If you are new to internet marketing and have not yet heard about affiliate marketing what is it? Affiliate marketing is simply a sort of performance-based marketing where a business rewards one or more affiliates depending on the number of visitors or customers brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. For example, if you are a web content writer and you write an article about affiliate marketing what will happen? Well, if you tell somebody that you have written an article about affiliate marketing what will their next step be? They will either go to your site and buy what you have to sell or they will visit your site and search for affiliate products.
Well, if you had an affiliate link on your website the person who visits your website will most probably click on the affiliate link and thus will be directed to the merchant’s website. When the customer goes through your website, they are most likely going to buy something from your website or if not they are going to look around for other affiliate products on your website. So basically affiliate marketing what is all about is bringing targeted traffic to a website so that the merchant can then get paid. This brings you money!
Now how do you get targeted traffic to your website? You must have a website. Then you must have something that the search engines like. That means your website must be listed in the search engines like Yahoo or Google. If it is not listed then no one will ever find it. And the further down in the search engines the higher up in ranking the affiliate link is going to be and thus more chance of the affiliate link being clicked on.
There are a lot of ways to get the search engines to list your website. But the one thing that works best is keyword search engines. That is right good old fashioned keyword search engines like Google or Yahoo. The way this works is when someone types a related term into the search box like say dog collars then you find the websites that are ranking for that term. The reason you are using a “related” term is because you want to rank well for that term. So, when someone searches for dog collars online and they come across your affiliate link you will be earning commissions off of their sale.
Once you are able to get traffic to your website you need to drive traffic to your affiliate link. One of the best ways to do this is through article marketing. Article marketing is basically writing articles that provide great information about a certain topic. In the article you will provide a link to an affiliate website. The more articles you write the more links you will be able to generate.
As you can see affiliate marketing what is easy can be a little bit tough. The reason for this is that the harder you make it the more people will want to do it. So the best thing to do is take it slow and build your website slowly. As your website grows, you will be able to generate more traffic and more sales.
