Choosing to go With Affiliates? Read This First

Affiliates can be the bread and butter of your site. AdSense is good, don’t get me wrong, particularly if you specifically SEO to pull in the clicks, but affiliates make a bigger impact in the long run.

The best affiliates will be ones associated with niche markets. You can research these the same way you would if you were building a regular niche site, and concentrate on areas that show a decent amount of search and hardly even any competition.

Once you decide on some affiliates, you will need to go to work. You have to be approved by the affiliate in order to have their link on your site. Many have stricter criteria than AdSense, so even if you look fine to Google your affiliate might be even pickier.

Make sure you have a sturdy, well built website. Provide a safe secure environment, and work on bringing in traffic. You can do this at first by getting ranked for a few long tail keywords. Simply SEO your articles to bring in traffic, lay out your site in a neat and professional way, and then approach the affiliate.

Payout will vary from one affiliate to the next; also the payout is different from a click to a action to a sale. You will want to watch your promises – not every affiliate will be able to be squeezed onto the home page, so have data ready to show that there are good opportunities and targeted traffic on deeper pages in your site.

Once you have obtained your specific affiliates, become acquainted with their products or services, and begin writing copy geared to pre-sell the product as well as reviews to encourage purchase.

Don’t forget your check out lane. Include a simple queue of other products and a noticeable notice. “Others who bought this also tried, etc”

After you have managed to properly SEO your affiliate site, you should be ready for all of the traffic. You might even think about promoting elsewhere on the web to draw targeted traffic to your site. If you are determined to make money from affiliates you need to cover every single one of the possibilities.

A good rule of thumb is that any affiliate sites should be capable of going affiliate free in a split second, and still be considered a valuable site. This is how important the relevance of your content, the VALUE of your content is so important.