Affiliate marketing is a lucrative way to earn money online. But being successful in affiliate marketing is not easy and requires hard work. Many newbie affiliate marketers may think that as the merchant is providing everything, it is very easy to achieve success and make money. But this is not true. To be successful, the marketer has to make proper planning, do research and work very hard.
To be successful in affiliate marketing, the following steps may be followed:
Finding the niche/product: This is the most important step
You have to find a good and popular niche which does not have much competition. The niche should have enough buyers who would buy online. After you select the niche, find a good affiliate program for that niche. The product selected should offer a good commission. Always try to select a product which solves people’s problems. Such products generally convert well.
Set up your website: The next important step is to set up your own website
Though the affiliate merchant provides a website for the product you are promoting, it is better to use your own website. If you use the site provided by the merchant, you will be competing with thousands of other affiliates who are using the exact same website. The content of the website should be relevant to the product or the niche you are promoting. The best thing is to purchase and use the product yourself and to write the testimonials on your website.
Traffic generation: After you set up your website, the next step is to drive traffic to it
Different techniques are used to drive good quality targeted traffic to a website. Some of these techniques are paid, such as ‘Pay Per Click’ or PPC. It can provide instant traffic to a website. Other methods are free which include article marketing, blogging, social networking, forum marketing etc. All these methods are useful in driving targeted traffic to your website. After you start getting traffic to your site, you can check and analyze the stats by using various free methods such as ‘Google Analytics’. It will tell you where your visitors are coming from and which method of traffic generation is yielding the best results.
1 Comment
Amit
November 30, 2009 at 10:23Hey, cool post. My brother and I were discussing this the other day, and he had some weird ideas! lol Are you going to extend this? I would love to learn more 🙂