Here is some traffic tips to get more traffic to your affiliate sites:

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6. Your Own Affiliates

This is much easier than you might imagine. If you have a product for sale that you control - usually something you've created yourself, you can pay people to promote it for you. you are effectively getting traffic that is generated by your affiliate in the hopes that they will make
sales. You both win, you run the product and sales, they run the promotion, you split the income.

That's only a basic example. Percentages can vary widely, from 5% right up to 100% (so you get ALL the sale). Sometimes the initial sale isn't important, as you can make money from further sales along the line.

You can run your own affiliate program easily by using ClickBank. With these services you just add your product to the system and you have a ready made back-end where the payment processor will pay you and your affiliate. With others, such as PayDotCom, you must ensure you pay your affiliates what you owe, manually.

You can also use a simple script such as the "$7 Method" script or the various membership scripts that are around. It all adds up to one thing, a successful product will gather willing affiliates, and as long as you have an in demand product that converts well, they will want to
promote.

7. Joint Ventures

A Joint Venture can take many forms, but it's usually a complimentary deal between 2 or more marketers.

The affiliate program above is one such JV. You have the product, they have the traffic, so you team up.

You can also agree to cross-promote each others products - so you both benefit from each others traffic. And you can even create products together, perhaps one persons strength is marketing, anothers is programming. Or one person is good at copywriting, another at graphics.
There are lots of opportunities in this field.

In all actuality most JV's are affiliate deals, where "JV Partners" are really simple affiliates. But as long as both parties are happy, it's well worth arranging.

8. Paid E-Mail Advertising

If you don't have a big list of your own perhaps you would like to rent space on anothers. You can pay for ads to be sent out by another person, to their list.

You can actually rent an email list from list brokers, or you can purchase ads directly from other marketers. You can have your ad sent out to the list alone (a solo ad) or, as in the traditional magazine market, your ad can be included in their electronic magazine (ezine).

Results will vary widely. And it's difficult to know in advance which ezine list is a match for your product, whether the people on that list are responsive to third-party deals (noone likes receiving ads!), etc.

It's probably better to come up with a unique offer for the list owner, be it a discount or a bonus, so they can promote it not as an ad but as a recommendation. Sometimes you will rather form a JV this way instead of purchasing the ad directly.

9. RSS Feeds

An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a simple text file that contains all the content you have published. You'll usually find them automatically generated by your blog, but you can also use them for other purposes - perhaps an up to date feed of your articles, or your offers.

The benefit to the user is they can use web services or software to "subscribe" to feeds they like, and each day be presented with the latest updates. It's like having an e-mail subscription outside of their actual email.

For the marketer the benefit is that it's yet another way to keep in contact with your visitors, subscribers and customers. With email becoming more difficult deliver, RSS feeds are one possibility. It's probably better to use both.

One service worth using is Feedburner, now part of Google. This service will count the subscribers you have, and ensure your feed is compatible with a ride range of readers. It also has features to let you add extra content to your feed - such as ads, and social bookmark features.

10. Article Marketing

Article Marketing is often suggested as one way you can drive traffic. It is still effective, though less so than it used to be.

The idea here is that you write content, specifically for distribution. You can send it to other site owners and list owners who will hopefully publish your content, and you can submit it to article directories, who will also publish your content as well as make it available for others to use.

When writing an article you should again focus on keyword based articles, in the title and content. This way it will help with search engine listings and enable interested people to find your article.

You gain actuall traffic in two ways. Firstly, you can include a short bio and link at the end of your article, so if people want to find out more they can follow that link. You will also get a pagerank boost as that link will count as another vote for your main site. Luckily, many
article directories as considered "authority sites" - so the link will have greater weight.

To encourage people to read further from the article, consider only writing about a subset of your subject, so to read more they have to click that link. A good example is to include an excerpt from a fuller article or book, or include only, say, the top 5 from 10 total tips.

One point to watch out for is that Google will penalise duplicate content across the web. This is debatable (many Google processes are) but to be safe include a rewritten version at your own site. Even if the article appears first at your site and then at another, higher ranked one it
could end up that Google would consider your home copy as the duplicate.

11. Traffic Networks

There are many traffic networks, or exchanges, around. Some are specialised, some more general, but in essence you will get visitors to your site in exchange for driving visitors to another.

This can work in many ways. For example, with a "banner exchange", you will show banner ads on your site, and for every ad you show your ad will be shown. Sometimes the ratio is different, such as 2:1, so you have to show another ad twice for every one you gain.

Other exchanges work via popups, popunders, pop-ins, etc. Some will use a widget on your site to show ads or images.

Traffic from an exchange is driven by traffic to your site. So the more traffic you have, the more you will receive. And the more you receive, the more that will generate. The sucess of an exchange depends on how many members there are, but it is worth joining them unless the design will not compliment your site or it will irritate your visitors.

As a rule you don't want anything on your site that encourages a visitor to leave, so you have to think carefully about where you place bannersor widgets.

One other kind of exchange focuses on subscribers. This works in a similar way, except for every subscriber you can add, you can mail one more. Email exchanges often use a matrix or multi-level based system, so you refer new members. This way you will gain new subscribers for every one you add, but you also gain a percentage of the subscribers that any of these that you refer go on to add.

12. Paid Hits

It is possible to purchase traffic directly. This will usually be in the form of popunders or pageviews from other websites.

For example, a traffic network might have deals with a large number of participatiing sites that they pay to run ads. These ad impressions are then sold off to other people who want to purchase that traffic.

Another way this paid traffic is generated is from expired domains. The network will own a large number of domains that have fallen into disuse and been de-registered, yet still get traffic. Anyone who arrives at that site is then forwarded to purchasers sites.

Whatever the method used, it's worth noting that bought, bulk, traffic is rarely a high quality. Many traffic providers will allow you to target your traffic, so you can ensure the hits will only come from, say, casino sites, merchant sites, or health sites. But the fact remains people do
not specifically aim to visit your site and may see it as an intrusion.


One use for bulk traffic like this is the fact that it still counts as a "hit". So if you run traffic
exchanges there, it will still add a credit to that exchange. It can also increase your rankings in services such as Alexa.

13. Offline Advertising

While most people with websites focus entirely on internet-based methods to drive traffic, there's still a lot of use to be had from traditional methods.

That is, direct mail marketing, billboard ads, magazine ads, newspaper ads, etc.

Traditional businesses whose website is just an offshoot of their main business are more used to these methods, so they include their web address in their literature, business cards, etc. But there is still scope to be had for companies that are entirely online.

The most important thing is a short, easy to spell URL. This ensures the address is entered correctly. It may also be worth including an incentive, for example a 10% discount or a competition if the website is used.

There is far less competition in the offline world for websites so this can be a good tactic to drive traffic. Even buying a mailing list and sending postcards can work well, and many marketers have driven a lot sales this way. There is a novelty factor in receiving a website address
through the post, and URLs in ads can also help with your brand awareness.

Don't forget your local freeads and classifieds.

14. Forum Marketing

This takes you directly to your customers. If you look for and use forums that cover your niche, for example a Fishing forum for the fishing example we have used throughout this report, then you can participate in conversations there - with a link to your site in your "signature file". This is a small block of text that appears at the end of each of your posts.

You can also be more proactive in promoting your site, by answering queries (or even posting your own) where a potential answer can be found at your own site.

It's important to read the forum first to get a feel for the style used there, and to use the
correct etiquette when responding. If you rub the forum regulars up the wrong way your promotions are doomed to failure.

Publication Articles

If you do not have your own blog? Where we publish an article? Many ways you can do to take advantage of your article. Here are some ideas you can use to take advantage of your article.

* Squidoo.com. You can create a page that contains your article on squidoo.com. This is called the lens (the lens in the Indonesian language). I made a lot of squidoo and make a lot of traffic to my affiliate link. One lens I (How to Create a Blog) can produce 5000 visits per week (the majority of Search Engine).

* Be a Guest Bloggers. Find a blog that is popular or has a high ranking. Contact owner and offer yourself to write articles on their blogs with "wages" 1 link to your site. Make sure your article quality, fresh, original, and well edited. The blog owner does not want to post the article copy and paste, messy, and it is not weighted.

* Directory of Articles. You can enter your articles in article directories. Fortunately, now there are many  article directory in the internet. You can search them by google. one of them is ezinearticles.com.

What are the benefits of marketing with articles?

1. Get backlink. If you already have a website, you can take advantage of squidoo.
2. get direct traffic. Readers can click the link to an article that is in your article.
3. Enhance credibility. You can be regarded as an expert, with a note you create a quality article.

Article requirements

* Articles must be unique, so that positive attention from google.
* This article should also be fresh, never been published on the internet.
* Quality articles. People can see if the article written carelessly.

OK, now I love to know how to campaign elegant, without great expense, and without SPAM. You will live. No more excuses no capital. If you can read this article, it means you have enough capital for the promotion by using the article.You can learn more from Allen Graves's ebook "The Article Marketing Handbook".

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What an affiliate can do without traffic? Without traffic you won't make any sales. Think of it as being like people through the door of your store. So traffic is very important if you run your internet business.

There are a number of ways you can start to drive traffic to your website. They are ranked roughly in order of importance, including the basics - such as getting your own site. Search Engines are always the main source of traffic on the Internet, with other methods falling gradually in effectiveness.

However, your mileage may vary: One strong Viral Marketing campaign has the potential, for example, to outrank all others. There may be some crossover between certain methods (Article Marketing will drive direct traffic, as well as increase PageRank for SEO, for example) and the
ranking is a combination of the total number of potential visitors compared to the number of targeted visitors (visitors who just hit your site vs visitors who want to see it).

1. Search Engines

The Search Engines, and almost by default that means Google (though it is also worth targeting others) are the best source of traffic you can get. People will come to a search engine too look for a specific site, or subject. That means that people who arrive at your site are there for a purpose, to it's targeted traffic.

There are millions of sites in the world wide web, so how do you get yours to the front of the queue? Most people will only look through the resultson the first page or two.

You have to understand how Google ranks your site. First, it looks at the content, for keywords, as well as special "meta" parts of your webpage such as it's title and URL. Then it will use it's own proprietary ranking method known as Page Rank.

Page Rank counts the number of links coming to your site from other sites. The theory is this means your site is more respected, and more useful, than others. It also puts an emphasis on older sites - therefore links from sites that themselves have a high pagerank and age will effect
yours more beneficially.

There are two main theories of getting good Search Engine rankings. One states that just by being the best you can, adding content literally every day, making your site easy to navigate and easy to use will naturally result in a good ranking. The cream rises to the top.

Another says you can actively influence the results. By seeking out sites to link to yours, by adding content that specifically includes keywords you wish to be ranked for, and by ensuring each of your pages are listed.

So here's what's important:

i.
Find out what Keywords you wished to be ranked for. You can use Google's Keyword Tool for this. So, if for example you have a fishing site, perhaps terms such as "Carp Fishing", "Boat Fishing", "Fishing Rods", "Fishing Tackle" etc can be focused on. You can also look at competing sites and see what keywords they are targeting.

ii.
Create pages for each of the terms you have listed. Have the content on those pages include the specific terms a number of times - but don't over do it. And ensure the page URL, Title and Meta Keywords sections include those terms. Make sure the page links to a few of your other pages.

iii. Get links to your
main site, and your sub pages.This can be done by signing up to directories, commenting on other blogs, writing articles, asking other site owners to link to you, or just by writing great content that people are happy to link to. In general, one-way links are best - that is where other sites link to you but you don't link to them. Also, anchor-text can influence the link, so the word "Fly Fishing" linking to your page on that subject is better than just a raw link with your URL.

That is essentially SEO in a nutshell. There is an entire industry around the subject, and there are many other tips and tweaks you can use that mostly cover other methods to get links. But in all seriousness you are generally at Googles whim, as if they change their page rank algorithm overnight(which they do) all your hard work could be lost.

So content is the best strategy. You'll even find yourself ranking for very specific search terms (known as The Long Tail) that you didn't really aim for. And the easiest way to create good, search engine friendly content? Use a Blog! Wordpress is especially easy to install.

One last point. Although Google *should* index every page of a well linked site, by submitting a SiteMap you can ensure all your pages are listed.

Use FreeTrafficSystem to build one-way backlinks to your site.

Write articles for more backlinks and traffic.

2. Your Own Mailing List

Full information on Mailing Lists at this Squidoo page

Having your own mailing list is great, it's a little like having an instant source of traffic whenever you press "send". And it's perhaps the best quality traffic, beyond targeted - since the people here have done more than look for your site. They have actively joined it, and over time will get to know you.

There are a number of ways to store and use your mailing list. The first is simply to keep the addresses in a file and send them manually via your e-mail program. Of course that would quickly become unworkable.

The other main options are to host your own mailing list software at your website, or to use a third-party, external service.

The benefits? Firstly - cost. With a self-hosted script you pay once for the script, or maybe even get a free one. You also have all control at your end. And you can usually use it more flexibly, such as import subscribers directly, etc.

But with a third party Autoresponder you'll have the benefit of better email deliverability, and in the end that is what may sway you, regardless of cost. Services such as Aweber and Getresponse are professional email companies and spend a lot of time negotiating with email service providers to ensure their mail gets delivered, and keeping their names off the spam lists.

They are not so flexible as your own script, because they're unlikely toallow you to import subscribers, and are more likely to come down heavily if they think you are abusing their system. However, if you send emails yourself it becomes your responsibility - if any user
complains of spam (which they probably will, regardless of whether they subscribed themselves or not) it may mean your domain enters the major spam lists.

Once you have your choosen provider and you are ready to start building your list,how do you accomplish that? Simple: Put a form on your site.

This form can simply say "Please Join Our Mailing List" or you can go much further! Offer a bribe, for one. Say they can have a free membership, access to a special report, or a free ebook for joining. Or you can use a squeeze-page. This is essentially form that the user HAS to pass
through before they are even allowed to enter the site.

You can also joint venture with other list builders, so you share each others traffic: for example "Thank You For Joing My List. Please Try xxxxx". Or you can join even bigger events where every marketer will promote the same page or service - that page being where visitors can
sign up.

You can even buy a mailing list directly. This is a somewhat dubious area, though many people have had success this way. The main point is you need to tell these new subscribers why they are now on your list, anad how they can remove themselves - but of course, why they shouldn't :). You are more likely to be accused of spam this way.

Which ever method you use an email list is well worth building. If you have a service or website you can do it on the side, or you can build sites that specially designed JUST to build a list. But this list will be one of your major assests, so it's up to you to nurture and look after your
subscribers.

3. Social Networks

Social Networks are a modern phenomena on the web. Essentially it's where people can gather and recommend to each other sites, services and more as well as communicate and chat.

There are two main types that of use to the site owner. The first kind of social network actively recommends and rates various websites, such as Stumbleupon and Digg. The second type is really a communication medium, such as MySpace and Facebook.

With the bookmarking sites, you can simply add your site, then attempt to get as many votes as you can. With a high vote your site can be shown, for example, on the frontpage of Digg (resulting in the infamous "Digg Effect", literally thousands of hits overnight). Or you can grow your own personal network - by adding "friends" - on sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook.

Other social networks are more specialized, such as YouTube and Flickr, but you can still use that sites specific kind of content (videos and pictures in this case) to build a traffic flow. You just need to ensure your site link appears somewhere with the content.

Really this becomes a race for votes. It can snowball easily, so the more people who see your site on Stumbleupon or Digg the more people there are to click the vote button you provide. And with Facebook, for example, the more friends and contacts you get the more likely you are
to get even more.

It's well worth using social networks for traffic but it becomes an ongoing task, otherwise you'll just get traffic spikes and not a steady flow.

4. Viral Marketing

Viral Marketing gets it's term from the fact that the traffic you get grows exponentially. For a simple example, one person can recommend two - and those two recommend two each - and then those four recommend two each - and so on. So it becomes 2x2x2x2x2 etc.

For this work, you have to have something worth sharing.

Videos, eBooks, Websites and Programs can usually share well. As long as your content is unique or funny people will want to share it. And if you provide a simple way for them to do so, they will.

Another tactic is to encourage people to share - by, for example, offering something in return - perhaps more content or another download. Another way is to appeal to their greed, so you can offer an affiliate program of some kind - by sharing they can earn 50%, or whatever.

So you can see that an affiliate program is also a kind of viral marketing campaign! A customer is encouraged to share the site because of the commission, and many of those referred will do the same.

5. Paid Search-Engine Advertising

This mainly concerns Google Adwords. This is Googles paid advertising system, where you can bid on keywords and your ad will show in the right-hand menu.

Many people have a lot of success using this system. As long as you can account for every penny spent along the way! You must work out, for example, how many ads you will get shown for x amount of dollars, how many of those ads will get clicked on, and how many of those go on to purchase your product.

These figures are very important, for without them you will end up throwing money down
the drain. Luckily, Adwords is the best place to get instant results, and to try out new ideas.

It works by you building up a list of keywords and entering how much you are willing to bid on each keyword. If you bid the most, your ad is shown first. Otherwise it will appear in a lower position or even on the second page. It depends on your competition for those keywords.

Once you have your keywords - you can start by using the same ones you use for SEO (step 2) you need to see how many people actually search using that term. If, for example, there are 4,000 searches a month for "Fly Fishing" it may be worth you bidding on that keyword. But if it is going to cost you $2 per click, perhaps you'd think twice.

This kind of mathematical balancing is prevalent in making a success of Adwords. To get back to our example, what if 50% of those people who cost you $2 a click go on to make you $50 down the road? Is it worth the cost, then?

Sometimes, you will get lucky. You'll find a niche with very little competition, and therefore a low cost per click. You can easily make a success this way as long as your website goes on to convert that visitor to a buyer. And even if they don't buy, you are just aiming to get a subscriber,
perhaps your lifetime value of a subscriber is going to be $50+. Worth thinking about!

Don’t be fooled by HighProfits youth. There is much more to this affiliate program than meets the eye. Already they have got a following of affiliates who are generating $10,000+ commissions a month. But who can blame them.

HighProfits can offer you everything you could need to become a success in online marketing: strong products; limitless resources (articles, reviews, banners and CTA’s); $100 payment thresholds; NAT software support; an online community forum and efficient payment systems. It is every affiliates dream.

Their NAT software is particularly intriguing. Using this device affiliates can monitor the success of their websites by tracking their referral rates, plus can also benefit from interactive mediums and charts that will enable them to take their promotions to the next level.

Saying all this one of HighProfits best features has to be their 2nd tier referral program. On top of their own product commissions of 30-70%, affiliates can also make additional profits simply by referring webmasters to their network.

Beginning with an automatic $2 commission, once an affiliate’s referral starts generating commissions of their own, affiliates can look forward to 10% of their lifetime earnings. An incentive that got us scanning our friend list straight away.

And this is not forgetting their incredible payment system either. Offering their affiliates the guarantee that ‘you will always get paid for the leads you generate’; when we saw this statement we were instantly put at ease about the credibility of their program. Especially when we checked out their track record. It was superb.

Add all these together and HighProfits is certainly a network to keep your eye on. In such a short space of time they have managed to establish themselves as a strong competing affiliate network.

Wow, this one blew me away. What you get is a ready made website. The website runs automatically, you never have to maintain it. I got one and it’s been bringing in around $1000 month for me. I absolutely love it.

I give Adsense Treasure a score of 5/5 (5 out of 5)

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If you want to make your sales in affiliate program, you should make sales through your affiliate link. But the question is how to promote your affiliate link so that someone can click your link and make a sale? There are many ways to do that.

Here is 7 ways how you make sales by promote your link:


1. review from a blog
2. google adwords
3. e-mail advertising
4. social networks
5. free article submission
6. free banner exchange
7. free advertising

Review from a Blog
Make your blog like a review of the product. These reviews would include your Affiliate link. When someone reads the review, clicks on your affiliate link and purchases the product, you will earn commission. You can promote your blog link instead of your affiliate link but this is optional. You don't need to create a blog at all and just promote your affiliate link everywhere. It's up to you. Creating a blog can be useful for places on the internet that don't allow affiliate links so you can give out your blog link instead. Make sense?If you have no blog yet, just go to http://www.blogger.com and create a blog.

Google Adwords
This is most effective way to sell the affiliate product. By Advertising with Google AdWords your ad will appear on the right hand side of the Google search engine. This is an extremely powerful way of advertising.
Click here to sign up for free:
Below are some helpful tutorials about Google AdWords. I strongly recommend you look at these.
Google Sign-up demo
Google Account Navigation
Google Bidding and Ranking
Google Keyword Matching Options
Google Optimization Tips
Understanding Conversion Tracking

e-mail advertising
Sending emails to your list or ezines can be very effective. A single email campaign can bring in instant commission. You can make thousands of dollars in literally a day or two advertising using ezines email campaigns. The follow ezines are very effective for creating and email campaign with and sending to theysubscribers.
ListJoe.com
cashfromhome.com
superpromo.com
probiztips.com
smart-list.com
rent-a-list.com
youradblaster.com
If you do not have a list check out the following programs.
http://listdotcom.com
http://yourluckylist.com
http://tripleyourlist.com
http://thelistmachine.com

social networks:
If you are a member of an of the social networks like Friendster.com, Myspace.com, Facebook.com, Hi5.com, Squidoo.com etc, you can give out your affiliate link to your friends, groups etc. Just message them or add comments to their profiles.

free article submission
One of the most effective thing you can do for FREE is write articles and submit them to online article directories. Why? Well because when you submit the articles to the directories, you can put your blog or affiliate link in the signature box at the bottom. And when thousands of people read the article, a lot of them will click on your link and go to your blog and then buy the product.
Below is a list of some good article directories. It also rated how easy or hard it is to submit your articles to these directories.
GoArticles.com - Easy
SubmitYourArticles.com - Easy
vandewealth.com - Easy
articledashboard.com - Medium
powerhomebiz.com - Medium
Helium.com - Medium
webmasterslibrary.com - Medium
ezinearticles.com - Hard
news.boconline.com - Hard
Suite101.com - Hard

free banner exchange
Now that you have your own blog, you can do banner exchange with other sites. This works by you displaying their banner on your blog or website and the banner network site displaying your banner on their network of sites. This can be very effective and it's free.

free advertising
These are some free classified ads sites where you can submit an ad for free. For a ready made ad see below.
www.CraigsList.com (RECOMMENDED)
www.Gumtree.com (RECOMMENDED)
www.Ad2Go.com
www.AdToad.com
www.Adlandpro.com

Good Luck on your affiliate marketing!

There are many ways to earn money in internet and one among them which is very popular is affiliate marketing. This time as more and more companies are establishing their businesses on the Internet, affiliate programs have risen in popularity as a strong internet marketing tool. Assigned affiliates get rewarded for directing traffic and potential customer to the company’s website. This is an excellent way to earn some extra cash on your website, as an affiliate.

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In order to make money with internet marketing affiliate programs you need to know how to find what's hot and what's not. This article will discuss how to find what's hot and what's not and how to make more money with pay per sale programs by working smarter and NOT harder.

The first question that many resellers ask is how to find what products are selling hot right now. The only way you are going to get your hands on this valuable information is by doing a little research.

By Rebecca Habel

Before you will make money online finding and selling hot affiliate products, you need to understand what people want. You need to find a hungry audience and offer to feed them what they want. It's not enough just to provide food. For example, if someone wants fish, you are unlikely to sell him steak or ice cream.

Finding and selling hot affiliate programs isn't all that difficult if you follow a few rules and do your due diligence. Spending time doing good quality research is the key to your success.

You need to find out what demand there is for a certain product in the market, then examine your potential competition to find out if the market is already saturated, or if you have found yourself a viable niche.

"What should I sell?" "What products do people want?" "What's selling well now?" "How can I find a hot product?" These are questions many people ask and they are good questions to ask when starting your research. Going out and finding a product that appeals to you is not going to work, unless you just happen to like what is hot.

Before you even look at a product, you need to find a niche of people with a problem they will do anything to solve. You need to understand your potential customers before you should even think about products.

Your potential customers must want and desire to have the product you would like to sell them. A person must want a product. If they want a product enough, they will justify the need for the product. Want is a desire to have something, regardless if it is truly necessary to the function of the potential buyer's life. Need is an essential. Everyone needs food and shelter, but some people want their shelter to be six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a pool, Jacuzzi and so on. Workers need transport to get to work, but some workers will want a Ferrari while others will happily catch a bus. That is the difference between want and need.

Your potential customers have a problem they want solved and they're happy if you can help them solve it and will reward you for doing so.

Your potential customers have to perceive value in your product. The product has to fit into their wants, solve their problems and they need to perceive it's good value to them. That doesn't mean the product has to be cheap, in fact, it may be the very opposite. People pay extraordinary amounts of money for products and services they perceive to have a very high value to them.

Once you've looked at your potential customers and addressed their wants and solved their problems, you can consider the level of competition your product will have. Affiliate products are not unique to you; others will also sell them, so you need to see if you are able to capture enough market share to make the product viable for you. It's important then, to choose a niche where you can gain substantial market share, dominate or challenge the others competitors in the same field.

You must also look at the viability of the product for yourself. If it solves your customers problems, it must also solve your need to be profitable in business. Where you have competition you must do this well and perform equally or better than your chief competitor, or they will push you to the side instead.

The next factor that you need to consider when you are finding and selling hot affiliate products is to discover the general buzz around the product. If the public is generally interested in the product then it is a potential winner. However, if there is a massive amount of competition, the market may already be saturated. Likewise, if there is little interest and little competition, then that product may not be profitable for you.

More research will lead you to determining when your are finding and selling hot affiliate products is exactly what your competition is doing with similar products. If you find a large number of competitors heavily advertising the product, then it may be lucrative enough to support the sales effort. A lack of competitors or lack of advertising suggests the product is not a big seller.

Finally, you need to analyze and evaluate all the information you've gathered. Compare the demand, competition and advertising of the product against the interest, desire and wants of the potential customers.

You must check that you have high demand, or you won't have enough interested buyers to provide you with a good profit.

You need to compare competition. Too much means that your market share (profits) will be limited as it's shared by a large number of sellers. Not enough means that the product is not likely to be selling well.

High advertising drives up the cost of PPC (pay-per-click) advertising, which makes it less profitable per sale.

Finally you must compare the general interest in the product by potential buyers because if the interest is low, the demand is low, and your profits are not likely to be good either. If there is still high competition even with low demand, this is a product to be avoided as your competition will be fighting harder for the lesser number of sales.

Taking the time to do your research properly can save you a lot of time and money later on, as you will know before you take on a product if it is worth the time and effort you will need to promote it successfully.

To find out more about finding and selling hot affiliate programs, get your copy of "Simple Affiliate Secrets", where you can learn how to create big affiliate incomes using tried and tested techniques.

Rebecca Habel has over a decade experience in web design and marketing and is the owner of Rebecca's Resource, where website owners can learn to create online profits. For more information, visit her blog to find articles on all aspects of marketing your business online.

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By Julien Ternynck

When looking at how to make money on the Internet, it is not uncommon to end up finding one of the most exciting opportunities available out there: affiliate marketing.

If you do not know what the affiliate business is all about, it is simply a partnership between a merchant and all the webmasters who agree to sell his product on the Internet for a commission. Those who recommend the product are known as affiliates.

Make Money on the Internet: What about becoming an affiliate?

Each affiliate will receive a commission on sales made through their recommendations. In fact, when you become an affiliate, you get a custom link (clickable word that generally refers to the sales page of the merchant) with a unique affiliate code. When someone clicks on your link, the affiliate program of the merchant identifies you as the person who recommended the product and if your visitor makes a purchase on the merchant's website you automatically receive the commission agreed beforehand in the affiliate contract. This is how you can earn money on the Internet through affiliate marketing.

There are usually bigger affiliate commissions in digital products, that's why I recommend looking mainly for these if you want to make as much money as possible with no risks. Indeed, some retailers offer affiliate commissions up to 75% of the purchase price, and sometimes even more! You are then selling a product that's not yours and still earning more money than the merchant himself. Obviously merchants who decide to pay high commissions to their affiliates do so in order to get as many affiliates as possible, which ultimately leads to more money for them.

Now that you know what affiliate marketing is about, how do you actually become one? That's what we're going to talk about now. Becoming an affiliate is a pretty easy and straight-forward task, you only need to register on an affiliate platform and retrieve your login details (username and password) to access your personal affiliate area. In this affiliate space you will generally have access to the various products offered by retailers who use the services of affiliates to promote and sell their products.

It is important to choose carefully the products you recommend because you give your word advising one product over another. That is why you will often see that it's a better option to test the products before advising your visitors (Personally, this is how I proceed).

Affiliate: A mistake to avoid at all costs.

Many members are so eager to make their first sale they sometimes forget how important it is to test the products. Indeed, imagine that you recommend an eBook that offers to teach your visitors how to earn money online.

If you try the product, it will be easy to tell your readers if "YES" or "NO" this product delivers on its promises. Furthermore, by testing the product, you can tell how much you've won, which makes you much more trustworthy (and thus you will make more sales, allowing you to earn more money).

While conversely, if you do not test the product, it is possible that you come across a scam. Thus, by making recommendations for it, you will disappoint readers who have followed your advice and the ones who already know the bad quality of the product you're selling.

Well, now that you know the basics of how to make money online with affiliate marketing, you should get started... Be aware that some of the top affiliates on the web can make more than $1,000,000 in a single month! This is obviously hard to achieve, but a more reasonable goal like $3,000 a month can be very quickly reached.

If you want to know more about the subject and get you started the best possible way learning from the bests, check this out: The Top Affiliate Marketing Products.

All the best!

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As an affiliate marketer of Internet dating services, I'm always on
the lookout for good quality dating sites and products to offer my
single visitors. Merchants help me out when they let me know
about their new products and affiliate programs.

I was therefore thrilled when one of my friendly affiliate competitors got in touch to tell me that he'd started his own Internet dating service and affiliate program.


Having launched a community membership site myself last year,
I could fully appreciate the huge amount of time and money my
friend had invested to develop this new site. He was justifiably
proud of his accomplishment and I was excited by the prospect
of having a product to promote that would benefit everyone -
my customers, my friend and myself.

Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way.

The first stumbling block was the low commission he offered. His
top rate was 30%, with no commissions on recurring sales.

This puzzled me. As an affiliate marketer of dating programs, he
should have been aware that new sites offer at least 50% on
new and recurring sales to entice good affiliates to sign up. If
commissions on recurring sales are not offered, then the rates on
new sales should be increased to between 70 and 100 percent.

In most cases, his affiliate program would have struck out for me
at that point. However, as this was my friend's site, it occurred to
me that perhaps his product was so unique that the potential for
high volume sales might offset the lower commission. Hoping for
the best, I continued my review.

When I got to the site, the first thing I noticed was '6 registered
members' prominently displayed at the top of the homepage.
That normally wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that my
customers are looking for friends and soul mates. If I send them
to a site where there are only six people to meet, they'll likely be
disappointed. Worse, by wasting their time, they lose trust in my
judgement and then I will lose them as customers.

That's not good. My customers are literally my bread and butter.
Giving them what they want and expect is how I stay in business.
Paying for traffic that I send to a merchant site where there is
nothing to buy, will put me out of business.

(This is how a membership site should be structured. When
starting a dating service, the merchant pays for advertising to
bring people to their site. To entice visitors to sign up as members,
he will initially offer his services for fr*ee. When the database is
large enough to attract paying customers, the affiliate program
manager then invites potential affiliates to join their program.)

Although my friend's program had already struck out for my customers
and me, I was still curious, so I kept on looking.

Next I clicked on a link labeled 'Dating Resources'. Expecting to find
Internet dating tips and advice, I found links and banners pointing
to Lavalife, FriendFinder and other affiliated dating sites instead.
When I asked him about placing affiliate programs on his site, my
friend said he simply wanted to supplement his income until the
dating service got *rolling*. I can understand his motivation. However,
what he doesn't understand is the concept of customer 'hijacking'.

As an affiliate, you pay good money to get visitors to your site. You
presell your merchants' products and expect the merchant to honor
their end of the bargain by making the sale and sending your
commission check. You don't pay for the merchant to send YOUR
customers to THEIR affiliated merchants.

I didn't need to look any further. I told my friend that I would hold
off on signing up and why. Fortunately, he understood and has already
alleviated some of the problems I mentioned.

Knowing when NOT to sign up for an affiliate program can sometimes
be a tough call. However, you can simplify the process considerably.
Put yourself inside your customer's head. If the product won't work
for them, the program strikes out. Simple as that.

by: Rosalind Gardner

By Steven Gail

Marketing affiliates post links in return for profits from sites they are wishing to promote. This is a new approach to the door-to-door salesman for it is now the same concept but new technology. Money as affiliate is made by those taking the time to set up websites, research keywords, spend money to market and traffic the product. The three basic ways an affiliate makes money is through pay per click, clicks from a merchant link on their website for sales and pay per lead. If an affiliate is using all of these methods he/she can really make a good living.

Staying fresh with the trends, research and new techniques is the way an affiliate keeps momentum in the internet selling world. Some ways an affiliate stays fresh is to keep articles up to date and links tested. Testing a site as a visitor is the best way to observe how the website is attracting and working for potential clients. Tracking software to test traffic is a resource that affiliates use to monitor sales. Articles are written to allow links back to the affiliate's site for interested customers to explore and purchase products. Blogging is also a great tool for gaining interested readers who will click on the links and that is another way that money as affiliate can be made. Readers will often follow the affiliate with their articles or blog.

Social networking is another way that to make money as affiliate. Interacting with others, talking up your product and providing value are all aspects of good social networking. An affiliate can gain a following on social networks and even provide links for networkers to opt in on their blog or website. With a list, very similar to a mailing list, the affiliate can market his products to the list and continue to sell to them.

The tactics for good salesmanship was to learn the product and lingo of the customer and provide the service or product the customer needs. That has not changed. Only the venue has changed. It is the same game, but it is now played on the internet. Just like any salesman in the past, an affiliate can make a good living selling on the internet and there are many, many internet marketers to back that up with proof.

Steve has been producing multiple streams of income for his family. He is a financial motivator who helps people of all walks of life supplement their income and produce multiple revenue streams. For more ways to make money online check out opportunities at make money online marketing now.

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By Zayn Ashraf

Promoting web affiliate program is not as hard as many believe it is. When I first started my internet business, I have to admit that I was also a bit scared and confused in implementing internet marketing techniques I learnt online. This actually discouraged me somewhat, however, with determination, focus, and hard work I decided to learn those techniques and found that promoting a web affiliate program really is not hard. Today, after many successful affiliate marketing campaigns, I feel happy that I took that extra step to learn various techniques on internet marketing. I would like to share few basics to help you promote your web affiliate program.

Many individuals give up too fast without spending time to learn. This is the reason over ninety percent of people that join affiliate programs do not make any money. They do not work hard lack motivation to learn internet marketing techniques. They typically apply the techniques that have been supplied by the affiliate program they signed up with. Those techniques do not work all the times.

Let's talk about some basic elements of affiliate marketing that if carefully considered, can help you achieve your financial goals. In the first step you have to identify a product you want to market and the second step would be the proper internet marketing techniques you would implement.

For the affiliate product selection, you will have to first explore your niche and what exactly is selling online within your niche. Once you are able to find a niche, you need to search proper key word phrase related to product. While picking the product, make sure you really believe in the affiliate product that you are promoting. Believing in the product is an important step. If you do not believe in the product yourself, then how do you think you can promote it and convince visitors to buy it? Many purchase products or services because of personal recommendations or testimonials. In order to speak intelligently, you need to have confidence in the product that you are marketing. Getting testimonials and personal endorsement is going to give your visitors more comfort. Just providing banners and pictures won't be enough. It is important that you get those actual testimonials.

Once the affiliate product is identified, you have the option to generate traffic directly to vendor website or create your own landing page, mini page or a key work phrase centric full website and initially drive traffic to your site and then to actual product site. You may also want to setup auto responder in order to increase your subscriber list for email marketing.

At his stage, you are ready to start your marketing campaigns. You can consider following traffic generation techniques to market your web affiliate program:
-Directory Submissions
-Article Writing and distribution to article directories
-Bookmarking
-Utilizing Social sites
-Press releases
-Classified ads
-Participation in Forums
-Pings
-Using multi-media
-Blogs
-Pay per click

There is tons of material available to learn all of the above techniques, you can use a few or all of them to be able to be on the top Google page. Just to expand on the article submissions, it's one of the great methods to produce backlinks for your affiliate site. Many individuals hire freelance writers in order to promote their programs. If you are not a good writer, then you too may want to hire a freelance writer. Just by using this method to advertise, you will be getting your website more exposure and generate traffic.

Learning and properly implementing these methodologies can certainly enhance your internet business and benefit from web affiliate programs.

This site is your source for web affiliate program ideas, educational material, potential solutions and necessary affiliate internet marketing tools for SEO, keyword pay per click, optins, back-linking, article writing, and even free tools for your success.

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It is indeed a tough job to create and market the products and services on the Internet to millions of customers. There are several merchants who create the product and in order to make maximum number of sales, they recruit other marketers who sell the products created by the merchants in exchange of a commission. These people who promote and sell products created by the others are called affiliate marketers.

If you think running your own business online by creating your own products is too much for you, you can simply apply to be an affiliate. This way, you can cater to the needs of the customers by giving them what they want, and every time you make a sale, you get the commission.

Well then, you must have guessed the secret of the success in this business by now. The secret is that the more sales you make, the more money you make. But how can you do that? Here are some methods:

1.You can choose certain affiliate programs for help, but many of them will only promise short cuts. When you are in a serious job, there are no easy ways out. Though you might be told that you have to only paste ads and banners and the money will roll in, it is wrong. This can happen only when you are affiliating for a very large, popular site where there is a huge amount of traffic already. But if that is not so, you have to work harder.

1. You have to choose the right banner, since a lot of people have started to sell their own products online, which are also very good. Thus the competition has increased. For that extra edge over the others, you need to advertise in the right way.

2. Banner advertising is a good way to make money in affiliate marketing. When you are creating banners, they need to be perfect. Some tips that you must follow in here are:

a. Your banner must be rich, yet not too heavy. Keep it as simple as possible. This is because if your banner is heavy, it will take time to download. When a visitor is opening a page, he needs to see everything all at once. If your banner takes too much time to download, your visitor will have already scrolled down the page and therefore missed it entirely.

b. Keep your banner simple and 'light', or else, it will slow down your page while it is downloading. It might even cause some important content to disappear altogether, and you will not be able to make your sale. Therefore, for the best result, keep your banner of 15k size only.

c. If you want to make your banner highly animated, so that it flashes a lot, or glitters, you can do that but sparingly. Though these banners do get a high click through rates, they are also irritating at times.

d. When you are creating your banner, make sure that it has something to do with the theme of your site.

e. Your banner ad should only entice the visitor, not give away all information all at once. Your visitor must click for a pop-up window when he sees the ad, not leave immediately because you gave away too much instantly. You should keep the curiosity alive.

It is a difficult job to get high click through rates, but if you follow these tips, there is no way that you will not be able to make enough sales. So get on with it, and earn some dough!

If you are interested in knowing more about the best affiliate marketing programs and how you can earn through it, you might want to consult the works of Christopher Freville who is one of the most successful online base entrepreneurs. You can visit his site for more information on affiliate marketing tactics.

By Christopher J Freville
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$27,817 Monthly With Affiliate Programs

by: John McLaren

I still remember thinking that promoting Affiliate Programs was a waste of time. Until I started making a small fortune. At the end of 2004, I started some time exploring the concept of promoting affiliate programs through pay-per-click search engines. I knew of some Internet Marketing gurus who were claiming you could make thousands of dollars every month. But I was skeptical. I remember thinking, “I know what these guys are about. They just want to sell more books.” But I decided that at least it was worth a look. The concept is quite simple. Choose a product – and one that has an affiliate program, of course. Set up an advertising campaign at a PPC search engine like Google and choose how much you want to pay per click. Write a three line advertisement and add your affiliate link. Whenever anyone clicks through your ad and buys the product, you earn a commission. So I looked. And thought about it. And looked some more. I was still very uncertain about the whole concept, but I finally decided to test for myself whether it could really work. And since I knew I’d be spending quite a bit of money on advertising clicks, I felt it was well worth investing in a book so I could learn from more experienced marketers how to maximize the profitability of my campaigns. As my business grew over several weeks I purchased and read several ebooks. By far the best I read was Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash ( http://tinyurl.com/6gdaq ). His approach is genuine, down-to-earth, and he explains very clearly how to build your own affiliate marketing business. And importantly, he makes a fortune doing what he explains in the book. I started by testing 20-30 campaigns on various products. Most of them were unsuccessful, but I expected that from what I had been reading. I would test a product, and if it didn’t work, I would drop it quickly. The key with this business is identifying the affiliate products and campaigns that are successful. Once you find one that works, the money starts rolling in. By February of 2005 I had identified several campaigns that were turning a profit. With one of these I was spending $0.08 per click to promote an affiliate product that pays me $18 commission on each sale. Approximately 1 visitor in 100 buys the product, so I make around $10 profit for every 100 visitors that I send. What a formula! For every 1,000 visitors, that’s $180 in commissions. That might not seem like all that much, but remember once you have a successful campaign it keeps going all day, every day. If you send just 1,000 visitors to a program like this every day, then by the end of the month you will have earned $5,400 in commissions, of which $3,000 is profit. Does it seem too simple? Well, if it was so easy everyone from your Aunt Mabel to the mailman would be doing it. In fact, while the concept is simple, getting your campaigns to run profitably does take some work. Since I can't possibly teach you all you need to know in one article, I'll give you a few tips here and recommend Google Cash for a detailed explanation: Choose Your Product Wisely. The program should pay a commission of $15 or more, otherwise it won’t be worth paying for your clicks. And if the commission is very high, be careful. Some products like web hosting and satellite dish installations may pay commissions of $100, but you face intense competition from other affiliates, so the price you need to pay to get ad exposure and clicks will probably also be very high. Sometimes it is better to identify a niche product with less competition from other affiliates. Track Your Campaigns Carefully. If you’re paying around 7 or 8 cents per click for a program that pays close to $20 commission, you need to make at least one sale for every 250 visitors. If you send 300 to 400 visitors with no sale, consider dropping it. Days Of The Week Do Matter. When testing campaigns keep in mind the day of the week and even the time of day. Some products sell better on Mondays through Fridays, during business hours. Others, like entertainment products, sell better in the evenings and on weekends. Getting back to my own experience, after identifying several campaigns that ‘worked’, I spent some time fine-tuning them using techniques I read about in Google Cash. By the end of February I had earned $27,817 in commissions for the month, all on products I had never even heard of at the end of 2004. My profit was a neat $10,795. It’s incredible really. I made this money without a web site. From home. Working an average of just an hour or two a day. I’m finally making the amount of money online that I dreamed about. How about you? Would you also like to build an affiliate marketing business? Could you use some additional income? I encourage you to proceed, but be smart about it. There are risks involved and you should be aware of them. You should read Chris Carpenter’s book. That way you’ll be on a fast track to more profitable campaigns. And his book will save you hundreds of dollars, easily, as you avoid some common mistakes and pitfalls. Good Marketing! About The Author John McLaren has worked for many years selling IT consulting services. Now he works from home, just a few hours each day, building his highly successful affiliate marketing business. For more professional advice, he recommends the book, Google Cash, available at: http://tinyurl.com/6gdaq.