The percentage behind affiliate marketing is that:
20 percent of affiliates produce 80 percent of all income;
while
80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of all income.
Ironic but true.
You would almost certainly want to be one of those 20
percent that is earning the 80 percent of the total earnings. Who wouldn’t?
Follow these basic steps and you will find yourself sharing
the profits that the most fortunate ones are getting.
1. The best affiliate marketer cover their web site links.
Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it actually is.
Apparently, visitors will not tend to click on your link when they see that it
is leading to an affiliate program on your site once they point their mouse
over them.
The usual tendency is for them to go directly to the
affiliate domain. Thus ignoring your affiliate ID from the URL displayed. The
best way to avoid this problem is by covering your URL. There are cloaking
tools available over the Internet that you can take advantage of.
2. Successful affiliate marketers create and distribute
their articles. Writing articles regarding your market niche is necessary to
expand your reputation as a specialist in your field.
You can get the greatest benefits not just from writing
these articles but also from getting those articles published and reprinted by
other site owners and ezine publishers. Your articles will then give you both
reputation and links from other web sites because of the resource box attached
at the each of each article.
3. Affiliate marketers focus on a market niche. Loading your
site with content that is focused on a certain product or service niche is one
way of getting more web traffic in your target market.
There are tools over the Internet that can help you point
out market niches that is important for your website.
4. Top affiliate marketers uses autoresponders.
Autoresponders are important tools that makes you capable of sending a timed
series of email messages to those persons that signed up for them.
Most of the time, these autoresponders are sent through by a
third party provider. Look for the best provider that will cater to your
autoreponder needs.
5. Smart affiliate marketers build web pages in order to
pre-sell. Create either testimonial pages or review pages that talk about and
pre-sell the product or service you are affiliated with. This is the best
method of getting increased orders for your chosen affiliate programs.
Many programs truly offer an article or recommended text to
sell their products for you and permits duplication of those articles with your
links implanted.
6. An outstanding affiliate marketer collects email
addresses. The best affiliates gather email addresses on their web site by
presenting free reports thru autoresponders,giving out ebooks and newsletter
signup forms.
This method is best used in building your own list of email
addresses to contact. This also lets you contact potential customers that
clicked away once they got into the raffiliate program website.
7. Top affiliate marketers markets everywhere. You can
advertise using PPC or ezine advertising depending on your market niche. Some
categories of Pay-per-click can be expensive, but advertising somewhere is
needed to get additional traffic to your site.
There are some good bargains in ezine advertising and some
less popular PPC engines other than Yahoo's Overture and Google's Adwords you
can check out.
8. Affiliate marketers optimize for the search engines.
Search engine optimization is now getting more complex as new and more
webmasters participate. But the basics put into your site can add to your
visibility over time.
The most critical of the many SEO techniques is the use
title tags that shows individual page content. Many webmasters write a master
title tag and apply that site-wide. This is the worst thing you could do for
search engine ranking.
9. Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists. The
best of affiliate marketers have their own newsletter or ezine and gather email
addresses on their site to build their list of subscribers.
Having this list allows regular contact with potential
customers interested in your site, your product and your market niche.
If you understand and make use of the above mentioned
techniques, you can be one of the top people that are making it big in
affiliate marketing. What are you waiting for?