One of the best places to begin your successful affiliate marketing career is article marketing. It is affordable and is a proven method of success. The idea is to get tons of backlinks to your site and to get your name out there and establish you as an expert in the niche you are choosing to go into.
There are tons of places to post your articles to. They are easy to find with a simple Google search. Once you have your website set up for your affiliate product you simply write an article about the niche it is from. Then you submit it to as many of the directories as possible. The benefit of this is the little resource box that is included at the end of your article that has your name and a link back to your site. The more links pointing back to your site makes it seem like an authority on the topic and it gets you ranked higher in the search engines and increases traffic to your site which increases sales!
The downside of article marketing is the tedious task of submitting your article to the thousands of publishers out there. The solution is directory submitters, who charge you a fee to submit to thousands of directories. This is great if you can afford it.
There is a drawback to putting up the same article on all these sites. The search engines will penalize sites that have duplicate content. There is a service available that takes care of this and it also submits your site to the article directories. It is a valuable resource if you can afford it.
After you get good at getting traffic to your site with your articles it is a good idea to look into pay per click marketing. This is where you pay a company like Google AdWords for every visitor to your site from an ad you write that gets clicked on. It is very profitable if done right but can also be very costly if you don't know what you are doing.
When using PPC you bid on a set of keywords related to your niche and pay that price or less each time someone clicks on your ad. It is easy to overbid and see your hard earned money disappear and it is not unusual to bid too little in a competetive market and get absolutely no traffic. This is one of the most profitable marketing methods available and also one of the toughest to master.
One more form of affiliate marketing involves web 2.0 products. These include blogs and social bookmark sites. The idea here is to write about your product on the different sites and link it to your blog. You also write comments on other blogs and leave links back to your blog which is where you sell your affiliate products.
Remember that there are many paths to becoming a successful affiliate marketer and it is a good idea to explore them all, but don't forget that it is a must to get good at one first then expand your horizons. You will be glad when you see money coming in from your efforts and even happier when you learn something new, implement it and become a super successful affiliate marketer!
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