Monday, March 3, 2008

Affiliate Marketing How To - Basics

For making money from Internet many people use Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate Marketing is a marketing technique where a marketer sells products and get the commission from merchants. For earning from Affiliate Marketing, you need to understand basics first. Here I am going to show you very simple techniques which all beginners should use to enter in to the Internet Market. And best of all these techniques are not going to cost you a penny. So Let s begin. First thing you need in Affiliate Marketing is to choose the product to promote. So which product you are going to choose? Always choose a product for which you have knowledge. This is not compulsory but for entering in to the market it s always preferable you choose that product for which you have some knowledge. Why? You will get the answer of your Why in later part of this article. Now you have a product to promote. Next thing you require is a web site. If you wish, you can buy domain and host your web site but it will cost you few dollars. You can always use free blog services like blogger.com and wordpress.com to make your website. From Blogger and WordPress which one to select is completely depends on you. You can use any of them to make your website. Both are great blogging tools. Start blogging on the product which you are going to promote. Put your affiliate links on the website. So you have up and running site now. Let me tell you that up till now what you have done is just a 10% work of your total marketing attempt. Just making website and putting affiliate link on that not going to give you a sell. For selling product you need web traffic. Getting free traffic is not hard thing if you follow these simple six steps. 1)Make a single post on your blog every day. Always ping after posting new post if ping is not enabled by default. You can use pingomatic.com for this purpose. 2)Write a single article every day on your niche and submit it to article directory. Always put a back link to your site in resource box. 3)Bookmark your site on social book marking sites. 4)Make a squidoo lens about your niche and give a back link to your site from their also. You can put your affiliate links on squidoo lens also. 5)Actively take part in the forum of your niche. And put your website link in signature area so you ll get back link every time you post something. Don t just spam the post to take back link. Always add some valuable information to the post. 6)And last step is repeat above five steps :) . If you remember I asked you to choose a product for which you have some knowledge. Now it s time to give the answer of your why. That is because you need to write articles and posts on that topic to get the traffic. If you don t have any knowledge then you are going to face much trouble while writing. Once you are used to write articles, you can choose any products. We have seen the free effective techniques to do affiliate marketing. Since these techniques don t cost you a penny, it s hard to get results instantly. But I assure you that you will start getting result with in 15 days if you follow these simple techniques. My best wishes for your success. Like More Affiliate Marketing Tips? Get it at Wealthy Affiliate University - A guide to Internet Marketing. Take inside tour of Wealthy Affiliate

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