A Step-By-Step Guide to Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Kurt Rorbakken

January 14, 2009


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Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which you get paid for helping others earn profits by marketing for their product and getting commission for each sale that happens through your reference.

It is a way where people earn millions and millions of dollars each year.

Affiliate marketing can be done in numerous ways. Being, new to this business, I will give you directions towards how you can be one of those who do earn a lot. And mind it, they really do!

Affiliate marketing is internet marketing for somebody else's product. It is better than having your own product and selling it. As you are relieved of all the tension that grips you in regard to sales of your product. I have tried a lot of means of earning money online and this is the best of all. In this, you work less and earn more.

I have compiled the basic steps towards Affiliate Marketing:

* Review Site Marketing: In this type of marketing, you build a review site for the product you want to affiliate with. Review site can be made on one of the free blogging sites that we have. If you want to use your own domain, then you can build it on your own server. This is the best practice that I have come across in this business so far. Make sure your review site is search engine optimized, so that it is easily indexed by the search engines.

* Article Marketing: In this type of marketing, you write short articles related to your affiliate product. After this, you can submit your articles to article submitters, directories, blog sites, social-bookmarking sites. Once your article gets accepted in the article directories that you submitted to, you need to populate the bio-box and byline provided at the bottom with your references (i.e. your affiliate link) and contact information.

* E-mail Marketing: This is possible if you have an e-mail list of buyers. The conversion rate in this case increases by many folds, if the buyer list that you have is a targeted niche. This is by far, the fastest way to rake in Commissions but creating an E-mail list of your own is the most difficult task to accomplish and is a long term process.

*PPC( Pay Per Click) Marketing: If your open to investing money for the Marketing, then this is a very profitable business as well. . This is a method of advertising your website on search engine results (in the sponsored result listing) where advertisers bid against each other to be the top search result on particular keywords or keyword phrases. Cost per click is the bidding amount you agree to pay whenever there is a click on your result.