Affiliate Marketing and Increasing Website Traffic

Affiliate marketing is performance based marketing when businesses rewards one or more affiliates for each customer or visitor brought by the affiliates own marketing efforts. When choosing a particular business to market for and ultimately make money, you are most likely to make money from the following three markets. These markets are the most common and successful markets regarding online trading. That does not mean other markets are not necessarily going to make you money, these three are just proven in the history of online trading to be the most attractive to web users.

Wealth
Health
Lifestyle

Where do you go to find products?

There are a number of affiliate marketing companies out there. Businesses who want to help promote their product online approach these affiliate marketing companies, then websites and pages with a lot of traffic who have also approached the affiliate marketing company are introduced to the online business. All the affiliate marketing company does is act as the middle man, as well as taking a percentage of the commission agreed with the selling business. Then a percentage from that commission is agreed with the web advertiser when a sale is made.

Examples of affiliate company’s available….

Commission Junction
Share sale
Click-bank
Clixgalore
HD Publishing
Market Health

If you have a popular website and are interested in making money, and lets face it who isn’t, i’d suggest creating a new email account and signing up for a few lists. Just search products in your area of interest and discover what kinds of products people are promoting.

But before you can even consider affiliate marketing, you must be generating enough website traffic in order for affiliate marketing campaigns to consider you an asset to their clients, and make it worth the while for you rather than receiving peanuts from the commission agreement. There are 4 types of traffic techniques which are designed, obviously, to help generate more traffic, which I’m not going to go in today but here are a few examples for you to think about….

Email Signatures
Viral Marketing
Online Giveaways
eBook Syndication

However, arguably the most important thing to consider when generating more traffic is KEYWORDS! Everything we type into a search engine is a keyword. Whenever a web user types something into a search bar we can split them into 2 categories, Long tail and short tail. An example of short tail would be searching for “Beating Migraines”. Whereas an example of a long tail search would be “natural cure for migraine headaches”. So as you can see they are both attempting to receive the same information, but one search is more specific and so the keywords will retrieve less search results. Another thing to also consider when attempting to gain traffic is ‘autoresponder swaps’, this is when you contact another internet marketer, and for three follow ups you offer them an autoresponder. You then put their details in your autoresponder for the 1^st, 3^rd and 5^th follow ups with visitors for 3 months.