Getting Affiliate Marketing Started - Affiliate Marketing is Easier than you Think

Hey all of DP! I work with thousands of affiliates on a yearly basis and I am always recruiting and talking to webmasters about how to do affiliate marketing effectively and generate killer revenue. Its really all about putting up pages on your site or posting on your blog about the affiliate offers you are representing and including the affiliate banners on the particular post or a text link under the post. Unique content on all pages is a must. Try to write as grammatically correct as possibly as well. If you have you ad units arranged well on your site in 3-5 ad placement areas, you should be able to build pages or posts in order to get organic traffic related to the offers you are promoting. As webmasters become less impressed with Google Adsense revenues they are looking more and more for affiliate programs to replace them. Often times, affiliate offers yield better than adsense anyways. When looking for offers I find that CJ's EPC system is a pretty good gauge for how well an affiliate program converts. But you have to keep in mind that the EPC can be skewed if that advertiser has a lot of ppc affiliates which convert well. Inhouse affiliate programs are great because you can work with their affiliate managers and beat them up for a higher payout after you have produced for them. Once you have decided on the affiliate programs you will market you then have to either launch a new site or blog or create a section on your current sites to promote the merchant by name or the products they sell. If you post daily and acquire some inbound link to your sites/blogs you will start to generate some good organic traffic. You are then on your way to affiliate income! This is a simplified explanation of affiliate marketing but I think necessary for all the noobies on DP! Contact me if you would like to discuss more about affiliate marketing through IM, PM, or email. I will even get on the phone with anyone that wants to get into affiliate marketing. Have a great weekend DP!

 

Thanks. I'm not your target audience here, but I will PM you anyway.

 

Sounds cool Purdue512..

 

Many of the affiliate programs reject you if you are not from USA . Do you have any solution for this?

 

You can approach them personally by contacting the affiliate manager and asking them to accept..are there any programs in particular?

 

Yes, for a popular loan site I send hundred of leads free and even got a conversion of $125. They refused to pay saying I was non-US

 

Well these lead companies have serious lead scrubing system and if the leads look a little "unreal" or came in too fast they might think they don't have to pay you on the leads cliaming they are falsh leads. But I may know a couple companies like that...the leads have to be all US and no re-used leads allowed..

 

Additionally, if you need help getting started with affiliate marketing. Check out The Affiliate Toolbox, a blog created for n00bs to the affiliate marketing world.

 

They had not promised to pay for a lead and I did not expect payment, but could they not pay for the conversion? It was monitored by their own system , they only sent a notification.

 

So they sent you a new sale notification? Email it to me plz...evan@experienceadvertising.com

 

Keep the questions coming everyone...I am so excited that there are so many DPers getting into affiliate marketing for the first time and having success with organic sites and blogs. I am available day and night for questions regarding seo, ppc or good affiliate programs to work with.

 

Hey EA,how you doing man....I have a few problems getting started with this whole buisness.As for right now I have 180 dollars to invest at the moment(400 monthly) and will be probably focusing on PPC+landing pages.

My goal currently is 100 a day,but I don't mind if my first month or two is half of that.

Please help if you can......(P.M me)

FYI I've been horsing around since May(Messing with those damn GPT's),but now I'm really focused on the finish line.

Good Karma to all

 

I would suggest investing in some organic sites, fresh articles and some text links with your money to get for a more long-term approach. PPc is very hard to make work, not impossible, but the long-term orangic site or blog can work out much better in the long run, then you can supplement your traffic with PPC once you have sales rolling in...

 

I have 1000 uv/day and it's convert well for adsense. I start with affiliate program (cpa from neverblueads) this month, I hope it will convert well too.

 

i want to experienced this too, can you explain please.

 

toby..PM sent hit me on IM. I'll be out this afternoon but likely on tonight, I am Eastern time zone

 

this is a great thread for newbies like me. is ea still there for our trouble?

 

Nice article there. I also want to learn about affiliate marketing.

But i dont know about PPC but have many sites with organic traffic. I have added few banners, but not converting..

 

Good article experienceadvertising. Thanks!

 

Besides CJ and Linkshare, would you recommend any other affiliate marketing companies to work with? Appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks!