Derek Semmler dot com - money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of everything else)

Last week I had mentioned that I had signed up for an affiliate account with Market Leverage but that I had been denied.

Shortly after publishing the post, I had received a comment from a Publisher Manager at Market Leverage, Mike, who indicated that I would be receiving a phone call shortly to discuss the approval process.

Just as Mike had commented, I received a call from Denis moments later and we began to discuss my application. Unfortunately, our call was disconnected (turns out Denis was sitting through a tropical storm and I was sitting in Chicago traffic, not a good combination for cell reception) and we did not get a chance to reconnect.

After a few crazy days, I finally had a chance to get back to Denis this afternoon and I am happy to report that I am now the proud owner of a Market Leverage affiliate account thanks to Mike and Denis! I’d also like to give thanks to Enkay as he said he was going to shoot an email to his Publisher Manager, who may have been Mike but I am not sure.

So now what?

As I discussed with Denis on the phone, I have not had much luck with affiliate links thus far; however, I have only been using text and banner links on my blogs as opposed to targeting any CPC advertising and/or landing pages.

While the affiliate links that I have used on my blogs tend to get a decent CTR, that has not translated to any conversions on the back end. Thus far my most, or maybe I should say only, successful affiliate links have been through Amazon.

In a continuation of my previous efforts with affiliate marketing, I’ve been browsing through the Market Leverage offers and have selected two that tie in nicely for two of my sites. Right now I have simply added a banner for each offer to two posts that have been receiving the most targeted traffic over the last few weeks and will monitor how these perform.

Looking further into the future, I want to get more involved with affiliate marketing in the sense of creating landing pages and CPC campaigns to try and drive targeted traffic. Obviously I have a great deal to learn in this area and welcome the advice and/or suggestions from any of you that have been successful with affiliate marketing.

As a matter of fact, I have a domain that I registered some time ago that could potentially work quite well as the home for a variety of landing pages in niches from zip and email submits for free products to something a little spicier like adult dating sites.

Time will tell how successful I am with Market Leverage, or any other affiliate site for that matter, but I am anxious to get started and continue the learning process. Like I have said many times before, you never know whether or not something will be successful until you try. Therefore, if you would like to give Market Leverage a try for yourself, I encourage you to sign up here and get started.

If you run into any problems signing up, please come back and let me know - as we have seen how responsive the Market Leverage team can be when there is a problem.