How to Get Started in Affiliate Marketing

Step 1 : Research products

The first things decide what type of products you want to sell. Choose something you are interested and feel comfortable selling. You should not try to selling a bunch of unrelated products. Create a website based on a particular theme that is related to the products.

Step 2 : Join the program

Once you have decided the products you are going to sell, look for several suitable programs to join. No all programs are created same, so take time to research each one deeply.

Before selection you should take care of following things:

1. Checkout the merchant’s website and ensure that it is attractive. See how good the sales letter is written.
2. Look at the sales commission, if you get a 50% commission but the product is only selling for 20$, you should not waste time here.
3. Look at the refund rate, it is very important. If the products have a high refund rate, you will think twice about promoting it, because it usually means the product is inferior.
4. Look for programs that use cookies, you want to make sure you are getting credited for every visitor you refer to the merchant’s website that buy something. That use cookies will be able to track record of a visitor coming from your website, even if don’t buy anything but return a later date and make a purchase, you still get the commission.

Step -3: Promote your program

Promote your program through a website, blog or social network. If you create a website to promote, visiting other professional websites is a good way to get some ideas.

Step 4 : Make your website content relevant

Make your website content relevant, for example, if you have sells e-book products, you can write articles for each e-book with a link of affiliate.

Step – 5: Drive traffic to your website

To earn affiliate commission you need to traffic on your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more sales you will generate. There are many way to drive traffic.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) – You can get more traffic from PPC advertising programs. The two most popular advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. These programs allow you to bid for top ranking keywords.

Article Marketing – Write an article related to your affiliate products, with a link to your website in the article’s website and submit.

Post Messages on Forums – Post message on forums, on community forums with a link of your website. Make sure your forum profile includes your website link. Spend a few hours in the forum to post question and replies of other people’s question. The more people you trust, the more people click on your website.

How to make money with clickbank step by step: basic way

• Step 1 : Open http://www.clickbank.com/
• Step 2 : Click on ‘Sign Up; link located in header top navigation.
• Step 3 : Fill up registration form and click on Submit button.
• Step 4: You may require validating your email.
• Step 5 : Click on “Log In” link located in header top navigation.
• Step 6 : Click on “Marketplace” link located in header top navigation.
• Step 7 : Click on “Promote Product” button located in header bottom navigation.
• Step 8 : Enter your interested products name such as “weight loss” and find products.
• Step 9: Select one best and interested products and click on ‘Promote Button’ located in products right side.
• Step 10: Your account nick name appear automatically in the nick name fielder , click on ‘Create’ button and you will get an affiliate link known as hop link. This is your income link and when somebody purchases products referring by your link, you will get an income.

General Information: You must know

• Paychecks (Payment info): Login > Reporting
• Analytics (Tracking Record & Sales): Login > Reporting > Analytics
• Payment Threshold: Login > Account Setting (Edit payment information section)
• Enquiry (Return, Password, Help, Refund): http://www.clickbank.com/vendorquestion.html?

ClickBank payment guide: requirements to get paid

• Payment threshold: Must reach the payment threshold, default is 100$.
• 5 Sales: 5 sales Using different credit/debit cards (PayPal not included)
• 2 Different payment methods: Sales must made using 2 different payment methods such as MasterCard, VISA, PayPal.

ClickBank payment methods:

• Check: You will receive your firest payment as paper check and then you can change your payment methods PayPal, Direct Deposit & Wire Transfer.
• Direct Deposit: Direct depost facility is available in following countries: US, AU, AT, BL, CA, FR, GR, HK, IN, IR, MX, NL, NZ, SA, SP, SL, and UK.
• Wire Transfer: You can change your payment method as Wire Transfer if direct deposit facility is not available in your country (35$ extra charges).

ClickBank Marketplace: how to choose a product to promote?

• Research before taking a product to promote, also get an idea from competitor.
• Only choose interested products and related to your blog/site.
• Arrange products by gravity to easily find which are popular.
• Check out the pitch page where users will land is working or not.
• Check products reputation. You can search by input “Products Name” + “Scam” or “Products Name” + “Complaints” in Google search.
• Also check ClickBank Featured Products that is in left sidebar on top corner (clickbank.com/featured).

How to promote Clickbank affiliate products:

Basic ways: By making a blog/site

• Choose a topic interested to you
• Book a domain
• Start posting content
• Use some SEO technique to get some visitors
• Select some ClickBank products related to your site/blog
• Add products in your site/blog
• When someone buy a product, you get commission

How to make money with clickbank without a website?

• Email Marketing: Make a list of people related to your industry and send email regularly.
• Article Marketing: Publish article and link back to your affiliate/landing product page.
• Web 2.0 Sites: Squidoo, Hub Pages, Blogger are an example of web 2.0 websites. You need to create a page of your products and write some useful.
• Yahoo Answer: Find a quesiton related to your product, answer and add your link back to your product page.

This is a great way to get started your own business. It’s easy and cost free. The vast majority are free to join so there is no hesitate.

There are four core players:

1. Merchant (Retailer or Brand)
2. Network
3. Publisher
4. Customer

Benefits: You don’t need to deal with:

1. Shipping the product
2. Processing credit cards
3. Handling refunds
4. Everything with product is taken care of by the merchant.

For example, let’s say you are a web developer. You buy a great web development e-book through a website and want to recommend to others. You signs up for a free account in affiliate’s website then find the e-book about web development and got a link. You post this link in places where someone interested in the e-book.

If someone clicks on your link and purchase it, you will get a commission depending on the product.

There are thousands of products online; this is a great option for making money online. If you find a product that you can be sold, you have to apply to the company. Many companies are establishing their business on internet. This is an excellent way to make money extra from your website.

How does it work?

1. Build a website, if you don’t have, read how to create a website?
2. Promote your website for traffic, read our how to promote a website?
3. Sign up with a few affiliates programs that are related to your website.
4. Link to the programs from your website.
5. Make your visitors for buy the products.
6. When visitor will click on the links and purchase products then you will receive commission into your account.

How much will I get through this program?
Some make excellent profits more than million of dollars in a year. Many people don’t know this. This is a new line of business. You may make unlimited money.

Promoting CPA Offers is an advanced strategy of affiliate marketing. In short, CPA is all about getting new leads.

There are two parts of the CPA marketing …

A) Advertiser – Who are making the offer, they want the leads.
B) Publisher – Who drive traffic for make money by deliver any action

Steps to Make Money with CPA Offers (CPA Marketing):

Step 1: Join Trustworthy CPA Networks -

For being promoting CPA offers, you must first join a CPA Network. It is very important that you join a popular and well known CPA networks. You will get best result if you promote CPA offers from 5-6 CPA networks.

Also, joining process is not easy as other programs. Your account will be manually approved into their account. So, provide all information clearly, correctly and as an experienced marketer in the joining form.

Here I have included most popular CPA Networks:

http://www.maxbounty.com/

https://www.neverblue.com/en-US/home/index.html

http://xy7.com/

http://www.fluxads.com/

http://www.clixgalore.com/

Step 2: Know Your CPA Affiliate Manager -

Once, you join CPA Networks, you need to know your CPA Affiliate Manager. Talk to them, asked them about more converting offers these days. Always, don’t ask every question and use your affiliate manager as a helpful marketing tool.

Steps 3: Select Profitable CPA Offer -

Selecting a right & profitable CPA offers is very critical part. You should check the monthly searches of your offers. Also, take the advice from your affiliate manager about which offers are performing well.

Research, review & check popularity before starting to promote a CPA Offers. You must know their EPC (Earning Per Click), check their landing page and site look and information mentioned in the landing page.

Step 4: Choose Targeted Traffic Source -

This is the most valuable steps. You have a great website having a great look, but if no one will see your offers, then how you can make money.

If you want to be success then increase your traffic. More traffic means more offers, and more offers mean more money.

There are two methods to generate traffic:

A) Free Traffic –
a) Article Marketing
b) Video Marketing
c) Guest Posting
d) Forum Posting
e) Social Media Optimization

B) Paid Traffic-
a) Google Adwords – https://adwords.google.com/
b) Yahoo Search Marketing – http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com
c) Facebook Advertising – www.facebook.com/advertising/

Step 4: Track Your Success -

Tracking is very important in CPA Marketing. Without tracking, you are going to lose a huge income. Track your most profitable landing page. Track bounce rate, average time visits, best offers, ad group, CTR, EPC. You can track everything by using Google Analytic Tool (a free tool).