Changing Your Affiliate Formula
Monday, November 13, 2006
Becoming an affiliate is one of the easiest ways to start a
business online. To start an online business, you are in fact
using someone elses product or service as leverage to create
an income stream for yourself.
Not all Affiliates have grasped the correct formula it takes to
succeed as an affiliate. Some affiliates go from one program to
the next instead of choosing one and sticking with it until
success comes. It takes perseverance and commitment to gain
success as an affiliate.
There is no one exact formula that works, but if you are using
a formula or method that is not working, then its time to
change your affiliate formula. You may be promoting the wrong
program; one that doesnt pay out enough to sustain you or you
may be using ineffective methods or formula for advertising.
Most affiliate programs come with longer URLs than normal
domain names. If you are using your long affiliate URL, go to
www.tinyurl.com to get a shorter URL link. It will take the
user back to your affiliate page, but it gets rid of your long
URL, which I think looks very tacky anyway. People wont take
you seriously if they see a long URL link like that of an
affiliate link.
If you are advertising on free classified ad sites, you may be
wasting a lot of your productive time and that formula may not
work for the item or service that you are promoting. Decrease
the time you spend posting on free classified ad sites and use
your time to write an article or articles and submit them to
ezine owners or article directories. You can go to google or
yahoo and do a search for ezines, ezine directory, article
directories, submit article. You will find a list of places
that accept article submission. Submit your article to no fewer
than 10 ezines and 10 article submission sites. Commit to
writing at least 2 articles per week and submit them. If you
can do more, then that will greatly increase your bottom line
and enhance your formula. When you submit your article or your
site to various online directories, you generate hundreds of
quality one-way links to your site and anyone who searches
these directories may find your article or your sites
description interesting & visit your site. From this you get a
large targeted audience. Make sure you pack your articles with
targeted keywords, but make sure that you dont overdo it. Give
your audience good information.
Do you know how to blog? If you dont know how, then do a
search using the popular search engines. Use keywords like,
blog, blogging, to search for information on blogs. You can
also go to blogger.com and wordpress.com to create one. It can
be done in three easy steps. You will get a blog URL after you
have created your blog. Submit that blog URL to blog
directories, which you will also find by searching the popular
search engines. Make sure you blog subject targets the audience
you are trying to reach.
Have you tried google adwords yet? Google adwords formula is
very effective if you have a strong headline and eye-catching
ad. You can go to google.adwords.com to learn more about google
adwords. Start out with $25 per day and as soon as you start
receiving hits from you google ad, go ahead and reduce your
daily amount.
Another formula you can use instead of free classified ad sites
is discussion forums. Be careful when using discussion forums or
you will be considered a spammer. Create a profile and include a
signature line with your affiliate link. Introduce yourself
first to the forum. Browse the forum to learn how others are
posting and if you make contributions to the forum, make then
count. Dont ever post ads to the forum. To find discussion
forums, go to google or yahoo and search for the type of
discussion forum you are looking for. If you go to
www.big-board.com, you will find a big list of forums to choose
from.
If you want to continue to use your ads, use them in ezines as
classified ads or solo ads. This formula is much more
effective. You an also try to find a website owner who
compliments your product or service that you are trying to
promote and ask them to do a joint venture with you. It can
create a win/win solution for all involved.
If you are not familiar with joint venture, I am going to
recommend a free ebook that will help you. It is free to
download at www.moneywithjointventures.com/freeoffer
Lastly, another formula that words is google adsense. Open a
google adsense account at google.adsense.com. Use the script
that will be provided and include it in your articles. Buy a
domain name at godaddy.com and upload the google adsense
article to your hosting account. Google loves content rich
websites. Be sure to include your affiliate link in your
article. You will also make some extra money with the google
ads that will be displayed in your article from the script
provided by google.
Changing your affiliate formula to one that works will
guarantee your success as an affiliate. If one formula doesnt
work, try another, but dont ever give up. Give the formula at
least 30 days to see some glimmer of hope. Try hard before
abandoning your efforts. What works for one may not work for
the other. Keep on affiliating. It will pay off.
About The Author: Cheryline Lawson is the author of this
article. Ms. Lawson is an Internet entrepreneur who owns
several websites that are providing monthly residual income for
her. Please visit her at http://www.moneywithjointventures.com,
http://www.fiveincomestreams.com, and
http://www.jointventuretoday.com.
posted by Dennis Cheesman @ 5:51 AM,
