If you’ve been considering initiating an online affiliate marketing business – or if you presently have one that isn’t as successful as you’d like, there are a few simple measures that you can take that will improve your conversion rates and success. In this article we’ll talk about these steps and how you can apply them today for better profits!

Tip 1: Write your sales copy in review or “blog" style: Instead of publishing your sales copy in typical sales style, try writing your copy in review or blog style – as the opinion of someone who’s utilizing or has used the product and wishes to share its benefits with the universe. “Hi there reader! My name is Suzy and in this review I’m going to share how impressive the ShamWow is and how it changed things around my kitchen!" is just so much more powerful than “The ShamWow is the ultimate cleaning product" blah blah sales copy. Add some humanity to your copy and your conversions will increase.

Tip 2: Ensure you are optimizing your landing / sales pages for the SERPs: You need to make sure that individuals are finding your page / site if you ever want to have any success with it. This means optimizing your pages for search engines – especially Google. Read up on META keywords and descriptions, title tags, h1/h2/h3 tags and other on-page SEO tips to guarantee that you’re raising your exposure to the search engines. Engage tools like XML Sitemaps and XML-RPC Ping (Google it!) to cause the search engines to index your pages prompter and ensnare even more traffic.

Tip 3: Links, links, links!: This should be a no brainer – the more links you have from other sites directing to yours, the better off you are. Preferably, you want links to your site from accomplished sites that rank highly in both the search engines and Google PageRank. Ensure that you are getting the accurate anchor text on your links – i.e. if you’re trying to rank for “blue widgets" on Google then your links on other sites will ideally say Blue Widgets and link back to your website.com address.

There you have it. Executing those three tips today will allow you to build up your affiliate marketing success and continue to drive bigger profits through each and every one of your web holdings. Good Fortune and keep at it! Success is just around the corner!