Date Posted: 10/10/2012 3:13:43 PM
Posted By: sashoo Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 382
To start you off, I have to let you know who an affiliate is. An affiliate is someone who promotes other people''s work (products or services) for a commission —whenever someone buys through your affiliate link, you earn some commission (that should spark an idea, hopefully). Affiliate marketing, then, is how to do an affiliate’s work; how to effectively promote other people’s services, or products, to maximize your earnings, or commissions. Let’s get started.How do you do it?Use your website. Your website is the #1 tool for promoting your affiliate links. This reminds me of the importance of websites, and makes me want to tell you to own one, in case you have not yet. Also, note that this method works better if your website experiences reliable traffic. But even more important, it works best if the products you’re promoting (your affiliate links) are relevant to your site’s content — that’s right, it can just mean a difference in your sales. Besides, most companies do offer different banner-codes, which you can paste on your site, to help promote your affiliate link.On the same note, if you’re going to use a blog, once you’ve updated it with relevant affiliate banners, you might want to ping it. For this reason, you can use sites like pingomatic.com. Pinging your blog helps get it recognized by search engines and, consequently, traffic, something that might just help trigger sales. If you don’t have a blog, you can get one at blogspot.com or myblog.com, among other platforms.Use articles. Articles do possess such an unsurpassed power for promotion. Here’s the hint: write articles that are relevant to the products or services you’re going to promote — you can hire services of copywriters to help write promotional content if you don’t have what it takes to write convincingly. The next step should be to include your affiliate link (s) somewhere in the article. Just to let you know, it works. Of course, if readers read your article and see a link related to the article’s content, they most likely will click on it; and chances are high they could make a purchase.Use pop-up or pop-under codes. These are pop windows that usually will appear upon some site opening up (for pop-up codes), or some site closing down (for pop-under codes). It’s the first thing you’ll see when you open a web-page, and the last thing you’ll see when you leave a web-page, respectively. How does it work? Just link your affiliate link (s) to your pop windows; this should direct visitors to your affiliate site. A single click to these pop windows is all you need to drive traffic to your affiliate site. And who knows, it can just end up in sales, reason enough for you to earn commissions.Certainly, affiliate marketing can be a lucrative way to earn income — all you need is to master the ropes for marketing methods. I hope you found the article informative.
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