6 tips on becoming a succezsful affliliate
Copyright: Damon Willis
As most of you know it takes a lot more than just a great
product to translate into dollars in your bank account. The six
tips I want to share with you are the same tips I give my
partners (also known as affiliates) who sell my product. We all
know myself included that becoming an affiliate for a product
you believe in can be very exciting, but let's channel that
energy and enthusiasm into success!
The first tip is extremely important; you need to know your
product! I know that most affiliate programs are free and it can
be frustrating when you have to consider spending money on the
product you're selling, but sometimes spending as little as
thirty bucks to start a career seems like a great investment to
me.
The second tip is to build a great website. If you don't have
any web publishing skills there are tons of free sites with web
templates that make your job easy such as Tripod or Lycos who
will host your website for free. After you've built a great site
ask yourself a few questions, would you visit this website? And
more importantly; what would make you revisit this website.
Remember only one out of every hundred visitors will purchase
the product you sell so make sure the quality of your website
isn't the reason they go elsewhere.
Offering free stuff is the best way to draw traffic to your
website. You can usually increase your web traffic up to 400%
just by offering something free like an article or maybe a free
e-book. Now that you have visitors to your site it's up to you
and the quality of your product to keep them there.
Advertising your website is vital to your company's survival
because without different forms of advertising nobody knows that
your product exists. It takes a while to figure out which
advertising methods are the most effective for your company so
concentrate on the hits and get rid of the misses. I go further
into depth on the subject of advertising in another article
which is available on my website.
The fifth tip is that you must choose the right keywords and the
right Meta tags to insert into your website. The reason is that,
this is the way search engines decide on what your ranking will
be when someone types in a keyword. Now choosing the right
keywords can be a tough challenge but there are tools to help,
search engine optimizers as well as a host of other tools that
will help you get that top 20 ranking. Remember 80% of your
website hits will probably come from search engines, so your
keywords are vital.
Last but not least, our sixth tip is to trade links with
reputable websites. What this does for you is increase your
website credibility and it usually makes your web ranking
skyrocket when you link to sites that have a higher ranking.
Remember to choose sites relevant or similar to the content on
your website because that click-through from another website
could turn into a paying customer.
************************************************ Damon Willis is
the author of a new book titled "How to start a successful
daycare business" http://www.startadaycarecenter.com or email
to:damonwillis@startadaycarecenter.com The article is free to
publish with my permission but you must run the article as it
appears.