Affiliate Marketing Advice

Failure is But a Stepping Stone to Success

Although I tried many times, I was an unsuccessful Clickbank junky who promoted everything from the now obsolete Data Entry Pro to Affiliate Cash Vault.

While these products ranked very high in the Clickbank marketplace and converted well I was unable to turn a profit. I didn't understand the market well enough to get targeted traffic to my affiliate link.

At the time I was using the long term strategy of organic search and looking for short term results which is impossible unless there is little or no competition for your keyphrases. In hindsight it was obvious that this would not work either long term nor short term because the website was only going to attract traffic that consisted of a small percentage of opportunity seekers.

Not only was I trying to convert someone interested in selling vitamins to buy my downloadable work from home opportunity, I was also attracting visitors who wanted to buy vitamins.

This resulted in traffic not very targeted to my offers. Try making a car salesman out of someone trying to buy a boat. It doesn't work.

It was an overactive style website that consisted of Google Adsense ads, affiliate opportunities, and a free report that you had to jump through hoops to opt in for.

To this day the subscribers on that particular list are very unresponsive and each mailing I send out still results in an unusually high unsubscribe rate and spam complaints. Yet the SEO efforts were very successful as I rank very high for the keywords I targeted. As a result I continue to have many opt ins and each mailing to this particular list still nets around $300 in profit.

An affiliate website must be very specific in its purpose. If you are seeking subscribers it must be very clear what they are signing up to receive. If you are trying to promote an affiliate product directly from the site each bit of information you provide should steer your visitor closer to visiting the actual product website.

The faster you get them to go to the actual product website the better. You need to steer each visitor where you need them to go by providing an informative presell that carries them into the actual affiliate sales page to finalize the deal.

Read the entire article here:
Confessions of a Clickbank Junkie

By the time I decided to actually "learn" affiliate marketing so I could also produce the kind of income I was hearing about, I had already known about this concept for quite some time and thought I was actually already doing it. Needless to say I was fooling myself.

Out of all the "get rich quick" ads and "make money in your pajamas" products, I realized that this thing called affiliate marketing was so much more than I had imagined and I had been severely missing the point. I was ecstatic to eventually find out that affiliate marketing was much easier than I was making it AND that anyone can be successful with affiliate marketing if they can master three simple things.

Read the entire article here:
3 Must Have Skills for Affiliate Marketing Success

I am quite certain that this is not going to be the first article that you've read or seen on Web 2.0, viral marketing, or social media sites. And, if you are lucky, it won't be the last.

These are huge topics to cover with a lot of different angles to consider. But one thing seems to really stand out about each of these things: opportunity.

Web 2.0 and social media websites lend themselves to extremely powerful viral marketing campaigns (specifically link baiting campaigns -don't worry, I'll explain) and every day savvy marketers are devising campaigns that add to the value of these social media sites while driving unthinkable traffic to their sites.

The money is in the list? Maybe. But I know there is money in those social media sites.

What Do You Know About Social Media?
Web 2.0, viral marketing, social websites - these terms are thrown around so much in the Internet Marketing world that in many cases they are being used to describe things which are, in fact, not viral marketing or web 2.0.

So before we get our hands dirty, let's start with what we do know:

- Viral Marketing, Link Baiting, Social Websites are all things that can be used to drive a ton of traffic to your website

- Viral Marketing, Link Baiting, Social Websites are here to stay - there is no fad about this trend .

- Because these things have the potential to drive huge amounts of traffic to your websites, and because we can expect these things to stick around for a while, these things make extremely powerful marketing tools. It is to your benefit to learn the principles of viral marketing, link baiting, and social websites so you too can effectively use these tools.

Read the entire article here:
Stirring the Pot with Viral Marketing and Social Websites