Affiliate - Getting
Started Guide
Make Money Online with
Affiliate Programs: Getting Started Guide
Affiliates make money by
referring customers to their merchants. There are many
companies and webmasters offer affiliate programs to promote
their online sales. When you sign up for an affiliate program,
you will be given an affiliate link with an unique affiliate ID
which will be used to market the product. When someone makes a
purchase through your affiliate link, you make money (earn
affiliate commission). Below are the steps to starting an
affiliate marketing business:
Step 1 - Join an
Affiliate Program
Clickbank.com is one of the best
places to find an affiliate program that interests you as there
are a ton of sellers looking for people to promote their
e-books and info products. Before you join any affiliate
programs, do a little research. Find out which products are
most popular, the conversion rate of the products and visit the
sellers’ websites to see whether their sales letters are
convinced enough to generate sales. A conversion rate of 5% is
reasonably good. This means that for every 100 visitors to the
website, 5 visitors will buy.
Step 2 –
Promote an affiliate program through a
website
You need to have a website to promote your
affiliate programs. Creating a website isn’t difficult
nowadays. You can use an easy website builder to create a
website with little or no technical knowledge. To learn more
about how to set up a site with website builder, you can go to
Google and enter the search term 'website builder' to find a
site builder that is right for you.
Step 3 – Decide the Content on Your
Website
To earn
affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your
website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely
you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive
targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5
days). Here’s how……
Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get
a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The two most
popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google
Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. So how PPC advertising
program works? PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for
top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone
enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search
engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will
appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor
clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base
on your bid amount. To learn more about PPC advertising, please
click here.
Article Marketing
Writing an article
related to your affiliate products with a link to your website
in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article
directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site.
To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write
more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing
this for a year can drive truckload of free traffic to your
website.
Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on
community forums with a link to your site on the signature of
each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from
an affiliate marketer.
1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards
that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as
many forums as you can.
2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to
include your website link within the signature option.
3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You
can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to
other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The
more people trust you, the more likely they will click your
link.
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