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How to Be Successful at Affiliate Marketing???

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mtjr825

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Hey everyone

I've recently launched my first blog with a few affiliate marketing programs. I've been in sales so writing around my passion and recommending strong books and affiliates seems to interest me greatly. I've build the entire site myself so I saved a lot of $$. However I'm wondering how successful this strategy is. Can anyone share some tips or direction? Is the blog model better, equal, or worst than single pages promoting a single affiliate. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
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I'm with fisherman - I think the days of lucrative blogging are numbered.

If you want to sell products either for yourself or as an affiliate, I think it's best to build a review site with a ton of unique, useful, and continuously fresh content. Get busy on active forums that deal with your niche, become a fixture there, and get your website into your signature as soon as you can. Use the forums good mojo to boost your website's ranking. As people come to view you as an authority, they'll go to your website more, and they'll refer others there as well.
 
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thanks so far everyone. it seems like if you have a good topic and can drive traffic then it could be worth wile. not sure why it wouldn't be. any more advice is welcomed
 
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Few things:

- Show, don't tell. If you can show what kind of results you have gotten with that particular product your conversion will increase.
- Offer a bonus. This makes people buy stuff from you instead of someone else. Make the bonus good one, not some PLR scheisse.
- Don't rely only on one source of traffic.

Not saying that I am some guru or anything, these are just things i've learned along the way.
 
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It's hard to do, and most of the time those dabbling in affiliate marketing give up way too soon. Monitor your statistics, watch to see what is working and what is not. Make changes when necessary. Do one thing daily to promote your storehouse and be patient. Before you know it you will start getting payments.
 
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thanks to everyone that posted. i've started my site and will use all the insight. the podcast are extremely helpful.
 
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Fisherman said:
blog is a difficult route these days.
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To be a successful affiliate the product you are promoting should be relevant to the content of the site you are promoting from. For example, if you write a blog about Bass fishing then your affiliate links and banners should appeal to bass fishermen. If you have banners for food and wine companies or cruise lines on your bass fishing blog, you may accidently get the occasional click and purchase –but it will be very occasional. Whereas if your links and banners were to a company that sells bass boats, rods and reels and bass fishing guides, they you will see a lot of potential earnings.
 

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