Link to Maps.com Today and Start Earning Money!
By joining the Maps.com affiliate program, you are providing yourself the opportunity to link to over 25,000 Map & Travel related products, as well as the potential to earn up to 12% commission with our generous incentivized compensation plan.
FACT: Two thirds of all internet users made travel plans online in 2004—that is more than 63 million people! In addition, approximately 60% of online trip planning consists of searching for maps/travel directions.
Benefits to Joining the Maps.com Affiliate Program:
- Affiliates earn up to 12% commission for each sale; the average sale is $70
- Customers have over 25,000 products to choose from
- Online, real time reporting, complete with Virtual Store Fronts* and Product Datafeed (*proven best revenue generator!)
- Custom Links relative to your Site's Content, Available Search Links, Buttons and Banners, "You need it, we'll make it"!
- Partner with the #1 Name in the industry, Maps.com
- Free to join!
There are Two Ways to Partner with Maps.com:
- Complete our easy online application form by clicking the link below.
- Login to your existing Commission Junction account and simply add Maps.com
TIP: Our most successful affiliate partners have websites geared to the Travel, Adventure, Education, or Mapping visitor. Our top producing partners use our
Virtual Store Front. It ensures them that all of Maps.com's 25,000 products will be represented and they will achieve maximum earnings the easy way.
With our broad appeal to the general public, this opportunity is hard to beat! Maps.com would like to encourage you to join the World's Largest Online Map Store. We look forward to working with you!
Contact:
The Maps.com Affiliate Team
Maps.com Affiliate Marketing Manager
affiliates@maps.com
Affiliate Tools
Maps.com wants to help you succeed in earning huge commission checks each and every month. We strive to give you the information you need, letting you know about the hottest and best selling products, as well as what links have converted visitors into customers.
Learn to maximize the work you have put in by promoting your own site. Below we share our favorite resources, tools and information on the Net. Exploring just a few of these links will help you generate a tremendous amount of traffic to your site.
Please take some time to review each one and come to a conclusion on which tools would work best for your specific website and needs.
- Affiliate Data Cleaner: http://www.amwso.com/affiliate_tools.php
A free tool that allows affiliates to clean up merchant datafeeds of unwanted HTML, special characters, hidden carriage returns and other junk that can create havoc in data.
- Accurate Monitor for Search Engines: http://www.cleverstat.com/search-engines.htm
A powerful Web promotion software designed for search engine specialists and webmasters. It allows you to find the position of your web site in major search engines like Google and AltaVista for popular keywords. It will bring more traffic to your site. Accurate Monitor offers advanced statistics, export functions, notes, plug-ins and an easy to use, convenient interface.
- AffCheck: http://www.AffCheck.com
AffCheck is an automated data collection and analysis service designed to help Affiliates of all sizes. In-house developed web technology provides a full complement of business analysis and decision support utilities, enabling Affiliates to be more efficient in managing, tracking, and maintaining key performance statistics across multiple relationships.
- AffSolutions Product Show Case Module: http://www.afftools.com/psc/directory.html
An outstanding tool that allows you to create pages on the fly for over 20 different affiliate programs. The Product Show Case allows you to select products by category, set the HTML format and then create pages (With Network links in place) in a matter of seconds!
- Good Keywords: http://www.goodkeywords.com/
Good Keywords is a FREE Windows software for finding the perfect set of keywords for your web pages. While potentially not as powerful as Word Tracker, it's an excellent alternative.
- Hot Scripts: http://www.HotScripts.com
Not a tool in it's own right, but provides access to thousands of helpful scripts that can aid you in the creation of everything from content management to banner rotation and data feed management. It covers scripts from PHP to XML. Excellent resource for beginner and advanced programmers.
- Keyword Discover: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/
The most feature packed keyword research tool available with the largest keyword database. Keyword data is from all the major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and ASK. With a full year of search history, it makes it easy to forecast and pin point trends. Find niche terms, the most popular keywords, common misspellings and much more!
- Keyword Suggestion Tool: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
This handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Word Tracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. This tool is FREE.
- Rev Trends: http://www.revtrends.com/
An excellent tool for viewing all your merchant data under one roof as well as providing range of key reports. You can track hundreds of merchants across any number of networks and see their EPC, click through and conversion, side by side in one easy-to-read page for each report.
- Revenue Magazine: http://www.revenuetoday.com
The only magazine dedicated to the business off affiliate marketing. Launched in 2004, Revenue Magazine makes for a great read. Lots of interesting articles, advertisements that are relevant and a whole host of industry gurus, successful affiliates, top journalists and others — to produce a magazine that stresses good business practices and strong ethical guidelines that will help affiliate marketing grow. Printed quarterly and available world wide.
- SaviCom — Email: http://www.savicom.net/
If you are looking to set up your own Opt In mailing list for your web site, then you can't go wrong with SaviCom. A wide range of pricing options with database tools to create custom e-mails on the fly. SaviCom also have automated CANSPAM compliance tools to ensure you don't fall foul of the CANSPAM laws.
- Scripts 4 Your Site: http://www.scripts4yoursite.com/
If you want to make full use of our custom data feeds but don't have the hang of programming or just don't have time to do it then select from a wide range of data feed script from Scripts 4 Your Site.
- Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
This utility can be used to check search engines for keyword ranking and track search engine ranking for your various keywords over time, which can be critical when doing search engine optimization. In order to use this tool, you need to create a username and password, since it tracks your data historically; we need to know which data is yours. This tool is FREE.
- SearchSpell: http://www.searchspell.com/
A very cool tool that allows you to create Typo (Spelling Error) lists on the fly. Excellent for creating the extra key words you need for picking up the mis-spellings of keywords.
- Web Merge: http://www.fourthworld.com/products/webmerge/index.html
If you are creating a mass of product pages, be it text based, with images, or a highly detailed system of indexes and product pages, then this tool will save you days of coding. You will be able to work with a wide range of data types and you can create templates and then import the data directly into the templates — creating thousands of pages on the fly.
- Word Tracker: http://www.wordtracker.com
If you want to get anywhere in SEO on Google or other key word based search engines then you just have to get a Subscription to Word Tracker.
Hot Products
Easy money — now feature the hottest products from the Maps.com store. Below, you will find direct links to the Top 20 Products from March 2006. You have the option of two different ways to feature these products:
- You can download our Datafeed by retrieving it from Commission Junction.
- You can use our Product Store Builder and create a virtual store on your web site. Please click on the following link to get started: http://www.maps.com/afbuilder.aspx
Our Top 20 Affiliate Best Sellers
Banners/Images
Each and every month, we share the secrets of our most successful affiliates. Make the most orders and click throughs with our highest converting banners and text links from our affiliate program.
This incredibly valuable information will help you determine which links you should use on your web site for the ultimate success. We want you to use what has been successful for our other affiliate partners, so you can do just as good and earn lots of commissions.
Included are a number of image links to our top selling Countries, States and Cities. To help you promote Maps.com products and give your visitors the visual content they love, we can provide you images upon request.
Top 10 Performing Affiliate Banners
To access the banners, please
login into your CJ account and go into our links section. You can always
Contact our Affiliate Team for direct assistance.
Promotions
Sometimes customers don't need an incentive to purchase. If they need it, they will buy it. However, it certainly doesn't hurt the situation to provide a valuable discount to increase the opportunity for a visitor to turn into a customer.
As these promotions are exclusive to your visitors only, we do not publish them on our website. Available to you are banners and text links that allow you to promote sales with weekly and monthly coupons.
To access the promotions, please
login into your CJ account and go into our links section. You can always
Contact our Affiliate Team for direct assistance.
Keyword Bidding
Keyword bidding on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others is a great way to gain instant traffic to your website. We encourage you to try your hand at the art of "arbitrage" as it is called in this industry, and see if you can find your niche market that will make you some money!
The only request of you that we make is that you do not bid on our trademark name
Maps.com or renditions thereof. This includes misspelling of the name Maps.com. We police keyword bidding on these terms regularly.
Please check out the
Affiliate Tools section to find a variety of tools that will assist you in your overall Pay-Per-Click marketing efforts. It will help you find and bid on the best keywords and phrases possible.
Parasite Free
The Maps.com Affiliate Program via Commission Junction is proud to be a Parasite FREE Network.
Maps.com wants to make sure that our affiliates are paid for their hard work without having to worry about another affiliate stealing their commission. To maintain a parasite-free network, we continuously monitor for affiliates that are out-of-compliance. We also depend on the affiliate community, other affiliate managers, and industry experts to let us know if an affiliate of ours is resorting to questionable practices.
If you have questions about parasite ware, please refer to the following resources. These organizations commit themselves to fostering a healthy affiliate industry, and share the same goals regarding parasite ware that Maps.com would like to see the industry as a whole adopt.
http://www.AffiliateFairPlay.com
http://www.ParasiteWare.com
