AbeBooks Affiliate Program http:abebooksdocs

1. AbeBooks Affiliate Program(http://www.abebooks.com/docs/AffiliateProgram/) Introduction to Tools Webinar

2. Overview of AbeBooks AbeBooks is an online marketplace where independent booksellers list their books Thousands of booksellers in 57 different countries Over 110 million books AbeBooks Affiliate Program Flat 5% commission on the first $500 of each item 90 day cookie tracking Access to more books than any other marketplace Committed account management Use our tools: Banners/HTML Deep Link tool Search Web Services

3. Tips to gain sales on AbeBooks Tightly integrate Abebooks links into your site "in-context" text links receive greater traffic and have much higher conversion rates. Customize your AbeBooks links to make them very relevant for your users Eg. If your site has an article on France, place an affiliate link within the article titled "Search for books on French cooking". You could then have the link point to an Abebooks search on the keywords "french cooking". Leverage off the traffic from your homepage Put your major affiliate links on your homepage to increase the number of clicks that your affiliate programme generates. Don't SELL. Warm your visitor up for your visitors by pre-selling them with great content that they value and respect. Keep your page fresh. Providing new content for your visitors is one of the best ways to encourage that they continue to come back. Use one of our banners that dynamically change to stay current with significant events and holidays Include Affiliate links in your direct marketing campaigns

4. Banners and ConnectCommerce Tools Available Link Templates Contains the text links and banners that are currently available Build Your Own Link (BYOL) Allows you to build a link to any page on the AbeBooks’ site Try our HTML Search Boxes to allow your users to search our inventory Orange Links Daily, automatic send of new links to publishers who have signed up for the service in ConnectCommerce File format: Excel

5. Deep Linking Tool What is the Deep Link tool? (http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/AffiliateLinkEntry) AbeBooks deep link tool allows you to create a link to our search results for a particular book or keywords. This is a great tool to show content on your site to highlight particular books ie. If you have a travel site, place links to books about travel or particular regions. Our link generator will create an HTML code for you to easily place directly on to your page

6. Search Web Services What is Search Web Services (SWS)? SWS allows real-time access to our catalogue Access our inventory with real-time pricing, pictures for ISBN books, vendor descriptions, shipping prices, plus more Is in XML format – use a variety of parameters to find the books you want to link to To apply for SWS or for information on how to add affiliate tracking visit: http://www.abebooks.com/docs/AffiliateProgram/WebServices/

7. Top Converting Categories Textbooks Free Shipping Best Buys Specific Books Link to specific books with descriptions Your own Niche Category – ie. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Rare books Many affiliates have their own category they promote on their site. If your site focuses on a particular category, be sure to link to specific books and the browse pages

8. Q & A?If you have a question I haven’t answered please feel free to contact me at affiliate@abebooks.comOr, we have a FAQs page http://www.abebooks.com/docs/AffiliateProgram/affiliate_center_4.shtml