How to Make an Iframe for Affiliate Marketing by J. Richard Kirkham
Iframes are used in affiliate marketing to hold the vendor's information on your web page, to make a landing page and to drop the visitor's cookie to help ensure you get paid for your sale. Iframes are used by all types of marketers from writers to pay per click specialists. Here's how to make an iframe for your webpage....
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How to Make an Iframe for Affiliate Marketing
Iframes are used in affiliate marketing to hold the vendor's information on your web page, to make a landing page and to drop the visitor's cookie to help ensure you get paid for your sale. Iframes are used by all types of marketers from writers to pay per click specialists. Here's how to make an iframe for your webpage....
What
is an Iframe?
Iframe
means inline frame. An iframe is a means of putting information
from one web page in one or more other web pages.
Cautions
When Using an Iframe
If
you're getting the content from outside of your website make sure
it's not misconstrued as being your own information. This can be
done using the title
tag.
You can have as many iframes loading as you like
especially if you use tables (a topic we will not discuss in this
article) to control the positioning BUT, each frame requires a
different page to load. Therefore loading more than two pages
could increase load time by so much your visitor decides to go
visit your competitor one click away instead.
What
is The Difference Between a Frame and Iframe?
A
frame
consists
of at least two web pages.
The
Parent Page holds the framed or source page and completely
replaces any information on the parent or holding page.
An
iframe may be so small it's not even seen. It doesn't replace
information on the parent page it adds to the information,
although you can have an iframe the full size of your parent page,
thus taking over the information of that page, though the option
to add information to the parent page itself on top, side or on
the bottom of the iframe remains an option. The only way to add
more information to a framed page is to add another frame to the
parent page (if that sounds confusing don't worry about it forget
I wrote it).
Why
Would I Need an Iframe so Small I Can't See It?
I've
been
in
sales a long time. Sales
techniques carry over well to other media such as the internet,
but I've seen some BAD sales pages from vendors with GOOD
products. If the
affiliate
program management company allows
the affiliates to do so, you can write your own review or sales
copy for the vendor's product placing a small iframe of your
affiliate link to the product. This helps to ensure you get paid
for your work (earn your commission) even if someone visits the
vendor's web page later and buys. By placing the small iframe on
your sales web page the cookie dropped onto the visitor's page
marking you as the affiliate responsible for the sale. Don't worry
this cookie or other tracking methods does no harm to the
visitor's computer. If it did the affiliate management company
would go out of business. Last time I checked most businesses
wanted to remain, well, in business.
What
is an Affiliate Program?
An
affiliate
program is a system in which you may sign up to sell other
people's products. The advantage of this being you don't have to
develop each product you sell yourself.
If the product
fits well with your website. NOTICE what I just wrote - If the
product fits well with your website and ONLY if the product fits
well with your website, should you represent said product. Imagine
a grocery store selling automobile tires? Pick items that fit your
niche.
Why
Don't I Just Make
an Iframe of My Affiliate Link If The Sales Page Looks Good?
You
can do this. It will get you initial sales, but, without being
able to contact
those who purchased your affiliate product, your helping the
vendor more than you are yourself. Your better off making what's
referred to as a squeeze page which is a special type of landing
page .
A squeeze
page is a sales web page designed to get visitors to opt in to
your email list and buy your product. For a good squeeze page
think of a funnel. Every link leads to information on making a
sale both now and in the future.
Okay, I Can See Where Iframes Have Use. How Do I Make an Iframe for My Web Page?
For
the purposes of this article, we will use ( instead of <. If we
do not this web page might think I'm trying to make an iframe. You
may place your iframe code basically anywhere you wish on your web
page. If you're using a WYSIWYG
editor (what you see is what you get) it's even easier to
place your iframe. If the WYSIWYG editor doesn't allow you to do
this, you can use a little trick I made up.
Wherever you
want your iframe, in your WYSIWYG editor type linkhere, then go
into the code section of your editor and replace linkhere with
your iframe code. A search such as Crtl f should allow you to find
it easily.
(IFRAME name="title for your frame"
src="YourWebPageWithNoSpaces" width=200 height=200
marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0
scrolling=auto)(/IFRAME)
Let's Break The Iframe Code Down
(IFRAME
Announces the beginning of your
iframe code.
name="title for your frame"
This
may come in handy later on if you wish to fill the iframe with
external information. Don't worry about it for now just use the
title section and name it something connected with the content.
src="YourWebPageWithNoSpaces"
This is
the web page address of your iframe. If you've been on the
internet for more than a day you've already noticed internet web
page addresses are not space friendly.
width=200
height=200
This controls the width and height of your
iframe. You can also use percentages. Pixels are the default
measurement. One little trick is to use a table and make your
values 100% thus filling up the column of the table.
marginwidth=0 marginheight=0
Sets the space
between the iframe and other objects on your web page.
frameborder=0
Determines the thickness of the
boarder around your iframe.
scrolling=auto)
Will
set a scroll bar if the content exceeds the size of the iframe. I
sometimes select yes to be certain all content can be seen by my
visitors. No is the other obvious option. (/IFRAME)
Simply
donates the end of the iframe code.
Conclusion
Iframes
have a place in your repertoire of tools for html web page
building. Like any other tool it has the potential to be under
used or over used.
If you're reading this article from the
source article. You'll notice the iframe to the right of this
article.
Feel free to contact
me for any help
with your web page.
About the Author
Dual certified teacher, self-defense instructor and 30 years sales veteran Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc., has finally released Affiliate Page and Index Maker http://newbieservices.com/InternetSoftware/AffiliateIndexMaker.html?mifart . Which makes a special iframe to give affiliates credit for sales, captures emails to build your email list and more!
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