Make money Affiliate Marketing

What does affiliate mean?

It is a term that often is used to describe a relationship between a company and individual. The individual often refers products and services that the company offers.

The merchant is the company supplying the goods or providing the service.

The affiliate is basically the salesperson. The one who is the direct link between the company and the customer.

How to start

If you want to get into affiliate marketing there are many programs that will make it very easy for you.

You may of heard of programs like commission junction. It is where merchants register, and affiliates join to promote the merchants goods.

The first thing to do before choosing and products is to decide how and where you are going to sell them.

Here is what I advise

Get yourself a website. Plan it with the products or services you will be selling in mind.

You must spend time planning your marketing campaign. Making sure you are able to generate quality traffic.

Your marketing campaign will involve:

Lots of research into your chosen niche as well as keywords.

SEO - search engine optimization. Both on site and off site.

How much can you make?

You will get paid commission. So if you don't sell, you don't get paid.

the importance of your marketing campaign is huge, it will impact the amount of money you will make.

When your site and marketing campaign is launched. All you need to do next is paste your affiliate code on your site. Then you are all set to go.

How to get Your site noticed on the internet

It does not matter what your website is for, be it business or pleasure, a definite must have is traffic.

With the Internet being as big as it is, you will be just a small fish in a gigantic sea.

Ways to increase your existence online.

You can increase the traffic to your website in many ways. You will first need an Internet marketing campaign.

Know your visitors

There are certain programs that can generate you masses amount of traffic. Wonderful you may think, but they are no good to you unless they are targeted visitors.

If for instance, you had a antiques website, what are the chances someone who found your site through a teenage social site link are going to buy your products? Not very high.

You get my point? You need to target your potential customers and make sure they know your there.

Search engine optimization

If you are beginner to the world of seo, you may have heard about it and it has had your head spinning.

Seo consists of a series of on site and off site optimization. Do not let anyone tell you its easy, it is not. It takes time, lots of it.

For all those who want to start learning seo here is a simple seo guide. For those who would rather leave it to an seo expert, it will leave your time free to do what you do best.

Pay per click - PPC

If you want a fast way of getting your site noticed you can try pay per click. It is exactly what it says. You pay for each visitor that clicks on an ad that links to your site. Make sure you learn about this prior to starting.

Get traffic from social networking

Links to your site from blogs, forums and message boards, will bring you traffic.

Whichever route you take for your marketing campaign, one thing you must do is lots and lots of research. A poor campaign will lead to poor traffic.

I hope this has given you a short insight to ways you can get more visitors to your website.

Search Engine Optimization is important

I have written lots lately on seo for beginners and what search engine optimization can do for you.

Some of my recent posts include:

10 simple seo tips for beginners Explaining in simple terms basic optimization that will get your website ranking higher on search engines.

Mistakes that will kill your ranking Around 80% of websites are beging penalized by google without even realizing. You might want to read this post and do your own check list.

Seo v Adwords A look at organic traffic benefits against pay per click marketing.

The reason why i have been concentrating on SEO allot lately is because it is important, plain and simple. Whatever website you have, whichever niche you target, search engine optimization will bring you targeted traffic and we all know what targeted traffic means....more conversions.

SEO is not rocket science but it can take time to grasp. If you have not got time and want to concentrate more on what YOU do then contact me, i specialize in Internet marketing and seo. I can help get you more targeted leads.

Since my last post i have created some more resources for all you beginners needing a helping hand:

Simple Seo Guide Does what it says in the title.

Seo for Beginners Similar to the simple seo guide but laid out in simple lessons to follow.

SEO forum This one is brand spanking new, today in fact. Membership is free so why not join. You can ask anything seo related or simply offer some help to others.

This post is just a quick catch up to keep you updated with my campaign to help beginners in the vast world of seo.

Any questions please feel free to comment.