If you have been long enough in your affiliate marketing business you would know that this industry has been in existence for more than ten years. While there is an over supply of affiliate products and services being offered in various markets, competition has similarly increased significantly too over the years. People have generally become very choosy in whose programs they like to join or which new products caught their attention.

Today’s article discusses how you can leverage on other successful marketers’ best practices to maximize your affiliate marketing efforts to achieve optimum results.

1. Do Banner Ads Still Work

While there are many people who strongly believe that banner ads have recently lost it’s appeal or effective marketing there are also many who still think they work well. It really depends on how you choose to use them. Most affiliate programs offer a good range of banners for affiliates to place on their website but you may like to know not all kinds of banner ads give you the same results. Avoid graphical rich banners simply because it takes a longer time to load on your page and your visitors would have missed seeing it completely.

A simple but professionally looking banner could do the job better.
Another reason why graphical rich banner ads should be used at a minimum is that they may be too distracting to your visitors that everything else on your page is often ignored.

2. Pop Ups or Pop Unders – Which type is better

The general consensus is that pop ups are annoying and people instinctively close them the minute they come across them. On the other hand pop unders are more tolerable especially those that let you display once per visit.