5 Ways to Drive Traffic to Promote Your Affiliate Products

By Cheow Yu Yuan

Affiliate marketing offers the opportunity for one to start an internet business without having a website, own products, or even money. Affiliate marketing is just like any business that you can start on the internet. You will need traffic to get sales, and not any traffic, but laser targeted traffic.

One of the advantages of starting out as an affiliate marketer offers you a chance to concentrate on one thing, which is to master the art of driving traffic. You will not need to spend time to come out with your own products, or writing sales copy. All you need to do is to drive traffic, build list, and convert.

Let me just share with you 5 of the ways that you can drive traffic to your affiliate products if you are just starting out in the affiliate marketing field:


1. Writing keyword rich articles. Writing article is one of my favorite techniques to drive traffic, and it is absolutely free of charge. I understand that it will be hard when you are writing your first article. But just continue to do it and you will get the hand of it. Lastly do write keyword-rich articles so that your articles get the chance to appear on search engines.


2. Giving away free report. You can easily compile articles that you have written in the past into a report, and then give it away. Strategically place your affiliate links in the report and allow others to give away the report as long as they keep the content intact.


3. Pay-per-click advertising. You can advertise on places like Google and Overture for a fee. You will only be charged when someone clicks on your ads. You can start driving targeted traffic to your affiliate products or your squeeze page as fast as 15 minutes after set-up.


4. Forum advertising. Sign up with forums that are related to the product’s industry that you are promoting. Contribute to the forums, and place your affiliate links in your signature.


5. Squidoo. Set up a Squidoo lens and offer a review on a particular product that you are promoting. Strategically place your affiliate links within your len.


With affiliate marketing, you do not have any more excuses not to get started to earn money on the Internet. Just take the first step, and learn more as you go along.



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Be Success in Running Affiliate Program

When selecting an affiliate program to join you need to know how to choose a successful affiliate program.

Look in the wrong place and you might find a dud but look in the right place and you might be on to a winner.

Here are 7 tips to help you choose a successful affiliate program to join:

1. Look at associateprograms.com This is the ‘affiliate central' of affiliate programs. You can virtually guarantee to find a successful program here and you can choose from tons of subject areas.

2. Look at clickbank.com Nearly every product they have for sale has an affiliate program. Many of them are extremely good and most pay very high commissions. (some over 50%)

3. Affiliate resource sites usually offer their best affiliate programs. As affiliate resources sites are specialists in affiliate programs you can be pretty sure of choosing a successful affiliate program from them.

4. Look for affiliate programs that are offered through any ezines you receive. Chances are the ezine owner has an affiliate program and if they have a good ezine they probably will have a good affiliate program.

5. Think of things that ALWAYS sell. Like web site design, ebooks, music and travel. Stick to proven online sellers and the affiliate program will have a much greater chance of being successful.

6. Seek out articles on affiliate programs. There are many good writers out there who have been successful with affiliate programs. Try to find articles they have written to see what has worked for them.

7. Take courses. Many sites offer free online email courses for affiliates. Take some of these courses to learn more about what it takes to be a successful affiliate.

Affiliate programs are a great way to make money but one of the secrets to affiliate success is to choose the right program in the first place. Use these 7 tips to help you succeed.

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The Easiest Way to Find Your Topic for Niche or Affiliate Marketing

People think that this is the hardest step in marketing. It shouldn't be. Niche marketing is straight up easier money than affiliate marketing. While they share the same properties in the fact that you are still doing the same in the end, niche marketing is cornering a small piece of a market, and selling to it like crazy.

And I'm going to tell you a secret that most people charge for, and here it is...

If you can't find a product or service to promote as an affiliate, you're going to have to (do I dare say it... Yes I do...) Make Your Own. Seriously. That's the big secret.

Make your own 20 to 30 paged PDF and sell it. That's the big secret that gurus charge you $97 for. Don't know how much to sell it for? Just ask for a price that's close to the amount of pages you put in it.

Where to Begin?

Well, it has to begin with you obviously. You'll want to start by making some lists. I know, I know. You just want to jump right in there and start making thousands a day like all the gurus. Don't we all want that? Anyways...

Many marketers will tell you to make like 1 or 2 lists, but that is rubbish. I say at minimum 4 or even 5. It'll explain it more in a minute but here are the lists:

• Things You Like To Do
• Things You Already Can Do
• Things You Are Interested In, but not necessarily familiar with
• Things You can do that could be making you money
• And finally, Things that you have no idea about, but think that they can be profitable

First up, Things That You Like To Do

This of course is any hobby or special interest that you are into. If you go play racquetball on the weekends, put that in the list. If you like to race people on drag strips, another fine one. Whatever you like to do for fun, put anything and everything you can think of on this list.

So what kind of products could you make of these? Easy. Short 5 to 10 paged reports that you could sell for 5 to 10 dollars. Start out small. Using the racquetball example, make one about exercises to do before playing racquetball, proper technique, the rules, popular players, ways to score, etc. Use your head.

As for the racing one, again easy. You could write a report about how to lower your times for whatever kind of car that you have. This way you might know some amount about it, and you could do some research. It's that easy. If you find a decent amount of buyers, you're golden. Niche marketing works.

Next list, Things That you can Already Do

Now you'll want to make a list of things that you can already do. Say you know how to rebuild engines, there's a great guide right there. Or if you could type 60 wpm, you could sell a guide about typing exercises and techniques to improve typing skills.

This again is anything you can do, as in skills. These may over lap the first list, which is ok for now. If you can't think of any skills, just think about what you do well. If you still need an example, here's mine.

I'm decent at cleaning people's harddrives. Not physically, but I know how to get rid of viruses, make it run faster, and protect it overall. So people in my family and my wife's ask me to help them with their computers all the time. So this was an example of a niche that I got into, fixing hardrives. Its all about what you can do.

Oh ya, before I move on, let me say something first: Playing video games CAN be skill. Writing guides about how to beat games or boss battle guides or the cheats for games CAN be profitable. Sorry, I'm a nerd sometimes... Too much Playstation. Oh well.

Thirdly, Things You Are Interested In

The reason I say this is because you DO NOT have to actually know your niche before marketing it. I'm not telling you to make crappy reports about something you know nothing about, I just mean, it's easy to learn something and then turn it into a report in no time, so don't let not knowing something stop you from making money with any niche.

So now, you'll make a list about whatever you're interested in. This can be broad or narrow, depending on what it is. Just write it down anyways. Say you read about electronic gizmos and gadgets. There are a couple of ways to make money with that:

Make a review blog of those types of items, and have affiliate links to sites that sell them, and sell small reports about flaws and how to use the gadgets. Stuff like that.

So just write down whatever you're into, but not necessarily in.

Then, make a list of Things You Have No Idea About but think they Will be Profitable

This list may be your hardest to do. It's ok. Often times, this one is for me. It's hard to make money when you have no idea what to sell. If you absolutely can't think of anything, then don't put anything. I think its easiest just to read about stuff from emails, tv and life in general to get ideas.

Here's an example. The other day I was at Staples. I was walking around looking at desks and stuff when I saw a lether desktop set. Then I got an idea. What if I tried that niche? So when I got home, I put "Leather Desk Accessories" into Google. There were tons of results. I was blown away. This kind of niche has got to have some money in it because there were so many ads and results. So I didn't get into that niche , but my point is this: You can make money from anything, and people do. Every single day.

Finally, you should make a list of things you could be doing to make you money.

This itself is really a list that you're going to put the rest of your results into. This list is the different ways you could make money online with all of the results you came up with. I'm not going to go on forever, but here are some ideas:

• review site,
• review blog,
• pdfs,
• reports,
• guides,
• services,
• tutoring,
• courses,
• videos, etc.

Feel free to do one or all of them. As for the niches themselves, go start off with the ones that match up the most, then work your way down.

My name is Coty Schwabe. Most know me as The Guru Crusher. I personally enjoy finding much cheaper ways to do things online rather than just buying every product that comes along. I too have a "make money online" package that is comparable to any other called the Ultimate Profit Program. Be sure to visit The Guru Crusher. Stop by for great internet marketing info!

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