Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Tips

By Samantha On December 7, 2009 Under Affiliate Marketing, Top Tips Thank you for returning to our Internet Marketing Blog. To be the first to hear about updates please subscribe.

As I am constantly being asked for advice from people who are interested in getting involved in promoting affiliate programs I have decided to put together my list of top 10 affiliate marketing tips.

1. Choose the affiliate program that you are going to promote carefully. It is always a good idea to start with one of the affiliate networks such as cj.com or a reputable company such as amazon.com.The reasons for this are twofold, firstly, the last thing you want is to have problems getting paid for your affiliate sales and secondly some of the smaller affiliate programs have a relatively high threshold for payments, i.e. they won;t pay you until you have earned $200. When you are starting out it is highly encouraging to have the money in your account in the shortest possible time and without any other problems to complicate matters.

2. When carrying out your affiliate marketing campaign always make sure that your promotion is relevant to the subject of your affiliate program. What I mean by that is if you are promoting an affiliate program for paint ball equipment don’t try and target people who are interested in tropical fish. Target your affiliate marketing campaign and you will be far more successful.

3. Set up a blog to help with your affiliate marketing. It could be a free blog from blogger.com but I would highly recommend using a wordpress blog on your own domain and hosting.

4. When setting up a blog with your own domain take some time on your keyword research and try and incorporate a search term which is getting searches in google every month into your domain name. This will ensure traffic to your blog without any effort from you.

5. Start writing articles. Articles are one of my favourite methods of affiliate marketing and if done properly will ensure plenty of traffic to your blog or website. When you distribute articles around the various article directories they will be counted as backlinks to your site and will give it added authority as far as google is concerned and in turn your website/blog will rank higher.

6. Don’t under estimate the power of promotion on forums. As mentioned in Tip number 1, as long as you concentrate on the forums in your particular niche and offer helpful advice you will find that if you have a link to your blog/website in your signature line you will definitely generate traffic.

7. Use an autoresponder to capture your visitors email address. Visitors to your website are highly unlikely to make a purchase on their first visit but if you have their email address you can send them a series of messages, each one being helpful but also advertising your affiliate program. This method will show good results and it also means that you can continue marketing to these people over the months and years ahead.

8. Try marketing via youtube and the other video sharing websites. Youtube gets a massive amount of visitors and all it takes is for you to put up a simple video, it doesn’t have to be anything out of the ordinary, a simple slideshow will be adequate, put a link back to your website/blog and the traffic will start to arrive before you know it.

9. Don’t underestimate the power of Twitter. As with affiliate marketing on forums the same thing applies with Twitter in that you should offer helpful advice where possible and don’t spam people with your promotions. Once you have built up a decent size following you will find that your affiliate marketing endeavours will start to pay off big time.

10. Ezinearticles. This deserves a tip of it’s own due to the fact that google absolutely loves ezinearticles and it is not uncommon for an article listed there to be ranked highly in google without the need of a website. It is vitally important that you make sure the the resource box used for each article has a strong call to action which will encourage the reader to click through to your affiliate offer or blog etc.

Once you have found a method that shows you results and that you are comfortable with it is simply a case of rinse and repeat and on to the next one. You can soon build up a nice passive income and when the money does start to come in you can think about starting to outsource different aspects of your business which will ensure that you will see even faster growth.

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope that I have made a difference in showing you how to make money online for beginners. Whether you want to make money blogging, become an affiliate marketing expert or are simply looking for an easy make money online solution we have one for you!

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Samantha

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