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Just starting out in the affiliate industry? Need to learn internet marketing basics? There has never been a greater variety of excellent places to find good quality affiliate marketing help.

Forums are a fantastic place to find out what is happening in the affiliate world,
and free to join.

A variety of people visit forums. Information and news is free and all you have to do is listen in.

You will pick up a great amount of information as people talk about things they have tried and have worked, or where failures are and ask for help.

Check out article directories for good information. It’s another great place to learn internet marketing basics. It’s all free, and you have permission to republish stuff on your own website if you retain the author’s name and web links in the article.
Just be wary of a sales pitch within the article.

Be wary of paid resources offering affiliate courses.

If you are looking for a paid resource, you should look for one that is modestly priced, functions on a membership basis, recognizes that different marketers have different needs, but most of all offers ongoing help and instruction.

As the blog world is expanding, you can find lots of affiliate information in blogs.
And watch the comments or questions and perhaps ask a few yourself.

Marketing and home business electronic zines (ezines) offer a lot of affiliate information and their publishers know where to find it, that’s another idea.

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Every day, we open the browser, look at new opportunities and find new web sites, ezines and affiliate programs. We scan hundreds of ads, articles and click to new sites.

Perhaps you have your own particular rules set up to follow when you are surfing/browsing the web. I collected certain items to check off before I sign up/submit my information to others.

I always look for contact information. For example: An email, a telephone number, an address and a name.

I ask questions and wait for an answer before I hit submit.

Look for a privacy policy or ask for one. [ This will often give you vital information, such as the length of time in business and credentials.]

Look for excessive spelling errors. An occasional error is normal and can be easily missed and is not something to be   excited about.

If it is an ezine I am subscribing to, I ask for a complimentary copy or check out the archive if they have one.

Page load time is important… If it takes too long to load, we all move on. [An important note: Update your browsers - old browsers do not always display properly and often hang. This is not the web sites fault.]

Easy navigation. Can you find everything without reloading, and clicking the back button a zillion times?

Readable pages… fonts and backgrounds

Oodles of reading may indicate a scheme – do they go around in circles repeating themselves? [This one really ticks me off!] Then scroll way to the bottom of the page… and WHAM..here is where you PAY that outlandish price.

Payment options – go for your gut feeling. I offer PayPal but there are others. Often a business simply is not large enough to offer credit card payment, this does not mean they are not reliable!

Can this business provide a reference if asked?

Outdated links, or broken links indicate updating of site irregularity.  These are just a few points to help you make up your own mind Before you hit Submit.

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There are tons of resources available that show you how to make money on the internet. I’ve written a few myself. But, maybe it’s easier to show someone WHAT TO DO, on WHAT NOT TO DO. I can show you how to drive visitors away from your website. Want your website all to yourself?

Then follow the steps below and you’ll get rid of them as easy as clicking the X.

1. Don’t tell anyone what you do or what you sell. Now, that’s a mystery to write about! Not to mention, there’s no contact email.(Didn’t want the spam anyway}. Is this for real?

2. Give those visitors lots of information all over the place. There is an ocean of banners, with links everywhere and articles galore. What now? And how do I stop all these popups? Egads! Get me outta here..
(But now my computer is froze). Reboot..Gone

3. Make the ordering process really complicated. It’s so much fun shopping around and then spending a half hour trying to figure out how to pay. Well, never mind, don’t need this stuff that bad. Another customer who wanted to spend money went “POOF”.

4. Fill your site with outdated information and broken links. This link goes to a 404 not found, that one is going nowhere, not even click able, and last updated 2001, Oh my it’s 2009!…GEEZ

5.I am at this website, but can’t read the information, and I’m wearing my specks!! Keep your page nice and dark and the print itty bitty. Kinda spooky, but it doesn’t do me any good if I can’t see it…BYE.

6. Here’s a goody, don’t make your links open in another browser. Well whatcha know, clicked right outta there!

Isn’t that what drives you away? Obviously, if you are spending time and energy putting up a website to make money, this is NOT what you want a visitor to find.