Have you ever wondered if what you know about affiliate marketing is true? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest information on affiliate marketing.



Myth Number 1: Just Put Your Affiliate Link in Arbitrary Places on The Net

There is a prevalent myth where you can make a fortune from affiliate advertising by just placing your off the shelf affiliate link in random places such as spamming blogs or FFA sites with it. That is Wrong! No one will buy from your affiliate link if you do that. You first must mask your link by making it shorter, or even better, get a top level domain and just use it to redirect your affiliate link. Then you can recommend appropriate information to blogs and similar sites and use your domain name as part of your resource box. Next then you will observe some individuals clicking on your links.

Myth Number 2: Affiliate Marketers Don't Require Websites

This myth is False! Even though you are an affiliate marketer, you absolutely require your own website. You can have a simple one page website where you focus on promoting one affiliate product. This style of site is generally called a landing page or squeeze page.

A squeeze page is a page specifically designed to make the visitor to offer their name and email address before you display them the rest of the sales page. Another choice is by starting an extensive content web site such as a blog that advertises your affiliate links on it. But in either way, the bottom line is that you need your own website.

Myth Number 3: You Don't Need a List

This is a popular myth where individuals believe that only the ones that made the product or service needs to get an email list. That is Wrong! Even though you don't own the product you are advertising as an affiliate doesn't mean that you shouldn't obtain your own list. Having your individual email list is the greatest business asset you will own. This will allow you to send more messages to them to visit your affiliate links and endorse more products that would interest them. Of course to do this effectively you want to develop a bond with your list so they have trust in what you recommend to them.

I hope you have been helped by having these affiliate marketing fables busted. Just remember to follow these guidelines and view your affiliate marketing as a real business.

The information about affiliate advertising presented here will do one of two things: either it will reinforce what you know about affiliate marketing or it will give you something new. Both are good results.