There are Free Way and Paid Way to affiliate marketing. The advantage of using Free Way to affiliate marketing, is no additional cost, thus whatever you earn is 100% net profit. But the disadvantage is time consuming. What I mean is it takes time for Free Way to drive in traffic. I will explain further.
Free Way to affiliate marketing
1) Go to any affiliate marketing site and sign up free account. I believe the most well-known site is Click Bank. There are other sites like Commission Junction, Bib Revenue, etc... After sign up, select the right product to affiliate. Choose product that has high conversion rate. For more detail go to:www.boost-website-traffic.com. When someone clicks this link, he will be directed to your affiliate site. I would suggest buying a domain name, so no one may know it is an affiliate link. Anyway, a domain name cost less than $10 per year. This is option but useful. Choosing a right domain name helps in affiliate marketing.
2) Find as much information as you can for your affiliate product and write dozens of articles. You may Google search and copy some portion of the information into your articles but not all. Coos some article directories may reject your article as it is similar to other article. It may take up few days for your article to be published. I would recommend publish your articles to Edina Article directory as it is one of the largest directory. You may also publish to some other article directories too. Remember to put a link to your affiliate site at the end of your article. When you write good article, it will attract reader to click your link.
3) Join Forum. Sign up as member in a forum and get to know as many members as possible like for more help visit to:www.ppc-profit-marketer.com. Do not try to sell them anything, build the rapport first. Once the rapport is built, do not say you are affiliating some product and ask if they want to buy. Rather ask them question if they have heard of the product you are affiliating. Arouse interest in them and guide them to your link.
4) Join Online Group. You may join Yahoo Group and Google Group. Do the same as you are doing for forum.
When you are using this Free Way, it may take up to a month to drive in your desired traffic. I would recommend using paid way too.
Paid Way to affiliate marketing
1) Other than buying a domain name, you may choose to buy hosting too. But this is optional. Buying hosting means you are creating your own web page. This is time consuming if you have no experience or knowledge. Creating your own web page is good because you can share with people how has the product you are affiliating help you. Telling your story will increase the number of sales.
2) Online Classified Ads. You may go to online classified ads to place ads to promote your affiliate product. This is another option other than search engine.
3) Google Ad Words. It is the fastest way to drive in traffic. Be sure to do research before using Google Ad Words. When Google Ad Words is properly used, it can drive in thousands and thousands of traffic per day.
In order to be successful, you need to have both ways to drive in traffic
One of the quickest and easiest methods of getting product on your website is to partner with an existing company and advertise their merchandise. While the results of this type of internet marketing varies greatly from one individual to another, it has consistently proven to be a good opportunity for both webmaster and the parent company to find willing customers for their merchandise..
In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is the process by which a company will provide advertising material in the form of text or personally identifiable HTML code to place on your web pages. This code will create banners or text blocks providing information about the products. In turn, when a customer clicks through the ad to the parent website and makes a purchase, the owner of the originating website will be paid a percentage of the sale as commission.
The business of affiliate marketing has become so popular that a number of companies have formed to be a clearinghouse for retailers to use rather than each having to run the necessary tracking software to keep all the records straight. Companies like "Link Share" and "Commission Junction" provide the retailers with all the tools needed to find affiliates, provide the codes and tools for marketing and the ability to track the individual identifiers for each affiliate's account. Once a website owner has created an account with one of these affiliate clearinghouses, they are provided with a long list of companies they can contract with to find niche specific products to match the topic of their site.
Payment on commissions is not done on a sale by sale basis. Each affiliate company will have a set minimum payout that must be reached either monthly or quarterly. If there have not been enough sales for that pay period, it will roll over to the next. This method is still better for the website owner as the sales commissions from all the companies he affiliates with will be placed into one payment rather than having to reach payout with every individual company he has advertising for on his site.
While this method of generating income from your website is fairly easy to run, there are a few downside features. When a person visits a retailer from your site, there is placed a "cookie" on their machine that includes your personal identifying number. If they make the purchase right then you will get the credit. However, while some companies will create cookies that stay active for as much as a year, others will expire when the webpage or web browser is closed. This means that if a potential customer bookmarks the page to come back and make the purchase at a later date, the cookie information may have expired or been deleted and you will not get credit for that sale.
The best way to insure that you will make a respectable income with affiliate marketing is to create an interesting and informative site in your specific topic and fine tune your advertised products to match that interest.
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