Webgains Affiliate Guide now live in affiliate area

[Hero]

Dear all,
In our effort to help the new affiliates entering the affiliate marketing arena as well as those affiliates with experience who want to expand on using the Webgains interface, we have now published the Webgains Affiliate Guide in the Help Section of the affiliate area of our site.
The affiliate guide comes an addition to the Webgains resources, along with the various Merchant Guide help documents we have made available to our merchants. This new guide is also a help tool for the merchants, in order to understand their affiliates better and assist them with their promotions in a more effective way.

The document is a comprehensive guide for the UK industry, with a brief explanation of the hows and whats around the market, the merchants, sectors, type of programs and types of marketing an affiliate can engage into, and how to use the Webgains tools for each marketing activity. We have also listed recommended resources for further information on the various elements of affiliate marketing.

We also thoroughly analyse each section in our affiliate area and each tool available to all affiliates, from the graphic links to the AdCreator, from the Callback urls to payment settings.

Here is the table of contents:

Introduction

What is affiliate marketing?
 Definition
 The concept
 Who’s who?

The market
 Why is affiliate marketing becoming popular?
 Types of merchants
 Methods of marketing for affiliates

Getting started as an affiliate
 Can anyone become an affiliate?
 Setting up as an affiliate

Account administration
 Switching between campaigns
 Changing account settings
 Adding a new campaign
 Adding a new user
 Contacting Webgains

Technical details
 Types of programs
 Joining a program
 Program details
 Joining a program within a specific sector
 Joining international networks and programs
 Searching for specific programs
 How affiliates are rewarded
 How tracking works
 Basic overview of tracking process
 Webgains advanced tracking methods
 How can affiliates promote merchants?

 The link code

 Text links

 Deeplinks

 Banners and graphic links

 HTML links

 Email links

 Searching links

 Webgains Ad Creator

 Maplin Web Builder

 Cost per click programs (CPC)

 Datafeeds

Performance
 How and when do affiliates get paid?
 Payment status icons
 Reporting

 Earnings report

 Site/campaign overview

 Top performing programs

 Top performing links

 Scheduled reports

 Callback scripts

 More reports

 Improving performance

Appendices
 FAQs
 Glossary

Resources & further reading
 Affiliate marketing in general
 Search engine optimisation (SEO)
 Search engine marketing (SEM)
 Web development

We aim for this Guide to help more of our new and existing affiliates explore all the great functionability and innovative tools we have introduced, as a first step to improving our users' experience and understanding of the interface. We also like to view the Guide as a very good starting point for new affiliates to understand the industry and give them ideas how to make the most of their affiliate ventures.

We welcome your feedback both on the Guide and on our interface and system overall, please do not hesitate to contact us with your comments and questions.

[Qui Gon Jinn]

A very nice post.

[KirstyM]

Very nice and handy guide... and thanks for mentioning my blog in the Further Reading section. I must get my SEO for beginners guide finished off now!

[Hero]

Thanks Kirsty.
We felt that the beginner's category in your blog gives very valuable advice and is a must-read, along with the whole of your blog (personally, I am fascinated by your advertures down under!).
We will be adding more blogs in, as so many people are graceful enough to share their expertise and experiences with the community

Thanks again

[Azam.net]

Just checked it out. Good work WG. It's a neat guide and, yes, the selection of recommended links is useful.

[Hero]

well, if we have the Nadeem seal of approval, it's made it all worth the while

[KieronD]

yes, the selection of recommended links is useful.

Yes but there seems to be links to some blogs missing (cough)

[Paul Wright]

This is a great addition and must have took a lot of time and effort to put together.

Well done guys.

Paul.

p.s. Cheers for the article link

[Hero]

Yes but there seems to be links to some blogs missing (cough)

check again

[JamesW]

Hi everyone

Many thanks for the feedback. A blog section has now been added to the Resources and further reading section of the guide.

James

[KieronD]

check again

Nice one!

[hpops]

Absolutely wonderful stuff.
Bravo

[ibenia]

Great post. Very informative.