Sunday, November 21, 2010

So You Want To Become An Affiliate Marketer?


So How Do You Start As An Affiliate Marketer…
This is really allot easier than you might think as you don’t need any html skills to start and you can find the products that you need with some simple mouse clicks. However before you start you need to decide on a market and where you are going to find the products you want to promote.

Researching As An Affiliate Marketer The Marketplace
Today I am only going to be talking about clickbank affiliate network as this is probably one of the more easier ways for as an affiliate marketer to find products to promote, What you need to do is go to Clickbank and then look for the link to the marketplace at the top of the page and click it.

Once their you are going to be looking for products that are similar in a niche and are going to try to find about five to start with that have good quality (sales per month).

Now that I have got that out of the way and I know only the die-hard marketers are still reading lets get into the nitty gritty and make you some money…
One of the biggest mistakes that new affiliates make is going for the free hosting services that are available online, Don’t Do It. This is going to be your business you know the one that is going to get you out of your nine to five boring dead end job.

Ideally there would be very little referring sites which is other sites promoting this product. If you do this right you wont need to worry about the percentage as you will be dominating as many niches as you'd like. You need to ensure that all the products you select are themed around the same niche. When involved in affiliate marketing you need to keep the product selection very close together and in the case above it is related to computer security I am able to totally dominate that niche. To understand how to join clickbank watch our video tutorials here Clickbank Signup Process, Creating A Clickbank Hoplink, How To Insert A Clickbank Hoplink.

Domain Name And Hosting Account…

Now that you have your five affiliate products that you want to promote it is time to get your self a domain name and a good hosting company. We use Hostgator but you can make the decision as to where you want to host your sites just make sure they have everything you need to get started. Read more about this in promoting your money sites.

Finding The Right Content For Your Site as An Affiliate Marketer

As an affiliate marketer you have a couple of choices when it comes to finding the right content for your site, and that is you can write the content yourself or you can use a service that will supply you with content. if you take the second choice you are going to have to re-write the content to make it your own. Sites such as Ezine Articles, Articlebase, and Prlog will easily allow you to build backlinks to your affiliate marketing websites.


Other categories you might also take the time to read are article marketing this topic alone is the back bone to your success as an affiliate marketer. And always remember the steps Of Affiliate Marketing.