Affiliate Program Creative Thinking

Commissions are a link away!

This affiliate program can't get an easier than it is. First, everyone loves coffee! Second, no matter what type of website you have, visitors will have no issue with you telling them where they can get good coffee too! So link it and they will come (and commissions will come to you!).

Here are a few examples of where to link to get the best results:

• All products page - this is a link that simply lists all of the coffees with the immediate ability to order.
  http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?PARTNER=AffiliateID
• All categories page - this links to the category page with descriptions of each.
  http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/categories.php?PARTNER=AffiliateID
• A specific category - this would link to a category of your choosing. To get the category number, look at the URLs on the categories page.
  http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?PARTNER=AffiliateID&cat=##
• A specific coffee - this would link to a coffee of your choosing. To get the coffee prodID, look at the URL on the coffee details page.
  http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/proddetail.php?PARTNER=AffiliateID&prod=XXXXXX

To create a text link on your website, you simply add the following HTML code within your webpage: Using the products page as an example,

<a href="http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?
PARTNER=AffiliateID">Text</a> where "Text" is whatever you would like it to be, such at "Get coffee now!".

Now to create an image link on your website, you simply add the following HTML code within your webpage: Using the products page as an example,

<a href="http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?
PARTNER=AffiliateID"><img src="Path"></a> ...where "path" is where your image resides on your webserver.

Using our standard image as an example,

<a href="http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?
PARTNER=AffiliateID"><img src="/images/affiliate.jpg"></a> Which appears like this:



...and to get rid of the ugly blue box...

<a href="http://www.poundofcoffee.com/coffees/products.php?
PARTNER=AffiliateID"><img src="/images/affiliate.jpg" border="0"></a> Which appears like this:

If you don't already have a great website full of content, the absolute best way to get people following your affiliate link is to add some - content that is. Create a paragraph or two on why you like coffee, or your favorite flavors, or how you are going to pay your way through law school with your commissions. Anything is better than just throwing a link on a website!