Great tips... here are some my tips for affiliate marketing.

I read tips and found them to work for me.

1. Choose a topic you know
2. Place Banners, Banners, and More Banners.
3. There is no Best Merchant Program: the best is the promotion technique you use.
4. Use multiple merchants in the same niche. As suggested, select a merchant based on what you like, or better yet select a few. Promoting 3-4 merchants on the same site gives your site visitors a variety of destinations to choose from
5. There is no Best Network: Every network has its strong points. Make your network selection based on the tools it provides for you. Also take into consideration if the network has the merchants you want to work with. Sometimes joining an undesirable Network is necessary because they have a merchant you really want to sign up with. Our recommendation is to try a merchant from all the main networks, see what works for you, and then focus your time accordingly.
6. What are Data (Product Info) Sites. Data driven sites are generally limited to pure product data, prices, images, descriptions, there's no illusion of education here. It's all about promoting the product and making the visitor get off your site as fast as possible and onto the merchant's store.
7.Building your first Site. It does help to know HTML and the ability to use graphics software. Knowledge of these areas gives you the ability to add small touches of class to your site. However don't be discouraged if you have no skills in these areas. It is not always necessary to be skilful as there are a number of tools and merchants around that can help you get your first site up and launched.

 

Thanks for your info..I hope you make money in your program..

 

thanks for passing the info to us.

 

8. Learn from experience

 

thanks some of the tips were really helpful and new ones.

 

Great info! Appreciate it.

 

thanks for your info
Good Luck boy

 

thankx buddy. but wht abt the traffic ?

 

What are you trying to say in tip #6 ?
Should we build such data sites?

 

Promoting a topic that you don't know or care about is really hard. Great tips, thanks.

 

Trial and error is what I have found. Great tips that you shared though.

 

9. NEVER give up. Never.

 

Very good tips. I think many newbie affiliates tend to think affiliate marketing is an easy, get-rich-quick type of thing. Successful ones know it requires knowledge, and hard work.

 

much luck to you, and thanks for the info

 

And once you find your success, do the rinse and repeat!

 

I was about to ask which merchant program is the best. Promotion technique and site content are the keys - thanks for the tips.

 

Hi AlwaysLearning,

I am not agree with few of your TIPS and I am giving genuine reasons for that:

You said:

"2. Place Banners, Banners, and More Banners."
That is absolutely an unprofessional method. You should not use more than 8 banners (125 x 125) on any pages. If you have used other sizes like 728x90, 468x60, 120x600 then this count should be lower. Focus on text. Write contents which are around the products and promote them through text links in contents.

"3. There is no Best Merchant Program: the best is the promotion technique you use."
That is also a biased view. There are many good programs having good conversion, good eCpm and trust of the users. If you are promoting them, even if they offer lower commission, you can make more money.