Can school websites earn money from affiliate programs (amazon/tesco etc) and are they easy to set up?
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yes, they can. set up is very easy, just cut and paste some javascript into your webpages.
Good luck.
Yes. And yes.
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sure anyone can that is the beauty of capitalism and many schools are involved with a various number of corporations and affiliate programs. you just have to make sure that any business or contracts that your school currently is under is not violated by doing business with competition. for example a school can not vend coke and pepsi simultaneously that would be a breach of contract. but your school has the right to earn funds as long as it is legally and morally right. as for ease most affiliat programs make it extremely simple to set up because it is in their best interest to get as much exposure as possible and any difficulty would be counter productive.
Definitely, I have these on my own site which is still under construction but already earning! Check out http://www.cj.com for thousands of affiliate programmes from which to choose - opt for the most related per page of your website and you will see the money roll in!!
By the way, adding to your page is easy - when you choose to sign up with a programme, Commission Junction (what the CJ of "cj.com" stands for) give you the codes or banners or buttons etc to add to your site. You choose the most appropriate and click "get HTML" next to the banner's/ links' name - add this HTML into your site's coding and it will, display the ad to the external site with your affiliate code embedded into the banners etc when someone clicks/ buys you get paid.
Usually, affiliate programs offer html text links to their sites, or html code which pulls a banner ad onto a section of your website. Amazon.com, eBay.com, Hostgator.com, Yahoo.com, and many other sites all have affiliate programs that you can set up for. Set up an account for your school, then past the html code onto your school's website code so that the link/banner appears into the appropriate area.
See the below website for an example of both text links, as well as banner ads.
I suggest Google Adsense. It is legal to use on a school site. It's easy to setup and it is used on almost every major site that I've seen recently.
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