I’m familiar with this term called affiliate marketing for a long time and for more than a year I’m being experimenting with different sites and affiliate models. Right now if you ask me what is affiliate marketing, then I would say this is a method where you can make a whole lot of money online than ever.
A dummies guide on, What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply taking someone else’s product and promote them. When you make a sale, you will be provided a commission. Different affiliate systems have different commission standards. Some pay for each click like the pay per click and some pay for every 1000 visitors. Most of them pay for a lead like a successful sales. Here both the company and the affiliate (you) make money. Some of the high paying niches such as real estate, pay you for bringing the customers to their site not a lead recommended everytime!
When you sign up as an affiliate, you will be provided an affiliate ID or a special referral link. You have to promote the product and use the link when they sign up. When they sign up using the link, your commission will be provided to you.
Online affiliate programs pay 75% or higher per sale because here you do all of the promotion and they take care about the customer. So this is why affiliate marketing is gold in today’s online industry and everyone’s looking forward to afft marketing methods.
90% of affiliate marketers are doing it wrong!
Yes this is true! This is what I felt while I talked with different affiliate marketers over the globe. I connected with lots of marketers from different niches; from newbie to a guru; small affiliate-rs to successful site owners. Most of the time they start with joining a course, then buying ebooks and packs full of tutorials on how to create a website and basic SEO jobs.
They end up creating a 10 page wordpress site filled with copy/ scrap content. Then bringing people through SEO. Now search engine optimization is a hard task, you know that well.. so they just buy the traffic via adwords. After spending a whole lot of money on traffic, you see some conversations (if you are so lucky!)
Now what they all are doing is faking the blogsphere. They are creating dummy blogs, so that when you land on a site for help, you will think that this is an authority blogger. They are spending a whole lot of time and money to make sure it looks real.
Don’t get excited to see the $10,000 check because that guy have spent more than $9,000 to build, maintain and promote the site.
Bloggers can be the perfect affiliate marketer
Non bloggers are paying hundreds of dollars to learn creating a wordpress site, twitter, facebook and SEO methods. We bloggers are good at this and have learned these things in practical. Stop developing a site around the product; find products that match your site and suitable for the audience.
The first time visitor doesn’t converts into a customer every time.. it takes a lot of time to build trust. Sometimes the visitor visits the site for months until he is finally convinced to buy from you.
As a blogger you don’t have to create a dummy site or post scrap content. You just do what you are doing along with promoting your affiliate. People would love to try what you have recommended and it works more than a bunch of paid visitors.
Lot more about affiliate marketing is yet to come
From now on, keep coming at BlogKori for some advanced method on affiliate marketing as a blogger. I will share some of my killer tips on afft marketing, lead generation and to build a successful online business with those methods.
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Thanks for the information.I’ll keep coming to learn more
Yeah, I will be posting some really great info; thanks for the support!
Yes affiliate marketing can be a great way to build a side income or even a full time income. Anyone involved in blogging should definitely look into this. Depending on their niche, there could be hundreds of related affiliate products worth promoting.
I think it is more about creating a valuable resource and then finding complementary affiliate programs, vs. finding affiliate programs and then building the content around it.
Of course, there are still lots of people making killer tons of money because they know how to manipulate the system by finding cheap article writers, good affiliate programs, and use of white and black hat SEO.
The only downside for them is once they get caught and blacklisted, it is all over. And if they have any good sites linked to their bad ones, those may suffer as well.
So it pays to go the right route. Albeit slower, but in the end, much more profitable.
~ Kristi
As a beginner blogger, it’s a lot harder to rely on affiliate sales.. as it takes much more time to make profit even months
Nice and informative post on affiliate marketing. Will keep coming to learn more.
Thanks,
Steve
HI it’s an intersting site you are maintaining
I read much about affiliate programs,but at the nd don’t know
what sites to contact
could you please suggest me some sites for blogspot blogs?
I have written lots of blogspot articles on this blog, you can read this blog for more info :)
Oh, Good Post Dude, thansk for this ;)
well i guess thats interesting enough. could have used a little more info though, it seems to be lacking some specifics
–Kimmy K
♠Strategic Marketing
Affiliate Marketing can be so many things, but the basic concept is pure and simple. If you do not know how to design websites or create products, internet affiliate marketing is the way to go. You are assigned a link to your very own identifiable site, where if a customer makes a purchase, you get a fair commission of the sale; usually 50% or more, depending on the terms of the affiliate agreement. Most systems are set up to send payment to your paypal account, which automatically sends out your commission securely. Unless the owner of the affiliate program works for the CIA, it is very unlikely he has the technical skill to steal your commissions. But never say never, you should be selective about what you join. Some people ARE that smart and have no misgivings about stealing your time & money. Whereas some other programs aren’t even worth joining. Lot’s of fluff, no bang. Of course some people will buy ANYTHING, but the product you sell should be worth the money people spend on it. Why? Because repeat customers can often make up over 40% of the commissions earned by an affiliate. It’s so very important to make a good impression and to have a good product, that you know YOU can trust. That way you’ll stick with it when you get to that place where the rubber meets the road.
Wow! that’s a great comment here, thanks and do you mind if I quote your comment in one of my future blog posts?
…no problem Tamal :)
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