather obvious, but you might be surprised at how many websites could actually do a lot better here. Make sure your color scheme has a good contrast and make sure the text size is not excessively small. Excessively large HTML text is also not a good idea, as it looks relatively unprofessional by today’s web standards.
3. Use Image and Text Links together. Use image links in combination with text links. This dramatically increases the number of customers who click through to Chai-Direct.com And the more who do, the more who will buy, and the more commissions you will earn.
4. Create lots of links, place them above the "fold". Create numerous links instead of just one or two in order to increase click-throughs. Place links on multiple pages in specifically relevant content areas. Also, place links high enough on the page so that customers can see them without having to scroll. This will increase the number of click-throughs. Try to make links appear in an 800 x 600 monitor without scrolling.
5. Recommend "must-have" products. For the customers who are really excited about your area of interest, create a list of products that you feel the customer needs in order to do or achieve something, and explain why he/she needs them.
6. Recommend a series or category of products. Recommend a series or category of products. Next to EVERY product that you point out and link directly to, you could add a second link to the entire category of products in that series falls within. Explain what is good about the category or why it is important. People will appreciate hearing your opinions about products before they buy. Remember, there are many people out there searching, and YOU just may have just that bit of experience or "inside information" that they need to make a better buying decision.
7. Increase your website traffic. More visitors to your website means more customers and more sales. Most visitors arrive from search engines (e.g., Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.). So ranking highly in the search engines for keywords that are relevant to your site is highly desirable. And it’s not always as hard as it might seem. The first step is to identify the important keywords that describe or define your site, and which people are likely to use to locate your website. Then you optimize your web pages for those specific keywords, which is a fancy way of saying you make sure those keywords appear in your content (text) a lot. Try to work important keywords into your page headers, and into the text of the pages themselves. Then you can submit your web pages to the search engines for listing. Fortunately, there are software tools that make this easy to do.
8. Verify that your links are working. Once every four to six weeks, click on your links to check and see if they are working properly and displaying the correct items. In particular, the PowerLinks to individual products need to be checked from time to time, as some products are occasionally discontinued. When that happens, they are remove from Chai-Direct.com. It's rare but it happens.