Monday, August 27, 2012

Become a More Effective Affiliate by Avoiding These Serious Mistakes

By June Sutkus


If you do it properly, affiliate marketing can be a good way to generate an income. It offers you a chance to successfully create a site and then simply sit back and let it automatically help you make money on the web. It's not as easy as it sounds or as simple as you might at first imagine but it is still worth a try. Many people who try affiliate marketing are unsuccessful, simply because they do it all completely wrong. The people who do it the right way can typically earn a great deal of money.

If you are an affiliate marketer, you'll be able to promote somebody else's products and make a commission when somebody purchases something through the link that you've published. Naturally there are several fumbles and foibles that can cost you a lot, including sending a prospect right to the affiliate web site. What you must do instead, is send the potential customer to your own website where you presell the product and get their current email address. By doing this you could send them other emails trying to get them to purchase the product. This helps you create a list of your own you can use instead of just further expanding the list for the vendor that you're doing affiliate marketing for. If you supply the prospective customers freebies or e-books, you can get them signed up for a newsletter, where you can even market other products.

One other big mistake is to build a web site that is filled with ads, banners and affiliate links. If your visitors become confused at your site, their likely reaction will be to move on. It's far better to create honest reviews of the products you have and only publish a handful of text ads. Folks are looking for what they want, and flashy banners are annoying, so stay with text ads. You want your website to be fast loading, simple and extremely focused.

Affiliates also fail terribly due to commission stealing. Not every person on the web, however, is honest and there are ways out there through which you create sales but not credit for them. First of all, make sure you only pick honest merchants who have reputations for really paying their affiliates. Then ensure you find the right way to cloak your affiliate links, so that you are going to get credit for any sales that are made using your links. You'll find easy methods for cloaking links, a little bit of research will turn up plenty of them for you. This also helps increase the odds of your being an affiliate success.

Becoming an affiliate marketer could be very profitable for a lot of people if they do it the right way. Everyone says that you need a list to earn a living online, so even being an affiliate you can accomplish this. You'll want to make certain you send your prospective customers to preselling pages so that you can collect their email addresses instead of just sending them right on over to the sales page. This is the best way to be successful as an affiliate marketer.




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