Top Affiliate Markiting Tips

Top Affiliate Markiting Tips

Affiliate programs can be a big source of revenue. The key to maximizing your earnings is engaging
your readers. Unlike traditional ads where you are paid for impressions or clicks, affiliates are only paid when/if a specific action is performed. The action might be a purchase or signing up for a newsletter, but regardless, you are not paid until you've compelled your readers to act.
With that in mind, here are the Top 10 Commandments for affiliate marketing success.

1. Know Your Audience

The most successful way to use affiliate programs is to anticipate and meet the needs of your readers. Consider why they are coming to your site. What are you providing that they are looking for? Make sure the affiliate products you are promoting provide a solution to your audience's problems.
If you are writing about sports, don't put up affiliate ads for printer toner just because everyone has a printer and those programs have a high payout. The people who are coming to read commentary or get stats for their favorite teams aren't thinking about those things when they're on your site.

2. Be Trustworthy

Readers are savvy. They know an affiliate link when they see one. If you break their trust by promoting a product you don't believe in or take advantage of their visit with too many ads, they will leave and never come back.
It is your repeat visitors that will drive traffic. They are the ones who will give you linkbacks, spread the word, and recommend your site as the go-to place for valuable content. You need to build a relationship based on genuine content.
If your visitors don't think you're being honest, they won't read anything else you have to say.

3. Be Helpful

Think of affiliate ads as additional resources that complement your content. Give value to your content by making it helpful, useful, and informative.
Don't put up a list of your favorite books, hoping people will click on the affiliate link, purchase the books (just because you listed them), so you can cash in on a sale. Take some time to write a detailed review, and use affiliate ads to point them in the right direction if they decide to act on your information. That's what affiliate ads are for. If you write a great review recommending a book and readers buy the book because of it, you should get something for that.
But just throwing out links to products with no rhyme or reason will result in a quick exit by visitors.

4. Be Transparent

Always
disclose your affiliations. Your readers will appreciate your honesty, and will feel better about contributing to your earnings. If they sense that you are being less than honest about your affiliations, they are savvy enough to bypass your link and go directly to the vendor just to avoid giving you referral credit.
Honesty and full disclosure is a necessary part to building a loyal reader base. They know they are supporting you by using your referral links. Make them happy and eager to do so.

5. Select Carefully

Take the time to go through all the different options for products or services available through the programs. Put some thought into which products or services your readers may need or like. Also, change the ads around often, try different ones, and use different graphics and text to see which are the most effective.
It may take some time before you figure out the best formula, and you may also find that you need to continually rotate ads to attract more attention.

6. Try Different Programs

f one particular program doesn't seem to be working for you, try another one.
Affiliate programs don't look the same. They offer different products, services, and payment structures. Some programs will have a lifetime payout on sales while others will limit it to 30-90 days. Some programs allow much more flexibility in the types of ad units available, as well as colors and design so it fits better on your site's layout.
Also, check your favorite vendors to see if they run their own affiliate program. Sometimes you can go directly to the source. You're not limited to big affiliate networks.
Integrate systematic ad testing into your strategy to maximize your profits.

7. Write Timeless Content

Your old content can still be valuable even though it's no longer on your front page. Take advantage of the long term opportunities by making sure you provide timeless content.
If visitors come across your older content first, and find that it offers dated information, they will leave right away. Of course, information moves forward, so relevant content changes quickly. You can make your content timeless simply by adding links to your updated articles on your old ones.
Many platforms allow you to show "most recent" or "most popular" or "related articles" on every page, so no matter how old the article is, it will always show access to your new ones. Your old content can make money for you indefinitely.

8. Be Patient

Affiliate revenue grows and builds up with time. Remember that some programs offer lifetime payouts. If you refer a visitor, you may continue to make money from that one visitor even if he doesn't come back to your site. Also, as long as you have referral links still active in your old posts, they may still payout for you.

Affiliate programs aren't a get rich quick plan, but it provides opportunity to make passive income in the future.

9. Stay Relevant

Keep up to date on the latest offerings of your affiliate programs. New ad units, advertisers, and tools are constantly being added to improve usability and be more visually appealing. Small changes go a long way in motivating action by readers. You may be left out in the dust by being complacent with your strategy.

Don't get lazy about monitoring trends and exploring new opportunities.

10. Content Comes First

Above all else, your content must be your highest priority.

Your content is your foundation, the life blood on which the site exists. Without valuable and helpful content, readers won't come. Focus on providing excellent content, and the monetizing strategies will work out.

Once you start compromising your content to cater to the affiliate programs or any other money making venture, you will lose your readers. Once that happens, you will lose the opportunity to receive any earnings from any of your ads, be they CPM, CPC, or referral based.you can join here some affiliate legit site for free

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What is Affiliate Marketing and How to start with it ?

What is Affiliate Marketing and How to start with it ?

Affiliate Marketing 

You might have heard of Affiliate Marketing — No ?   Strange, but not to worry, there’s a lot ahead in this post and you will get to know much about it (and more) by its end.

First, lets have a look at the Wikipedia Definition of Affiliate Marketing :

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.

Well, Here’s my simplified definition :

“Affiliate Marketing is promoting other people’s (Company’s) product and earning a commision in return (If a sale is made).”

It works the same as in the offline world, however the profit and scope is much bigger over the Internet (Not to Mention that people had exploited this too much though).

So basically what you do as an affiliate is :


You promote other people’s (or Company’s) Product using a special link with a code only being used by you embedded into it (this is required by advertiser to track the leads referred by you).
If someone buys that product (or in some cases completes a task like signing up or completing a survey) using your link, it gets tracked by the advertiser and you are rewarded a commission (which is a percentage of the sale price but can also be a fixed amount as set by the advertiser).
This way both the advertiser and the publisher is benefited. Advertisers get more sales of their product when many publishers (or affiliates) promote their product and Affiliates in turn generate revenue by promoting the product. Moreover Advertiser pays only when a sale is made so there is no risk of getting non converting visits like in some PPC campaigns.


This is the reason why most of the product creators and Advertisers provides an affiliate program for increasing their product sales.

How do I get Started with Affiliate Marketing ?

There are a few things to keep in mind before choosing to get into this business. Firstly, you must find the right Affiliate Product to Promote and secondly you must have an audience that will be interested in that product

Finding the Right Affiliate Product

This is the most Important Step (literally). If you get wrong here, you will definitely fail in this business. You will have to choose a product which will help your audience. If you have a Weight Loss Blog, then promoting a forex product will be completely useless as it will not get you any sales. Moreover, If you promot a low quality product (lets say,on your blog) , you could be hurting your brand as well.

Remember, To get the best results, always promote a product that you have tried yourself  or you must be confident enough of the quality of it.

Below are some of the tips that will help you find a related Affiliate Products 

Browse Affiliate Networks

The easiest way to get started with promoting products is to search though Affiliate Networks. An Affiliate Network act as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and merchant affiliate programs. There are a few affiliate networks that list many affiliate programs. You can use their search option to get related products to your blog’s niche. Some of the most famous Affiliate networks are : ClickBank (This is my favourite and also, the first affiliate commission that I earned was by promoting a clickbank product) , Commission Junction (aka CJ), ShareaSale etc.

Search Google 

Other way to find relevant affiliate product that you can promote is by doing a simple google search. Just type : “your keyword + Affiliate Program” (Replace “your Keyword” with your niche like “Weight Loss Affiliate Programs”) and you will easily find the appropriate product

Checkout Online Stores

 – Almost all of the famous online stores (like Amazon, Ebay) have affiliate programs. You can just sign up for that and then promote any of the stuff that is listed there. Generally the commissions are not big here but as these online stores have a huge range of products, it is not that difficult to get referral sales through them.

Check Your Competition 

 If you can’t find the products by above methods, you can simply have a look at what your competitors  (sites in your niche) are promoting and you can start promoting those products.

Promoting the Products and Getting Sales

Well, this is the tricky part.

There are a lot of ways by which you can start promoting your selected product, but I have listed the most effective ways below :

Promote using your Blog 

If you have a blog with good following, you can simply put a banner of the affiliate product on your sidebar with your affiliate link, or you can write a review post for that product with your affiliate link in the end of the post. This is a very effective way but make sure the products you promote are self tested by you or which you are confident about. This is because, your blog acts as your brand. Promote useless stuff and you will be destroying your brand.

Use Social Networks 

 As you all know, social networks are growing at a rapid rate and will continue to grow. Facebook, for example, has nearly 600 million users and twitter has 200 million. And that is what you can make use of.

If you use twitter, you can search for tweets in your niche and reply to them with helpful product links (masked with your affiliate code). For Example : You search for your loved niche, lets say “Weight Loss”, in Twitter and you find a tweet of a desperate person asking for help to loose his/her weight. Now If you know of a product which you think can really help that person, you simply can reply to that tweet with your affiliate product link.

If you use Facebook, you can create a Facebook page or group in your selected niche and once that Page/Group has got good number of fans/members, you can share the affiliate link of a related product (of course, if it is useful) on your Page’s wall. This way you are exposing your affiliate products to targeted people (your Page’s fans) and you will easily be able to get sale of that product.

Write and Submit Articles 

Article Marketing is the most exploited way of getting affiliate sales and Guess what ? It works every time. You just need to write an article related to your niche and then submit it to various article directories. You are given a chance to add a resource box in your article where you can add hyperlinks of your choice.  But the drawback is that most of the reputed Article Directories do not allow the use of affiliate links in your resource box. So, to get the most benefit, you have to first write a review of the selected affiliate product on your blog or elsewhere (where you can add your affiliate links) and then create a related article, for article directories, containing your review post’s link in the resource box of that article.

If done effectively, this can get you a good amount of targeted visitors to your blog post where they might end up buying that affiliate product. Few things that you need to keep in mind is that you need to create an effective resource box (or Call to Action Box) paragraph which urges the reader to click the link in that box.

Some of the Famous Article Directories where you can submit your articles are 

Ezinearticle.com

Ideamarketers.combuzzle.com

Goarticles.comArticleAlley.com

Create Videos :

Video Marketing helps you get tons of targeted traffic easily (Yes, i said ‘easily’). All you have to do is Create a Video Review of the Product you are promoting and upload that video to popular video sharing sites like Youtube. In the description field for that video,  Add your affiliate link and that’s it. Videos gets viral too easily, All you need to care is about the Title and the Content of the video. Try to create a catchy Title which makes people view your video.

You can work on Keywords and link building to get the video rank higher in search engines but there is an easy way to get traffic to your video. It is by getting your video listed in the “Related Videos” sectrion of Popular Videos in your niche. This can be achieved by adding the same tags to your video which are used by other Popular Video in your Category.

Create Web 2.0 Properties

 Now this is fun. You might have heard of Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages etc. These are mostly like article directories but these are community driven, i.e, other users can comment upon or like/dislike your article and accordingly your article is ranked. All you have to do is create an Article around your affiliate product and include your affiliate link in that article. Now you have to work on building backlinks for that article (with your anchored keyword). Web 2.0 sites are loved by Search Engines and it will not be too hard for for you to get it ranked higher for your keyword.

Join Online Forums 

This is also a popular form of Marketing Online. First find Forums that are related to your niche and create account there. Next, set up a Signature line there and include your affiliate link in it. The last thing left for you to do is to stay active on these forums and post useful threads there and answer to other posts. If you post useful stuff, People will start trusting you and will browse through your signature links. This way you can easily get affiliate sales.

Build an Email List 

Someone rightly said : “The Money is in the list.”

Yes, that’s right, If you have a large number of E-mail list or subscriber to your website, you can often send them Newsletter with an affiliate link. You must craft a cool email that will get your subscribers click through the links in it. This way you can really get good number of affiliate sales for your product. But Remember, If you start sending them affiliate driven emails everyday or emails promoting unrelated products, Your subscriber will unsubscribe from your list and will left you in the vast ocean alone. So use it Wisely.

Create Niche Sites 

You might have heard a lot about Niche Sites/blogs these days. Well, a niche site/blog is that which is made around a very specific keyword or niche which has quite a low competition and could be easily ranked for, in Google, with minimal effort. What you have to do is, Research for a lucrative “Low Competition”, “High Traffic” Keyword using some keyword tools and then create a website/blog around that keyword and a few related ones. This type of site might not contain a lot of pages but 5 – 6 content rich (& SEO rich) pages will get you going. Then Start Building backlinks (Off Site SEO) according to the level of competition and in a few days, you would ranking well for those keywords. Now, all you have to do is to place banners or direct affiliate links in your sidebar or Content and see the conversions coming in within a few days.

You could even create a niche site reviewing a product (real life or digital) and that way you will be directly targeting buyers. Make use of keywords like “Product Review”, “Buy Product”, replace “Product” with the name of the product you are promoting. That’s it..

List of the best Affiliate products of 2012

List of the best Affiliate products of 2012

Affiliate marketing is the best method to earn good money online through your blog by referring top products in your niche.
How affiliate marketing works? firstly identify the top selling, high quality products in your niche. Secondly, purchase or review the products and if you are personally impressed by comparing and testing related products, promote it by signing up as an affiliate with the product development company. Finally, continue to promote the product using your unique affiliate link and you will start earning upto 50% commission of each sale generated from your website.
Below are the list of the best affiliate products in the web and blogging / SEO niche that earns me the best income:
1. Market samurai keyword research tool
2. TweetAdder Twitter automation application
3. WooThemes WordPress themes
4. ThemeForest WordPress themes
5. AppThemes WordPress application themes
6. ElegantThemes WordPress themes
7. Gravity forms WordPress plugins
8. SEOpressor WordPress plugin
9. Affiliate Ninja WordPress plugin
10. Subscribers Magnet WordPress plugin
11. OptimizePress splash pages
These are the top earners in my list when it comes to affiliate programs or affiliate products for the year of 2012. If you have any more top earning affiliate products to recommend, please let us know as it could help other readers to earn as well.

How to Organize and Manage your Affiliate links

Affiliate marketing in my opinion is the best method to make money online! If you are already into promoting products through your blogs and earning commissions, you might find it difficult to manage and track all your affiliate campaigns.
Many webmasters either maintain a tracker or a spreadsheet to organize and manage their 
affiliate links and campaigns. This is not a bad idea but it could result in confusion when:


1. There are huge number of affiliate campaigns live on the blog
2. Affiliate programs are discontinued or links are updated


In either of the above situations, there has to be urgent rearrangement to be done to ensure commissions are not lost due to either bad links or discontinued affiliate programs. It is important that you keep a close tab on the affiliate campaigns that are live or at least have a centralized Management system. I personally use a plugin called Affiliate Ninja go manage my entire affiliate campaigns and links. This program has worked like a magic for me you more than a year and I personally recommend this plugin to all my readers. Few of the highlight features of this plugin are
:
1. Centrally manage all your affiliate links

2. Automatically convert keywords to affiliate links
3. Backup and restore all the links and campaigns
4. Track and analyze affiliate activities through the dashboard
5. Cloak and modify affiliate links to custom format


These are list of some awesome features of this plugin that can come really handy in managing your campaigns across all your blogs. In addition, I use this plugin to interlink older posts within my blogs by automatically converting certain keywords to other blog post hyperlinks. This not only brings users to older posts, but also increases the user interaction and time on website.

How to use Affiliate links on your blog

Firstly, lets quickly discuss – What are affiliate links? Well affiliate links are basically referral links to suggest or refer a product to your readers. In case the visitor to your website likes the product and purchases the same from your referal link, you are paid a share of the sale amount as affiliate commission.

Now a days, affiliate earnings are growing very fast for all the popular blogs. It’s a great method to earn money because you have the freedom to suggest the best of the available options to your visitors as well as earn a share of the profit or sale amount as well.

How to use affiliate links

I strongly suggest you to use Affiliate links ethically. Ethical use of affiliate links has always worked for me the best. Do not suggest the best paying affiliate product, Instead – suggest the best product and provide more value to your customers. This practice your improve your user loyalty as well as the better the prodcut, the more would be your sales.

Basically there are 3 steps to install or deploy an affilaite links.

Sign directly with the product or with any of the best affiliate networks websites

Generate the affiliate link code

Deploy the affiliate link code at the end of product reviews or articles

Each time you make a sale, usually you are notefied via email alerts. Do remember that providing more value and quality suggestions would bring you success with affiliate marketing.

How to deploy affiliate links in WordPress

Step1: Login to the affiliate network website or product website and generate the affiliate link.

Here the link is the affiliate link that was generated from the affiliate product website.

Step2: Cloak and insert the link in your wordpress article as shown in the image below.

I Hope you have got the concept of using affiliate links on your website. Just remember its basically cloaking the affiliate link below the product link that you want to suggest to your buyer.

All About FOREX: Tips And Tricks For Trading! Learn About It

All About FOREX: Tips And Tricks For Trading!

You must determine what time frame you want to trade in before you begin with Forex. In order to move your trades as quickly as possible, utilize the hourly and quarter hour chart as a way to exit from your position. Scalpers use five and ten minute charts for entering and exiting within minutes.



Planning out your strategy for trading in foreign exchange is a good idea. Instant profits in the market are not realistic. True success takes patience and planning.



Research the purpose of a market advisor and how you may make personal use of one of these experts. They help you at all times, even while you sleep, so it’s always a good option to get on board with expert market advisers. Expert market advisers alert you when the market has a major change, and that can be very useful to you.



It’s vital to use a forex system with custom options. In order to update or fix your strategy, it is crucial for the software and system to be customizable. Make sure that the software is going to suit your needs before you buy it.




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Glean some experience by using the demo platform to trade Forex before you engage in the actual thing. Preparing yourself for real trading by utilizing a demo platform provides an excellent source of training.


Use daily charts and four-hour charts in the market. Modern technology and communication devices have made it easy to track and chart Forex down to every quarter hour interval. Though be aware that when you are looking at these short-term charts, these cycles will go up and down at a fast pace, and these tend to show a lot of random luck. Avoid stressing yourself out by sticking to longer cycles.


Many trading pros suggest keeping a journal on you. Be sure to keep track of all of the ups and downs. Doing this allows you to track the progress you have made in the Forex market, and analyze the actions for the future. This can maximize the profit that is made from trading.


Always use the demo account first so you can test the waters. You need to give your virtual training account two months, so that you know fully how to trade. This is critical when you take into consideration the fact that only 10 percent of amateurs make profitable trades. Entering Forex trading without adequate knowledge will lead to quick, and perhaps expensive, failure.


When trading forex, there are many important decisions to make. Understandably some people may hold back on starting out. Put these tips to work for you, whether you are a novice, or if you are already actively trading. You should also keep in mind that knowing current information should be a very high priority! When your money is involved, it is especially important to think through every decision. Choose your investments wisely.


Everybody is caught off-guard at one time or another with new areas of information, much like Real Wealth Incom Generatore Bonus, because they walk away feeling like there is so much more. Perhaps you do not need comprehensive knowledge, but having that will always help and never hurt.


Do pay close attention as you begin to move from one topical area to another.
What we all naturally do is zero-in on something that is very relevant to our situation and focus on that. At that point you can freely choose to expand from the base of information or not.