5 steps to making money affiliate marketing

Author: mark collier

Author: mark collier

1 Build a website This is the most affective way to promote your programs. Personally I think blogging is great but if you really want to make money promoting other's products then the most affective way to gain followers and build a brand is to have you own website. Now I know there are people reading this saying that building a good well designed website will cost $thousands. Not if you keep costs low and target particular keywords 2 Promote what you love This one explains itself but the advantages of this is that you will enjoy it much more and you will be able to write more interesting content and therefore make more money. If you're still stuck on what affiliate programs are best for you read my favorite affiliate programs reviews. 3 Always do your homework I have others heard others say you shouldn't monetize your site before you have substantial traffic, well I don't agree with that. I think you should know the affiliate programs you plan to use and the % of people that visit your site that you need to sign up to your affiliate programs to make a profit. You can check your cost of advertising with Google ad words keyword tool. You also need to be aware of your other costs. Such as domain registration, hosting, website creation software and so on. 4 Market your site Unfortunately to get some traffic you are going to have to spend some money. Search Engine Optimization is great but is almost impossible for a brand new site (don't worry soon after you get some paid traffic you will be able to get a ton of free traffic). The most affective way to promote your site is targeted pay per click campaigns. A pay per click ad is when you pay search engines for each time they get someone to go to your site. You know when you type a search into Google and on the right hand side there are sponsored links well these people are paying Google for each time you enter their site (click). The beauty of pay per click is that you get to choose who goes to your site but it can be expensive.When you are using PPC for affiliate marketing it can be hard to make a profit so you either need to find cheap targeted, very niche keywords or use keywords with high conversion rates e.g. product name buy/price/to buy. 5 Get some free traffic Search Engine Optimizing is building your site so you can get on the top of the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Live). This can be very complicated but there are some basic ideas behind it: to find out more go to my seo advanced page. Have meta tags on every page, although meta tags aren't as important to the search engines as before they are still crucial.

Use keywords, identify what searches you want to show up well for and use these words when writing your content.

Links, this is the most important part you need other websites relevant to your topic to link to you find out how to get links here inbound links.

Inner links, you also need to have links inside your website linking to different pages.

Use your domain name, instead of having your name or company's name as your domain name use keywords you want to rank well for. Find out more ways to make money online http://www.create-your-ebiz.comAbout the Author:

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