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5 Steps To Affiliate Gold
by John Gatens
You can make money with Affiliate Programs
What is debatable though is the validity of the over used dynamic phrase
"make $1,000s a day without a product and without a website". That may have
been the case yesterday but today the market and the search engines are much
more demanding. Look on your affiliate programs as your Internet
apprenticeship.
Here are 5 suggested steps to increase your affiliate earnings.
1. Select your programs carefully. If you are promoting products, try to
find ones that pay 2nd tier commission. This will help you to earn on the
2nd tier from people who join as affiliates first, and then buy the product.
2. There is a distinct advantage in having your own website. Compare the
following URLs - www some company .com/bin?php = ooooo=p14 . Now look at
this one: www.your site.com. Which one would you be most likely to buy from?
Hopefully you chose the latter because it looks more professional and more
trustworthy. Another advantage is that you can advertise all of your
programs on one site rather than run a string of different ads. The money
saved there would most likely cover the cost of a Domain Name and Hosting
Package. Your own website also gives you more control by allowing you to
give a short description of your products, and your unsightly affiliate
links can be modified to look something like - Click Here For More Info.
3. Another consideration is that the search engines frown on sites that
just have links and no content. You can get all the material you need from
Free Content directories. Budding authors will be only too happy for you to
display their articles as this is arguably the best method of free
advertising. The author will have his or her link somewhere in the article,
so visitors to your site may visit their site. Now, a word of caution. Do
not over commit yourself by trying to do everything that the search engines
dictate as it could be quite costly. Common sense prevails. Try to make
money first and then re-invest some to optimize your site.
4. Article submission is something you should consider when you feel
confident enough. Even just writing about your own internet experience.
Anything from 300 -1000 words is widely acceptable. You do not have to write
a novel. I guarantee if you can write the first one your head will be
buzzing with ideas and many more articles will follow. Can you imagine the
traffic you could generate? If you wrote 10 and submitted them to 10
directories, that is 100 sources for download. At a conservative estimate if
they were each downloaded 10 times, then that is a possible 1000 websites
your articles would appear on. Multiply that with the number of visitors to
each site and the possibilities are endless.
5. If you follow step 4 then you have the added bonus that these sites
are linking back to you. These back links are important for search engine
rankings. The more sites linking back to you the better. There is some
excellent software around that will enable you to automatically request link
exchanges with other sites. The small initial investment for such software
should easily pay for itself many times over.
OK. Back to earth now and back to your apprenticeship. You will not learn
everything in one week. You will never ever know everything, but you can
move forward at a pace that your time and budget will allow. Go for steady
progress in a logical manner and be open minded enough to shift with market
trends and search engine ranking methods. The motto is - Easy Does It - but
do it!
About the Author
John Gatens offers a free 12 part email course - 7 days to complete
search engine domination.
http://www.jgmebooks.com
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