Basics of Affiliate Marketing

                                     

          Beginner Basics of  Affiliate Marketing

                                           

Online marketing is a huge reality today, and you must have heard tales of people earning thousands of dollars every month sitting at home. That is ridiculous; is that actually possible? It is possible but not as easy as it sounds in some corny articles that you may read about Affiliate marketing. It requires hard work, and you need to start from learning the basics of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is the selling of someone else's products or services through your website or blog and by your marketing methods. So, if you are an affiliate for a particular product, you have a banner or advertisement on your website and you promote this product. If someone buys this product or clicks on the link to reach the target website or registers on that website, depending upon what the required action is, then you earn a commission. The commissions are generally in the range of 15% to 20% though they could vary depending upon the product. As you get a hang of the strategies, you could be an affiliate for more products and increase your income. But, the process is not this quick and easy.

Read, read and read. Before choosing a product for affiliate marketing, research it. Understand it and see whether you will be able to promote it well. Is it in a good and profitable niche yet not too popular that it has loads of affiliate marketers already hankering after it? How do you plan to promote it? You will surely need to have a dedicated website with its own domain name or a blog where you offer relevant information or articles that offer good value to the visitors. They must encourage the visitors to know more about the product and also nudge them gently towards taking the desired action. You can promote the product through banners and advertisements on your other websites as well. You can offer freebies or lucrative discounts to your visitors too if they take the desired action. The aim is good visibility for the product. You also need to understand how to structure your website in terms of its content and its layout. Have you heard of SEO-optimized content? If not, you need to read about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and keyword selection too.