Steps For Effective Affiliate Marketing.

One challenge that plagues affiliate marketers - especially those who do not have too much money to spare - is the marketing of affiliate products online. All newbie affiliate marketers start the same way. However, after years of experience on the Internet, some dollars earned, and a few hundreds of dollars spent on making a living online, most discover a free method of Internet Marketing. This method is described below.




1. Open a Clickbank affiliate account. Do a similar exercise with other such services. Commission Junction is another place where one can have an affiliate account. (Both these sites offer free affiliate registration.)

2. Choose a product that will sell. You do not need a website in this case. (You can also create your product - an e-book or software. Then you need to develop an one-page website about it. Ofcourse, you will have to write a sales copy for your product. Your sales copy will have to be keyword rich. Your desired keyword should appear: in the title of your page, in the page description, in the keyword metatag, in the headline of your page, in the first 90 words of your sales copy, in the beginning of every major paragraph or section of your sales copy. This process is called Search Engine Optimization of your web-page. It is important for search engines to find your page, even though you have not marketed it. Then register for a Paypal account - once again free. Put a Paypal button on your webpage.)

The above steps are basic before you can start marketing your affiliate product or your own product.

3. Post ads for your product on Classified Ads websites. There are hundreds of them. You can get them by searching for them on Google. Make sure you include the affiliate link to your product in the ad. Post to each of the sites. Do this everyday. This step is labor intensive, but it is free publicity for your product. These classified sites are on an average visited by 10,000,000 people per month. Potentially that would be the kind of traffic you can expect for your product, if you are consistent.

4. Register for a Opt-in email service for a lifetime price of $40. Through this service you can market your product through e-mail to millions of interested recipients every day of the month. Potentially you will be marketing to tens of millions of people every month and you will not be accused of spamming.

5. Posting to blogs is the next step in the free method of Internet Marketing. The question you have to answer is which blogs to post too. A free software available to Internet Marketers for this purpose is Comment Kahuna. This software brings up - based on your keywords - hundreds of blogs on your topic to which you can post to. The idea is to place your affiliate or website link in your signature which the software takes care of for you. Make your comments genuine. Do not just focus on placing your link. Add value to the blog.

6. The next step is to do a similar exercise with forums related to your keyword. Always follow posting rules. Add value to the forums.

7.Do article marketing through the numerous free article sites. You will get hordes of them if you search for them on Google. Follow the rules for writing as mentioned in their guidelines.

Place your textual links as often as you are allowed to in the article and in the resource box. Clearly, the article should be on the keyword which relates to your affiliate product. Make sure your article is sprinkled adequately with your keyword - in the title, in the body - at least five to six times, in the resource box, and in the keywords box. This will ensure that your article appears in search engine results, when that particular keyword is searched for. If your article is content rich, you will have repeat visitors.

These steps will bring you massive traffic, and if you are consistent, you will be able to convert this traffic into sales.

4 Tips For Successful Affiliate Marketing

Thousands of people make a serious income from marketing other people's products. Unfortunately, many others spend time and effort in this area and see little or no reward. The great news is that not much usually separates the successful affiliate marketer from the "newbie". In this post we will discuss 4 tips to successfully improve your affiliate marketing results when selling affiliate products.

1. Pick the right product
Generally you want to pick a product that has a higher affiliate commission and a higher price. However, it is Return on Investment (ROI) that is more important. In other words, if you spend $5 to make $10 you have a 100% return. If this scales up well you may just need to increase your advertising spending to get a large amount of money. On the other hand, if you market an expensive product that gives a large return, but it costs you more to advertise than it does in commissions then you are going to lose money.

As well as price and commission you need to examine the potential conversion rate. A product with a great sales letter and other benefits may be much easier to sell.

Timing is also important. If you can find a hot product before the majority of the market you are going to do well. If the product has already been heavily promoted by your competition you may struggle to make any sales.

2. The money is in the list
You have probably heard this over and over again but the question is - Have you taken any action in this area? It is much easier to sell to existing customers than create a new one. Rather than sell one off products you should look at getting sign ups to your OWN list. From here you can continue to sell over and over again. However, you also need to provide good content or add value in other ways otherwise the unsubscribe rate will be high.

3. Spend money to make money
Sometimes you can get free advertising that works, but more often than not you have to spend money to make money. For example, you could run an AdWords campaign to send people to a sign-up page for a free 5-day course you set up using an autoresponder. Every subscriber is going to cost you something but over the long term as long as the ROI is positive you are going to make money.

4. Test, test, test
You need to continually test your ad copy, your traffic statistics, your sign-up rates etc. In particular, you should try a small-cost advertising campaign to see if it is going to be successful before putting a large amount of money into it. Find out what other successful marketers are doing. Read articles, participate in forums and if you can, get a mentor.

Who knows, using these 4 tips for successful affiliate marketing you may turn from a novice affiliate marketer to the next 'super' affiliate master.