Step One of Affiliate Marketing
The truth is, it’s hard to get your head around where to start.
write articles, create a lens, create a web page, blog, social bookmark it, whaat??so here it is. How To Start an Affiliate Marketing EMPIRE step by step. In pictures. with words.
Step One:
Choose a niche and create a landing page
Forget everything you have read about choosing a niche. it’s not supposed to be hard. Choose something that either you enjoy doing yourself, or that you have some knowledge about..it could be something you are studying or want to learn more about.
For some reason everyone gets caught up choosing a niche. Don’t make it harder than it is! Just pick one, then pick another one.. pick 5 for goodness sake, more important than the niche is that you can find a product that sells.
For example, i have a website, it gets hits and i make money from adsense. For the life of me i can’t find a thing to sell. Does this mean i give it up? No! of course not. It still gets hits, i have affiliate product links on it, but at the moment that particular niche is boring me to tears… So i am working on my other 4 niches 
In the meantime, that website is still ranked well by google,its getting a consistent amount of hits… and when i feel the need i will write some more articles and increase my adsense revenue.
see what i’m getting at?
The bottom line is that if you have multiple niches, when one doesnt work, or fails to take off… another one will. Don’t give up, Don’t put all your eggs in one basket and for goodness sake, Don’t take a site down if it fails to convert on day 2!
Alright, back to the lesson.
Creating a landing page.
Your landing page is designed to a) get ranked in google and b) pre-sell the affiliate product.
You can set up a landing page for free with squidoo.com or blogger.com, i personally like squidoo for landing pages. The reason why we don’t use Wordpress is because WP doesnt allow affiliate links. In fact, you will end up getting your page banned. That would be a bummer.
So, with Squidoo.com you can set up a page, put it in a category, and see how well it gets ranked within squidoo. I like that i can see where my hits are coming from with a neat little pie graph, and can also see my ranking climb on squidoo.
go set up your landing page… ready…? NOW
Make your landing page content rich. Have loads of usefull information, links, pictures, lists, etc etc etc. Make sure the links go to your affiliate’s page (with your code, of course).
Once your landing page is active, use a program like socialmarker.com and list your landing page with as many social bookmarking programs as you can. This blog gets most of its hits from Stumble, Digg and Twitter (i love my friends & followers )
Thats it! step one complete. a landing page, socially bookmarked.
stay tuned for step two of affiliate marketing… later. And remember, it wont happen overnight, but it will happen.
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Great post. And I couldn’t agree more with you about really liking the niche you’re jumping into … especially if you’re article marketing (not so bad with ppc). Nothing kills motivation like shear boredom.
cheers,
todd
May 23rd, 2008 | #