Guide To Affiliate Marketing

Are you still struggling to even make your first $100 per day from affiliate marketing? Worst still, no matter how hard you try, it just not as easy as the so called gurus said so. If you are in this situation, then these 8 proven tips might change your results significantly:

1. Always start with a hungry & profitable niche market.

This is one area most marketers ignore and also one which either make or break you. Targeting a niche which desperate buyers are looking for solution and selling them those solutions is easier for you to profit from anytime.

2. Once you found this niche, this is what you must do next:

Note: Prepare a game plan ( so that you have a systematic approach to complete everything)

1. Get a new domain name ( Preferably one with your niche keywords)

Example if you’re targeting the fat loss niche - then fatlossfast.com would be good.

2. Get a web hosting

There are many good & reliable ones around which costs from $4.95 - $10.00 a month and can support unlimited domains. Do your homework first though. I am personally using Hostgator.

3. Create a simple one page review website for the top 3 products you are promoting as an affiliate.

Make sure you write easy to understand reviews and do not hype up too much. Always include your personal rating as well the money back guarantee which comes with it. So that potential buyers would be more willing to try it out at least.

3. Subscribe to an auto-responder service

Capturing leads with an auto-responder is very critical to your success as an affiliate because not all potential buyers would buy at the first contact. Thus, it is wise that you capture their email and name in exchange for a useful report or mini course. This is for future follow ups and convince them to buy from you.

4. Upload the completed website to your web host.

Once loaded, make sure you type your URL into the browser and see if everything is working fine. Especially affiliate links are not broken and opt-in form working well.

5. Start driving “targeted” traffic using AdWords Pay-Per-Clicks.

Using AdwWrds to drive traffic is no doubt very fast and profitable. But if you do it wrongly, it could burn your pocket badly too. One trick to use is to only bid on the products’ name as keywords. Though they might be more expensive, but these are mostly the buyers’ keywords.

6. Set up a review page using Squidoo

Having set up your website properly and getting the results you want from adwords, it is time to move on to another traffic source. Using Squidoo is a good choice because your lens can appear on the first page of Google in a really short time. Thus, you enjoy the free organic search traffic too.

7. Set up a review page using Blogspot

Similar to Squidoo is the Blogspot. It is a free and powerful blogging platform which you must use to boost your affiliate earnings. It is own by Google and getting rank high is very easy too. Do your keyword research the right way targeting only the products’ name is a good direction to go.

8. Lastly, set up a review page on Facebook too.

Facebook is a very popular web 2.0 site in which Google loves to index. Create a simple review page on Facebook and start joining groups related to the niche you are targeting is a good way to kick start.

When done right, these 8 simple yet powerful steps could really rake in good affiliate paychecks for you weeks after weeks, months after months.

Every day or so, just add a new traffic source to promote either your main review page or the Squidoo lens to increase the constant flow of targeted traffic. In no time, you would be having a breakthrough in terms of your affiliate earnings for sure!