Explain affiliate marketing?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by catrobbery, Apr 23, 2012.

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    I've read many threads where people claim that adsense is a good beginner way to make money online but the real money is in affiliate marketing.

    If anyone has been successful with affiliate marketing can you please explain what you have going on and how to begin affiliate marketing?
     
    catrobbery, Apr 23, 2012 IP
  2. Zaharey

    Zaharey Member

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    You know that the online affiliate marketing is truly profitable. In fact, even if affiliate marketing is not complicated as well, you can easily be confused and get stuck in a routine of unproductive trial. Look for a product to promote, create a website or blog, build a list, create backlinks. Taking these four steps is a sure way to start without wasting time? Nope. Obviously there are some other affiliate marketing techniques to learn but just like in every business, you are going to learn them in experience.
     
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  3. catrobbery

    catrobbery Greenhorn

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    I have made two previous blogs promoting products. One was 2nd in google rating for 2 keywords (each keyword had 20k average monthly searches each), but still had almost no traffic. The other was on the 2nd page of google search for a 10k search keyword and it also had no traffic.

    My content was pretty good, but no one saw it.

    Any tips on traffic?

    What keywords should I aim at?
     
    catrobbery, Apr 23, 2012 IP
  4. peoplesguide

    peoplesguide Member

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    I am an affiliate marketer and i prove that affiliate marketing is better than GA, however, you have to keep adsense ads running for some monetization options. That way you can make a lot more money, hope it helps,

    Affiliate Product + Adsense = Money (WRONG)
    Affiliate Product + Adsense + TRAFFIC = MONEY (WRONG)
    Affiliate Product + Adsense + Huge Traffic = Money (wrong)
    Affiliate product + Adsense + Huge Targetted traffic = MONEY (ABSOLUTELY RIGHT) perfect conclusion?
     
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  5. bigznet

    bigznet Member

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    I would have to agree that the BIG $$$ are in affiliate marketing...

    Sure... some people make a lot of money running Google Adsense ads, but the only real way to do this is to run dozens (or hundreds!) of low-quality websites. And as the Panda updates have proven, this strategy won't work forever since lower-quality websites continue to be weeded out. Unless you have an extremely popular blog or other high-traffic website, you won't make a ton of money with Adsense.

    The key to affiliate marketing, is to pick a popular and profitable niche -- then become an expert and focus most of your efforts on this niche. For example, payday loans have been very profitable for me (see my sig). After you've chosen your niche, you need to build a high-quality website around the product or service. You'll need to attract people to your website with good SEO, interesting content, social media and other techniques. Lots to learn if you want to be successful with affiliate marketing! But the payoff is definitely worth it ;)
     
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  6. Zaharey

    Zaharey Member

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    I'm not very sure what do you mean "2nd in google rating" either at 2nd pages position or 2nd spot at 1st page. And 20k average monthly search is from exact search or broad. Obviously all this circumstance will influence your traffic's site.
    BTW if your website ranking position #2 spot in Google with nice search volume of keyword it's impossible no traffic coming in. Unless you just get rank on your own browser that effected inaccurate position. Try Google and search 'free website position checker'.
     
    Zaharey, Apr 23, 2012 IP
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    jhardy2008 Peon

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    I think google adsense is much better than affiliate marketing. Just create a website and place adsense anywhere in your website.
     
    jhardy2008, Apr 23, 2012 IP
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    Maria Netbooster Guest

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    I think it depends on the payouts etc associated with your product niche, and the potential of your site to deliver a converting sale/lead.If you build a good site with a great url, invest in content, attract targeted traffic - then why just take a CPC, when you could profit much more from a share of the revenue all your hard work creates. This seems to be what Bigznet has achieved. With a high %age or CPL on big high-value items (such as loans) this will be more profiable. However, if you dont have time/money/skill/interest to do this in a niche, then Adsense could be OK. YOu still need to have some kind of reasonable content and concept to have any longterm revenue steam though.Good luckMaria
     
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  9. JCrooks

    JCrooks Peon

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    Affiliate Marketing is an excellent way to make money online, but it's not an overnight success. Know that you will need to do some work whatever way you decide to proceed online. To me, that's one of the most exciting parts of working online - all the choices you have in the ways to do things!

    With affiliate marketing, you can build several different kinds of sites, such as:
    1. Coupon site
    2. Niche site about a specific topic
    3. Review site about a variety of products

    You can include affiliate links as either banners or text links. You can also include adsense on the same page, so you can provide multiple choices.

    You also need to decide how you will generate traffic to your website. If you want to attract search traffic, you'll need to have keyword rich text which will help you rank well in the search engines. If you plan on using PPC to drive traffic, you can use a different page layout, though you'll still want to keep a great deal of related text on the page (otherwise your PPC clicks will cost more). If you are just counting on domainer traffic, then adsense alone could provide revenue.

    There are some great teachers, like James Martell, with websites filled with information and strategies about building sites that perform well over long periods of time.

    Hope that helps!
     
    JCrooks, Apr 25, 2012 IP
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    catrobbery Greenhorn

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    Thanks, this helped:D
     
    catrobbery, Apr 25, 2012 IP
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    kb24 Well-Known Member

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    Internet marketing is a pretty broad term and can mean many things to many different people. Internet marketing in it’s broadest form is “marketing of products and services on the net”

    The thing that makes it more complex is (a) how you promote products (get traffic) (b) what your objectives or (are you the company or an affiliate).

    You may have heard terms like Search Engine Marketing, SEO, pay-per-click marketing, CPA marketing, article marketing, affiliate marketing, affiliate, merchant, tweeting, facebook, email marketing…the list goes on.

    This is all encapsulated under the “Internet Marketing Umbrella”. That is the reason people get so confused when they go to get training. They really are unsure of the best way to achieve their objectives and in many cases, exactly what they need.
     
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  12. tridosil

    tridosil Peon

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    1. Research affliate programs. Find out which products are most popular and what is its conversion rate. Visit the seller's website to see whether their sales letters are enough to generate sales. A conversion rate of 5% is reasonably good. This means that for every 100 people landing on your merchant’s website, 5 visitors will place an order.
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      Join an affiliate program.
      • Choose a program that offers recurring commissions that compound each month as you refer more customers.
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      Promote an affiliate program through a website. You will have more options in sending potential buyers to your affiliate programs if you create a website to promote your affiliate programs. Visiting other professional websites of your niche is a good way to get some ideas on how to design your website.
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      Make your website content relevant. For example, if your affliate sells e-books, you can write a review for each e-book with an affiliate link to the sales website.
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      Drive targeted traffic to your website. To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time:
      • Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising. You can get a lot of targeted traffic from PPC advertising programs. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. These programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged based on your bid amount. Also, PPC advertising programs will distribute your ads to websites of their content networks also.
      • Article Marketing. Write an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submit it to article directories. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckloads of free traffic to your website.
      • Post Messages on Forums. Post messages on community forums with a link to your site in the signature of each message. Make sure your forum profile includes your website link within the signature option. Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.
     
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    hi, i think the easy way to join affiliate program with a force matrix system. a force matrix allow to get free referrals by your host. so you do not have to refer anyone to get referral. isn't that the hard part? i recommend join Rutrit social network site. Imagine Facebook with force matrix. that would be nice.
     
    danrutrit, Apr 28, 2012 IP
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    xendurinan Banned

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    All guys are rocking.
    They have already gave much more informative post here.
    Thanks to all guys.
     
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    Adsense is good because you don't have to worry about anything.

    All you have to do is post the code to your website and drive traffic to it.

    It is pure profit from there.
     
    Ida V, Apr 29, 2012 IP
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    I have many sites with affiliate links on it. When a person clicks on my affiliate link and also buy from that store I get a commission. This way I made more then 150$ per sale.
    That is way affiliate marketing is better then adsense ( cause you make more money ).
    First thing to do: make a site on topic of interest like hosting. After that place links with your affiliate id ( for hosting companies ) on your site.
     
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