You
will read many articles about click fraud, sneaky ways of generating
clicks to affiliate programs. Most don't work and the rest
will get you banned pretty quick. In short why bother when
you can create a honest web affiliate business. There are many
different ways of earning affiliate commissions from affiliate
programs. In our experience you will have your best chance
of success if you do this:
- Find a niche (preferably around a subject that you
know about)
- Create a useful, interesting, content-rich, keyword-rich
website on one topic
- Include RELEVANT affiliate links with in the
pages where its appropriate. Google Adsense is a good start as they have
developed an algorithm that will automatically show relevant links based
on the content of the page.
- Learn SEO (search
engine optimisation). This is a combination of writing search engine friendly
copy which accurately describes your site to search engines as well as
skills such as relevant link building, search engine submission etc etc
Our 18 steps to a successful affiliate
business
Set
a target. - set a realistic target of how much
you want to earn from your site and how much effort you are
going to put into it. Say you aim to earn a total
of £300 a month in affiliate commissions and AdSense
revenue.
Its very important that you set the income you wish to generate
from affiliate programs realistic as it can be pretty disheartening
if you miss your first target. Achieve
small successes first, see your first affiliate program cheque
in your hands or in your bank account. When you get this,
take my word for it you feel pretty motivated to make the
next one bigger. We are aware of one person affiliates earning £250,000
per year in revenue, other small businesses are achieving
over a million in revenue per year
Establish
the niche for your site. Its important to set target keywords for
your site and not be too ambitious to start with. We would
all like to be number one on Google for a popular key word
such as 'car insurance'. The affiliate commissions this would
bring would be fantastic (however, unrealistic)
- To start with you should
probably target less competitive Internet topics because
it is very overcrowded and competitive. You are much more
likely to succeed if you go for a less competitive
niche. You can then try out various techniques and get a
feel of the sorts of things you need to do in order to succeed
on the search engines.
- Choose a subject that you find
easy to write about. However, depending on your aims you
should think carefully about which area to target
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Choose
a profitable niche. Do
some research on keywords to choose a profitable
niche from among the list you have you have.
If you are planning to use Google
AdSense, you want to target valuable keywords or
key phrases, if possible ones that people are paying
at least 20p per click for on Overture and
AdWords.
Here are some useful tools for researching which keywords
to target
You will want to build a site the search engines
love, so you also want to find key phrases that
many people are typing into search engines. Research
- You don't rely on guesswork. |
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Thoroughly
research affiliate merchants which you will want
to join.
Make sure that you can find a few
affiliate merchants or networks that have affiliate
programs that you can join. Remember, you are only
likely to make money if the affiliate programs you
chose are relevant to the content on your site
You want to choose affiliate programs that have good products and
sites that look as though they're good at selling. Join
a few affiliate networks to get a feel as to the types of programs on offer
Consider aiming for ongoing commissions as this will provide a regular in come..
If you're lucky, you'll manage to select a web site topic
that has affiliate programs which pay ongoing commissions
or residual commissions e.g. Insurance
You'll earn repeat commissions when visitors to your affiliate
site make more purchases from the merchant |
Build
a useful, interesting web site for your chosen topic
Create
a keyword-rich, content rich affiliate website, designed
to be found in search engines.
You'll save yourself an enormous amount of time and frustration
if you take the plunge and buy a good instruction manual
written specifically for affiliates web sites..
You will need a domain name and website hosting for your
site - get
low cost quality web hosting and domain names from just £20
per year.
Add
affiliate program links to your website.
As you
write the pages for your site make sure you include plenty
of affiliate program links into the pages. Try and get
into the minds eye of your visitor and lead them to click
on your affiliate program links.
A successful technique is to gradually help your visitor towards purchasing
a product through the free affiliate
programs you have joined. Start by outlining
a problem, discuss a good solution that has worked for you, and end the article
with a link that is a call to action, such as a hyperlink that says, "Find
out more here."
You should NOT try and sell the product. In some industries you must be
even more careful as they mat be regulated e.g. finance and insurance. All
you want is for your visitors to ready to buy when they arrive
at the merchant's site.
Place Google
AdSense ads on your site.
If you have a good,
well written and popular site, it is incredibly easy
to make an income with AdSense.
Drive
traffic to your website .
There are a number of ways to drive traffic
to your website
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Get
links. First, link to other sites that
have relevant content to yours and invite those
sites to trade links with you.
This is hugely important. Search engines love sites that have many RELEVANT links
to them |
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Content is King - Now you see why we said to build a useful,
interesting and content rich web site.
If you do that, people are more likely to link to
your site. Webmasters are unlikely to link to a page
full of banner adverts |
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List your site
in major directories
and niche directories in your industry. There
are a number of software packages which will make this
job easier. |
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Write
articles and send them to article directories
trying to persuade newsletters and other
sites to publish them . Blogg Links are a method of
doing this [more] |
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Add
more pages and get more links. Keep
writing and adding useful, interesting, keyword-rich
pages and keep encouraging more sites to link to
your site. |
Be
patient.
If
your new site is typical, nothing much will happen for the first couple
of months or so, and you'll probably become frustrated and find it hard to
believe that this is going to work.
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