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Affiliate Marketing Display Ads and Marketing

By Jeff Goyen
Jun 27, 2009
The display ad can be anything from a drab text box to a full multimedia thing. These ads are the heart of any affiliate program, and their quality affects your business. You need to be picky.

The basic text box type is no frills, and usually easy to run, provided nobodys been helpful enough to include an impossible font or some other nuisance. These are relatively low impact ads, best suited where theyre relevant to the website. Theyre not great grabbers, and as affiliate marketing material they can be low grade performers. You can have pages of these things, and if theyre not delivering hits, theyre a liability, not an asset. They do better with good copy, and worse with the low level Something R Us and link approach.

Some people prefer not to clutter their sites, and these ads do have the advantage of being relatively good space users. As pure e-commerce ads, however, they leave a lot to be desired, and they often suffer in comparison to the higher profile, more graphic, ads. This is more about visibility than content. The graphics dont add information, just make them easier to see.

The multimedia ads are definitely the highest profile approach, very common in some areas of affiliate marketing, particularly media and sales related materials. These are complex, sometimes hard to run and manage, and can be nuisances when setting up to match landing page protocols.

Generally speaking the actual multimedia ads are professionally done, so content is OK, but the management issues are also more complicated. When to run a multimedia ad, or whether to run it or have it as a passive link, for example, can be a decision and a half.

Some of these things are also very high impact. Theyre oversold, in fact. An affiliate multimedia ad that has to be clicked so you can see a page can be a pest, and turn off your audience. So youve got an important ad that is actually turning people away.

When deciding how to use your ads, you really do need a management tool that will keep things simple, and allow you to have full control. Everybody wants an ad that runs properly, and delivers results. Space, functionality and good performance are the big defining points about layout.

This is where Niche N Easy is a good option. It can handle any ad. You have full operational control. You can handle layout, site functions and applications, easily.
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