5 Easy Tips To Better Affiliates Recruitment

1.  Keep your site simple and uncluttered

Your visitors and your affiliates want to see a simple, easy to navigate layout. 

Make the link to your affiliate information page visible and prominent. 

You  don't want this buried. Potential affiliates will click away from your site if they  don't see an obvious affiliate program within the first 10 seconds on your site.

Make sure you link to your affiliate information or sign up page on every page of your site.

2.  Create an Affiliate Information Page

You need to give your potential affiliates access to more than just your sign-up form.

Create an informative page which details at least the following:

·       Your product/service

·       Your commission structure and payment method

·       Terms and conditions of your affiliate program

·       Your privacy policy and other legal statements

Also, let your affiliates know what type of resources you provide for them.  

Banners? Text links? Pre-written copy?  A list of keywords to target?

If you've got conversion data, share that as well. 

Let your affiliates know how many visitors to your sales page actually convert into customers.

3.  Submit to Affiliate Directories

The easiest and least time consuming way to announce the arrival of your affiliate program is to use an announcement service like Affiliate Announce: http://www.affiliate-announce.com

Affiliate Announce will submit your affiliate program to all of the major affiliate directories. 

Have a look at their list of clients.

If for some reason you need to do this on the cheap (read: free), you'll have to do it manually by looking each directory up in a search engine and submitting one by one.

4.  Recruit Webmasters

Look for sites with content that is relevant to yours.

 Contact the webmaster to find out if they are in need of additional advertising revenue and invite them to your affiliate program.

This can net you some super-affiliates. You'll also get extra recruits coming in via the webmaster's affiliate link.

5.  Go to Affiliate's Hangouts

Visit message boards, forums or chat rooms devoted to affiliate marketers. 

You don't want to spam or blatantly recruit people, but you can take part in the discussion and have your affiliate program URL in your signature file at the bottom of every post.

Have a nice day.