1. Targeting Your Advertisements - You should try to fit the banners and links you display on your site to the targeted audience, unless you signed up for the programs that will rotate ads on your site automatically.
2. Time - Usually your first affiliate program will not net too much of an income. The income improves as you perfect your site and your usage of advertisements and banners.
3. Ads about Free Stuff Do Better - When we go to a website we expect information, goods and services free of charge. Because of this, advertisements on free items will usually fare better than those about things that have to be paid for. If your affiliate program has free stuff on offer, try them out on your site to see the response.
4. Good Traffic is Good Business - You need to have a lot of people clicking on your banners and taking up the offers given there. Thus you need a good amount of traffic going through your site to generate income.
5. Credibility - It is necessary to use all the products and service you advertise to ensure their quality, and authenticity. There is a relationship of trust between you and your visitors. Don't try to make a quick buck on wrong advertising. Remember, honesty is the best business policy.
6. Content is King - You website must have genuine content. Unending lists of advertising links may fool some people, but not for long.
7. Rotation and Weeding - Always supervise your advertising statistics. If an advertisement does well keep it, or else rotate it, or use a different banner. The advertisement sometimes has no takers, due to unattractive picture or wrong target audience. Be patient and keep working on improving your traffic and polishing the ads that appear on your pages.
8. Text Links Vs Banners - Text links that are part of the content of your site will generally do better than banners or other text links. Sometimes elaborate advertising copies work well. Some find banners working just as well. You may wish to do some testing on your own site to see what works best for you.
