Affiliates Marketing

I have written about affiliate marketing with ClickBank products before, but probably not about how to pick the ones that convert. You can look at the stats in ClickBank to see how many people are selling and what those things mean, but really... when it comes to YOUR list, what products would they be most likely to buy?

There's a simple answer, though it will take a little extra work. You can use any product vendor, though ClickBank is probably the easiest to make work, and it involved using a rotator.

First, don't send people straight through your affiliate or "hop" link to a sales page. Choose three different products that serve the same need. Type copywriting into ClickBank, type traffic into ClickBank, type viral marketing into ClickBank, if you're in the Internet Marketing niche, for example.

Then, because you cannot modify the sales page for other people's products, what can you modify? You can rotate the products that people see when they click your link. And then, you can find out, of those three products, which generates the most money for you.

The easiest way is to use some kind of rotator and tracking. You can get a stand-alone program that allows you to create split tests, like AdTrackz, for example, which will calculate stats for you, too. Or, you can get an inexpensive rotator program that rotates the affiliate pages people see, and use the stats that ClickBank gives you to see which product sold better. It's really simple. There are online rotators that you can use, too, without having to buy anything.

But check your stats. If you send over 200 people to one product and it doesn't generate any income... To me, that's a major loser. It's a loser product! Or at least, it's a loser for your match, for your list. But imagine what would have happened if you had been split testing two other products that whole time? I bet you would have made some money.

Try to be as compelling as you can in the email that you sent to your list, so as not to allude to which product they're going to be shown. Don't tell them you're doing any kind of test. Of course, now, you'll be sending them through the split test or rotator link, which uses your affiliate links and you're just going to be split testing three different affiliate links.

Many people that come on the internet have the desire to earn money. However, there is so much information on the web that it is very difficult to figure out which route to take.

Any professional salesperson will tell you that you don't want to give your customers too many choices because you will end up with no choice at all. Their minds become overwhelmed with the options and they will give you the dreaded "let me think about it."

That's basically what happens on the internet for some people that truly want to make some extra money. They decide to think about it and it never turns into action. If you want to take action quickly towards and find a way to earn money online, clickbank.com is one of the easiest ways.

The site offers about 10,000 digital type products that you can promote online to solve any number of problems for potential buyers. The good thing about clickbank is that once you join them, you are eligible to promote all of their products. They also handle all customer service, billing, and payments to you twice per month.

After you join clickbank, you will be able to review information about various ebooks and software on the site to determination which ones are the best sellers and which ones you might want to avoid.

You can then secure your referral link for products you choose and market them on the internet. There are all kinds of ways to do this like writing articles for directories, using social networks like twitter, MySpace, etc., and booking marking sites such as digg, stumbleupon, and similar sites.

If you are looking for more options to promote your referral link, you can look into building your own site or setting up a blog via wordpress or blogger. You can also set up pages that include your referral links on squidoo, hubpages, or weebly.

Be persistent with your marketing efforts and it will eventually lead you down the path to earn money with clickbank and other affiliate type networks.

One of the first things most experienced online business owners learn, when we learned how to make money online, was how to make money with affiliate marketing. This is a great way to start because you don't need to come up with your own product or pay for and then test a sales page--it's all done for you!

The absolute cheapest way to begin affiliate marketing is what is known as "bum marketing." All you really need is the ability to write a basic article--or rewrite inexpensive private label rights material--and work with an easy content management system like Word Press.

So how to do you make money with affiliate marketing, using this low-cost to no-cost affiliate marketing strategy?

First, you need a website or at least a blog in your chosen niche. You can buy a domain name at Namecheap.com for less than $10 a year, and hosting at Hostgator.com for under $10 a month.

Make sure your domain name is keyword rich. If you can't find YourKeyPhrase.com, try separating the words with hyphens. If that doesn't work, see if you can get a .net or .org name. You can also get .info names for considerably cheaper costs per year.

Now, write about 10 pages worth of content for that site. Focus each page on a specific long-tail keyphrase within your niche.

What's a long-tail keyphrase? It's one of the ultra-specific but less searched for keyword phrases within each niche market. These phrases have less competition, yet are more highly targeted toward buyers--just what you need as a beginner. (Don't worry. You can also focus on higher-traffic keywords once your site has really been up and running. Right now, though, it's best to go for the long-tail traffic.)

At the top and bottom of each web page put an affiliate link to a niche product. You don't have to even mention the name of the product in your content--in fact, it's often best if you don't. You're not trying to sell with your content. Sales writing is a time-consuming process that you don't need to worry about. The product owners have likely paid thousands of dollars for someone to write their products' sales pages.

Instead, you want to hit on emotional hot-buttons for you keyphrases. This will help pre-sell your affiliate products (you should have at least three of them) by getting your readers revved up about their niche problems or concerns.

Now, you'll want to write and submit one or two articles a day, every day, to Ezinearticles.com. Target both your long-tail and high-traffic niche keyword phrases for these articles. This is where the bulk of your traffic will come from.

Finally, make sure you have an appropriate author bio-box at the end of each article. You'll want to tell a little about yourself (or your pseudonym) and your website. Link various boxes back to various pages on your website, using link-text that matches the targeted phrase for each page.

And that's it! Pretty soon you'll be making affiliate sales without ever spending an advertising dollar!