Here’s a few simple affiliate marketing tips that should help you get on the right path.

  • Use your own website
  • Why send people to your affiliate page and give all that traffic to someone else?
    Also more then likely the product you are promoting has a sign up form there to capture the visitors name and put them on their mailing list.
    By setting up your own website and doing the pre-sell there you can get the traffic and build your own list.

  • Build your own list
  • Why let the product owner have all those names to send offers to? I’ll get into the hows and whys of habing your own list in the future. But for now let me say it’s a real good idea to have one.

  • Concentrate on one niche
  • If you’re all over the board with your marketing efforts, you are wasting your time and money.
    Focus on one niche at a time and do the leg work to find out what they are looking for and how they are looking.
    An example would be dog products.
    People looking for flea control products aren’t going to be typing in dog products as their keyword to search.

  • Product Reviews
  • This is the new style of affiliate marketing that has really been around for ever in one form or another.
    Try to think of the people you are writing the review for. I don’t mean the people who’s products you are reviewing, but the people that are reading the reviews. One style that may work in the affiliate marketing niche, may not work in the dog niche.
    When I started marketing in a sub niche of the dog niche I addressed the market as if I was going through what they where, and in fact I was.
    So my approach was to show them a bunch of products, listing my personal experiences with them and then saying ‘this is what I used that worked’. I’m still getting commission checks from that site and I haven’t updated it in about a year.

Well that about raps up this affiliate marketing post.
I’ll have more in the future and expand on the points I made here.

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