The Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing
Though I have written quite a few short guides for you in this blog. But I was yet to write something on Affiliate marketing. So here’s my Quick start guide to affiliate marketing.
Before I start I am going to assume you know few things
1. What is affiliate marketing ( I really don’t want to give definitions on this stage)?
2. You know SEO, site building 101 (Again, if you don’t know about this you better download my sitebook It will teach you everything about website building, getting traffic and much more…)
3. Understand there is no easy way… If there ever was, we all be making millions now… You have to work… ooops I just said the dreaded word “WORK”. Dictionary is the only one place where success comes before work.
Now here’s Your…
The Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing
With all the software, ebooks and tutorials people tends to get into paralysis analysis state. They are wondering what to do… So this quick start guide will put you into right direction.
Step 1 : Finding a Product.
Your first step is finding a product that is selling well. Now if you know the market thats an additional advantage, but it really doesn’t matter. You should only remember one thing.
People in this market should be buying. Often I just go into clickbank and decides it on the product/sales page/ and marketing tactics used by sellers.
Additional notes :
Find out if people buys digital products or hard goods. (now you can just go into any busy forum and ask a simple question)
Step 2 : Buy Your Own domain and Hosting.
next step is buy your own domain/hosting. You can go for the cheapest route in this case. As you don’t need dedicated connection.
Step 3 : Create your own Name squeeze page
You should create your own name squeeze. I have accounts with aweber and getresponse. I use both of them to build my list. They are irreplaceable services you should subscribe to.
Now here comes the main secret of affiliate marketing… behind your name squeeze, you can re-direct your visitors to affiliate products. So with this technique You’ll be building your list and as well as few sales to the affiliate product.
Read my 4 step methods to create powerful name squeeze blog post.
Step 4 : Building Traffic
Next step is getting traffic. Now if you have experience with Pay per clicks then you can just get PPC traffic but otherwise I recommend you to not start with PPC if you are new or never tried PPC before.
So Here are some of my free methods to generate instantly 100-200 Unique traffic to website.
Step 4 a : Building Traffic Via Forums
Now I wish if I had a software which can post to forums… but that won’t do… because you are supposed to post high traffic forums. If you are spam posting then you’ll be banned in no time.
So you have to do this manually…
Find 5 high traffic forums on your topic.
Find another 5 Related forums on your topic. Now this can get confusing… But let me explain… If you have a weight loss site, then your related forums can be bodybuilding forums. Now bodybuilding is almost opposite of your niche. But there are tons of overweight people who goes there…
Now create a great signature about your website and start interacting in the forums… Notice I said “interacting” not spamming or any other crap like “wow nice post” or “I disagree with you”. This is all childish play…
Step 4 b : Create traffic Via blog commenting.
Now all the rules of finding Forums apply on this step… Find 10 different blogs where you can leave comments and leave comments responsibly. I get enough spam on my blogs with childish comments (Great post, or I found your blog through technorati).
Paul Forcey has a great tool called comment hut. You can find it at commenthut.com.
Step 4c : Write articles and get traffic.
Now write down 5 articles and start submitting them to article directory. Now this is hard work specially if you never wrote an article. But you have to do it… There’s no work around this step…
Article marketing still get traffic, no matter what SEO experts, marketing gurus are teaching you…
Your plan is to write 5 articles daily and submit it to ezinearticles, articlecity.com, goarticles.com. If you want to write high quality articles for traffic then check out my article marketing package.
Lets talk about the quality of article. Your article don’t need to “Time” standard. But if they are completely crap, it’ll hurt you.
Step 5 : Building Massive traffic.
So far we are just playing with traffic. Now its time to build massive traffic.
Step 5 A : Youtube traffic
Now marketers are not telling you this, but Youtube can work gangbusters. The most common complaint I heard was, How in the world I’ll create youtube video.
Here are few ideas for you.
1. Use your Webcam and shoot your movie. Window XP have built in media editor, You can use it to edit your movie. Make it funny its better that way…
2. Create a slide show with powerpoint and shoot it with camtasia software. Add some music and you are all finished.
Find other youtube videos on your niche and leave comment on every single one of them. Don’t forget You can also make video responses too.
Step 5 b : Bookmarking
Tag your Videos, bookmark your websites, youtube videos on every social networking site you can find (You can use Onlywire.com to tag multiple websites).
Here’s a Note about bookmarking : Tag Often, Tag multiple sites. you can read more website traffic with this challenge with bookmarking and other methods.
Step 6: Build Your list and promote products with them
With all the traffic generation techniques you are getting traffic and now its time to build your list and promote them. (remember name squeeze page?). I wrote a very simple strategy on how to gather content and send it to your list subscriber.
Some Helpful tools:
Now most of these tools aren’t necessary, but they’ll help you save some time. In fact you can use this guide without any of these tools and make money.
Increase Your Affiliate commission with Ninja Cloaker.
You can use ninja cloaker to cloak your affiliate links. But Thats not the only thing it can do… If you want you can send your visitors directly to the sales page instead of marketer’s lead capture/name squeeze page. That’s why You use ninja cloaker to send traffic after you’ve added them to your list.
The best part is you can send your visitor to any of his page without worrying about your affiliate commission. It’ll stealthily cookie your visitor.
Instant Article Wizard.
This is one tool that can help you write articles without much hassles. What this tools does is find text content related to your keyword and then you can edit the content to create your own article.
Now it looks like creating a spammy article. But it does not. It’ll take text from many different sources. This helps you in not only writing but also with ideas to write articles on. Get Instant Article Wizard.
Finding Niche Markets with Niche Inspector
Niche Inspector can help you find niche markets if you are not good with researching manually. Its a nice tool that should be in your tool box.
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