Methods Affiliates Can Use To Earn Commissions

By Aaron Ballantyne


If you are starting out in affiliate marketing you have many options as far as marketing methods to use to make commissions. Some work much better than others. Here are some of the most common ways affiliates can make sales.


1. Blogging. This has become very popular in just a few short years. Because of the explosion in the number of blogs and competition most don't get traffic as easily as they once did. There is still plenty of opportunity to market with blogs though especially if you find a good niche.


2. Google adwords. Like blogging it is more difficult now to make money with adwords because of intense competition and quality scoring of sites and ads known widely as the google slap. If you are good at writing ad copy, have high converting pages and can find niche keywords you can still earn a good income from using adwords.


3. SEO. This is a good way to get free traffic and make money. Choosing the right niche is critical. It should be a good keyword or phrase that is searched for often and has little competition so you can get your site ranked easily.


4. Articles. This is one of the best affiliate marketing techniques. By writing articles you establish yourself as an expert in your subject and people reading your articles will be very interested in whatever product you are marketing.


5. Ezine adverting. This is a good way to make commissions. The conversions from advertising in ezines is not nearly as good as having your own list though.


6. Squidoo lenses. These are relatively new but they get a lot of traffic from google. Lenses are also very simple to set up. I am promoting one of my lenses with this article in fact. Lenses can be effectively used to show your expertise on a topic.


7. Online classifieds. You can put classifieds on sites such as usfreeads and craigslist to drive traffic and earn commissions.


8. Text link advertising. You can advertise links to your site on other websites. As long as the traffic comes from websites with a simaler topic as yours the traffic will be targeted and should convert well.


9. Newspaper advertising. Many marketers use this offline method to make some very nice commissions. This probably requires the most experimentation to find the right papers to advertise in and also the most effective ad copy to produce sales.


10. Forum posting. This will bring quality traffic to your affiliate sites through your signature links. It is important to contribute to the forums and not just spam them though.


Those are just a few examples of how you can promote and make sales. With online marketing you are only limited by your imagination though. Keep in mind the most successfull internet marketers find new ways of getting customers with little competition.



Aaron Ballantyne has been marketing online for 2 years and has a squidoo lens where you can find free affilate marketing tips


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Affiliate Marketing - AKA Bum Marketing Profits

The first thing you need to consider when you enter affiliate marketing is to decide what niche you want to enter. It is too easy to go to Clickbank and find a few books that you can promote. The first problem is that many people are also promoting them, and if you don’t put some consideration into your advertising campaign you would soon be disappointed when you make no money.

Think about this carefully, if you are new to affiliate marketing and your site isn’t known, how are you going to draw people in to buy your product or click on your promotion?
Unless you have a plan of what you are going to do then you will be spending many hours writing ads, and paying for PPC to find little return.

The best way to profit from affiliate marketing is to find a product that fits your niche, and then write articles, to promote the product.

There are many places where you can find products, which are looking for people to promote them. Too many people starting only consider promoting ebooks, but there are vast selections of products and companies for you to get involved with.

Look at it for a moment, from the point of the buyer. They might be totally new to the world of the web, and have heard many horror stories. They might not want to pass their credit card details over to a person they don’t know. But there are hundreds of companies they know and respect. They have used them offline for many, many years, and they find they can now buy from them online.

These might be lower commission than some ebooks, but if you sell more, then you could be making more. It may take longer to sell a book that has 75% commission compared to a product that only gives 15% but you could sell more of them each day.

Not everybody wants to learn how to make money, but there are many things people need and will buy online. If you want to make money with affiliate marketing then you will be able to as long as you chose the right products.

To learn everything you need to know about Free Affiliate Programs and see exactly how I, Josh Spaulding, Make Money Online, visit http://ez-onlinemoney.com/ where I share all of my money making methods.

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