HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL AFFILIATE MARKETER?

 HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL AFFILIATE MARKETER?

 

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people's product or service. 

Affiliate marketing is a very interesting career opportunity and becoming an affiliate marketer is very easy even though becoming a successful one requires lots of sacrifices, the results are worth it. It’s not just about starting affiliate marketing but becoming successful in it.

Below are 10 steps to become a successful affiliate marketer

1. Select a profitable Niche

It is a bit of common advice that whenever you choose a niche for blogging, choose a niche that both are profitable and you have an interest in it.

When choosing a niche, you need to ensure that the niche satisfies the below criteria

. 

• Low competition 

• Good commission rate

• Products selling at a good price (Rs 3,000-20,000)

2. Selection of Domain

Many people make a mistake of choosing a keyword stuffed domain name or they go just too narrow and choose a domain which makes them locked to a particular sub-niche.

 

This is very important by taking the future into perspective. The domain name you choose should not limit your site’s growth by any means. At any point in time, your domain name should give you the freedom to reinvest the money that you’ve earnt and spread your wings across various niches and sub-niches

3. Choosing the right Affiliate Network

The best way to go into affiliate marketing is by selecting an affiliate network. There are a lot of affiliate networks, some of them are owned by well-known companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple, while others specialize in specific types of products and services. Some other networks are owned by entrepreneurs and also have great products worth a look. Before you choose an affiliate network, you should check out their terms and conditions carefully.

4. Research the affiliate products

Researching affiliate products is a nice strategy for every marketer, you should not go into marketing random products instead you should make researches and select products that already has a lot of audiences to increase the chances of sales.

Researches are very important if you are going to remain productive and updated in the affiliate market as the market is very dynamic.

5.Concent Strategy

Make sure to include a catchy introduction to the blog post. Once the visitors get attracted to your blog post, it’s time for you to show them that the post is indeed relevant to them. Just include a catchy introduction and address their problems. Make your readers feel that your post will be indeed valuable for them. 

While writing reviews, make sure you also include the cons of the product. Trust me. Including the disadvantages of the product won’t reduce the conversion rate (at least in case of Amazon where you’ll be rewarded for every product purchase made through your link). 

Make sure you write the article in a conversational tone. It makes the readers engage reading your review and they tend to trust your review. 

When it comes to the types of articles, always maintain a diversity of the blog posts you publish. You site should be a good mixture of best of posts, buyer guides, information content, review posts, and perhaps tutorials. Your site should not seem like a just another affiliate site to the plain eye to be a link magnet.

6. Work on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

All the above-mentioned things are incomplete if you have not worked upon the SEO. SEO should be done regularly so that your post appears on top search results of search engine. This will drive more traffic to your site So, more conversion rate and as a result more earning.

7. Drive traffic from Social media

With the number of people increasing daily on social networks, there is no better place to market merchant’s products. You can publish interesting posts regularly to redirect prospects to your merchant’s site as engagements are more on the social media than anywhere on the internet.

8. Join Forums and participate in discussions

You can get to learn more as you relate with other affiliates and also meet plenty of curious buyers and interested people asking questions and dropping comments.

9. Use Pretty Links

Most affiliate links aren’t really attractive, those long links with letters and complex numbers end up discouraging buyers sometimes so it’s advisable that you make your links prettier to avoid silly losses, a friendlier and easy to type link is far promising than the usual affiliate links.

10. Build your email list

Email marketing is another very effective form of marketing and can help boost sales of affiliate products. Though email marketing can be stressful sometimes as building a mail list isn’t easy, the end result is always pleasing and there are a lot of email marketing tools out there that makes the task easier.

11. Positivity and Patience

This is the last but the most important point to be a winner in the long run. Your positivity and patience is very important if you’re gonna stay long and remain productive in affiliate marketing