May

25

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners - Part 3

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Hey, It’s Mike with AffiliatePayDay, the affiliate marketing for beginners guide, with part three of the Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success course.

Today we will talk about building content rich site for your niche.

Once you have chosen your niche, you need to have a website to direct potential buyers to, where you present information about your niche and recommend products in your niche.

You need to build a content-filled web site focused on your niche. The primary focus of your web site is to sell the affiliate products you have chosen. But, if your site does not attract visitors, sales conversion will be virtually impossible. Create a site that focuses on the area of interest you have chosen, and populate it with rich, informative content that people would love to read. Good content will establish you as an expert in the niche. Plus, search engines love content which will give you a better position in the search engine listings.

There many free online blogs that allow you to post your content for free, and many of then can give you good rankings in the search engines.

A few of my favorites are Squidoo , Hubpages , Weebly, and Blogger.

Here are a few examples of blogs I have created with these free sites:

Sinus Infection Symptoms (Squidoo)

Free Website Builders (Hubpages)

Project Quick Cash (Weebly)

Sage Fly Rods (Blogger, I just created this a few days ago and need to add some content)

Where do you get content?

If you are an expert in your niche, it shouldn’t be hard to come up with 5 - 7 good 500 word articles to post on your blog.

If you aren’t an expert in your chosen niche, then there are a few things you can do to come up with content.

You can either research your niche to learn about it, then create content based on what you learned.

You can hire someone to write the content for you. I have seen writers offer to write 500 word articles on keywords you specify for $5.00.

You may be able to find private label rights (PLR) content that you can purchase. PLR generall means that you can do anything you want with the articles, including post them on your blogs. However, since others may also be purchasing and using the content, I suggest you rewrite the content to make your content look unique to the search engines.

Good content is king on the internet. Good content will bring visitors, keep them on you sites, make you look like and expert and generate sales for you.

The next “Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success” post will be related to marketing your site.

Mike

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May

20

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners - Part 2

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Hey, It’s Mike with AffiliatePayDay, the affiliate marketing for beginners guide, with part two of the Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success course.

Today we will talk about finding the best affiliate programs and products for your niche.

At first glance you may think this is a “no brainer”, but there are some things you need consider when choosing the most profitable affiliate program. You may also have to do some testing of different affiliate programs, and products, to find what fits your target audience best.

First of all, when you chose an affiliate program, or vendor, you want to make sure they have a good reputation, or at least not a bad reputation.

There are a number of good affiliate programs that have good reputations that can be trusted. Some of the most popular are Clickbank, Commission Junction, and Linkshare.

If you have any doubts about an affiliate program, do a google search on the affiliate program and scam. You’ll quickly find any unhappy affiliates.

Once you have chosen an affiliate program, you need to search their offerings and find products that may appeal to your niche.

When considering affiliate programs, and products to promote, try to find the best commission rate for products that are priced at mid range, and products that will be easy to sell.

If your commission is too low on a low priced product, you may not be able to cover any advertising expenses, or pay for your time to generate free traffic.

If you offer products that are high in commission, they are probably higher priced products, and are harder to sell. Some will tell you that it’s just as easy to sell a high priced product as it is a low priced product, but my experience tells me it’s easier to sell low cost products, but you have to sell more of them :-)

Try to find products in the price range that you would be willing to spend, and products that offer you a fair commission.

Most affiliate programs pay you between 5-10% commission. The exception is Clickbank.

Clickbank vendors generally offer much higher commissions, I wouldn’t promote a Clickbank program for less than 50%. The only drawback to Clickbank is they only offer digital download products - no physical products.

Another thing to consider when choosing a merchant or product, is whether the customer is making a one time buy, or a monthly buy. Monthly buys are commonly known as membership sites, and the customer pays monthly for a product or service. If the customer you referred is paying monthly, make sure you get paid monthly for the referral.

Monthly commission programs, or products, are always preferable since you are getting paid more than once for doing the same amount of work.

There are more monthly commission programs (membership programs) than ever before, so look for them.

The next “Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success” post will be related to building a content-filled web site focused on your niche.

Mike

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May

19

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

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Hey, It’s Mike with AffiliatePayDay, the affiliate marketing for beginners guide.

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make a little extra income, or as many super affiliates have done, earn a full time income.

How many businesses can you start where your investment is so low, and you have so few headaches? Think about it - you sign up for a free affiliate program, chose a product to promote and make money whenever someone buys that product.

You don’t have to worry about fulfilling orders, shipping products or customer support. All of that is handled by the merchant. Plus, you don’t have employees to manage, payroll and everything else that comes with being an employer.

The merchant is also happy because affiliates are spreading the word about the merchants product. Once the merchant has affiliates in place, the merchant can focus on fulfilling orders, handling customer support, and taking care of their affiliates. Affiliates are a very effective, low cost method of advertising.

Affiliate marketing is truly a win-win for affiliates and merchants.

I am going to be using this blog to give you ideas, tips and tricks to help you become a better affiliate marketer.

Let’s get started right now, with part one of “Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success”

1. Focus on a specific area of interest. It can be tempting to sign up for a variety of programs on different topics, or areas of interest, to appeal to a large audience. Don’t do it! Instead focus on one specific field, or niche at a time. When selecting a niche, you have to find the right balance of not being to broad with too much competition, or too narrow with not enough potential customers.

For example, let’s say you’re a dog lover, like me. If you chose the niche “dogs”, you will never succeed because it is too broad, and there are some big time players that already dominate the general “dog” niche. You could chose “dog training”, but again you will run into a lot of competition.

Perhaps you could go with “dog leash training”, or “dog-breed training” (insert whatever dog breed you want for dog-breed, then use a generic dog training product to target that specific dog breed niche). Just be careful that you don’t get too specific or you won’t find enough potential customers or you may not be able to find an affiliate product.

Here’s a real life example. I have a dog related site http://doginfosecrets.com and I wanted to expand the site. I decided to include “dog toys” as a niche. But, this is a very competitive niche, and there are some pet superstores that I will never be able to compete with.

So, I looked to narrow the niche down. After doing some research I found an affiliate product that teaches you how to make your own dog toys and save money. So now I am targeting the niche “homemade dog toys” (check out the site).

If you have an idea for a general topic, and need help narrowing it down, have people interested in that niche give you some ideas. Go to google and do a search on your niche topic and forums - like “dog forums”.

Spend some time reading through the forums to see what people are talking about and what information they are looking for. You will get some good ideas, and may be able to find a need, that is not being met. If you can find a product that fills that need, you can make a killing.

Finding good niches is a big part of affiliate marketing for beginners. This is just a short summary of the topic. If you want more information on niche research, let me know by leaving comments below and I’ll put together more specific information.

The next “Affiliate Marketing For Beginners 10 Keys To Success” post will be related to finding the best affiliate programs for your niche.

Mike

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