Affiliate Marketing is one of the
internet marketing techniques that involve the cooperation between the
companies or individuals who have a product or service to be sold, with other
people who are going to sell products or services. In the offline version, this
term is called an intermediary, broker, etc.
The advantage to take
a part on this affiliate program is that you do not need to make your own
products so you can be focused on the marketing. Imagine if you are a beginner
in the online business, to be able to sell, you have to think about what kind
of product will be sold, and then you have to produce it first and sell it.
Surely, it will take a long time, right?
By choosing the
profession as an affiliate marketer, you can immediately get into this business
without having to create the product first. However, you have to realize that
even if it is easier in preparing the affiliate
marketing business, it has a heavy competition. Therefore, you have to
prepare some good strategies to become a successful affiliate marketer. Do you
want it?
Make your own blog or
website
You
need to have your own blog that is well built, reliable, and having a
professional look. People will come to your blog and they do not know who you
are, so the first impression is very important. The reason for having a good
and professional blog is to attract the visitor to stay for long on your blog
and encourage them to visit every day.
The
displayed website or blog that looks good, friendly, informative, and
professional is the main requirement for those who want to enter this affiliate
business. You have to be understood at first that our goal is to create a blog
to convey useful information to the internet users, and selling products is the
secondary activity to monetize the blog. It is right, isn’t it? Present the
information as possible to the visitors so they will come back again later.
Your information must be smooth to directly divert the visitors’ attention to a
particular product. Some marketers call it as pre-sales. By presenting interesting
articles that have a certain quality; it will attract the visitors
continuously.
However,
for beginners, you are able to start this business without having your own
blog, for example, send articles to a popular article directory, but this can
be risky in the future. The policy owner’s directory can change as the time
goes by. Once, I read in the forum there are people who wondering the fate of
his articles that contain a particular affiliate product reviews, but
unfortunately the article directories said that it is not allowed to advertise
anymore in their article directory. It is very unfortunate, isn’t it? Here is
my tip so you do not have to lose in the future. In the early stage, you can
submit the articles to the famous directory, but only a few posting. Later,
after you are already familiar with running the affiliate business, you have to build your own blog. You can use a
free or paid blog. If you are not used to write articles, do not be
discouraged, many service bureaus provide article creation. You can select the
best service bureau by looking at the testimony from those site visitors. Well…
what are you waiting? Just do it.
2. Give incentives to
your blog visitors
You
are not alone; there is always competition in this niche market! You must
always be one-step ahead from your rivals to ensure that you capture a
significant share of the target market you are aiming. Therefore, you have to
use creative ways to encourage people to not only visit your site, but also
want to click on the advertising links of the products and services you are
promoting. Making a customer list is one of the best ways to gather prospects.
From the list, you can offer newsletter subscriptions, free e-books or whatever
that you can give for free to your prospects.
3. Build link popularity
Link
popularity means that how many sites link to your site. The more sites that you
link to you, the more popular your site is. It makes nonsense since if your site
is not good, who will link to you? Who wants favorite your site? It can be by
submitting useful articles to the article directories. If your articles are
distributed throughout the internet, you will have a substantial link. Another way,
it could be through the advertising media either free advertising such as
backpage or paid advertising like Google Adword. Therefore, when a user clicks
on an ad there, it will be directly linked to your website or blog. it must be
understood that if you are interested in using Google Adword, you have to study
carefully the advertising policies in the Google Adword. As I know, you cannot
advertise on matters relating to gain wealth instantly, and it seems that
Google does not like affiliate ads.
4. Extending the reach
Get
active on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. Make sure your website has a
presence on social networking sites. Remember that creating a successful
affiliate site is to connect with your audience wherever they are.
5. Build a targeted
traffic
Many
affiliate marketers get abundant traffic to their website, but did not earn
money from affiliate. Why? It has actually a lot of factors and I think one of
the most powerful factors is because the traffic that is not targeted on the
topic discussion of your website. This means that the traffic does not have an
interest in your product or information.Focus
your content and doing the website promotion through a targeted audience as
well, for example if your site discusses internet-marketing products, you can join
in the facebook groups, community forums or do a guest post on blog that have
one topic. This method is very effective to help you succeed in affiliate
marketing.
Of course, not all
articles should be given an affiliate link since it will actually waste your
articles due to over promotion. You should be wise in distributing affiliate
link. Do it elegant and professional. Make articles that are more informative
from article reviews (comparison article information: product review article is
5:2)
Those are some tips
in running successful affiliate marketing. Hopefully, these moves can help you
who want to succeed in this business. If you want to get more accurate tips in
which will help you become a successful affiliate marketer, you can read here. Be a succesful guys!!:-)