Affiliates, 3 Things You should Own though You don't Own a
Product.
Affiliates, 3 Things You should Own though You don't Own a
Product.
Radhika Venkata (c).
1. Your Own web site: =============================
Most affiliates put a redirect link directly to their affiliate
product. It is not such a good practice.
*Register a domain that closely resembles your affiliate product
website. For example, if you are an affiliate for
affiliateproduct.com web site, try to register
affiliate-product.com or affiliateproduct.net.
*Follow the lay-out of your affiliate product web site.
*Put content on your web site (minimum of 10 pages). Like
articles and reviews related to your affiliate product. No need
to say to put up links leading the visitor to your affiliate web
site.
*If you have a multiple different affiliate products, don't mix
them up and put all of those links on same web site. Choose a
multidomain host and host your different affiliate web sites for
cheap.
2. Your Own opt-in list: =============================
You need your own opt-in list **no matter** what you sell and
your own or your affiliate product.
Start giving free ecourse or an ezine related to your affiliate
product and collect email addresses.
You need a follow up autoresponder or a maling list manager to
manage this process of collecting emails, follow up, sending
promotional emails etc. etc.
Here is a cgi script that you can use as BOTH follow up
autoresponders and mailing list managers:
http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml
3. Your Own Ezine articles: =============================
Yep! You have to spread the word about your affiliate product.
Don't You? Write articles related to your affiliae product and
publish them on your web site, send them to publishers, submit
them to content sites.
Do a search on Google or Altavista like 'submit+article', you
will get a big list of sites. Keep your favorites on your
Favorites folder and submit to them on regular basis.
Few tips in writing ezine articles in the affiliates
perspective: =Don't expose your affiliate link directly in your
resourcebox. =Usually affiliate links comes as long URLs. These
tend to breakup. So use some kind of redirection. =Only promote
one product in one article.
More on hiding affiliate links:
http://www.webmasters-central.com
/siteprotection/affiliatelinks.shtml