New to affiliate schemes? Are you totally confused? Take heart– everyone starts in the same place… at zero! You have some new skills to acquire, and some new terminology to master, but it need not be hard. I urge you to get started in your new business without delay. You will only learn by doing! Here I will lay out for you some basic pointers to help you earn money easily in affiliate marketing.
1. Pay per Click: PPC is terribly important in affiliate marketing, so we need to get comfortable with PPC or “Pay per Click” marketing.
Advertisers pay Google anywhere from a few cents to around $50.00 for the privilege of displaying on the the right hand side of Google’s search results pages.
To effectively use PPC, you have to learn keyword research. When you sign up for a Google Adwords account, start exploring their keyword tool, and learn the layout.
I want you to pay special attention to the “Global Monthly Search Volume”. You want low volume keywords for your PPC campaigns because they cost the least.
2. Start off with the actual affiliate website. Because you are a beginner, you should use the affiliate site given to you by the vendor.
The people who first developed the affiliate scheme want to earn money easily and with minimum trouble, so they will have put effort into setting up a good affiliate sales page. Take advantage of that!
Also, building your own site is simply a task too far for the newbie. Minimize the number of new tasks you have to do at the beginning to avoid “information overwhelm”.
3. Cheap and extensive advertising. There are hundreds of places to show a small ad with a link to your affiliate page. Start with Craigslist and US Small Ads. Good, targeted traffic is what your business thrives on, and these sites can help you get it.
4. Build your list. After you have gained some experience, and have seen what works for you and what does not, try building your own simple website. By all means, have links here to your affiliate products, but more importantly, have a sign up box for folks to get your email newsletter. (You can outsource a lot if this, by the way.)
Your subscriber list is a very important and valuable piece of internet property. Conventional affiliate marketing allows you one sale per person; email marketing allows you multiple sales per person, month after month.
4. Go viral with free reports. Giving away a free report, and allowing your own subscribers to give it to their list in turn, is a great way to expand your list. Be sure to have a sign up link on each page!
5. Write and publish great articles. Let me repeat that: Write and publish great articles! A lot of the articles I see on the net are plain rubbish, I am sorry to say– but that creates an opportunity if you really like to write.
I make no claims to be a great writer. I do think, though, that I put a bit of myself into what I write, and so make good connections with readers.
And, of course, at the bottom of every GREAT article you write, you have a link to your site!
(Caution: Article directories are fussy about links. Learn the rules each one has, and stick to them. Don’t let a great article be rejected because you didn’t follow their rules on acceptable and unacceptable links.)
To summarize: Success comes to those who are prepared to make mistakes! Affiliate schemes are new to you, so be ready for a learning process. You will not make money easily overnight, but you will eventually, and perhaps quite quickly, if you are prepared to give yourself a break and take things step by step. Affiliate marketing is a very forgiving business; our errors usually don’t cost us too much, except a little time and some hurt pride!
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