Affiliate Marketing Strategy - Important Aspects Of Affiliate Marketing!

You probably won't be surprised to learn that the winning affiliate marketing strategy involves getting as much traffic (and as much targeted traffic) to your affiliate products as possible. 

 

And getting enough traffic starts with choosing a product or service that is guaranteed to generate interest and then to convert into sales. 

 

One part of an effective affiliate marketing strategy is making sure that you leverage off of the merchant's time and effort that have been put into his or her product or service. An experienced and skilled merchant will know that the more his or her affiliates are selling, the more he or she will earn.

 

And therefore, he or she will continue to test and tweak the product's or service's sales page to make it into a the most compelling offer possible that makes it hard for people to refuse once they land on the page.

Look for sales pages that are simple and clean, that offer a compelling headline, testimonials and, if possible, even a timer that shows people how long they can claim the product or possibly the bonus that comes with it. 

Once you've chosen a product with a proven sales page and conversion rate, you need to get as much high-quality traffic to the offer as possible. You can do this directly by advertising your affiliate link with PPC (pay-per-click), classified ads, banner ads, etc. 

 

Or you can set up a content blog or website that provides useful information on the niche of the product or service you are selling.

If you are just starting out, a blog might be the easiest way to get started and a WordPress blog is often the most highly recommended because it comes with many free plug-ins that will allow you to be more visible to the search engines.

Keyword research is an important part of any kind of affiliate marketing plan of action. After you've chosen the product or service that you want to promote, then choose the keywords that you are going to use to get traffic to your link or to your website or blog. 

 

Again, if you are new, you want to choose less competitive keywords.

Go to the Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool (which is free of charge) and type in the general term that describes your product's niche. This tool will then provide you with all the related search terms that people are actually using when they go to their browser and do a search. 

 

The tool also provides you general statistics on how often each term is searched, how competitive each term is, what people are bidding on this term in PPC ads, etc.

Start with lower-searched terms and use these in your blog/website content, or in your direct link advertising methods. As you start to get more visitors, you can start using more competitive terms in your affiliate marketing strategy.

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Top 5 Affiliate Marketing FAQ Beginners Need To Know!

There are tons of affiliate marketing FAQ beginners always want to know. In this post I’ll provide answers to what I think are the 5 most important of the bunch.

1: When will I earn money?

There’s no clear answer here, but I usually say you should be prepared to go 3-6 months before you start seeing income.

During your first few months, that income will trickle in somewhat sporadically, so that 3-6 month window is when you’ll start to have more consistent revenue.

2: How much money will I earn?

Totally depends. On you. On your niche. A better question might be: how much do you want to earn?

You can make enough for a decent side income by working a few hours a week in your spare time, or you can turn your business into a six figure career if you commit to full time work. It’s up to you.

3: How much does it cost to start?

While you can start for free, a good budget to have for your first year of affiliate marketing is usually a few hundred dollars.

With that, you’re going to be able to purchase a domain and hosting plan (an absolute necessity for any web business) which run around $60-70 per year for a basic package.

You’re also probably going to want to invest in a good course. Some of the top ones, like Wealthy Affiliate and Affilorama, have free and lost cost trial offers, but to be really successful you’ll probably want to upgrade at some point. That’ll set you back around $50 per month, or $300ish for a yearly discount.

Finally, it’s a good idea to invest in a keyword tool. While you can find all of the information you need for free using Google’s toolkit, many of the top keyword research tools make the process so much easier, it’s well worth a few extra dollars a month. Be prepared for something in the $15-30/month price range.

The good news is that after a few months, your website will be earning enough to cover all these costs, so your up front, out of pocket amount stays pretty low.

4: Is affiliate marketing too good to be true?

Absolutely not. Affiliate sites represent an industry that has over four billion in annual revenues, and growing every year.

There are tons of success stories out there of individuals just like you who have built profitable sites from scratch.

5: Where/How do I start?

Your best bet is to choose a good beginner course to make sure you cover all of your bases.

I recommend you start for free first, to see if you like it, but within a week or two you need to decide if you’re going to commit to building a real site.

If you dally along to “wait and see” you’ll be setting yourself up for failure. You need to have the confidence that if you keep working for 6 months, you will see results.

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