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Tips for Animal Shelters to better leverage your website:

• Make the important information easy to find - hours, location, specifications. Expedia and Mapquest make it easy for you to provide links to maps and driving directions.

• Make accepting donations as simple and easy as possible.

• If you have the personnel/resources necessary, frequently updated material (especially information on specific animals available) will bring visitors back.

• Trade links with other shelters in your area; "relevant" web site links help increase your rankings in search engine results and can provide a viable alternate source to a potential animal adopter that located the other shelter.

• Locate all the online shelter and animal directories you can, and be sure your shelter is listed.

• Keep a mailing list of site supporters and animal adopters and e-mail them with information on special events.

• Look to affiliate programs to generate some income from your website. By providing links to the affiliate site or specific products from your website, you can get a percentage of any sales from the visitors you refer;

  • 
    Google AdSense is an easy to implement and relatively high paying ad placement service. Simply cut and paste ad blocks into your web page; Google's software automatically places ads relevant to the content on your page, and you get paid a fee anytime someone clicks on the ad!

    • Knowing a few simple techniques can improve your AdSense income many times over... Check out this e-book "What Google never told you about making money with AdSense". [Note from Adoptapet-Directory.com webmaster; using the techniques from this book increased OUR AdSense income 3,000% within days!!!]

  • Amazon.com sells all sorts of animal reference materials and supplies, and becoming an affiliate is easy. A few simple links from your website to relevant items can make you 5%-15% commissions.

    • If you have more technical resources, there are automated scripts you can install on you website to easily create your own virtual pet supply store - where all sales go through Amazon.com, but you get a percentage of all sales from your visitors.
      Here's an example of an (almost) off the shelf (free) Amazon pet-supply store.

  • Check out some of the following pet-related affiliate programs you can join:

    • http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/directory/lifestyle/pets/index.shtml

    • http://www.affiliatefirst.com/txt/Family/Pets/index.shtml 

    • http://www.affiliateprograms.com/Pets-&-Livestock/44.html

    • http://www.clickslink.com/pets.html

    • http://www.affiliatematch.com/affiliateprograms/Pets/