Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing:

We all know what an affiliate program is. There are literally tens of thousands of affiliate programs with millions of products to sell. The most difficult part of affiliate marketing is getting well qualified targeted traffic. That again is where good software and cloaking comes into play. Some networks and affiliates allow direct linking. Direct Linking is where you setup your cloaked pages with all of your product keywords, then redirect straight to the merchant or affiliates sales page. This often results in the highest conversion rates, but as I said, some affiliates don't allow Direct Linking. So, again, that's where Landing Pages come in. Either building your own (which we are far too lazy to do), or by using something like Landing Page Builder which automates everything for us. Landing pages give us a place to send and clean our traffic, they also prequalify the buyer and make sure the quality of the traffic sent to the affiliate is as high as possible. After all, we want to make money, but we also want to keep a strong relationship with the affiliate so we can get paid.

I can't stress the importance of diversification enough here. Never put all of your eggs in a single basket. Find a network or merchant that converts, and expand on that. Find several merchants in that same niche so you always have a steady stream of income if one merchant should cancel your account.