Make money Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing?

The word is used to describe a relationship between one company and another. It is usually the term used for someone who refers a company or products to a third party.

The merchant is the company who is supplying the goods or service.

The affiliate is the middle person. The one who makes the sales happen and is the direct link between the merchant (company) and the customer.

Where to start

Affiliate marketing programs make the set up very easy.

You may of heard of programs like commission junction. It is where merchants register, and affiliates join to promote the merchants goods.

Before you join any programs you need to think about how you are going to sell the products or services.

This is what I advise

Get yourself a website and build it around the products you will be promoting.

Spending time on your marketing campaign is vital. You need to know you are able to get lots of potential customers.

Your marketing campaign will involve:

Research of keywords and your chosen niche

Search engine optimization (seo) techniques both on site and off site.

How much can you make?

You will get paid commission. So if you don't sell, you don't get paid.

This is why your marketing campaign is very important. If you get it wrong you are off to a non starter.

When your site and marketing campaign is launched. All you need to do next is paste your affiliate code on your site. Then you are all set to go.

How to get your site noticed

It does not matter what your website is for, be it business or pleasure, a definite must have is traffic.

The Internet is so big, you are just a little fish in such a big sea.

How to increase your online presence.

Before you can set about increasing the traffic to your site, you will need to plan your marketing campaign.

Learn about your potential visitors

Certain types of traffic generating programs exist, however they will not send you targeted visitors.

If for instance, you had a antiques website, what are the chances someone who found your site through a teenage social site link are going to buy your products? Not very high.

The point I am trying to make is that you need to find out who your potential customers are, then make yourself available to them.

Using search engine optimization

If you are beginner to the world of seo, you may have heard about it and it has had your head spinning.

Don't let anyone tell you seo is quick and easy. It consists of many on site and off site optimization strategies and is very time consuming.

I have a simple seo guide for those of you who want to start at the beginning with seo. Don't worry if you have to call in a seo expert. Outsourcing these kind of tasks can be a wise move.

PPC -Pay per click

Pay per click is advertising your site and paying for each click (visitor) this can be very expensive if not done correctly. Make sure you research or seek advice.

Social networking to get traffic

Links to your site from blogs, forums and message boards, will bring you traffic.

It is important that you do lots of planning and research. A good campaign will lead to good quality traffic.

I hope I have given you some food for thought.