subject: Affiliate Marketing Tips You Can Trust [print this page] Its hard to find GOOD affiliate marketing tips nowadays. Everyone just spams the net constantly with random titles about affiliate marketing tips but they end up being just someone trying to advertise something ridiculous.
So lets get down to business.
To be a successful affiliate marketer you need people skills. That is the number one most important thing about affiliate marketing. When people think of online marketing they imagine someone just sitting on their couch watching some tv and doing a little interneting. Not true at all. Perhaps for the first year or so but if you actually want to be successful you need to get out there. The first thing you need to do is join an affiliate network.
1. Hire someone to do on page optimization. Hopefully you know how to do this, but if not hire someone to improve your websites in a search engine optimization sort of way. The most important thing to remember is that your website needs to be visitor friendly. Many people just view there page in a search engine sort of way. How does this look to google. Well more importantly, how does it look to someone coming on your page for a purpose. Navigation, perspective, overall viewing capabilities. Really think, if you were the potential customer what would you want to get out of this website.
2. Hire someone to advertise. Basically, hire someone to do SEO. They are one in the same, social networking, social bookmarking, article submission, url submission, blog commenting, blog posting, rss feed submission, ping submission, etc. You need someone to do this efficiently. As time goes on, being an efficient Manager is what its all about. When you start telling people what to do instead of doing it yourself you become a manager. You have better things to do like measure your websites success through seo moz, yahoo site explorer, google webmaster tools, google analytics, and so on. Its important to invest back into your "company"
3. Most affiliate marketers do become managers. Branching out to join multiple affiliate networks and advertise multiple products is important. Maybe you made 4k this month but what about next month? Invest back into yourself and you will earn better living in the long run.
So what have you learned? Its important to hire people to do the work so you can manage. It takes time to get into that position of power, but you cant do 20 things at once. SEO is key to success. As time goes on, the more SEO you do or someone else does about what you advertise the more money you make.
