Affiliate Marketing 101 - Making Money Online Now

Affiliate Marketing 101 - Making Money Online Now

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Im going to go through the basics of Affiliate Marketing today, something that is done by many people making money online. Its not the only way, but I should tell you its one of the easier ways to make money online, which is why so many people simply love it!

If you dont already know what affiliate marketing is, it simply means you market and promote someone elses existing product and get paid a percentage of the price as a commission . There are several good companies that you can go to and find products to sell such as Clickbank.com, PayDotCom, Commission Junction, etc. They all have their pros and cons, but I prefer Clickbank myself so that is the one I will use as an example here. (Note: check the others out too, dont blindly follow me or anyone elses dictate be your own person and weigh the benefits that you prefer).

One of the most important things to consider when selling a product as an affiliate marketer is to choose your product wisely! I cant emphasize that enough. First of all you want a product that you at least know something about, and even better yet consider yourself a fan of (or consumer, if its a product) the product so you can honestly promote it. Believe me the sincerity will show through when you must create sales copy or write articles for this product. The other important thing to consider when choosing a product is find a product that has a built-in demand already! You cant force people to buy something they dont want or need, so choose carefully what you will promote. They way to do this is to find the products gravity once you log into Clickbank, which is a number ranging from zero to several hundred depending on the popularity of the product at the moment. This number changes frequently, so choose one that is at least 80-100 so you know theres a market ready to buy. This will make promoting the product much easier!

Once you have chosen a product you like, that has a somewhat decent gravity, youre almost halfway there! Go to the pitch page of the product and make sure it appears to be a professionally done site, and if so, signup for the product. Once you sign up for their affiliate program you must create whats called a hop link which can be done easily by clicking on the create hoplink link in Clickbank for the product you have chosen. This will open in a new window, and you simply copy and paste this link into a text document. The format will be like this: http://xxxxx.myproduct.hop.clickbank.net (where xxxxx is your clickbank ID, and the myproduct is the clickbank ID of the product you are selling). Of course in order to get your Clickbank ID (also called your nickname) you must sign up with Clickbank first. This costs $50, but its well worth as you will soon be a wealthy internet marketer, right?

Now comes the part where you must learn a little bit about Internet Marketing sounds tough but you dont need a big Einstein brain for this, really! Once you have your affiliate link, you need a way to get the link in front of as many eyeballs as possible, preferably through your website. You can either: 1) buy a domain name relevant to your product, and forward this name to your affiliate link or 2) buy a domain name, setup a website, and start getting the content you need to provide value for your visitors. Now these ways both will work, so Im not going to pontificate over the virtues of either one right now. Suffice it to say you have to do your own homework and decide which is best for you!

Either way you need traffic to the domain, and the ways to do that are varied PPC advertising is the easiest, but can be very expensive. Writing articles and posting them on Ezine sites is another way which takes more time, but lasts much longer! You can also start up a blog, and write blogs that not only promote your product but have text links that will help you get traffic from the search engines. The best approach Ive found is to do a combination of several ways so that you arent relying on one source for your traffic. However you get the traffic, you cant make money as an affiliate marketer without it so become an expert on this part of internet marketing. If all of this sounds a bit foreign, check some other articles that myself and others have written here and other ezine hubs, and learn as much as you can. Of course I have other articles and posts on my blogs, check them out and learn more!

The fact is, if you can get people to click on your link you will make money. And that is the bottom line!

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