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07-11-2008, 02:37 PM
Affiliate Marketing percentages:
20 percent of affiliates produce 80 percent of all income; while
80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of all income.
Ironic but true. You would almost certainly want to be one of the 20 percent that is earning the 80 percent of the total earnings. Who wouldn’t?
Practice some simple, basic procedures and you will find yourself reaping profits like the most fortunate ones are getting.
1. The best affiliate marketers hide their affiliate links. Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it actually is. Apparently, visitors will tend not to click on your link when they recognize that it is leading to an affiliate program.
The usual tendency is for them to go directly to the affiliate domain and ignoring your affiliate ID from the URL displayed. The best way to avoid this problem is by cloaking your affiliate URL. There are cloaking tools available on the Internet that you can take advantage of. Some are free and a good hosting company will have a redirect in their cPanel.
2. Successful affiliate marketers create and distribute articles. Writing articles regarding your market 'niche' is necessary to build your reputation as a spe******t in your field.
You can get great benefits not just from writing these articles, but also from getting those articles published and reprinted by other site owners and ezine publishers. Your articles will then not only enhance your reputation, but also increase the number of backlinks from other web sites because of the resource box at the end of each article.
3. Affiliate marketers focus on a market 'niche'. Loading your site with content that is focused on a certain product or service 'niche' is one way of getting more web traffic in your target market.
There are tools on the Internet that can help you find market 'niches' that are beneficial and relevant to your website.
4. Top affiliate marketers use autoresponders. Autoresponders are an important tool that gives you the ability to send a timed series of email messages to those persons that signed up for them. Generally, the best autoresponders a third party provider. Look for the best provider that can cater to your autoreponder needs.
5. Smart affiliate marketers build web pages in order to pre-sell and force opt-ins. It's best to create either testimonial pages or review pages that talk about and pre-sell the product or service you are affiliated with. This is the best method of getting increased orders for your chosen affiliate programs.
Many programs offer an article or recommended text to sell their products for you to use and permit duplication of those articles with your links implanted.
6. The smartest and most successful affiliate marketers collect email addresses. These affiliates gather email addresses on their web site by offering free reports, free ebooks, free software, free tutorials, free consultations and free newsletter subscriptions using signup forms.
This method is best used to build your own list of email addresses to contact. This also lets you to stay in contact with potential customers after they have clicked to access the affiliate program website.
7. Top affiliate marketers market everywhere. You can advertise using PPC (pay-per-click) and ezine advertising related to your market 'niche'. Some categories of Pay-per-click can be expensive, but advertising utilizing various methods is necessary to get additional traffic to your site.
There is cost-effective ezine advertising and some less popular PPC engines other than Yahoo's Overture and Google's Adwords that you can check out and decide what is best for you and your budget.
8. Affiliate marketers optimize for the search engines. Search engine optimization is now getting more complex as new and more webmasters participate. But applying the basics to your site can add to your visibility over time.
The most critical of the many SEO techniques is the words used in title tags that shows individual page content. Many webmasters write a master title tag and apply that site-wide. This is not recommended for best results in search engine ranking.
9. Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists. The best affiliate marketers have their own newsletter, blog and/or ezine and gather email addresses on their site(s) to build their opt-in list of subscribers.
Having this list allows regular contact with potential customers interested in your site, your product and your market 'niche'. Always: "The Money Is In The List".
If you understand and use the above mentioned procedures, you can be, in a shorter time than you think, be among the top earners in affiliate marketing. What are you waiting for?
For access to a series of FREE A-Z video tutorials that’s all you need for online success, go here:http://www.loseyouralarm.com/mrvideos/
20 percent of affiliates produce 80 percent of all income; while
80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of all income.
Ironic but true. You would almost certainly want to be one of the 20 percent that is earning the 80 percent of the total earnings. Who wouldn’t?
Practice some simple, basic procedures and you will find yourself reaping profits like the most fortunate ones are getting.
1. The best affiliate marketers hide their affiliate links. Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it actually is. Apparently, visitors will tend not to click on your link when they recognize that it is leading to an affiliate program.
The usual tendency is for them to go directly to the affiliate domain and ignoring your affiliate ID from the URL displayed. The best way to avoid this problem is by cloaking your affiliate URL. There are cloaking tools available on the Internet that you can take advantage of. Some are free and a good hosting company will have a redirect in their cPanel.
2. Successful affiliate marketers create and distribute articles. Writing articles regarding your market 'niche' is necessary to build your reputation as a spe******t in your field.
You can get great benefits not just from writing these articles, but also from getting those articles published and reprinted by other site owners and ezine publishers. Your articles will then not only enhance your reputation, but also increase the number of backlinks from other web sites because of the resource box at the end of each article.
3. Affiliate marketers focus on a market 'niche'. Loading your site with content that is focused on a certain product or service 'niche' is one way of getting more web traffic in your target market.
There are tools on the Internet that can help you find market 'niches' that are beneficial and relevant to your website.
4. Top affiliate marketers use autoresponders. Autoresponders are an important tool that gives you the ability to send a timed series of email messages to those persons that signed up for them. Generally, the best autoresponders a third party provider. Look for the best provider that can cater to your autoreponder needs.
5. Smart affiliate marketers build web pages in order to pre-sell and force opt-ins. It's best to create either testimonial pages or review pages that talk about and pre-sell the product or service you are affiliated with. This is the best method of getting increased orders for your chosen affiliate programs.
Many programs offer an article or recommended text to sell their products for you to use and permit duplication of those articles with your links implanted.
6. The smartest and most successful affiliate marketers collect email addresses. These affiliates gather email addresses on their web site by offering free reports, free ebooks, free software, free tutorials, free consultations and free newsletter subscriptions using signup forms.
This method is best used to build your own list of email addresses to contact. This also lets you to stay in contact with potential customers after they have clicked to access the affiliate program website.
7. Top affiliate marketers market everywhere. You can advertise using PPC (pay-per-click) and ezine advertising related to your market 'niche'. Some categories of Pay-per-click can be expensive, but advertising utilizing various methods is necessary to get additional traffic to your site.
There is cost-effective ezine advertising and some less popular PPC engines other than Yahoo's Overture and Google's Adwords that you can check out and decide what is best for you and your budget.
8. Affiliate marketers optimize for the search engines. Search engine optimization is now getting more complex as new and more webmasters participate. But applying the basics to your site can add to your visibility over time.
The most critical of the many SEO techniques is the words used in title tags that shows individual page content. Many webmasters write a master title tag and apply that site-wide. This is not recommended for best results in search engine ranking.
9. Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists. The best affiliate marketers have their own newsletter, blog and/or ezine and gather email addresses on their site(s) to build their opt-in list of subscribers.
Having this list allows regular contact with potential customers interested in your site, your product and your market 'niche'. Always: "The Money Is In The List".
If you understand and use the above mentioned procedures, you can be, in a shorter time than you think, be among the top earners in affiliate marketing. What are you waiting for?
For access to a series of FREE A-Z video tutorials that’s all you need for online success, go here:http://www.loseyouralarm.com/mrvideos/