Affiliate Marketing

 

I really cant give you the great tips but definitely i can give you some of my best tips through my experience.

1. Firstly, every merchant should not expect earnings from the 1st day.

2. Good and healthy SEO needed: This means that one should not just submit their site anywhere randomly but look for places where the site remains for long and has good traffic.

3. Placing affiliate banners on blogs also helps a lot.

4. Target search engines and make your site more visible.

5. Choose an affiliate program that matches your site’s subject matter, it's easy for you to implement and offers a high commission.

6. Monitor your commissions and re-evaluate your affiliate program every three to six months. Are you generating revenue? Are there other programs that you should consider joining?

7. Make your site very attractive and update it regularly.

8. Search for reason for making your traffic stay on your site forever.

9. Don't ever try any paid affiliate if you don't know it well. In fact I would stay away altogether.

10. Lastly place attractive ads and free offers so that people click them.

Yes I think affiliate Marketing is the best way to start online business. With minimum investment or for some programs no investments at all.

I don't agree that affiliate programs are bad, but they are actually very profitable provided you judge your program well.

With thousands of affiliate programs available for you to sell, you can afford to be picky about what products you promote. Although as an affiliate, your reputation is less at stake than the merchant's, you want to be careful about what programs you promote. If you've built a list, as well as a relationship with your readers, your reputation is still at stake, and you want to make sure that you offer your readers good products.

An easy way for you to promote affiliate programs is through free ebooks and reports. These can be reports offered by the merchant, or a short report you've written about the product you're promoting. This can help you distinguish yourself from other affiliates, especially when you write the report yourself because you are giving the reader new information other affiliates are not offering.

I believe that if you really want to succeed in affiliate marketing you need to have your own website or blog.

Sure you can make money with paid advertising, but in the end you are just spinning your wheels. As soon as you put less effort into your business, the sales will cease. You have not built a long-time, self-sufficient business.

You can make money through PPC, but the learning curve is steep, the risks are high and you may spend more than you make in the long run.

I would start by building a blog around your niche offering high quality content. Offer your affiliate product through a widget, as well as having it's own page with a detailed review. Also have a sign up through an auto-responder.

Once you start building traffic, you will build a solid internet business.
I have delved into PPC advertising and it is very complicated figuring just the right formula to make it work.

About advertising on already established websites though, yes you have to reapply for the ad space and such but wouldn’t you have just as much if not more work to do if you had a site to maintain. Don’t get me wrong, I’m working on populating my forum at the moment (hard work lol), but in the mean time it seems like taking advantage of someone’s hard work and buying their ad space would be profitable as well. Sure, once you get your website established then all you have to do is moderate and keep the content flowing, but its getting to that point.

Having a website is the way to go for a more continuous and stable flow of income, but couldn’t buying ad space for your affiliate program be profitable enough to make it worth your time?

Sign-up with Linkshare - they can partner you with Netflix, Apple, Vistaprint amongst others. You place a banner on your site and when a visitor purchases something from that link you earn a commission percentage. It's a great way to earn extra without doing any work

You could always write a PDF on a topic and market your product as something in them. Maybe use a pre-sales page? I've had mild success doing that myself.

I never thought of writing a one page website like I'm always seeing, but I'm still looking for more effortless, even if I have to pay a little money. Optimizing a site and marketing it would take some time.

The best affiliate marketer cloak their web site links. Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it actually is. Apparently, visitors will not tend to click on your link when they see that it is leading to an affiliate program on your site once they point their mouse over them. Affiliate marketers focus on a market niche. Loading your site with content that is focused on a certain product or service niche is one way of getting more web traffic in your target market.Top affiliate marketers uses autoresponders. Autoresponders are important tools that makes you capable of sending a timed series of email messages to those persons that signed up for them.

You can make money through PPC, but the learning curve is steep, the risks are high and you may spend more than you make in the long run. Yes the learning curve can be steep, but once you develop a succesful campaign all you have to do is monitor it and fine tune it for maybe an hour or so a day and the rest is automated.

Many affiliates buy domains and do doorway pages to their affiliate pages (so they can advertise on google) or set up domain forwarding so that the customers are redirected to your affiliate page once they go to YOUR domain.

What about Traffic Exchanges? Those exchanges having hundreds of thousands members, of course may give exposure to your links to boost affiliate business.

Some good techniques to get more people looking at my site.
1. Pinging
2. Back Links
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Link Exchanges
5. Forum Posts
6. giveaways
7. contests

Anything that will want to make someone show up. Make sure to target a keyword that has a low competition value on Google, too. It helps to get clicks.

I would suggest that you do some article marketing. Write a good article with links to your site and submit them to different article directories. This usually gives a lot of visitors.

I recommend Article Marketing as well. Only when it comes to distribution, you need to know where to do it in order to be effective. You can sign on with some article distribution sites like isnare.com or articlemarketer.com. I personally like articlemarketer because they have a much faster turn around time in getting your articles published, and they publish your articles on thousands of article directories and e-zines. In your resource box for your articles make sure to include a link to your site. Doing this will not only drive some traffic to your site but it will also build TONS of backlinks...FAST, and help your page rank. One thing though, if you choose this method, be consistant with your article releases, meaning if you're only going to submit 3 articles a week (many successful people submit 3 - 5 per day), then stick with whatever amount you commit yourself to do. If you want IMMEDIATE traffic, you can also sign up with Google AdWords (although they are a major pain with their regulations), or Microsofts AdCenter to advertise on BING. Create Ads that grab attention and start advertising on their networks, keep in mind you only pay if someone clicks on your ad to go visit your site (which is why it is called pay per click). Also, if this product is something that YOU created, you may want to think about marketing your product on clickbank so that other affilate marketers who are professional at driving traffic, can market your product for you and you pay them a commission for each sale they get.