Affiliate marketing is one of the most lucrative way to make money online without having a product of your own.
As an affiliate marketer you don’t have to spend any your time on trying to create or develop your own product, delivery or support issues, and instead, your focus is on developing a profitable campaigns that jack in commission payments 24 hours a day!
Your only work here is to develop a highly targeted sales campaigns that can promote high quality products and then build a powerful traffic campaigns that funnel in red-hot prospects who are interested in purchasing the products you are promoting.
Affiliate marketing is not really simple as it sound but it's a very rewarding and profitable venture.
Another very important aspect of this business is that it gives you the freedom to choose as many different niche markets as you wish, and also help you to explore countless opportunities as you go.
Choosing Products To Promote
Choosing
quality products is one of the most very important part of every affiliate campaign,
because you want to make sure that you are setting up campaigns around products
that are likely to easily convert for profit.
This
means that you need to spend time carefully researching and evaluating products
.
How To Choose a niche that is evergreen
Try To Identify the market demand and profitability based on existing competition.
How?
Simple! always endeavor take notes of every possible products and niche
markets that look interesting to you and then, search online for related
forums, groups and blogs to determine what people are looking for, how big the
market is and what is currently in demand.
If
you plan to promote digital products, the best place to start looking for
quality products is through
2.
Amazon
Marketplace
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
3.
Commission
Junction
http://www.CommissionJunction.com
How To Set Up Powerful Campaigns That Generate Sales
One
of the majority of your time as an affiliate marketer will be spent setting up
campaigns. Campaigns involve a series of tasks, including developing squeeze
pages, landing pages and most importantly - content pages.
With
niche-based websites, you simply select 10-20 products all based around a
specific niche market. For example, weight loss or parenting.
You then construct an article-powered niche website that features 10 different articles, and at the bottom of every article, you feature a direct link to the merchants website.
Niche based websites are very easy to set up, but remember to keep in mind that each website needs a specific theme. You want to segment your affiliate campaigns so that every website is focused around one specific market (or niche), so that you can funnel targeted traffic to your websites without convoluting the process.
Product Specific Blogs
One of the easiest ways to create an affiliate based content website is to use the power of Wordpress blogs. With Wordpress, you can download a free copy of their powerful blogging software, install it onto your own hosting account and have a fully functional, dynamic website created in under a few minutes.
Promoting Your Campaigns
Once
you have an affiliate content website ready for your market, it's time to begin
driving targeted traffic to it!
You can do this a number of different ways, and in this segment of the report, we'll explore the most cost effective strategies to jump-starting your campaigns.
Article Marketing
One of
the easiest ways of launching an affiliate campaign is by using article
marketing directories.
With article content, you can simply submit it into the larger article directories and within minutes of being approved, can begin to see traffic flowing to your landing pages.
In exchange for providing them with free content, you get to include some text and links in a section at the bottom of each article called a resource box.
EzineArticles.com (http://www.ezinearticles.com) is the biggest, most popular, highest-traffic article directory. They have tremendous authority in Google, and articles often rank extremely well, so they can get a lot of traffic.
As long as your articles are structured so that you are providing solid, useful content with a link back to your website showcased within the resource box, article marketing is a simple and effective strategy to generating prime traffic.
Another important thing to keep in mind is that you should always use anchor text within your resource boxes, rather than a direct link to your site. Anchor text will help you rank for many different keywords rather than just your website URL itself.
Here
is the HTML code to use in your resource box if you want to use anchor text
rather than a direct URL:
You would replace yourdomain.com with your domain URL and include a relevant keyword phrase in the anchor text.
Your author’s resource box needs to be as strong as your article’s headline and contain information that will pull a reader in and motivate them to click on your link and visit your website.
Essentially, a resource box is very much like a fast-track commercial. You have only a few seconds to motivate them to read further and explore your website.
Here are the top five article marketing directories that I personally use for all of my campaigns:
Ezine Advertising
Advertising
in newsletters can be a cost effective and very powerful method of spreading
your affiliate links throughout the market very quickly.
When
purchasing ezine (or newsletter) advertising, you always want to try to
purchase "solo" ads, so that you are able to broadcast an article
tied in with your affiliate link, without having to compete with other
advertisers. Here is a partial list of ezines that offer solo advertisement
spacing:
Feeder Sites
If
you want to push your marketing message out to your niche market quickly, and
absolutely free - you'll want to turn to feeder sites.
Feeder sites are free remotely hosted web services that allow you to create simple websites or web pages, such as Squidoo, available at http://www.Squidoo.com, who provides a free "hub building service" to anyone wishing to create a content rich web page.
Feeder sites are such a popular method of building targeted traffic campaigns because of how quickly they rank in the major search engines.
WikiDot
This
is a great way to get your sites ranking in the search engines quickly is by
creating an account at http://www.Wikidot.com
Weebly
Create
free websites and blogs, switch designs instantly, and features a drag and drop
interface, Weebly helps you rank higher in search engines especially Google. http://www.Weebly.com
Wet Paint
Wet Paint features free wiki based websites that allow you to start your own social website instantly. Very good site for backlinks and ranking. http://www.WetPaint.com