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Affiliate
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>> No
doubt you’ve heard of the 80/20 rule – which states that
20 percent of affiliates generate 80% of affiliate
income, and
conversely, remaining 80 percent of affiliates generate
only
20 percent of all income for most affiliate programs.
There are ten basics that will put your affiliate
marketing
in the top 20 percent of affiliate earnings. Ten
suggestions
that will transform your affiliate income from a
trickling
creek that barely covers your hosting fees, to a roaring
river
of extra disposable income.
TOP AFFILIATE MARKETERS DO MOST OF THESE TEN ITEMS
1.Top affiliate marketers cloak web site links
Cloaking affiliate links should not be necessary, but is.
Oddly
many site visitors refuse to visit your links if they
see an
affiliate code appended to the URL when they hover their
mouse
over a link on your web page. Sometimes they will type
the
affiliate domain directly to the browser address bar
while
removing your affiliate ID from the URL. To short
circuit this
odd behavior, simply cloak the URL. How? Visit this Link
Tool:
http://WebpositionAdvisor.com/tools/link_cloaker.php
2.Top affiliate marketers write & distribute articles
Writing articles about your market niche is essential to
gain
reputation as an expert in your field. But the biggest
benefit
comes not just from writing those articles, but from
having
those articles published by other web site owners and
ezine
publishers. Your article gains you both reputation and
links
from other web sites from the resource box appended to
the
end of each article. Here are major article distribution
sites.
http://yahoogroups.com/group/free-content/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
3.Top affiliate marketers focus on a market niche
Filling a web site with content reflecting a narrowly
focused
product or service niche is a well known method of
gaining web
traffic in your area of specialty. An excellent resource
that
can help you determine relevant and focused areas to
fill your
site with is called NicheBot. They offer innovative
tools to
research and pinpoint market niches for your web site
based on
the WordTracker Database and Google.
http://www.nichebot.com
4.Top affiliate marketers use autoresponder series
Autoresponders are incredibly valuable tools that allow
you to
send a timed series of email messages to those that sign
up for
them. Most often those autoresponders are sent through a
third
party provider. Some of the top providers are
Sendfree.com and
aweber.com, for a tutorial covering autoresponder basics,
visit:
http://website101.com/email_e-mail/email_autoresponder_basics.html
5.Top affiliate marketers create web pages to pre-sell
Creating either testimonial pages or review pages that
discuss
and pre-sell the product or service you are affiliated
with is
the best method of getting increased orders for your
chosen
affiliate programs. Many programs actually provide
either an
article or recommended text to sell their products for
you and
allow reproduction of those articles with your links
embedded.
6.Top affiliate marketers gather email addresses
The best affiliates collect email addresses on their web
site
by offering free reports via the above mentioned
autoresponders
or by giving away ebooks or through newsletter signup
forms.
The best use all of these methods or more to build their
list
of email addresses. This also allows you to contact
potential
customers that would otherwise never see your site again
after
clicking away to the affiliate program web site.
7.Top affiliate marketers advertise SOMEWHERE
Depending on your market niche you should advertise
using PPC
and/or ezine advertising. Some categories of
Pay-per-click can
be prohibitively expensive, but advertising somewhere is
all
but mandatory to gain substantial additional traffic to
your
site. There are some great bargains in ezine advertising
and
some less popular PPC engines other than Yahoo’s
Overture and
Google’s Adwords. Try 7search, Kanoodle and FindWhat for
lower
Bids than the big boys of PPC.
8.Top affiliate marketers optimize for search engines
Search engine optimization is becoming more complex as
more
and more webmasters participate, but the basics applied
to
your site can increase visibility dramatically over time.
The
most critical of the many SEO techniques is to use title
tags
that reflect individual PAGE content. Many webmasters
write a
master title tag and apply that site-wide. This is the
worst
thing you could do for search engine ranking. Learn more
SEO:
http://SearchEngineOptimism.com/SEO_Tutorial/
9.Top affiliate marketers give away ebooks or freebies
Everyone knows by now that giving something away is a
great
traffic generator and allows you to gather email
addresses
to allow contact of potential customers at a later date.
This
strategy is employed by EVERY successful web-based
company at
one time or another. Think of all the free things YOU
have
collected online over time. Screensavers, software,
ebooks,
discount codes, toolbars, white papers. They work!
10. Top Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists
The best of affiliate marketers have their own
newsletter or
ezine and gather email addresses on their site to build
their
list of subscribers. Having this list allows regular
contact
with potential customers interested in your site, your
product
and your market niche. If you don’t write your own
material or
think you can’t produce weekly content, there are
hundreds of
authors out there that will gladly product articles for
you.
The article distribution lists provide free content and
ghost
Writers provide high quality content for a fee.
If you implement ALL the above techniques, you are
guaranteed
to become one of the top affiliate marketers on the web.
Then
you can create your own product telling everyone how YOU
did
it, create your own affiliate program and have hundreds
of us
selling for you.
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