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Cute pictures on your lenses: legally & you might make some money!

I do love this affiliate program. AllPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income.

HOWEVER the process of actually making those pictures look great on your lenses isn't the easiest. So this lens guides you through it.

First: signing up for allposters.com as an affiliate 

All Posters

Like all affiliate programs the first thing you do is sign up. Just give them your e-mailadress (no, they don't send spam your way) and a password.

This step is so easy I'm only going to give you some pointers.


Click here to buy posters!
Click here to sign up!



Well, that's not completely true. The signing up is doable, what they don't tell you is how important it is to sign up ALL WEBSITES you will be using this affiliate program on. But you can start with just one. And do start with just one: squidoo.

But start with just one: squidoo - that will help prevent some of my mistakes (more on that later).

They want the domain name = URL, so just put in www.squidoo.com - not your profile URL or something.

When they ask for what type of site you're using this on, put in 'content site'. If you're using Squidoo correctly, you're making content (that is: writing your own text). If you're serious about squidoo, you'll probably end up blogging, and might want to use the posters on your blog too.

But don't worry too much about this - this step is not to prevent you from using the posters on other types of sites. It's meant for their own administration and statistics. But since they're more interested in selling posters than they are in their stats, if you change things around later they won't punish you for it.

Remember: any information on this form can be changed later. Also: they're not too picky about who they let in as affiliates. So just do the best you can in filling in the form and then go about selling those posters (which is harder than it looks).

Now for finding your pictures. 

This is where it gets tricky - even after my third attempt it took me some real good searching on the site, and some misdirected clicks, before I found what I needed.

The clue is: they call getting a picture on your site 'making links'. So what you need to find is the link that says Linkbuilder.

So here's how it looks. I highlighted the place you need to click:

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Time for a little Q&A 

Post your questions on AllPosters.com below, and I'll do my best to answer them for you here.

Lensmaster

spirituality wrote...

A reader asks: can you delete that last link, the one that says 'buy at allposters.com'?

Answer: yes. The affiliate code consists of several links. Anyone of these will, when clicked, be tracked to your account. So you DO NOT NEED that last link.

ReplyPosted February 07, 2009

Finding just the right picture 

The owners of AllPosters.com want you to show generic posters - probably their best sellers.

But if you are like me: your lenses are highly specific, targeted to a unique demographic.
In other words: I want to pick out precisely the picture that fits the theme of my lens.

In order to do that, you need to go to the bottom of the page you just landed on. I use a pretty large screen, but even in the screenshot it's right at the bottom there. Again - I highlighted the place you need to click.
It's called product links.

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Are we there yet? No, not quite. They still want you to display several pictures at once.
I'm not sure that would even work on squidoo, and it's not what I want, so I'm going for choose static.

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Then what? Search your topic 

Searching for pictures is pretty hard in any system. So you may have to try different ways of describing your topic. And if you can't find any matches, try a more general topic - you may still be able to find relevant pictures.

So here's what you do next:

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As you can see, they're still trying to get you to display rotating links. But you're almost there now. Search your topic. If nothing shows up - try a different way of describing it.

For instance: if you're writing about Hinduism, you might try searching for 'India' instead of 'Hinduism'.

You will often find that the same image turns up several times in the same search: that's the image in larger size, or framed.
Given the current economic circumstances I think it's a good idea to link to the smallest (is cheapest) version of the poster they've got. That doesn't change the image on your lens or blogpost - just the price people see when they click through.

Yeah - lovely pictures. So how do I get my code? 

You found some lovely pictures.

As usual allposters.com gives you way too many places to click. You just need to create some HTML code.

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Clicking there will get you a popup screen. It too is a bit confusing.

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Start with the step I tend to forget. I put a red arrow besides it in the picture.
It's where you tell allposters.com which site you are creating this code for. If you signed up for just one site - forget this step.
If you signed up for several (or just two like me) - mind this step. You WILL NOT GET PAYED for any sales if you entered the wrong website here.
So make sure it says 'squidoo' if you are finding pictures for your lenses. As you can see in the picture - I did not make sure of that.

Now to the rest of that screen:

You will probably want to make a bigger picture than the one they are showing you. So you click on that.
Decide for yourself what descriptions you want to add to your picture.
I usually go for all of them.

Now's the part that I did wrong several times before figuring it out.
You need to click UPDATE.

That changes the HTML code they display at the bottom of the popup window to the code you want.

Now you want to select that code - and they've got a button for that too:

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Some general tips 

Don't copy paste this code directly into your squidoo page. Make a txt file (in wordpad, pspad or some other plain text editor) with the code of all the pictures you like for future reference. This will also make some of my later tips easier.

Put REL-NO-Follow code in all links.

rel="nofollow"

Every <a 

should be replaced by <a rel="nofollow"

This is to ensure that you aren't giving them a free ride: As an affiliate you get paid for every sale, not for every link. [You will understand this advice better after learning some SEO or Search Engine Optimization.]

Your code changed when you saved - that's alright! 

Squidoo will strip a lot of the code off your affiliate links.

This is alright: that code is merely meant to make the text look good. It will not break the affiliate referral system.

Extra linebreaks - getting ride of all the extra space 

What's a bit harder is that squidoo ads extra linebreaks automatically. This added to the inbuilt linebreaks allposters.com gives is not pretty.

What you do is you delete all <br> code bits.

That will clean things up.

Centering your pictures  

Now to make it all look nice, you probably want to show your pictures centered in your modules.

The code for that is simply:

<p align=center> your allposters.com code </p>

Are the statistics correct?

All Posters is a bit slower in processing their referrals than squidoo is. So don't expect yesterdays statistics to line up.

I estimate it takes about a week for allposters to figure out what you've sold today and how many people you have referred to their site.

Want to set me up as your referrer?

You can :)

I feel honored that several people have wanted to credit me with their signing up for AllPosters.com. Sometimes just clicking through from this page doesn't work. In that case what you need to know is that my account no. is: F0434507686

Does this affiliate program make me money? 

Yes it does! In fact, it's one of the best paying affiliate programs for me. I had a slow start on it, but once you learn the basics (like really using these pictures on all your high traffic lenses), it started paying out very well.

It seems most people who click through to Allposters don't buy anything - but when they do buy something, they'll often buy several posters at once. And since affiliates get a generous cut, that ads up.

So what are the basics?

  1. Check your lenses every once in a while: do my links still work? If not - change the code. Sometimes the links stop working for no clear reason: a bit of searching through the All Posters database will turn up the same product. Sometimes you will have to replace your poster, it's out of stock.

  2. Sometimes they will even stop showing the image - which is the most obvious sign you need to do something. Allposters helps keep track of this with their list of discontinued items on the affiliate login page.

  3. Like all affiliate programs this program works best on high traffic pages. More eyeballs equals more sales.

Any questions left about AllPosters.com? 

Lensmaster

GreenBeansNstrings wrote...

This was extremely helpful! Thank you :D

ReplyPosted June 16, 2009

Lensmaster

mbgphoto wrote...

Great tutorial. Thanks. 5*

ReplyPosted June 10, 2009

Lensmaster

ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...

I found it easier to make a text link and put a picture of the poster in the Text with Big Picture Module. It may not be the proper way to do it but it works for me.
Lizzy

ReplyPosted June 02, 2009

Lensmaster

Spitfire70 wrote...

I am really glad I read this. I recently joined All Posters and tried to add a pic but it didn't work. All I got was the link to the site to come through. I've been meaning to go back and figure out what the problem was. I also didn't know I could simply add squidoo.com as my site. Whew. Lots of great info. Thanks! Gave 5*, a fav and lensroll

ReplyPosted May 30, 2009

Lensmaster

Light-in-me wrote...

I was just looking at AllPosters last night and I was confused. This help's a lot, thank's
for sharing.

ReplyPosted May 27, 2009

 
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