Affiliate Marketing – the best way to do it

[SCOBAHCAN]

I see that my post – “Many decisions to make on what I should do� wasn’t very clear – so I will try to correct that .

Some people have said it would be better to have

(1) my own Affiliate directory on the Internet – other people suggest

(2) It would be best to join a few “Good� programs & promote them
on my website ?

By (1) I mean – joining ANY & ALL Affiliate programs & listing all
of there links on my website – as a sort of reference that people can
look up & when they made a purchase through my website I would
“hopefully� get a commission .

By (2) I mean – if I was to join a select few Affiliate programs
& promote those on my website I would “hopefully� get a commission .

There is a (3) third idea that was also mentioned to me (which by the way I see it could be a mixture of (1) & (2) .

That is – selecting a specific area – then putting the links of the
programs I joined onto my website .

Thank you SCOBAHCAN

[John Scott]

(1) my own Affiliate directory on the Internet

Do you mean a directory with affiliate program attached or a directory of affiliate links?

[rainmaker]

What suddenly everyone just love affiliate program ?

[joecoolfreak]

ok...enough spamming please

[bugzzy]

excuse me.....how am i spamming? i made a suggestion to the person that wanted ideas on how to promote her affiliate website.

what are you talking about?
if you're not helping, why are you in here?

[Mike Merz]

You posted a blatant, affiliate linked ad ... with no actual content (save the ad copy).

First of all, affiliate links are not allowed in posted content ... save that for the sig. file.

Second ... where's the content?

It was just an ad for a service ... hardly what I'd call 'help'.

Mike

[Michael Allison]

Personally, I am very wary of affiliate programs and stuff like that.

Not wary, exactly, I just don't like the idea of selling the same stuff that 10,000 other sites have been selling longer than me. I might get in on selling new products through an affiliation like that, but not likely. Again, 10,000 other people, who are well-established, are doing it, too.

Not everybody can, or will, do what I did. I wrote my own script to sell. But, another option is to find good products that aren't being sold through affiliate programs and approach their makers or vendors with an offer. I just did something like that with some software that I bought and used. I was particularly impressed with it and I sent them an email asking if they might be interested in making a deal. Now, mind you, I have the source code. I would need to merely change a few things in the code and rename it and no one would be the wiser. But, I have to live with myself, you know.

If you have no desire to do any of that stuff, try blogging and making topical sites with ads on them. These can do very well and they are passive income. All you do is make a site about dogs or donkeys or race cars or whatever. Write your own original content and put some ads on the page. You would be surprised how many people are doing well like that.

I think there are as many ways to make (and lose) money on the web as there are users - and that's an awful lot of ways.

-Michael

[charlesgan]

selling product that is start to heat up, is not a bad idea. comparing to...
selling a product that me only know it & willing to sell. that creappy... :S

my experienc in clickbank this few months. alwys look for the best gravity, popularity products. off-course the sales letter must be nice enough for user to signup on the spot. high conversion is another issue.

i wont sell product that so new & totally untested/unproven effectiveness.
cause i promoting my website locally. maintaining website reputation is a bit concern as well.

i still looking for ways to improve my clickbank sales.
need more traffic + sales. Any suggestion??

[Vern]

Hi Charles, if you're doing affilate marketing, wouldn't it be best to actually gather a list first ? It could make your conversions easier since you can always review the product itself before making a sales pitch more of a sales pitch.

[Carter]

I am thinking about setting up an affiliate directory, saw a few ideas and was thinking about using them. When doing an affiiate directory, is it just links and stuff - or do we fill them with products? Thought I knew what I was doing, but now am confused. I have a traffic exchange, and want to be able to use this to promote the directory. The te is slowly building momentum, but what do you think about this combination.

Cindy

[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by Carter

I am thinking about setting up an affiliate directory, saw a few ideas and was thinking about using them. When doing an affiiate directory, is it just links and stuff - or do we fill them with products? Thought I knew what I was doing, but now am confused. I have a traffic exchange, and want to be able to use this to promote the directory. The te is slowly building momentum, but what do you think about this combination.

Cindy

little of my experince to share here.

for affiliate website, u really looking for highly targeted visitors. not the passes by visitors. you probably need to setup good reading material, related/relevant website theme.

for me, i setup a web hosting recommendation site. beside affiliate on web hosting. i also promoting clickbank product, that is related to website promotion, traffic, marketing, SEO etc. so they all make sense, since the visitors are served with website related goodies.

hope this giv u a little help.

view my sig.

[Vern]

I'd just like to know if you have been able to see my comment. Sending visitors directly to your affiliate link is like leaving a huge chunk of small change. A capture page or a squeeze page should be part of the system before actually setting up a website which leads visitors to certain affiliate products that you promote. This will help you to build your own subscriber list and you will see that it does wonders in the long run.

[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by Vern

Hi Charles, if you're doing affilate marketing, wouldn't it be best to actually gather a list first ? It could make your conversions easier since you can always review the product itself before making a sales pitch more of a sales pitch.

to me, analysing a list of 10-50 products is not good for me. i will get lost, after reading all those sales letter + user feedback. even some reverse marketer.

i learn a good trick in affiliate marketing. "mini site".
creating a mini site taht you can optimised specificly for a keyword.
a site that only direct user to buying champ product.

if i give them 100 to choose, they will left once finihs reading at 3-5th.

if i giving them 1 to read, they will read it and stick to it.
idea is dont to over exposed products to viewer. if selling soft drink, always offer them pepsi. dont ever mention cola.. dont remind them.

well... thats the 1 cent that i like to share it here. hope it works for some of you guys as well.

[Vern]

Well, okay - you've got one point correct there charles. that's focus.

But there's also another way of doing this. Or thinking it this way.
You should have one main business. Which is really a system.

You could include various products to compliment this system.
Such as McDonalds (sorry I'm going off topic here.. But was too tempted to do so).

They don't just sell burgers, they sell softdrinks, fries, McToys, desert, chicken.. and many others I'm sure that could be named and discussed over.

Having lots of minisites are good. But if you have like 1 main business and have all your other affiliate program that will compliment it, that would definitely be a plus.

[stuarttan]

Good points, all. I'd just like to add that it also depends on the keywords that people are searching for the problem to be solved, and then do a keyword-to-affiliate product match. It works well for SEO as well as PPC.

[5StarAffiliatePrograms]

The BEST thing for new affiliates to do is find a 'niche" and concentrate on it.
It's too hard to compete if you jump into web hosting, Clickbank products, mortgage loans and the same highly competitive products all the pro affiliates are promoting.

Building a mall type site or directory isn't a good way to start because it's too difficult to SEO and get high rankings for sites that sell everything but the kitchen sink. That's a shot gun strategy that cause many new affiliates to give up a quit before they even get started.

My best advice is FIND A NICHE then start a blog. That's just the very beginning but it's a good place to get started.

Here are a TON of great tools and tips for helping to find the right "niche".

Niches to Riches - Hot FREE High-Profit Niche Finding Tools
http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliat...finding-tools/

Hope this helps and best of luck!

[Vern]

Linda , thanks for your comments. Being focused on one niche is
really the best thing.

In fact, that's why we should have 1 main business to put our
efforts in. Other's will complement to that main business.