The secret for today: Affiliate marketing revenue is headed towards growing
to 4.5 Billion dollars by the year 2016.
So if you are a struggling affiliate marketer, keep trying. Do your research and change things up if you
try a marketing technique for a week and you get no response. Affiliate marketing is poised to become even
more lucrative than it is today so hang in there.
Because the start-up costs of affiliate marketing is so low
and the earning potential is “off the chain,” affiliate marketing is a lucrative
online business opportunity.
In 2008, 2.1 billion dollars in affiliate fees were paid to
blog and website owners. Imagine what
the total is for 2013.
Even though affiliate marketing can be done on a part-time
basis, many people have made enough to be able to make affiliate marketing
their full-time job.
You too, with the right amount of commitment and diligence,
can be a successful affiliate marketer.
If you research on the internet you can find many tips that can help
you to make that happen. I am listing
the following six tips to give you a head start.
Choose a Niche
I can’t express this enough, and probably have expressed it
many times in the past, that in marketing, it is almost impossible to be all
things to all people. Stray away from
the temptation to try to claim expertise in everything under the sun. I am sure that you have heard the phrase “Jack
of all trades, master of none.” This
concepts applies to marketing as it applies to all other areas of life.
Choose one thing that you would enjoy becoming an expert
in. Use a keyword tool to get ideas that
would help you narrow a topic down.
Narrow a topic down as far as you can and then set your paths to
researching that topic and becoming an expert in subject matter regarding that
topic.
Locate Products to Promote
There are many networks that exist that will connect would
be affiliates with merchants who have affiliate programs. Pay.com, E-junkie and Clickbank are leaders
in offering opportunities to sell e-books and software.
If someone is more interested in selling “traditional”
services, than Commission Junction is a good choice.
If the interest is not in actually selling products or
services but in just displaying ads that generate revenue as soon as they are
clicked then Google’s Adsense would be the way to go.
Develop Your Website or Blog
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to build an online presence. You can develop a website for free. You can also build a blog for free. For blogs, two of the best free sites that
will allow you to create a blog is Blogger and Wordpress.com. If you want to check out sites where you can
build websites for free then try the following site (just note the site for now
and visit it after reading the rest of the information that could affect your
affiliate success that is continued in this blog post.) http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/15-best-free-website-builders/.
Write Good Content
Create great content for your new site. Make sure that you are offering information
that will be very helpful to your targeted market. The more helpful the information the more
loyal your site visitors will become.
Make sure that you do keyword research before writing your
content. Research words and phrases that
are related to the affiliate programs that you are representing. Put the keywords, that you find, in the URL
of your site, the headings within your site and sprinkled throughout your
site. Using the right keywords and
keyword phrases is instrumental in getting targeted free traffic to your site. If you do an online search for keyword tools
you will find more than several that are free and paid.
Attract Traffic to Your Site
You can attract paid and free traffic to your site. Free traffic methods includes using search
engine optimization (SEO) and link building.
Once you make the effort to learn SEO you can attract thousands of
visitors to your site for free. The good
thing about using SEO is that it can land you a really good spot in the search
engine results pages (SERPs) that could remain indefinitely. This could bring you an endless amount of
traffic. Search online for SEO for beginners by Moz. It is a
really good resource for learning how to successfully do SEO and profit from it.
Link building to build traffic can be done by several methods. One method is by writing articles, submitting
these articles to free article directories and putting a link to your website
or blog in the resource section of the article.
A second method is to leave a comment with a link to your site on blog
posts of leaders in your niche. A third
method is to be a guest blogger on the blog sites of leaders in your niche. You would request that you are permitted to include a link to your site in the post.
Paid methods only secures a spot in the SERPs for as long as
payments are being made. If you go to https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/8-proven-paid-traffic-sources-landing-pages-203047335.html
(don’t go to this site until after you have read the remainder of this
blog. There is more important
information regarding successful affiliate marketing in the remaining section) you will
find options to pay for traffic.
Join Forums
Forums are a good place to learn the ropes for affiliate
marketing. Forums are meeting places
where marketers who know the ropes go and offer advice and suggestions. Forums are a good place to go to get
answers. Many of the forums require that
you have a certain number of times that you have actually participated in forum
conversations before you are allowed to leave a link to your website or blog in
the signatures of your responses. Participate in forums as much as
possible and eventually you should be able to include your URL in your
inquiries and responses.
Conclusion
Affiliate marketing is a promising business
opportunity. Billions of dollars in
affiliate fees are paid each year. With
some dedicated work and effort you could cash in on some of those
billions. I hope this blog post has been
helpful.
If you learned anything new from this article then please leave a comment.
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