Why affiliate marketing is easy
August 2, 2011 by Abby London
Filed under Affiliate Marketing
You may be one of those individuals who are looking towards the Internet as a way to generate extra money. Some people are even attempting to replace their current earnings with the Internet No matter what your reason for being here your clearly interested in discovering a way to earn money online. But if you think your going to uncover some magic plan that will make you rich overnight you may as well quit reading now. No matter what you’ve read, if you want to make it online it will take, time, patience and hard work. Here you will understand precisely what you need to get going.
Clickbank or Commission Junction is going to be your first stop as you will need to locate products and services to promote. These sites will allow you to promote other peoples products and get paid a commission on any sales you create. This takes all the work of setting up your own product and sales page a thing of the past. Your only job in order to make money is to get people to visit the link you are provided for the particular products your promoting.
Now your going to want to get your own personal website and domain name, this can be vital to your success. First you should select the niche you want to be in and attempt to get a domain that complements that niche market. For example if your likely to be promoting weight loss products and services a good domain name could be something like, bestweightlossprograms.com.
Now all you are going to need to do is to install a blog on your domain. This can be achieved rather easily from your c-panel, as they have a wordpress platform that the system can set up for you, you only need to enter a little information and let the system do the rest. When you need help setting up your blog through c-panel you can just do a search online. You can also find videos that will help you along.
Now let’s say you registered with Clickbank, you now just need to go there in order to find what ever products you would like to begin marketing on your new blog. Now choose one particular product, read their entire sales page and also write an article about this product and you will then take that article and publish it on your brand new blog. At the end of the article you are going to leave your affiliate link to ensure that individuals who read your article and want to look into the product can have a link handy. If they end up purchasing the product you receive a commission for that product or service.
Now believe it or not that has been the easy part. Now you have to find a method to let individuals know about your blog and the easiest way to do that is to start using a process called link building. You will build links to every single blog post you post on your blog. So the way this works is first you locate a product, write a short article, add your affiliate link and build links for every post. If you follow this process to the letter over time you will start to notice your blog traffic grow. If you don’t know how to develop links you can actually find information and other programs online that can either show you how to build the links or even some programs which will build all the backlinks for you.
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