Follow the Yellow Brick Road
with 12
Easy Affiliate Marketing Tips
By John Alexander
When you first start learning
good optimization skills, it soon becomes apparent for most
SEO students, that there are a variety of directions your
skills can take you. For today's article, I thought we'd give
you some tips to start you on your journey down the yellow
brick road of affiliate marketing. The yellow brick road is a
metaphor that I'm using not for the purpose of equating to a
fantasy (Like the 1939 film Wizard of Oz) but more like an
exciting adventure or a journey, if you will.
One of the wonderful things about genuine affiliate marketing
is that it can give you the freedom and liberty to create
projects that you enjoy working on which in turn, tends to
feel a lot less like hard work. If you enjoy your work then
it's more like having fun that work. One of the best ways to
get started practicing SEO skills is to start by create useful informational sites
and earn some passive cash too for your efforts.
Okay, so it's onward with 10 tips to help you get started in
affiliate marketing using all of your SEO skills and focusing
on creating high quality informational sites that serve good
useful information as well as reward you for the efforts you
put in.
12
Easy Affiliate Marketing Tips
Affiliate Marketing Tip 1.
Remember to put a little bit of your own heart into your work.
Whether you are creating an informational Web site or an
informational product like an e-book of your own, one of the
most important things to remember is to put a little bit of
your heart into your work. Many affiliate programs will
include Web images or sales copy or other tools to help you
build your affiliate pages.
But remember the element of "uniqueness"
and "freshness" go a long way with SEO as well as
with your visitors.
Have you got a unique angle or a unique tip (something you
have learned from experience) that increases the value of your
work? It goes a long way to benefit not just your SEO but your
readership response. If everyone else is just setting up
template sites with the same old content - make yours shine by
giving it your own touches for value and useful content. Your
individual touch that shares something others do not, is what
will improve your response ratios.
Affiliate Marketing Tip 2. Remember to focus on dialog so
that your message effectively communicates value.
Create emphasis on valuable
information that helps solve a challenge as opposed to
"hyped up" sales pitches in huge text with yellow
highlighter. Avoid the old screaming headline that smacks of
"get rich quick" schemes or other outlandish hyped
up promises. Everything in moderation so that your copy is
written "for voice" and allows the reader to flow
through the information without distraction. Write copy so
that it speaks to the reader instead of at them. Write copy
that addresses the user instead of copy that is self focused.
Affiliate Marketing Tip
3. Use images that accent your points but keep them to a
minimum.
A good sales letter is all
about information delivery - not flashy graphics or animation
that break the reader's attention span. If you are using
emotional content, then look for upbeat, positive images.
Remember that most people do relate to the human face and
positive expressions. Use lifestyle graphics that show the
effect of the product being used as opposed to just using
product images alone. A picture truly can say a thousand
words, but choose your images wisely.
Affiliate Marketing Tip 4. If your Web site is
about celebrities that involve copyrighted images - why not
monetize too?
In some cases you may wish you had
special permission to use copyrighted images or feel there is
no way to show imagery that belongs to a specific movie studio
or celebrity. You can link to a selection of over hundreds of thousands
celebrity print images and posters as well as create your own poster stores and mini stores.
You can find usable copyrighted photos related to just about
every keyword topic of interest (e.g. movies, music, sports, art, animals) so no matter what the content of your site
is. The All
Posters Affiliates Program is a great way to make earn 25%-30% of every purchase made by your site visitors at their website. It’s easy to sign-up, track your sales, and build links because the site generates all the HTML code for you.
If the visitor decides to purchase within 10 days of their last visit from your website, you'll still earn commission on the sale!
Sign up
here!
Affiliate Marketing Tip 5.
Most article Marketing directories do not allow affiliate
links to be included within your content.
However, if you focus on
writing good articles promoting your Web site, you can include
links in your Bios.
Exceptions to places that will allow you
to include affiliate links within your article content, try
creating a lens on Squidoo.
Affiliate Marketing Tip 6.
Make sure you read the contractual agreement for each merchant
you sign up with.
Do you really take time to read the agreements you
sign electronically when taking on a new affiliate marketing project? Here's the article and give it a
Sphinn if you enjoyed reading it. Excellent and very revealing article!
Regardless of how much
legal jargon there is written in capital letters,
you need a clear understanding of what the terms are before
you agree.
Read what happened in this case
of "Margae Vs. Clear Link"
http://sphinn.com/story/63443
Affiliate Marketing Tip 7. Are you looking for an HTML editor that makes
Affiliate Marketing easy?
Here is the latest HTML
editor that I've been using. Loaded with 88 time saving
features plus it comes with over 200 professionally designed
templates. Creates very SEO friendly sites even if you are not
a designer or are just a beginner.
I added a couple of screen shots to the review that you can
read in this article:
Putting
the Professional Design and Adventure Back into your SEO
Affiliate Marketing Tip 8:
Are you interested in getting paid for free leads as opposed
to sales?
Here is an Affiliate program
that allows you to give away free e-books and magazines while
allowing you to earn a commission for each lead. They will
even set up a representation for your site to offer these free
products while keeping your site looking intact and pretty
seamless.
Here you can get a Free
Ebook on Vulnerability Management for Dummies (as an
example)
Are you interested in getting paid for offering free leads?
RevResponse is free to join and yes, they pay just for sending
them qualified leads.
Visit here
right now to join up! It's free!
Affiliate Marketing Tip 9. How about earning commissions just for submitting
your own original articles?
There is a brand new article directory that is launching
officially on August 12th. But this directory is a little
different that other article directories in that they are
planning to pay you a commission on how often your articles
are viewed. There are only a couple of requirements:
1) The articles you contribute must be your own original work.
(written by yourself)
2) Starting August 12th they say they will be paying you for
submitting good content and also pay you for the quality
content that your downline submits also. There
are also over
8 ways to make money.
This is the first type of directory where they are actually
offering to share revenue based on with ALL of our authors!
Basically, your goal should be to get the most VIEWS as
possible to your articles. If you have not started submitting
articles yet, then get busy now submitting a few now, so that
you can start seeing some income starting August 12th.
Join
up now - start submitting a few articles - before the word
gets out!
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using Wordtracker Magic 2.0.
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behavioral research with keyword forensics?
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Affiliate Marketing Tip 11:
Don't procrastinate and put off getting started right now
today.
It may sound crazy, but one of
the biggest problems that people seem to have is actually
getting started.
Indecision keeps more people from ever experiencing success
than any other factor. Some people can't make up their minds
what they want to do, so they simply don't do anything. You
can make up what ever excuse you want, but if you are a
student of SEO then you owe it to yourself to at least get
started. Give it a try. Passive income generated from useful
informational Web sites that your readers enjoy, is pretty
hard to argue with.
Don't put it off but do something today to "get
started."
Take the first step. Grab Michael Campbell's Free E-book
"Clickinitrich.com"
and read his "Quick start Guide."
He'll give you a on of ideas on how you can get started down
your own yellow brick road of affiliate marketing. The e-book
is free when you sign
up for his newsletter.
But don't just read the e-book and set it aside. Instead, make
up your mind to take some kind of action. Buy a Domain name.
Decide on a Web Host. But do something to commit yourself to
making your start. If you are looking for inexpensive Web
hosting where you can host as many Web sites as you want for
as little as $7.95 per month, which includes 600 Gigs of
space and 6,000 Gigs of bandwidth.
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About John Alexander
John Alexander is Co-director of Training at Search
Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with his
partner SEO educator Robin Nobles, author of the very first
comprehensive online search engine marketing courses. John is author of an
e-book called Wordtracker
Magic and has
taught SEO skills to people from 87 different countries world
wide.
John's articles can be read in publications like REALTOR
Magazine, Search
Engine Guide, WEBpro
News and many others.
