If you know anything about Affiliate marketing, you are wondering how do I go from just barely making it to becoming a Super Affiliate bringing in the big bucks. You probably have gotten on someone's mailing list and they have told you if you buy this wonderful product they will also throw in several hundreds of dollars worth of bonus items. Next they might tell you how many of the products they have sold. When you see these top sales listings, you kinda notice the same names appear for each product.

So it makes you wonder how these folks can be the top sellers for every product out there. Affiliate programs are the quickest way to get started in online marketing. Just about all affiliate marketing programs are free to join and you just have to sign up to sell the product, no stocking of product or shipping to deal with. Just think, no upset customers wanting to return products and money coming in on a daily basis. I know you are thinking that this all sounds too simple.

You are right, there is work involved to becoming successful with affiliate marketing. The first thing you need to start with is your own website. Most affiliate programs have a website with your affiliate link attached to it. The good part about these websites is that they look fantastic and have all the bells and whistles you need to make a sale. However, this website looks exactly like all the other affiliate websites and you cannot change or add anything to the website

If you design your own website, you can put whatever you want on the pages. As potential customers come to your website, they can read all kinds of information and even if they decide not to buy anything, it is possible they find something else on your website to purchase. The great part of having your own website is you can put an opt in box on there and capture the visitors email address for future reference. So having your own website is preferably and you can use the affiliate link to get customers to your website where you can upsell or sell other products

Of course, you do have to provide some "extras" so people will buy from you. You know you are not the only person selling this product, there are literally hundreds selling the same product. You are up against stiff competition from the Super Affiliates who can offer lots of bonuses. I am sure you have spent thousands of dollars on products you have purchased over the years, you can think about giving away those to people who buy from you. If you don't have any products to give away, how about a newsletter. Another idea that many super affiliates use is to offer a special "members" area of your website, with special content. The more free stuff you can offer, the better off you will be.

Let's switch gears now and talk about links and how you need to utilize them to increase your rankings. Linking requires you to have a beau coup amount of links back to your site. If you just put a small amount of effort into your links, you can get a page 3 ranking in just a few days. I wouldn't use the link exchanges that you will find all over the net, they usually bury your link somewhere. Google is looking for sites that are similar to yours and that your link is very prominent on the site. For instance, if you website is about cat grooming linking to another cat website would be great. I would suggest you actually skip the links and spend more time writing articles.

Lastly, one thing that every top marketing guru has is a list of potential customers. Remember it is all about the numbers, so the more emails they can send out the better the chance of sales. The only problem with lists is many of them are not good. It is important the people on your list are interested in what you have to sell.

To start on your journey to Super Affiliate, remember the facts that I mentioned here. Even though super affiliates are making a lot of money, the product owner is the one making even more money. That is your real goal, to develop a program that you can sell and have other people be your affiliates.