Friday 31 October 2014

Why Most People Fail In Affiliate Marketing!

After doing affiliate marketing on the Internet for over 12 years now I can tell you it is not that easy. I can also tell you why most people fail in affiliate marketing.


Why Do People Fail In Affiliate Marketing?
Audience:
You must target the right audience for your product. This is harder than it sounds because there are so many different ways to make money as an affiliate marketer.

For example, you must attract the right kind of potential customer to your website, if you are trying to sell a product. Most successful affiliate marketers have learned that pre-selling a product is much better than promoting the affiliate sales page at first.

The same thing is true with writing review articles and creating web pages from them. When you review a product you are warming up your customer to potentially purchase it.

Therefore you want to attract are people that are looking for that specific product. The most effective way to do this today is to target affiliate products by name or model number.

Targeting keyword phrases for an affiliate product you want to sell can still be done, but it does not work as well.

Many people prefer to do affiliate marketing by promoting cost per action programs. Surprisingly you can make anywhere from a dollar a lead to several hundred dollars per lead depending on the offer you are promoting.

Why Do People Fail In Affiliate Marketing-
Affiliate-Website:
However, again there is a skill to doing this correctly. You do not want to promote the CPA landing page at first.

You are better off to create your own website or blog to promote your CPA offers on. This allows you to attract people by doing seo marketing.

When you will rank highly for a targeted keyword phrase the type of traffic you get will be more targeted.

Getting paid by the click with Google Adsense requires targeted traffic as well. For this reason affiliates who develop niche websites do much better.

The most effective way to do this today is to set up a tightly themed niche blog and add fresh content to targeting keyword phrases. This is helpful to Google when they match their advertisers to your content.

This way you got advertisers that will appeal to your visitors when they land on your web page. This greatly increases the click through ratio and allows you to make more money.

These are several ideas on why most people fail in affiliate marketing. Seriously think about the type of traffic you want to get for the affiliate product you are promoting.

Wednesday 29 October 2014

5 Off-Page SEO Tactics!

In “11 ecommerce SEO tips, from the trenches,” my post in August, I discussed how I manage on-page search engine optimization. But even the best on-page SEO may not be enough to get your ecommerce site ranked well in the search engines. Off-page SEO is also important to help you rank and drive traffic.


Think of off-page SEO as the promotion and marketing of your web pages. What I said in August is worth repeating: You don’t need to outsource SEO to do these tasks for you. With a little time, effort, and patience, you’ll be building your brand and off-page SEO in no time.

Here are five on-page SEO tactics that have helped my business.

1. Links
Don’t let the Google Penguin updates scare you from building high-quality backlinks. Links are still a major part of what drives a page’s popularity in the rankings and traffic. Avoid links from poor quality sites, paid links, and link schemes. How do you acquire these coveted high-quality links? Here are ideas that have worked for my business.

Join high quality directories. Not any old directory will do; I am referring to the top-of-the-line, well-established authority sites that actually get traffic and send referrals to you. 

Think Angie’s List for contractors, Wedding Wire for the wedding industry and DMOZ, which is notoriously hard to get in to. Don’t submit to every directory; chances are there will only one or two for your niche that are worth considering.

Get noticed by the media. Think it’s hard to get noticed? In the old days it was. But with sites like HARO — Help A Reporter Out — and PitchRate (among others) you can receive emails of journalists and bloggers looking for quotes. 

Follow the sites’ directions, send in a short catchy pitch, and you’ll be able to fetch a few links to your website in no time, and gain some good publicity.

Network with bloggers in your niche. Sponsored posts, advertorials, reviews, and guest blogs still go on. But I have only done a few and I don’t recommend it, as it can be a grey area now. 

I prefer getting to know a handful of bloggers in my niche and pitching unique insider stories to them that their readers will really care about. I’ve also done informational interviews that have brought links, visitors, and traffic to my site.

Comment on blogs. Don’t comment on hundreds of blogs. Instead, visit a few complementary blogs that you truly like and make meaningful, heartfelt comments on recent posts. Use your name, not your website or URL. Occasionally, I have had bloggers return the favor by linking to my items within a future blog.

Write fabulous blog posts and link to other bloggers or websites. I once wrote a post on wedding dress trends and linked to a major wedding dress company. I reached out to the company and tweeted that I had blogged about it. 

I received not only a link to my site from the company’s Facebook page (with over 200,000 likes) but also received a link on its “In The Press” page to my website — for free and without asking.

Ask clients, associates, vendors to link to you. A few will be happy to do it because of your working relationship. It doesn’t hurt to ask.

Those are steps I’ve used to receive quality, authoritative links to my site for free. If in the course of your link building you are offered the opportunity to choose the text — i.e., anchor text — to link back to your website, vary that text. Use the keyword lists you built from your on-page SEO efforts to build links with these keywords.

2. Co-Concurrence
The term “co-concurrence” has been floating around the SEO world for a while. It refers to the proximity of keywords to a link. 

For example, when an article about a certain topic includes your brand name, the search engines derive from the text that your site is associated with that topic, or keyword. I believe it works to some extent — you don’t necessarily need a link to make the connection with readers and the search engines.

3. Build Social Media Profiles
Not every social media site will work for your company. Know where your customers hang out and focus on those sites. Women, brides, crafters, and do-it-yourself moms seem to favor Pinterest over Twitter. Businesses seem to prefer LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter. 

Know where your customers are and send links, articles, photos, and media to those networks. But don’t only share your content. Like and share other’s content too and they will return the favor. Not all of these links will carry the same weight in the search engines, but they do build brand awareness and others may share your link.

4. Get Local
Make sure your profile — including a link back to your site — is visible in Google My Business, Bing, Yahoo, YellowPages.com, Yelp, local directories to your city, and reviews. Don’t forget to list your location on your website.

5. Affiliate and Email Marketing
While affiliate marketing and email marketing won’t directly influence your search rankings, they will help with brand recognition. As people begin to recognize your company’s name and search specifically for that name in the search engines, it signals to the engines that your site is important. 

A key to any off-page campaign is getting your name and your associated products and services into the hands of people who will talk, share, and search.

Monday 27 October 2014

Professional Advice From The Top Affiliate Marketers!

Don’t be intimidated by the complexity of affiliate marketing approaches; if you take the time to learn the ropes, your bottom line will greatly improve. The tips from this article can help you to avoid article marketing mishaps.


You must never try to take advantage of your visitors with the use of cookies. The very best you can do with cookie stuffing is annoy your readers. It could also sever your tracking progress and perhaps give users viruses.

Only maintain the affiliate programs that are the most profitable. Make sure you thoroughly review your affiliates performance. Eliminating your poorly performing affiliates will give you the space to try new affiliate programs that are more profitable.

A lot of affiliate marketers get instructions via email, but then keep going back to check them over and over. Consider copying major points from your emails and reading them on a document program such as Microsoft Word. This way, you can save time by easily referring to a master document.

It is a good idea in affiliate marketing to pick an affiliate company that pays in a variety of ways. You may want you money quickly. There are companies that only pay out upon reaching a specific amount of money, but others will pay you for each transaction.

Think about adding secret links to your content. There are ways to weave in your affiliate links throughout your content without bringing a lot of attention to them. Make use of these techniques, but always be honest and upfront about it. Advise the readers about where the link leads and refrain from giving false information for a few additional views.

Text services can be very helpful in affiliate marketing. While this is a newer strategy, many affiliates are using this to generate business.

You should only work with affiliate companies that offer fair commissions and good products. Stay away from affiliate companies that offer less than 20% of the total profits from the products that you sell. The best companies offer their affiliates good percentages of sales.

Consider carefully the kinds of products your links lead to before implementing. After you have figured out the best link arrangement, you should see improved profits.

Affiliate marketers should be truthful about the business in which they are engaged. Let your customers know who you deal with and let them know what you are all about. When the visitors feel you are not honest about your affiliations to the retailer, they can easily bypass your site and go directly to the merchant to buy the product they want.

Even though affiliate marketing can be an excellent method of making some extra cash, you must have some basic knowledge before you can truly make great money. You should have the goal in mind that your website or blog rank highest when Internet audiences perform a search for content via search engines. This will earn you better affiliates, which leads to additional money.

If you want to be successful at affiliate marketing, know your audience. Your focus needs to be on solving the problems your readers are facing by supplying the affiliate product they need. Understand what makes them visit your site. What is something they could be looking at?

Lifetime commissions are a rare commodity in affiliate marketing these days. Still, the rewards are very great. Affiliate programs pay commission to webmasters when products are sold. Many times this commission is paid out only if the customer made the purchase within a set out time frame. This is why they are worth finding.

Affiliate marketing isn’t something that has to be complicated. It only requires that you devote your time and energy to conducting research, networking and ensuring smooth operations. Keep these suggestions in mind, and you will be more successful with affiliate marketing.

Friday 24 October 2014

Affiliate Marketing: What Is It and How Can It Make You Money?

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online today, but not everyone knows how to make it work. Still confused about affiliate marketing is? The Money Expert takes a look how anyone can get started in affiliate marketing and start earning money today.


Affiliate marketing is simple. Basically, you turn your website into a platform to promote things that other people have to sell. Every time that you connect people to products that they find out about on your site, you earn money.

Companies love affiliate marketing because it’s essentially interactive advertising that spreads the word about their product and brings in new customers. And people who have websites love becoming affiliate marketers because it turns their sites into money markets. 

The income stream that affiliate marketing creates can supplement a main source of income, make it possible to transition between jobs, and gives people another option to fall back on. And of course, people like affiliate marketing because they can do it without ever leaving home.

Okay, you’re saying, it sounds great in theory, but where’s the catch? The truth is that there is a lot of money to be made in affiliate marketing—as long you know what you’re doing. If not, you may just be wasting your time. Luckily, if you don’t have the first idea about marketing on the internet it’s easy to find out more.

An easy way to find out all of the ins and outs of affiliate marketing is on a site like Affilorama. Affilorama shows you everything that you need to know about becoming an affiliate marketer. With 
over 100 videos detailing all the tricks affiliate marketing insiders use, Affilorama makes it easy for anyone to get started.

Maybe you’re already an affiliate marketing but you still haven’t gotten your profits to where you want them to be just yet. Affilorama can take your earnings up a notch. Reaching more customers and converting their visits into sales is easier than you think. Affilorama has 9 essential tips that you need to know to make you site more profitable.

What we liked about Affilorama is that it’s free to join. Free! When was the last time you heard about a program that does all this and doesn’t cost you anything? All you have to do is sign up to fast track your career in affiliate marketing. Over 200,000 people already have.

Once you join Affilorama, you can get access to even more premium level services. In their AffiloJetpack they offer you insight into using the right keywords to bring more people to your site. They even provide you with content and the graphics to include in your site. 

If you want to get into affiliate marketing but still need a website, AffiloBlueprint shows you how to build one from scratch.

Wednesday 22 October 2014

Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Affiliate Marketer?

Each of us has its own interest or has a hobby. Some love all kinds of books, music, and movies while others are into sports and traveling. There are also people who love to grow flowers and loves pets. These things help us to relax and forget our everyday problems and troubles and these things are common to people. But not everyone has a hobby that makes money for him/her except if you love your job.


Money making hobby could let you treat your family and friends with the extra cash or you can even quit your current job that you almost certainly hate. That is why many of us today go online to start a business; their reasons are either to supplement their income or to gradually replace their offline income from their job.

Affiliate marketing is a great way to start in making money online. Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing partnership between a web merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate is paid a commission for referring clicks, leads or most often sales to the merchant.

An affiliate’s advantage is that he can make money in a business where he doesn’t have the upfront costs of creating his own product, and he doesn’t have to worry about e-commerce, bookkeeping, or even customer support for it is the merchant’s responsibility.

Now, for sure you want to be an affiliate marketer with all that benefits an affiliate could get. But, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer? Before you begin your venture into affiliate marketing, you need to decide first which area interest you.

What products do you know the most and which products you could do the best job of selling? Once you discover your specialty, perseverance, patience, determination comes next. These are the qualities you should possessed to be a good affiliate marketer. Too many online business prospectors lose out because they become impatient.

You also have to know what your strengths are, the things in which you are good at and your capabilities and abilities related to your chosen streak. And the most important thing is you have to have a strong desire to succeed in affiliate marketing. To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service.

You shouldn’t be looking at every chance because marketing is all about attracting you to look at this or that particular opportunity. To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by.

For an affiliate marketer, you should know how to market your site effectively, in will enable you to get thousands of visitors coming to your site which transforms into more sales. This only means that the faster you set up a website, the bigger your chances of making money online faster.

You should avoid the same mistakes some affiliates make everyday, they are only building a short-term business where they just make a small sale. Make sure you do understand that you should be building a long-term affiliate business and not just something that makes you a few dollars on one sale.It is also better to have knowledge on how to upsell your visitors for expensive services.

This will in turn make you become recognized as an expert in your field and making money will be easier. There are some people thinks that just by having affiliate links on their website will bring them good profits.

This can have some truth to it, but then most successful affiliates still believe that making use of strong marketing campaigns for their affiliate programs is still important. But affiliate marketers become much more successful when they treat their customers or online visitors as friends.

Make a commitment to establish relationships with your customers and especially with visitors to your site. It is very important for an affiliate marketer to have a good business relationship with customers or visitors. You should also be creative.

The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate links into all your content. You have to provide your prospects with good, quality content to keep them coming back to your site. So, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer?

Monday 20 October 2014

Everyone Can Succeed In Affiliate Marketing With Determination & This Advice!

Online marketing is a great attraction for people looking to get into running a business because the start-up costs are low, and it’s easy to manage. Part of the reason is because you don’t have to buy, ship or handle any product. You will in fact have to do some work if you want to make money using online marketing.


It is a good idea to explain to your readers that you are an affiliate marketer to your customers so as to establish trust. Remember that honesty is always the best policy. When you have made a good case for using affiliate promotion strategies, your visitors will be more receptive to utilizing any included links.

Try to create secret links. There are ways to put subtle affiliate links right in your content text. Use this to your advantage, but be honest about it. Be sure your readers understand the reason for the link. In this way they will not feel put upon by its inclusion.

If the company is constantly putting out new products you should try them out! These types of companies tend to get more repeat customers due to the variety of products that they manufacture. That means more commissions for you. Avoid getting involved with fly-by-night companies, scammers, and businesses promoting a single product, especially if it appears to be a fad.

Only fair affiliate companies (ones with generous profit sharing) deserve your business. Avoid companies that don’t give an affiliate at least twenty percent of every sale. Good affiliate companies understand that good efforts deserve higher commissions, and will cause you to work harder for them.

Find ways to make your affiliate links relevant to your site content. An affiliate site that is completely unrelated to sports is unlikely to attract site visitors. Website visitors show higher click-through rates on links that are related to what they came to read about.

Your goals should always continue to rise and go beyond more than just a sustainable income. Set ambitious goals and work hard daily to realize increasing profits. It may be daunting to be able to put the time in, but when you do it will pay off.

Friday 17 October 2014

Affiliate Marketing In A Nutshell!

Affiliate marketing is the single fastest growth industry on the Internet. It’s also true that affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most creative ways to make money and have a career on the Internet. So what exactly is affiliate marketing?


Simply put, affiliate marketing is selling products on a commission basis. You own a business that advertises and sells products for other companies. You may have a product of your own to begin with or not. The things that a successful affiliate marketer must have are:

1.    Your website is the jumping off point of all your marketing efforts. So the first step in any successful affiliate marketing business is building a good, credible and professional looking website. 

You must build a user-friendly website, which will attract your prospects and motivate them to click on the links to the products and services you are promoting and make a purchase. There are companies whose business is building websites that you can hire to build one for you.

2.    You must find products to sell, you must be able to determine whether there is a demand for those products and if people will actually buy them.  You may either have your own original product or products that are made by others. Which ever way you go, you must believe in the products.

3.    It will be necessary for you to become an adept advertiser and be able to tell whether the advertising you are paying for is producing more income for you than the advertising is costing you.

4.    It is necessary that you have good mathematical skills. You will need to be able to track your sales and determine profit, as well as, see to it that your suppliers are paid in full and on time.

5.    You need the full and unwavering support of your family so that you can devote the time and energy necessary to launch your affiliate marketing business.

Wednesday 15 October 2014

What Is Affiliate Marketing? – 3 Point To Ponder

What Is Affiliate Marketing?
For every digital marketing world’s fresher and enthusiast the most commonly asked question is “What is affiliate marketing?” and for every advertiser and publisher, Affiliate marketing is the most famous and preferred marketing strategy. 

This strategy has been availed by many people for different reasons. Some online marketers use it to increase their revenue, whereas others use it to attract more audience towards their website or to increase conversion rate.


Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways for earning extra money. Various website owners display advertisements of other companies and brands on their websites to earn commission. Web bloggers seem to have more interest in this marketing strategy than anyone else. 

When someone clicks on these ads, they take them to the linked website and if visitor likes the offered products and make a purchase then the affiliate marketer gets the commission. PPC (pay per click) and CMI (cost per impression) are the two main kinds of affiliate marketing.

Many website owners are unaware of the benefits of affiliate marketing and have never tried to avail it. Here I’m pointing out 3 things that will make you understand what is affiliate marketing and how it can be fruitful for you.

Monetize Blogs:
For monetizing blogs, most bloggers avail affiliate marketing. This marketing strategy has a tendency to increase your revenue by allowing you earning extra commission. 

A good blogger have numerous regular readers, these readers can help you earning commission by clicking ads on your website and make a purchase. For successful affiliate marketing, it is essential to put ads that are somehow related to your blogs as people interested in your blogs may like to go on similar advertisements.

To Earn Money Easily:
What is affiliate marketing? Is it really productive? Yes, Affiliate marketing is a productive, trustworthy and effortless way of making money. The only thing that needs some efforts is to find a way that will persuade audience to click on the ads. 

It would be good to get all kind of information about affiliate marketing before getting started. Try to place ads of popular brands to get more clicks and commission.

Resources For Getting Started:
If you have decided to start affiliate marketing and have completely got the idea of what is affiliate marketing then you are in a need to get some good resources to find out about Affiliate marketing planning and best affiliate marketing strategies. 

An important resource in this regard is ‘the product reviews’. You can read online reviews about products which will help you in finding most popular brands to put on your website. You can also find detailed notes on Affiliate marketing on the internet by using keywords like: affiliate marketing, affiliate program, affiliate advertising etc.

No doubt affiliate marketing is the best option for every website owner to earn extra money and to promote a brand. I am sure now “What is Affiliate Marketing?” is not a difficult question for you to answer, right?


Monday 13 October 2014

Increase Your Profits With These Hot Affiliate Marketing Tips!

Not only must you and your business be seen, but you must also imprint your differences versus others working a similar niche, whom have been around much longer. There are some essential things that will be the same in everyone’s plan.


You may be surprised to find your followers and visitors very receptive when you inform them about your online marketing activities. Always remember that honesty trumps everything. This definitely applies for affiliate promotion. 

If your site visitors see that you haven’t just thrown a bunch of affiliate links together and called it a site, they will be much more likely to use those links to buy products.

Many individuals who try their hand at internet marketing simply do too much. Generally speaking, they attempt to sell more products than they can effectively promote, and ended dropping the ball on all of them. 

Keep in mind that there’s no limit on the results you can achieve. Find the best thing for you when you go slow.

Text services are a great technique for affiliates to use in order to earn commissions. While this is a little new still, there are lots of affiliates that use this to promote their products, share affiliate offers and keep all of their customers in the know.

Be sure to deal only with reputable affiliate vendor companies. The only companies that you should deal with should offer at least 20 percent of the amount of profit realized on each item that you sell. 

A good affiliate company will understand that you need a good pay so you continue doing business with them.
 
Consider any products sold by an affiliate program very carefully before you put any links on your site. It might take a while to figure out the best way to arrange your links, but once you’ve found the right formula, you’ll see a steady increase in your profits.

Websites for affiliate promotion do not carry the same weight. Amongst them are those that are a pain to browse. A proactive webmaster would never allow poor affiliate sites to harm their profits. This establishes a reputation of being helpful and increases trust and sales.

Honesty in business, even web marketing, is an important concept that you must practice. Disclose your affiliations, and describe in general terms what your site is about. 

If readers feel that you are not disclosing your affiliations, they will shun you by leaving your site and heading directly to the manufacturer to purchase product.

These methods are greatly used, because they help bring customers in. Use it for your position and go from there.

Monday 6 October 2014

4 Critical “Musts” When Building Your List - Miss Out On One & You're Toast!

Most affiliates are familiar with Clickbank. It is generally their initial publicity to what affiliate marketing and advertising is all about. 

These newcomers will start off by utilizing free of charge visitors approaches, such as write-up marketing and advertising and social bookmarking. 


They make a free of charge web site, such as Blogspot and WordPress site, and they direct visitors to the affiliate product. What is mistaken with this approach? You will never ever make more than 6-determine like this.

You can also distribute this product on the Web. They also motivate you to be picky as who you decide on for your sponsor. There are some that will operate tough to assist you turn out to be successful. 

Be picky, request a good deal of inquiries, and find out where your sponsor-to-be commitments are. Pick somebody that has a background in Web Marketing and advertising, as this will assist you get your company off the floor.

First of all, you must get a web site and make sure you have at the very least a couple of webpages outlining what it is you do.

Affiliate integration. We all know, affiliate entrepreneurs are the ones who can launch your merchandise and increase the quantity of sales you produce. So, why would you limit your self by not having a shopping cart that can offer with affiliate commissions?

Always make a excellent matter line. The matter line will comprise the most essential part of your letter to your attainable clients since if it is desirable ample, then the recipient of the electronic mail will open up it and go through it.

Friday 3 October 2014

Smart Affiliate Marketing Advertising!

Affiliate marketing is really about the promotion of products with an online company. The affiliate will sign up with the advertiser or marketing arm of the company, then the affiliate will become an active looker of clients.


Advertising is the means to making a great number of consumers aware of certain products. Therefore, advertising should be both attracting and appealing to consumers. If the advertising isn’t appealing enough, it won’t be effective. 

If the advertising manages to pull the attention of consumers, then it’s considered to be powerful. To make advertising powerful and effective, the affiliate must use smart methods of advertising.
An example of smart advertising is the re-use of one key concept of affiliate marketing – the harnessing of human resources. What this means, is that an affiliate may tap on the capacities of others to bring more visitors to the website.

The economics involved of making an affiliate marketing program beneficial can be simple, yet unquestionable. 

Say for instance, when a visitor ups a form to the website of the affiliate, the affiliate may be earning .50 cent from the company that he’s promoting. In a single day, he may refer ten visitors – which is equivalent to 5.00.

Keep in mind, the affiliate may increase his income by utilizing others as well. The more people an affiliate manages to recruit or get to make purchases or fill out forms, the more money that affiliate will make.

To have a significant increase in income in affiliate marketing, an affiliate can actually do three things... 

First of all, the affiliate must search for a profitable site. Next, he’ll need to link with companies that are generous with their leads. Last, the affiliate will need to locate a progressive and rising company online then recruit affiliates for the company.

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Some Internet & Affiliate Marketing Truths!

Here are some facts about internet and affiliate marketing that many don't want you to know.


Fact 1: It is impossible to buy any product and get rich quick, or overnight, or where no work or list or website or SEO or keywords or an autoresponder or a website or web hosting is not required. All of them and a lot more always are required, period!

Fact 2: Nobody ever went from $70,000 in debt to earning $374,692.84 in 11 days of getting started with some under the radar piece of software designed by a Russian programmer that steals traffic from NATO?

Fact 3: Nobody earns $1,000,000 a month with affiliate marketing or internet marketing. Some do earn that or more every year but most who say that are liars selling a worthless junk product?

Most online video sales websites making such outrageous claims use paid actors speaking to camera from a script at a hired mansion, with rented cars and faked proofs of someone else's earnings, and Clickbank payments.

The Only True Path to eventually earning more money than any job or so called career is by learning step by step from site's like this one from people genuinely earning a good income from their internet based business. 

So, keep working and learning my friends and the good times and increased wealth, freedom and happiness will come over the next few short years.