7 Ways to Increase Your Affiliate Commission

Affiliate program promotion is a most rewarding and easy way of earning money online. You don’t have to be very knowledgeable or experienced, to be successful at affiliate marketing. This is a great way of earning residual income.

Many people don’t make the sort of commissions that can be made with affiliate marketing. It would help to understand the different routes one can take to earn huge affiliate commissions.

Article writing and distribution
With article writing, you can promote your affiliate programs very effectively and earn money. High quality and informative articles should be submitted to all the good article directories, like Ezine articles, which has a high PR. These articles will appear on search engines like Google, when people search for information related to your article. Writing articles and having a link to your website in the signature box helps drive huge amounts of traffic to your website, as long as you ensure your articles are attention-grabbing and your bio has a strong call to action. Just make doubly sure not to link directly to the affiliate product, as many top directories don’t allow this. It’s best to have your own website. Since you are going to be advertising your affiliate link on the website, there will be a huge increase in the number of sales and the end result is an increase in your affiliate commissions.

Multiple keywords in articles
Having multiple keywords related to your affiliate program in the articles, helps you rank higher in the search engines like Google for those keywords. If your affiliate program is related to making money online, you can have keywords like “make money from home”, “make money working online”, “make money working from home”, “earn money online” etc. When people who are looking to make money online, type any of the related key phrases, your article will show up at the top of the search engine. If you rank high for at least 3 key phrases related to your business instead of just one key phrase, your traffic will increase tremendously and so will your affiliate commissions. This is a very powerful technique that will certainly increase your affiliate commission.

Ad campaign personalization
To earn more commissions from affiliate programs, it would help to offer your visitors something more than just the affiliate program. Do not ever rely solely on your affiliate program website as a good way of promotion. Personal touch matters and will help get you more affiliate commissions in the long run. You can make a list of the particular market products and see what people are looking for. Do not refer them directly to the merchant’s website. It would do good to give something like a ‘quick start guide’ to gain the visitor’s attention. Many people may not know much about the affiliate program being promoted by you, so your guide, which will explain things will be helpful. This gives a feeling that you care. This will sky rocket the affiliate sales.

Creating a blog
How does a blog help? Having a blog on your website means fresh content on the website. Fresh content drives traffic to the website. Have reviews of the affiliate products on the blog and also your affiliate links. People will read these reviews and click on the links, thus increasing affiliate commissions through an increase in affiliate sales. You can also aim at having a separate blog, where you have fresh content and redirect visitors to your website.

Targeting the right market
You should aim at advertising your affiliate products to the right market. Advertising your acne affiliate product to an IM niche will not yield good results. The most cost effective way of getting the right people to your affiliate product is finding forums related to your affiliate product or social networking sites targeted at the correct niche. These are the places where your market is usually found. This will bring targeted traffic to your affiliate product, which will result in more sales.

Creating a list and ezine
Creating a mailing list is very crucial to being a successful affiliate. Once you have a mailing list, an ezine becomes a powerful way of promoting your affiliate program to your subscribers. Bring out an ezine that is related to the affiliate program you are promoting. You can have an ezine sent out weekly, where you will be promoting affiliate product related to the content of the ezine. Over a period of time, since these people are used to getting some good info from you, they will begin trusting you, and in turn look at products being promoted by you. This is a great way of increasing affiliate commissions.

Cloaking affiliate links
This may not be a direct way of increasing affiliate sales, but a way of ensuring that you don’t lose any sales. Yes, losing sales is common in the affiliate business. It is also considered to be very unprofessional displaying affiliate IDs. By cloaking, I mean that you do not display the affiliate ID that is used to get you commissions. If you have a website, you don’t have to worry about this, but if you don’t, then there are several ways of cloaking your affiliate IDs.

One way is to buy a domain name related to the product that you are promoting and then using domain forwarding to mask the affiliate links. Alternatively, you will find software that masks the affiliate links for you. You will find plenty of such softwares if you search on Google. There are also several free cloaking sites that help you cloak your links for free.

By following the above steps for promoting your affiliate programs, you will see your commissions increase and you will start making money through affiliate programs immediately.

 

Thanks for the very useful info, I have been using article writing for sometime now and it really does work. Need to try some of your other suggestions. I have a really good cloaking script that is very easy to use, PM me if you would like to have a copy.

Bill