subject: Why Do You Need Targeted Traffic in Affiliate Marketing? [print this page] Why Do You Need Targeted Traffic in Affiliate Marketing?
Traffic is the food to feed your blog and if your blog has no one visiting for a long time, your blog will be considered death. But, what type of traffics you need? and why targeted traffic is the key to success especially when you are working with affiliate networks?
Content is still the king but what happens if that king has no food to eat. The king will then starve and die sooner or later if you do not have any plans to feed him on time.
In the post, I will not discuss about general traffic. I will let you know how important the targeted traffic will be in terms of affiliate marketing. You can get thousands of visitors per day to your blogs but how much percent of them will make purchase of your referred products or services. If less than 1% of them click on your affiliate links and proceed to checkout, your strategy seems to be failed. While other affiliate marketers can not drive 1,000 visitors to their blogs, they can only bring 150 targeted visitors from search engines and 70% of them make purchases. They are successful not you!
Many of you think all types of traffic are equal in making money niche but you are absolutely wrong. Google adsense is PPC program and many of you think that all traffic generated to your blogs can be beneficial but it is not that easy. All advertisers choose advertising networks with a strategy in mind that they will earn something from your spending. If they pay for Adwords $100, they will always want to get back at least $100 or ten times higher than their investment. Google has done this very well and that is why most of advertisers choose google adwords and also the reason why many adsense publishers account disabled recently.
Let me tell you why people love traffic from search engines and many SEO companies make billion dollars per year for their SEO services. What is the difference between general traffic andorganic traffic?
When you use Google to do a research, you must really need it by typing keywords into google search and the top results especially first SERPs will draw the most attention of searchers and if they click on the link their, they will much likely to buy it. All webmasters and bloggers are trying to SEO for their blogs and articles for this reason too.
So, now you know whyorganic traffic from search engines are so important and most of them are targeted which can be converted into sales. This is rather important in affiliate marketing. You do not need much general traffic but targeted ones.
