The recent boom in affiliate marketing has spawned such a mass of information, get rich quick schemes and conflicting advice that for the novice it can be a daunting experience that will put many off from setting out at all in this potentially lucrative business. However, it does not need to be this way. Here I present to you some of the most useful pointers to developing a successful affiliate income as four ‘must do’ tips:
1. Have a professional, user friendly website.
Given that affiliate links can be placed just about anywhere these days you could be excused for thinking that you do not actually need your own website. How wrong you would be. A professionally designed and built site that contains plenty of information about the products it promotes is essential. Information or content is generally what your visitors are initially at least searching for. If that information interests them it may well promote a sale. People need to be enticed into clicking on your adverts with original, interesting articles, reviews and information. Get this right and you have won half the battle. Navigating around the site should be easy,efficient and logical too. Make it easy for your visitors to find what they want.
2. Freebies!
Offer your visitors something for nothing. Giving away newsletters, e-zines and newsletters for nothing other than the potential customers email addresses in exchange is actually a very good deal for you. You can follow these up by offering them further information, BONANZAJP links and special offers. This will keep them interested and could lead to sales now or in the future. Remember your fiercest competitors will be doing just this and it would be professional suicide not to match or exceed their efforts. Likewise keep an eye on your competitors regularly to check what they are doing. In other words try always to stay one step ahead.
3. Traffic Building.
Do everything within your power to drive traffic to your site. All marketers know this. You must look at all the possibilities for getting people to visit your site. Some of these methods can be expensive such as using advertising services and buying links. However there are other less costly methods that can be equally lucrative. Write articles for newsletters and E-zines such as this one and include a link to your website. The search engines love this type of free advertising and will reward you in their rankings. Of course you will also be exposing your knowledge and authority of your subject and this will lead of course to visitors who come to your site trusting your good judgment and reputation. Therefore ensure that the content they read is relevant, informative, up to date and well written.