Affiliate Marketing – A Starters Guide
If you’re reading this then you obviously know what Affiliate Marketing is. I won’t go into that. If you’re full of ideas and you have some money you’d like to invest, then affiliate marketing is the thing for you. But don’t have high expectations, people have been known to spend everything they have on affiliate marketing and end up with nothing at all. Affiliate Marketing includes a shrewd combination of skills, smarts, spending, snobbing and sniffing. You’ll understand that when you get into affiliate marketing 
So, the first thing you have to do is check with yourself, can you do this?
- do you give up easily?
- do you feel bored doing monotonous work?
- do you tend to drift from different things into others?
Then please reconsider. Google Adsense might be better for you. If you willing to work hard, taste the bitter side before experiencing the sweetness, read on. I’ll try my best to bring it out to you
- First, find a good affiliate program that you can follow. I recommend using NeverBlueAds. They pay on time, they’re easy to use and fantastic to work with.
- Second, look at your blogs and sites. Is there anything there that receives a lot of traffic? Select those and compare them with the available campaigns on NeverBlueAds. Select those campaigns and place the links on your blog/site. Some additional info – while selecting your product, make sure to include a smiley( freebie) product too. Place them somewhere in the main content box. The ad is really attractive and tends to convert well. Convert has different meanings. When you select the product you wish to market, you can see the grey box containing information about when the click gets considered to be a paying click. When this happens, you get a convert. some will require you to enter your e-mail id and others will need you to fill in a 3 page form. There are also 2 other terms you might want to understand – lead and sale. Lead is a convert which is basically free. The visitor doesn’t have to pay anything, rather fill some stuff up. A sale is when the visitor buys something. Sales tend to get you more than leads in affiliate marketing.
- If you have spare domains lying around, pick them up. Make a landing page on it and promote products there. Remember, a landing page doesn’t mean 2 lines describing the product, it needs to have a few articles at the least. Make it attractive and let the ad blend in. ( Don’t forget the smiley’s ). You can also place google ads on it and earn even more!
- Next, you need the traffic. For the blogs and sites, the current traffic should do well . But for landing pages, you might need to either redirect some traffic from other blogs or buy the traffic. You can sign up for Google Adwords. They’re really good.
I’ll make a post about proper Adwords management tomorrow as well some tips to get the most out of Adsense placed on your blogs.
