James Martell's

The Affiliate Marketer's Handbook 

It's a great book loaded with basic instruction for the beginner,he even gives advice about what to shop for before you set up your business in his twelve baby steps section, these baby steps take you right through to website submission. 

 If you have a website you want to promote, you should check out SelfPromotion.com. It's a resource for do-it-yourselfers where you can learn to prepare your pages for the search engines, then use a sophisticated url submission robot to submit your webpages to all the important search engines and directories. You'll also find tutorials about website promotion, submitting to yahoo, and much more. Best of all, you can use the site for free -- if you like it, pay what YOU think it's worth! The guy who runs it has reinvented tipping!

If you happen to be new to affiliate marketing, this book will really give you a solid
foundation of information, he lists twenty eight points for you to work from, you choose where you start lJames Martell wrote The Affiliate Handbook back in 2000,and has since updated it to the 2005 version.

He has a unique way of flitting back and forth between what his thoughts were on some particular subject back in 2000, and what they are now, they don't seem vastly different, but it's an interesting way of writing.

You are given some very helpful direction for you to choose your affiliate program,and practical advice about researching any program you may be tempted to join.

You are advised not to be intimidated by your lack of knowledge concerning a program, he refers to the fact that he sold satellite TVs successfully, when he knew nothing about them, and credit cards when he didn't think too highly of them.

He gives you lots of illustrations of how to find your way around at Commission Junction, when researching your affiliate program.

He urges you to pay attention to your choice of industry, make sure that what you choose has an affiliate program, think about keyword possibility for what you choose,check to see how generous they are with commissions, and if you aren't familiar with the industry, then be prepared to research it to produce your content pages.

You are given some very important advice about linking, not only to other sites, but more importantly to internal linking, this method employs very successfully. He mentions that he has never had topay for traffic, so his method here needs some close scrutiny.

You can't help but get the impression that this man is a feverish worker,a mover and a shaker, with a tremendous output, he mentions that he has thirty thousand pages of content attached to his websites, he really knows his stuff, and if you apply his methods, you will be able to earn those multiple streams of income.The Affiliate Marketer's Handbook has it all.

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