Affiliate Marketing For Newbies
If you're an affiliate marketer and you are directing traffic straight
to your affiliate link, then you are doing it all wrong. By making this
common mistake you are missing out on a huge income potential. A better
way to set up your affiliate marketing campaign is to set up a squeeze
page.
What's a squeeze page, you ask? It's a page which has an overview of
the specific service which you are marketing including a form
requesting the name and email address of the person viewing your page.
If the person is interested in hearing more about your product or
service, they will fill in the form, click submit, where they will be
directed to a thank you page including an exact link to your specific
product or service. Notice that said "exact link", this means you don't
just direct them to your homepage where they will have to search
through all of the products and services you are selling. You direct
them to an exact link where they will see more information about the
product that got them interested in visiting your site. Nothing turns
customers off quicker than directing them to some general website that
sells a bunch of stuff.
Something else to keep in mind is, for every product or service you
want to promote; you must have a separate squeeze page for each. This
is really the key to marketing online successfully. You should start
out with only one affiliate program and create your marketing campaign,
where you will focus on a couple of products to promote through squeeze
pages.
Another way to market your goods is to design your own website and/or
blog. You can get a free blog through www.blogger.com and a website
through www.freewebs.com.
For those who don't know, a blog is a type of website which contains
journal-like posts which are updated frequently. You can create a blog
around any topic you choose, and sign-up for affiliate programs which
correspond to your topic of interest.
Also, it's a good idea to get your own domain name for your website.
You can get a free domain with no ads through www.co.nr. From here you
should create posts on you blog and ping it every time you submit a new
post. This simply means that you will request other sites to be
notified that you have updated your site. This will trigger your site
to be crawled by indexing spiders, which will increase you site's
popularity (thus increasing your search engine rank).
After setting up you blog, you can create posts which contain a link or
two to your website or an affiliate link which is relevant to the topic
of your post. The benefits here are two-fold, you are advertising
without "selling" (no one likes to be sold) and you are increasing the
number of links to your site which will increase your rank on search
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