Saturday 5 November 2011

What is Affiliate Marketing?

http://images.suite101.com/2908127_COM_photo_19200_20100727.jpgWhat is Affiliate Marketing? What is it? That is a question that gets asked every day? Affiliate marketing is a simple concept. It is where one person promotes somebody else’ product and gets paid a commission. If you have a great product and don’t know how to get it out there, this can be the way to get some sales. Now, if you are on the opposite end, you are trying to sell somebody else’ big product for a commission. The internet is a huge tool these days. People are making it big using the internet every day. This is one of the more common ways to strike it big.
All you have to do is:
1. Decide what niche you want to get into. Although the internet already has so many websites and pretty much anything you can think of already has websites for it, you can still make a website that is better, or becomes more successful if you try hard enough.
2. Get an easily branded domain name. The most common names are usually already taken, however there still are some good names left out there. All you have to do is look. These more branded domain names may be more expensive to purchase, but you will likely get more traffic and ultimately, more sales.
3. Find the products you want to promote. Place links throughout your website. Just make sure not to put too many links together. Try to spread the advertisements out throughout the site. Maybe put some on the home page and then place more throughout the rest. Almost every site out there has some form of affiliate marketing. Any time you see a banner ad or sponsored link along the sidebar, that is usually an affiliate.
4. Track your traffic and make sure you know where your traffic is going. Make sure that you watch which sites are making you money and which ones aren’t. If you find a link that is performing really well make sure you leave it there and try to drive more traffic to it. The best way to do this is either to remove some of your other links or try to find new links that perform as well as that one. If you want to track and protect your affiliate link and even make it viralized through social network, you can simply visit and protect your affiliate link with AffiliateCloaker.net.
5. This is the best part, once you have gotten that website up and running and making you lots of money, you start over. The best way to make a good career through affiliate marketing is to promote a lot of products. The possibilities are unlimited. There is no limit to how many websites you are allowed to own. You just have to make sure that your income is above your cost.
Affiliate marketing can be very easy for some people and quite impossible for others. If you are someone that is going to give up at your first failing attempt then I do not suggest you attempt this career. But, if you are going to keep trying, and learn how to repeat on your success, then you are probably going to have a very fun and successful career.

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