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1 If you re keen to start making money from your website or want to increase your income, you might be interested in getting started with affiliate marketing. A content- based site will often recommend products or resources that its users will find useful. Affiliate marketing enables you to receive commission for each sale the merchant achieves from a visitor you refer to their site. This tutorial will show you how to join the award- winning affiliate network, Affiliate Window, create tracked links to the products you want to promote, include them on your website and monitor their performance. Affiliate marketing is as simple as using Google Adsense, but puts you more in control of the products or services you re promoting and enables to you include links in editorial articles. But don t forget that visitors read content because it s useful and relevant to them. Including a multitude of flashing banners or lots of text links to irrelevant products is a sure- fire way to turn people off. If you have any queries or feedback, please contact affiliates@myfavouritemagazines.co.uk

2 Start - About Visit This website is owned by Future Publishing, the publisher of Love Patchwork & Quilting. Here are full details of our affiliate programme, as well as the benefits of being one of our affiliates. Click on the link to begin the sign- up process.

3 2 Terms & Conditions After clicking on Sign up to Affiliate Window, you will find the terms of our affiliate programme. There s nothing very restrictive here, but there are rules relating to the use of voucher codes, paid- search campaigns, site content, trial offers and domain names.

4 3 Contact Details The next page will ask you for your contact details and to agree to the Affiliate Window Terms & Conditions. You will need to enter the following information; this must be entered in order to proceed to the next screen: Company Name: If you are a registered company please enter the name of your company. If not, please enter the name that you would like your company to be referred to, e.g. the name of your website or blog. Your personal details; Title, First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, Telephone Number, Address and Postcode. Once you have entered your postcode you can select your address from a list or enter it manually. Settings: Which time zone and language you want to use.

5 4 Promotion Type You will then be asked to enter the region where you are based and the type of site you will be using to promote and Love Patchwork & Quilting. You will need to choose from 4 main categories; Content, Display, & Search. If you are promoting through a blog tick the Content box and the list will expand. Click Show Details and a brief description of each selection will appear.

6 5 Website Details This is where you will need to provide a brief description of your website and also the URL domain where it is situated. The final part of this page asks you to describe which sector your site is based and give a more detailed idea of the product focus. For example, Retail; Subscriptions & Books.

7 6 Verifying your details Here you will need to verify your details by making a 5 deposit to Affiliate Window; this is for credit checking purposes and is refunded as part of your first affiliate payment. Double check all details are correct and then submit them to create your account. Your first affiliate payment can be requested and withdrawn once you have made 20 commission.

8 7 Confirmation Shortly after you have verified your details you will receive a confirmation with a link to activate your account. This will then notify Affiliate Window and they will make your account fully accessible within 48 hours.

9 8 Methods of Payment Once your account is fully set up, you will probably want to organise a method of payment for when you start earning commissions. You will need to go to the Settings tab on the top right of your screen and select Payment. From here you will be able to choose the payment frequency and method; BACS & Cheque for UK payment and Cheque and international wire for banks outside the UK.

10 9 Joining MyFavouriteMagazines Affiliates You are so close to being a fully fledged affiliate, now all you have to do is join our programme through Affiliate Window. Firstly go to the Advertisers tab and select Join Programme.

11 From here you can search on the left hand side for the MyFavouriteMagazines affiliate programme and request to join. This will be sent to our affiliate s team, who will respond as soon as possible. Once this has been confirmed you will receive a confirmation explaining all details.

12 10 Deep Links Under the Links & Tools tab you will find the Link builder. This tool will allow you to create text links to include on your blog or website and direct clicks to specific parts of MyFavouriteMagazines. Start by selecting MyFavouriteMagazines in the advertiser drop down list. You can then customise the text link, so if you feel like being creative with your copywriting, here is your chance!

13 11 Banner Links If you are looking for some imagery or graphics to promote Love Patchwork & Quilting then click on the Banners for a full listing of all creative banners. These are listed by size and each has it s own HTML and JavaScript code. Once you have decided on which banner you want to use, you will then need to paste this into your sites Source Code.

14 12 Report Statistics If you want to see the results of how you are performing, there is a comprehensive reporting system that is full of all details of your promotions. You might want to use this to review and optimise your promotions. To view your commission history, click on Commission Group Performance. These reports can be found on the far right tab on the menu bar of Affiliate Window.

15 FAQs Who do I contact if I have a query about the affiliate programme? If you have a question then just send us an on affiliates@myfavouritemagazines.co.uk and we will respond as soon as possible. What if I have not received commission for a sale through my affiliate account? We offer a 30 day cookie which will track all sales. However, if a customer has placed an order and it has not been tracked, you can raise a transaction query for us to review in the Affiliate Window. Can I earn commission on digital magazines sold? At present, our affiliate programme does not allow us to track these sales for digital magazines. Therefore commissions are not paid on any digital products sold. What is Anchor Text? Anchor text is the visible and clickable text used on a text link. For example Click here could be used to direct a user to a specific area of a website. Hints & Tips When promoting Love Patchwork & Quilting, we do not recommend a hard sale. On your blog/website, we suggest you review the magazines with included links to product pages. We also suggest you include text links in blog posts, as well as use of our banner graphics. In your blog posts we also suggest varying your anchor text, rather than using MyFavouriteMagazines you could alter it to something such as Buy a Love Patchwork & Quilting Subscription. This text should be very clear as to where the link is taking the user. If you are using cookies to earn commission from your visitors then you should update your privacy policy to tell your visitors. If you have any queries or feedback, please contact affiliates@myfavouritemagazines.co.uk