These 6 affiliate marketing tips will help you to be successful and earn an income stream that goes on far into the future.

• Join only affiliate programs that you feel you can trust. Get to know the provider before you decide to offer their products. Do your research, find the best relevant product, and you’ll enjoy a much higher conversion rate, which means more money for you. Write a personal review backing the product to help promote it. When you believe in the product, writing the review won’t be that difficult and your visitors who trust you will take that into consideration and are more likely to buy.
• You need to spend time focusing on building your traffic to your website. That means you need to do your SEO work so that your site ranks well organically in the search engines. Make sure you are following the rules outlined by the affiliate and do not breach any trademark policies that merchant has put into place. For example, many companies won’t let you bid on their brand name.
• Make sure your website has some great content. Customers are not coming to your site to see ads. They are there to find out information about the product and to look at recommendations. Use both text links and banners and see which work the best on your website. Make your review promotional.
• Make sure you are honest and disclose the affiliate relationship. This is required by the FTC – you must disclose that you are being compensated when your traffic clicks on an ad link and makes a purchase.
• Take the time to do plenty of testing to see what works on your site and what doesn’t. Don’t be afraid to try to promote your product using different venues and programs. For example, try Facebook ads and Google ads to see which work best. Try different banner placements to see which works best. Try different ads. You get the idea.
• Take the time to get to know your affiliate manager. They are there to help you and should be happy to review your site and give your some feedback about what you can do differently to be more successful.
• Be patient. It takes time to grow your affiliate marketing business. But once it is established and running smoothly you will be able to enjoy the residual income it generates.

Practical tips for affiliate marketing success

Affiliate marketing is a great way to enjoy an income stream. Done right, it can offer you a significant income supplement. Done wrong it can leave you wondering what happened. Let’s look at 3 practical tips for affiliate marketing success.

1. Cloak Your Affiliate Links You want to eliminate those long ugly affiliate links. You can do this with a link cloaker, which will create affiliate links that are short and more pleasant to look at. It will also increase your click through rate. Let’s look at an example. Here’s an affiliate link for a shareasale.com affiliate program. http://www.shareasale.com/t.cfm?A=223794&U=243855&M=17541&urllink= and samplelink.com/recommending/this-products/ - with the use of a link cloaker it would look something like this http://yourdomain.com/this-product or something similar.
2. Write Numerous Reviews Using written reviews is an excellent working strategy. It is one of the best tips floating around. With your review you will talk about the product on a page. One product to one page. You will tell the readers about the product you are reviewing both pros and cons to provide your readers with insight. You might also compare products. You can get the most out of your reviews by creating a category strictly for reviews. Make sure it’s visible to your visitors. Use a rating plugin to rate the products you review. The starts indicate the quality of the product. The more visible your reviews the more likely your sales are to increase.
3. Promote Only Products That Can Make You Money There’s an endless array of products on the market that you could review, but stick to those that can actually make you a decent commission and forget those that don’t pay well. This doesn’t mean avoid low ticket items. A $10 item might have a 20% commission and a $100 item might have a 10% commission. It’s easier to sell cheap products. But what it does mean is you should avoid the $10 item that pays $1 commission or the $100 item that pays you a couple dollars. Choose your affiliate products wisely. Your goal is to build a profitable income stream. Keep that in mind. You can also test products to see how well they do in the market place. Sometimes those products you think will do well, don’t actually do well but you won’t know this unless you test. So test, test, test and test some more.

There you have it – 3 practical tips that can help you have a successful affiliate marketing program.

How to make affiliate marketing successful

If you are planning to use affiliate marketing to create an income stream you want to make sure it’s successful. Let’s look at how you do that.

• Do Your Research- It’s about a lot more than just posting an affiliate’s ad on your site and then waiting for the money to roll in. You need to do some research to ensure you understand the industry, what opportunities exist and if there are any risks. You also need to know what the current trends are and how the affiliate’s product fit into that. In addition you’ll want to look at the different ways to approach advertising your affiliate’s products such as PPC or Facebook ads.
• Start with Simple – In other words start with baby steps – walk before you run. Discover how things work and then make the bigger decisions. Start with applying for the affiliate program that interests you. Opt for automated ad code, so that the network manager can access your ads, update them and change them for special occasions like Valentine’s Day.
• Understand SEO and the Associated Tools – You’ll need to understand what SEO is, how it works, the role of keywords, and then find the right tools to help you track what’s going on and whether your choices are actually working.
• Show Your Passion – If you can’t be passionate about the product/service you are going to sell, then it’s not the right one for you. Take some time to evaluate what’s great about the products/service, why you like it, why you’d use it, etc. Then increase your sales by writing about it showing your passion. Promote your product showing that passion. It will significantly increase your sales.
• Know Who Your Audience Is – What does the profile of your potential customer look like for the product? What does the profile of the visitors to your site look like? Do they integrate or are they so opposite there’s hardly any likelihood they’d click and buy. If you answered the latter, you need to go back to the drawing board and find an affiliate product/service that matches your visitors profile.
• Figure out Your Ads – It’s time to figure out what type of ad is going to entice your potential buyer to click the ad, watch the video, get the voucher, etc. You need ads that create action.

There you have it. Incorporate these 6 steps to your affiliate marketing and enjoy increased success.

Excerpted from the book Affiliate Marketing Success Tips.

This excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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