Making More Money With Affiliate Marketing

Wesley Atkins — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:07:05 +0000

Whether you are using performance-based cost-per-action affiliate networks or regular pay-per-click, the trick to making more money lies in how much traffic you can attract to those offers. Internet marketers understand that is isn’t just a simple case of getting the highest earnings-per-click (EPC) offer, it’s also about understanding how to attract highly targeted traffic to these offers in large streams. If you are having a little bit of trouble generating the income you desire from affiliate marketing, think about implementing some of these traffic-generating strategies to amp up the performance and your final payout.

Article Marketing

Join several article directories and start posting targeting articles in the niche you are trying to market. This does two things, it allows you to quickly find people who might have an interest in the product or service being promoted in your affiliate offer and it also let’s you add a link in the resource section sending them back to some area where you can market them further. Just keep in mind that there are guidelines on what you can do with these articles, although making them search-engine friendly with keywords in your niche is always appreciated. Don’t overload the articles with too many keywords, instead keep them to 1% to 2% of the total content of the article. Add your link to the resource box, either to the affiliate offer (if that’s allowed) or your website and pages that offer that include that offer as a promotional link.

Answer Some Pertinent Questions

There are numerous online question and answer sites that are ripe areas to mine for leads. Don’t spam these services, and instead seek to contribute to the conversation and make the link relevant to the dialog. Since users will rate the communities answers, if you show up and just post a link back to an offer, it will be flagged as spam and you will have wasted your time. Instead seek to add value to the conversation while gaining a foothold to allow your link to be valuable to the readership. Take a look at Yahoo! Answers and Mega to start generating leads from these areas.

Pull Traffic From Social Networks

This is one of the newest and hottest ways to generate traffic back to your offers. Build a profile in any of the popular social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or LinkedIn. Add information to that profile that is relevant to the market niche where you have promising affiliate offers to promote. You won’t be allowed to solicit people within the social networking site, but you can update your status with links back to an intermediary page where your offers are posted. It takes a very suave touch to learn how to market these sites successfully as any hard sell will quickly get you a reputation as a hard core marketer, and you might end up losing friends and sales.

Other Ways To Plug Into Traffic Streams

Any site that allows you to contribute to their content and has large amounts of traffic is a good place to generate some Internet presence. This can be popular blogs, commenting on major news sites and stories, online groups and forums, and video sites. Just find a way to add your links in accordance with the terms of service and use these sites to generate traffic to boost the income from your affiliate offers.

How To Generate Huge Traffic With Google Blogs

Wesley Atkins — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:07:41 +0000

Google Blogs is nothing new, but there is a very simple way to use it that many people overlook and it can be a very powerful traffic source for any website.

If you follow this strategy every day for at least 30 days you could easily ramp up 400+ visitors per day to your site and it takes very little effort – just 30 minutes per day.

So, go switch off the television and commit to doing this for 30 minutes every day.

In a nutshell all you need to do is visit Google Blogs and search for blogs in your market that have been updated in the last 12 hours. Google Blogs will list all the blogs that have been updated in the last 12 hours with the keywords that you specify. You can see a screenshot below. Then all you need to do is visit those blogs and leave an *insightful* comment. Don’t just post, “Hey, love the blog keep up the good work”. Make it useful and relevant to what is discussed.

Now here’s the kicker – Because these blogs have only just been updated you are often the first to place a comment on them and if the blog has good traffic levels you are sure to get your comment noticed. However, you need to entice the click aswell in your comment and this can be done by some kind of call to action. Ie, “read more on my blog at:” – I think you get the idea.

Bear in mind that a lot of people use this technique to spam blogs with links back to their site, don’t do this. Always leave the comment with your name. You will still build link juice into your site from the ones that don’t use “No-Follow” and this will help on the next pagerank update. Besides, a few links that are not your main keywords will actually benefit you in terms of rankings as there is a filter placed on Google’s Algorithm that will give you a -5 penalty if your incoming link text percentage is too high, but that’s a topic for another post.

Anyhow, follow these steps as above and just commit 30 minutes per day or 5 comments per day, whatever you can do. I’m sure you’ll be surprised with the results.