What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is basically you selling someone else’s products (CPS = Cost Per Sale) or lead a target visitor that perform a specific action (CPA = Cost Per Action) for a commission as rewards.
There are hundreds of thousands of affiliate programs available online and new ones keep coming everyday.
Then, how to choose a product to promote?
That boils down to a few key things:
1. Choose the products which you have full control of it.
2. Try to sell stuff you want to buy.
3. NO BS
4. Choose a product and company with good reputation. An affiliate program should not have complains from their marketers such as payment delay, irrelevant ads etc. Two most reputed firm are ClickBank and Commission Junction.
5. You should not just blindly choose an affiliate program, try to find the highest commission ones.
6. Choose a recurring program is the best choice.
7. Choose an affiliate program that can add value to your websites/weblogs or articles, that’s the easiest way to boost your affiliate marketing CTR.
After choosed the right affiliate programs, how to make money with it?
The easiest way to make money with affiliate marketing is building your own niche related site then promote it.
For example,
if you participate in the iphone affiliate program and ready to sale a iphone then your website should be phone related. You may create a site/blog about “How to use iphone” “iphone user community” or “iphone tech” etc. Then start to promote your site to get more visitors and so that your affiliate links will be seen.
Another way is to build a landing page (usually called one page site) with the instruction of your products, your testimonial, your affiliate link and so on. The advantages of the landing page is that it normally generated more sales and get a high revenue than normal sites. The disadvantage is, landing page is a short term ones, can not last long for it was considered as a non-content and non-informative site.
You can find many other resources about ways to make money online here.
Here we also introduce several powerful tool for free for making money with affiliate marketing
1. Squidoo Lenses
A Squidoo lens is a specialized web site. Squidoo gives you all the building blocks to need to create visually-appealing and content-rich sites. Most important is that google loves the squidoo as it’s own site. Here is a Guide To Build Squidoo Lenses.
2. Google blogger
Google blogger is another powerful free tool for affiliate marketing, you can create a blog and article in simple few steps. Widgets can be used to add any number of affiliate products. The main criticism of this tool is that if Google wants to change or dismantle blogger, your blog is dead.
In order to make money online with affiliate marketing, you should obey the rules we listed above. For a newbie, we recommended CB and CJ to begin with. If you have any questions about make money with affiliate programs, just leave a comment below. Thanks!
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