subject: Simple Affiliate Marketing Tips to Get Bigger Commissions [print this page] Affiliate marketing is all about getting the details right. There are many different factors that play a role in your affiliate marketing success, which is why it's important that you keep the following tips in mind.
If you want to get bigger commissions from affiliate sales, then here's a tip that does not involve the niche you're in or the product you're marketing. It simply boils down to your degree of honesty with the products you're selling. If someone wants a product, and they trust what you have to say about it, then that represents a customer trusting what you said. When you review an affiliate product, or service, then it's incumbent on you to be as open and honest as you can about it and include that pros and cons. No matter what the commission is, if the product or service is not of good quality, then simply stay away from it and don't attempt to sell it. Honesty will help you go a long way as an affiliate as it will help you understand your prospects and at the same time increase your sales. It's not hard at all to be upfront about a product; if it's good - it's good, and if it sucks - then say so. Just explain all the benefits and what they mean to the person who'll be using the product. Hopefully the negatives will be much less in number, they should be, and explain why you think they are negatives. There are many affiliate marketers who have their eye on the profits and don't really focus on helping their prospects out. If you stick with this plan, then you will develop a strong and positive reputation which will help your business. Your sense of honesty will build a good reputation for you. A lot of marketers prefer to get their affiliate sites ranked for their keywords so they can enjoy 'free' search engine traffic. Naturally, you'll need to have good backlinks for your site if you want to get it ranked high in the SERPS. Just one method, out of many, is to write articles and submit them to search engines so you can get the backlink. That approach is a good one because it produces a one-way link to your website from the article to your site. It's a time-consuming process even though it produces good results and works. You'll find many marketers engaging in backlinking by writing good comments on other people's blogs so they can get a backlink from the blog.
Try to get some real testimonials from customers as soon as possible because they are powerful. Testimonials are social proof to your site visitors, and they have always worked and always will. Ok, the sales letter for the product you're marketing should have them, they better have them, and you can also solicit them from people you know who may have used the product, etc. One powerful and effective tactic is to take the testimonial text and pictures and then make a video from it. It's long been recognized in IM that videos can be very powerful and moreso than just regular written text. One other point about video is that it will help make your site more 'sticky,' and that means people will tend to stay longer because of the appeal of the video.
The thing to remember is that when you're laying the foundation and building your affiliate business, or really any online business, the vast majority of the work is right in the beginning but in time it gets much, much better and easier going.
Simple Affiliate Marketing Tips to Get Bigger Commissions
