As a new affiliate marketer, it's important that you consider these 8 affiliate marketing tips for beginners because if you ignore them you will learn the lessons the hard way.
For instance, if you believe that placing banner advertising on your blog is the best and only way to promote affiliate products, you will soon find that banners do not create content and pay per click customers will soon leave as people aren't excited by banners.
To be successful in affiliate marketing you need to learn about affiliate marketing, the best way to get sales, how to lay out your blog for an optimal user experience, how to create content, and how to drive traffic to your blog.
For more on these topics, please read on.
1. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Investing in knowledge is the best way to start making money and become a successful affiliate marketer.
The best way to do this is to invest in some affiliate marketing training.
It's a matter of separating the wheat from the chaff, some affiliate marketing training programs don't offer what they advertise and then there are the best of the best that are helpful and offer assistance in nearly every area when you are just starting.
Reading affiliate marketing blogs offer tips and tricks to help you along the way.
2.Researching your niche and associated products
To get the best start in affiliate marketing, you must be prepared to research your niche and really get to know it, if you don't already.
This applies to the products that you are referring your customers to.
It's not just enough to put a link in one of your articles without having several articles reviewing your associated products.
People want to know what they are buying. If you don't know how to write a review, google it.
3. Your affiliate products must offer reasonable commissions
Unless your blog is receiving high volumes of traffic and the product is easily sold, the affiliate products that you're promoting the need to offer a decently sized commission of at least $20 per sale, otherwise you won't be earning a regular wage.
Many products on Clickbank.com offer commissions of 50%-75%, which means you can expect to make a full-time wage selling 1-2 products a day.
4. The Domain name needs to describe your niche
When choosing a domain name it needs to be short and memorable and it is also best to choose a top level domain like .com as you will rank higher than lower level domain names.
There is little point in paying for extra privacy for domain names as if you ever decide to run an email marketing list your name and address will be displayed as this is a condition of the SPAM act.
5. Your website needs to be well designed
Having a poorly set out website, which lacks a simple layout, has busy background images, bright text and a poorly set out navigation, can all be a recipe for the disaster.
But if your content is worthy of being read, readers may tough it out.
And if you are using the content management system (cms), Wordpress, extra thought needs to be taken when deciding on a theme.
There are some great magazine and photography themes available but if you are running an affiliate marketing blog, do you really need a photography slider showcasing your latest stories?
Layout for a good user experience is important.
Readers need to be able to access your articles and blog posts without searching through a dozen menus and links.
Equally important is for your website to load quickly.
You don't want to risk a browser timeout or an impatient reader not wanting to wait until all your high-resolution photos have loaded.
User experience and user interface are two important things that need to be considered when deciding to set up a blog.
7. Content is King
The content featured on your blog needs to be well written, be free of spelling and grammatical errors, as a piece of writing that doesn't flow makes little sense to the reader and is not worth reading.
It also needs to be useful to readers so they can apply it to their life.
If you're not able to sustain the interest of your readers they won't be in buy-ready mode and this means no affiliate commissions.
The search engines need to be pleased too, which means including keywords within your articles.
The best way to do this is to write around keywords rather than writing for them.
8.Getting Traffic
The fastest way to get listed on page one of Google is to set up a collection on Google+ and to keep adding to it.
You can be on the first page of Google in less than one minute once the Google spiders have initially crawled your website.
Other social media sites such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook can also be helpful in getting leads or website visits.
But social media is hard work and buying followers to make yourself look like an authority is useless as it is better to have 200 engaged followers rather than 30K fake followers and no engaged followers.
Conclusion
With the above affiliate marketing tips for beginners you now know how important it is to learn how important it is to get some affiliate marketing training, to know what you're promoting, to have an appropriate domain name, how important user experience is, the content readers expect to read, and some traffic ideas.
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