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It’s relatively easy to start and learn affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a money making scheme online where you will get paid for promoting products or sites. This is one kind of advertising scheme available and can be very profitable and you will get paid for every sell. Some affiliate programs pays its publishers on the basis of traffic actions. Here’s some info on how a newbie can start affiliate marketing.
How can I start Affiliate Marketing as a Newbie?
As you are a newbie at affiliate marketing, first you have to know about sites that offer this kind of program. There are many sites online which offer affiliate marketing programs. Amazon and eBay are two leading sites in this field. These two sites provide commission on every sale that is referred by you. This type of affiliate marketing is called a pay per sale program. This is the pioneer idea of affiliate marketing. However, today there are some new concepts of affiliate marketing that have been invented. Now we can classify affiliate sites into some certain types. The following is information about these types and some program names from where you can earn money by affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Networks and CPA Networks:
These types of affiliate sites pay you on the basis of CPA or cost per action. You should publish their ad code on your site. You will get paid for traffic which is referred from your site and make a certain action like signing up on the affiliate site. There are many CPA companies with variable reputations in keeping strict payout timetables and traffic sources. These CPA include PeerFly, MaxBounty, GoOffers, Share-A-Sell and many more. From these sites PeerFly is very reliable and they will pay you on a weekly basis if your earning reach the payout limit of $50. Your account balance will increase instantly when CPA is counted. You will get paid by different methods like paypal, direct deposit, postal check, bank wire or by your own Peerfly MasterCard. PeerFly accepts all of the countries around the world so you can try it no matter where you live. Be aware that they do require a picture ID that you can scan or snap a picture of to send them.
1 better Network is another reliable site in affiliate marketing. They have total 117 affiliate programs. You will get paid monthly if your income reaches $50 via paypal, wire transfer or check.
GoOffers and Share-A-Sell are reliable programs in this field as well. You can try them to make more money and mix and match them with whatever offers you like best.
Ad networks:
Ad networks are the most common platform of affiliate marketing. You can get paid for publishing ads of different ad networks on the basis of CPC, CPM and CPA as well. Among the ad networks the most common CPC ad network is Google Adsense. This Ad network will pay you the most per click. However, as you are a website owner you can try other ads with Google Adsense for making more money. You can use CPM or Cost Per Mile (1,000 views) ads from CPM ad networks. Casale Media, Adbrite, Bidvertiser, Clicksor, Chitika and juicy ads are some well known Ad networks.
Pay Per Sell:
This is another kind of affiliate marketing program. You will get paid for selling a product by taking a cut, or advertiser fee. For this you have to open a blog or website which will focus on a certain product. You have to write about those products and you should try to attract targeted visitors to buy this product. Then you should give your tracking link of your affiliate site. If any visitor of your website follows your link and buys the product from your affiliate link, then you will get commission on that sell.
Amazon and eBay is this kind of affiliate site. Amazon pays you on a performance scale, as well as a per category scale. So, this is a great platform for income if you push a lot of volume or high ticket items. Selling strictly electronics doesn’t work out as well because they cap at 4% commission for the electronics and games category. There are thousands of such sites online. So, use links and ads of various sites on your article so that you can earn from different sites with a single article or blogs.
Is Affiliate Marketing Easy money?
Affiliate marketing is very easy to start doing, but of course there are many little intricacies that take time to master and squeeze more money out of the system. You have to do many tasks to be successful in this field like:
1. SEO to increase traffic to your site ( high traffic helps to make you successful).
2. Finding relevant services or products and ones that convert at a decent level.
3. Building trust with your website visitor.
4. Searching for quality products to promote.
5. You may need to write good sales copy if you want to use your own or one isn’t provided.
So, that’s the low-down on affiliate marketing. To become successful you need to work hard, but seeing those first few motivating dollars isn’t going to make you pull your hair out. At it’s core, it’s all about driving traffic. More traffic = more sells. To start the train moving, I defintely suggest the following methods starting out:
- Posting a Facebook or Twitter link if you have a lot of friends on those platforms.
- Make a quick video and put it on YouTube, Vimeo, and/or DailyMotion.com with your link in the description.
- Check the Traffic in Spades system for a hands-off traffic driving system if you have a little bit of capital to invest at first.
Drop a post in the comments if you have any questions! Learn some affiliate marketing, implement what you’ve learned(!) and good luck out there!
