How to Earn Money Online Using Affiliate Programs Part 2: Maximizing Your Earnings with Napster's Affiliate Program

On February 8, 2007, Napster issued a press release that reported record sales of $28.4 million in the third quarter and expects to end the fiscal year at record subscriber levels. Isn't it about time you got a big piece of that pie?

To get started using Napster's Affiliate Program, just go to (http://www.napster.com/join_network.html) and sign up to become a Napster affiliate. Once you have finished signing up and you are approved as an affiliate, you can then start adding affiliate links to Napster on your website.

Go to the URL that you received in your approval email, login to your Napster affiliate account and select which banner ad and/or text links you would like to add to your site. Then simply copy the code that is given to you; this is your personal Napster link. This is important because this personal link is what tracks the signups, so that you get the commission if someone joins through your link. Now paste it on your social networking page, your blog, or any other website you may have.

Make sure you placed your Napster link or banner ad in a place on your site that gets the most visibility. This will better your chances that more people will click on your link or banner ad. Your goal is to send as many people through that affiliate link as possible.

You can add your link to MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo and any other place you can think of. Then you can just sit back, relax, and just wait for your check.

It is really that easy, that is if you only want to make a little money with Napster. To maximize these earnings, promote your sites that contain Napster links, the more you promote them, the more money you will make from their program.

Submit your sites to search engines, create a small Ebook based on your love of a specific band and give it away free. Of course add your affiliate link in many places in this Ebook and let it go viral. Send it to all your friends, give it away free to people on your mailing list, and join forums related to music and specific bands and post useful information and include a link to your site in your forum signature.

So now that you have put up all the links and banners ads all over your sites, without them looking like ads of course, what happens now?

Each time someone clicks on your banner ad or link, goes to Napster and makes a purchase of a song or album you get a certain percentage of the sale. They offer a free 7-day trial, which converts at a pretty good ratio to paying subscribers. They pay you for the free trial and then again if the person becomes a paid subscriber.

The biggest secret to maximizing your earnings with Napster is to build a site that focuses on Napster's services. On this site promote only Napster and maybe adsense (http://adsense.google.com).

The best thing to do is visit Napster, become familiar with their services and write some articles and reviews about them. Add your affiliate link to everything your write. Go even further and write reviews on individual songs and bands and make sure the name of the band or song is linked to Napster. Start with your favorite songs and bands since these will be easier for you to review and/or write about.

You can even write reviews of songs and bands that you never even heard of. Just do some research on how well liked the song or band is and write an article, a review or both. Get creative and use photos in your work. If you can find a photograph of the band that allows for this type of usage use the photo. If not, use your imagination use a photo of a guitar or a music note. Plain text articles are boring to most surfers so liven up your pages with graphics.

How to promote Napster using free services:

http://www.squidoo.com - sign up and create a lens all about music or lots of lenses each one about a different genre or band.

http://www.stumbleupon.com - sign up free here and then stumble your own sites containing your Napster links. Be sure to stumble other sites in between yours to make it look more natural.

You can see an excellent example of a site that was built solely to promote Napster's affiliate program at: http://napster.helpbyrhonda.com.