subject: Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work? [print this page] Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work? Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?
Does Affiliate Marketing Really work? I can now answer that question and the answer is a resounding yes! I started Internet Marketing with The Wealthy Affiliate University on 22nd June 2009 and despite there being a recession I have already made Sales!
Affiliate Marketing is not the easiest way to make money but once established your web site will work for you 24 hours a day 7 days a week and 365b days in a year! If you are prepared to work hard and follow the advice given to you by the experts (in my case Kyle and Carson at the Wealthy Affiliate University), then after just one to two months effort you will make money.
Things to remember are:
You must find an appropriate niche, this is an area that is under served in the market and that has people wanting to buy the product, whatever you choose, in my case Classical Guitars.
You need to research the appropriate keywords to optimize you site for.
You need to write an original article using the keywords in its theme that will benefit your buying public and put this on your site.
You should write a series of related articles and get these published on various different web publication sites (E Zine, Squidoo, Weebly, Blogger, scribd etc.) the more the merrier but at least 10.
Get back links to your site which should have been chosen to include one of your main keywords in its URL
Publish your site in as many web directories as you can.
Treat the whole exercise as one in giving value to your public, all your articles should be original and self penned.
Join as many social networking sites as you can and include your URl in your bio section, but be careful to follow the site rules and also provide links to other URL's not your own to add value to your public.
Keep writing articles on an ongoing basis and getting them published, this will help your back links as your bio will be included whenever a legitimate article is published.
Read as much as you can on your selected topic and follow what the market is asking for. Use Google Reader, Yahoo Answers etc. etc.
If you follow this pattern you will find that your site will be picked up by the Google spider and subsequently Yahoo and Bing etc. Then all you have to do is keep on doing more of the same and your web ranking will increase with time. It is important to get and keep a first page ranking, if you can, as approximately 45% of the traffic goes to the first position and less than 10% gets past the first page.
There are some fantastic tools that you can use to help analyze your web sites position and the best of these are from Google and they are free! This definitely works and anyone who is prepared to work at it can do it, I know because I did! Good luck in your efforts.
