How To Make Money With Affiliate Programs by:Ray Ricardo
Affiliate programs can either be a way to put a little extra cash in your pocket or
, hopefully, become a full time job. However, it's not like you can put up a bunch of affiliate links and expect to start making a mint. If you want to make a full time job's worth of money off affiliate marketing, you have to work at it full time. The great thing about affiliate marketing is that it works 24/7but this doesn't mean you should also put in several hours a day of your own time.The affiliate marketers who have had the most outstanding success are normally those who have more than one site working at once. It's much harder to make a decent amount of money if you have one affiliate site at a time. Experienced affiliate marketers will have a number of different sites running at once, all with different types of affiliate links. What this means is that each affiliate site will need separate SEO: new content in the form of blogs, forums, articles, and other techniques.
A key to a successful affiliate marketing program is to make the affiliate site a useful resource. Just posting a bunch of links is not going to impress many web surfers. They'll leave and likely never come back. The trick to any web business is to keep people on sitethis is true for the affiliate partner and it's true for affiliate marketers. An affiliate site shouldn't necessarily scream, "affiliate site." Instead, it can be a trusted resource on a particular topic.
Useful content is the best way to make this possible. Take a site that has a number of links to sports-related businesses (apparel, equipment, tickets, books, etc.). The affiliate marketer can then set up a forum that talks about different sports teams, strategy, and so onpotentially, this forum could bring in sports fans from across the country. Blogging is another great medium for affiliate marketing. On the same site, the blogger could write reviews of new equipment or write in depth trade talk about a variety of sports. These are just a few ideas but they show how affiliate marketing canand shouldbe a serious, long-term proposition.
What it comes down to is that affiliate marketing is no different than running the host site. Both are about running a business, even if an affiliate marketer has no direct product or service to sell. An affiliate marketer should set up a site that is useful and informativea destination that people will come back to again and again. In some cases, an affiliate site might even be more informative than the partner's website.
Only until these issues are covered can an affiliate marketer hope to make a good amount of money with affiliate marketing. Sure, you could put up links and hope for the best, but you should think about investing some time into the site if you really hope to turn a respectable profit.
About the author
Dr. Ray Ricardo is a retired physician who has successfully transitioned to a lucrative MLM and internet marketing career. After years of failure, Dr. Ricardo decided to study, master and implement the tried, proven and highly effective power techniques taught and used by moneymaking internet masters. He is now the CEO of Neutraceutica, a highly successful web marketer of health supplements with thousands in monthly sales. Dr. Ricardo gives away mastermind million dollar tips and freeware to online and MLM "newbies" to help them build a list of thousands and a five figure income for free at http://www.freetools4mlmnetworkers.com What To Look For In A Home Based Business by:Allen Buck Now You Can Start Making Easy Online Money This Proven Idea by:Andrew Rondeau How To Prosper After A Layoff by:Clint Williamson Article MarketingÂ…..A Crucial Part Of Your Business Plan by:Erick Engelhardt Legitimate Online Business With Leonard Grant's Millionaire Blueprint System by:Leonard Grant Earn Thousands Through Home Business Opportunities In The Internet by:Marlin Kimbel Offline Businesses Would Learn From Internet Marketers by:Samantha Milner Is It Really Possible To Make Money Online With Free Information? by:Scott McGregor Review of Free Stuff Exposed by:Michael Smith Are You Being Brainwashed by the Internet Gurus? - The Guru Slap by:Tony Marquis Make Money Online Fast in Hungry Subscribers by:Armil Velos How To Build A High Traffic Website by:Erick Engelhardt Biggest Affiliate Marketing Mistakes! by:Gerd Dieckelmann