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 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?
A squeeze page is a page which has an overview of the specific service
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'll fill in the form, click submit, then 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.
If you're one of the few that doesn't know, a blog is short for 'web-log'
- a type of website which contains journal-like posts and is updated frequently.
You can create a blog around any topic you choose and sign-up for affiliate
programs that correspond to your topic of interest.
It's also a good idea to get your own domain name for your website. You
can get a free domain with no ads through www.godaddy.com.
From here you should create posts on you blog and ping it every time you
submit a new post (meaning, 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, in turn, will increase you site's popularity
and your search engine visibility.
After setting up your blog, you can create posts containing a link or
two to your website or an affiliate link relevant to the topic of your
post. The benefits here are two-fold:
1. You are advertising without "selling" (no one likes to be
sold) and
2. You are increasing the number of links to your site and your search
engine visibility.
Make sure you avoid the 7 Common Mistakes Made by Affiliate Marketers
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