5 Quick Tips to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

Written by alain on February 23, 2009

Making money online with affiliate marketing has become a massive industry.

 

It is one of the most popular areas of business on the Internet. Yet what many are not aware of is; how many affiliate marketers fail and quite this business.

 

Here is a few tips to help you get started and avoid some of the most common mistakes affiliate marketers make:

 

1. Identify Your Market

It is very important that you identify your market before you go into business. Proper market research can make the difference between failing or succeeding.

 

You don’t want to spend time and money promoting a product no one wants to buy.

 

Sites like Amazon and Ebay, for example, attract billions of visitors every year and they should give you a good indication of potential niches.

 

 

2. Find Out What Problems People Have In Your Niche

A quick and easy way to do this is to visit related forums and notice the concerns and needs expressed by forum members. You could also conduct and “Ask” campaign by using PPC to drive traffic to a short survey.

 

 

3. Find An Affiliate Program/Product to Solve These Problems

Characteristics of quality clickbank products are those that have very good conversion rates. A product with a good conversion rate means that it will be easy for you to make money promoting that particular solution to your niche.

 

Look out for these variables on Clickbank..%/sale of at least 50%, gravity 70+ (pref 100+), %refd at least 70%. This should serve as a guideline if you have to choose between various Clickbank products.

 

 

4.  Keyword Research

To do keyword research you can use Google’s free keyword tool. Find a minimum of 3 long tail keyword phrases for the Clickbank product that you’ve identified.

 

 

5. Write & Submit At Least 3 Articles

Articles should be between 300-500 words. You should write an article for each of the keywords you have identified.

 

Remember that the focus of article marketing is to drive traffic to your site by providing high quality and useful information. Submit your article to ezinearticles.com and other article directories.

 

You should also have a lead capturing system in place to capture the names and email addresses of potential clients.

 

Rinse and repeat this process on a regular basis and you’re sure to get your affiliate campaign off to the best possible start.

 

Of course, there are many other traffic generation techniques like: SEO, viral reports, blog marketing, social networking, press releases, forum marketing, e-zine advertising, and banner advertising to really help you to explode your online income through affiliate marketing.

 

 

Most affiliate marketers know that Clickbank is one of the internet largest digital market place.