Friday, July 18, 2008

HOW TO BULID A SUCCESSFUL AFFILIATE PROGRAM

1. SET A GOAL.When starting you need to have a roadmap for where you are going,
you first have to aim little amount before procceeding of pursuing higher amount.

2.FIND A NICHE.Find a niche that suit you and your interest.choose a topic that is easy
to write about. You can do google search on RANGE PAGE to determine the top 10 to guide
you in choosing your niche.it advisable you choose less competitive niche to easily succeed.

3.BUILD A USEFUL INTERESTIING WEBSITE ON YOUR NICHE.One of the best way is to
build a site which solves peoples problem.useful sites also help their visitors decide which
products to buy.Your site must be content-rich, keyword rich, designed to be find in search engine

4.ADD AFFILIATE LINKS. Anytime you write your articles for your site,put affiliate link to them
when writing article,starting by outline problem, discuss a good solution tha thas worked for you
and end the articles with a link is a call to action such as hyperlink that says "Find out more here"
5.SIGN UP FOR GOOGLE ADSENSE.
6.SUMBIT YOOUR ARTICLES ON OTHER WEBSITES.Write articles and distribute to articles directory

7.BE CONSISTENT AND PATIENT .Starting actually will look boring but just have to be consistent
and patient.

TO YOUR AFFLIIATE SUCCESS.

QUOTE.
"...if the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent." -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

CLIFF.





Saturday, July 12, 2008

5 tips To Building a successful Online Affiliate Program

1. Find A Hot Profitable And Rabid Market.
Your first step is to find a hot, profitable and rabid market. Finding the right market to target is critical to your
success.
The Market Selection Process
The market selection process first begins with you. Start by examining your areas of knowledge, and the things
you are passionate about. The reason behind this is simple. It is easier to work in a market you enjoy and know
something about.
Exploring Your Market Ideas
The next step in the process is to explore the Internet to find out whether there are any existing products in your
market. In order to get this big picture, you need to go where your market’s products are sold
(e.g.amazon.com and Clickbank)
Keyword Research
Each time someone enters search keywords into a search engine; those searches are stored in a database. By
having access to information about what people are searching for, you can improve your web site
search engine ranking, target your advertising and uncover online markets more easily.
In order to do keyword research, you need a way to access the data the search engines have collected.
You can do this online, from your web browser, or you can use desktop software.
Google External Keyword Tool – (free)
Overture/Yahoo Suggestion Tool – (free)
2. Find 3 High Converting Affiliate Programs In Your MarketThe main criterion in
choosing a program is conversion rate. The higher the "gravity" number under the product title
the better the product is converting. "% referred” is representing the numbers of sales for this
product have been referred by affiliates. There is another reason why this information is important, and it
also points to the 2nd criteria to use in selection an affiliate program. It is to make sure the
merchant is NOT aggressively competing with his or her affiliates!
3. Write A Review Article For One Product, And Place This Review On Your Opt-In Page
There are four reasons for writing a full-length product review that gives valuable
1. information to your market:
i. Your role is to be an information provider
ii. Giving people valuable information up front improves your credibility.
iii.People want and need this information. Show them that you provide it, and you
WILL get tons of subscribers onto your list.
How To Write An Affiliate Review Article
1. Gather crucial elements for writing affiliate
review from the sales page.
2. Find discussions about the product on message boards and forums.
3. Contact testimonials on the sales page to check with them about their experience with the product.
4. Contact the product owner and ask if they provide “review copies” of their product to affiliates.


4.Drive market-specific traffic to the opt-in page to build your list Now,
we have to FOCUS on driving traffic (visitors) to your affiliate review opt-in page. More importantly,
this traffic must be targeted, and market-specific.You'll roll this knowledge into a traffic generation campaign that utilizes:
1. Articles to 'steal' search engine traffic
2. Pay-per-click advertising
3. Message boards and groups
4. Social networking5. Blogs


5. Follow Up With Your List With More InformationIn keeping with your role as an information provider, it’s crucial that you build your relationship with your list by providing as much timely, useful information as possible. The key is to always have some form of information in front of your list, especially between the 'gaps' in each autoresponder sequence, and often in the middle of an ongoing sequence.
There are two ways to do this:- Insert informational emails or newsletters between autoresponder sequences, and have these messages direct subscribers over to your blog.- Use your autoresponder to broadcast 'one time' messages to your list.