Earning Online:Affiliate Marketing The Right Way

Affiliate Marketing online is one of the internets powerful earning methods, to think about earning online is easy, but to actually do that takes a little time and effort and to figure out how to market a relevant product online takes a little know how, but with the right attitude you can build an affiliate business were you don't hold any actual products, you just promote and build your affiliate campaign from the ground up through an approved affiliate scheme.

How to market your chosen affiliate program

Is it a quality product?

You need to see if the product is a good one to promote and one that is worth your time to promote, you can usually find out what the product is about on the sales page and the layout of the pitch page you can often tell if it's professionally done or not with a good header graphic and good sales copy.

The copy really reflects the value of the product or service relating all the benefits in an informed way, so the customer knows what they are going to buy, a good graphic of the product is a good indicator of whether the website owner is serious about the validity of the product and the professional nature of their own online business.

Also if you can when a new affiliate product comes up and it fits your websites content quite nicely, then it's best to jump on promoting straight away and beginning your affiliate promotion of this as soon as possible, because after awhile there will be too many affiliates promoting the same product, the affiliate campaign becomes saturated for this product and makes it harder for the newer affiliate to earn anything from this affiliate program.

Super affiliates usually take over some affiliate programs and dominate them so no one else gets a look in, which is great for the super affiliate but not fair for the new affiliates, but this is often the case with affiliate programs, they just end up being traffic generators and nothing much else after many members promote it.

One tip I can suggest is to sign up for as many affiliate networks as possible, as at these places you will find lots of promotions to earn from and there are new ones being added all the time.

Currently there are a good handful of affiliate networks to choose your affiliate products from:

Commission Junction

Clickbank

ShareaSale

Trade Doubler

Affiliate Window

Linkshare

And it's the above ones you can use to drive your affiliate business forward.

One that's rising through the ranks as a good affiliate network is The Pepper Jam Network A good network for affiliates always has a good tracking system for your affiliate campaigns, sid and tid are the main tracking id's for adding a custom tracking word or phrase to track the origin of a sale or lead.

What comes next after finding a good affiliate to promote?

Well a plan of promotion is always a good idea, researching a list of all the free link directories, free forums and free to join social networks and start your link building strategy, don't forget the best out of the lot, article directories, this is were you submit your best articles with a link back to your website and potentially other bloggers and webmasters will link to your article and reprint it on their web platform.

Many webmaster affiliates have that many choices to promote their content and recommendations and then they find that they are found in all sorts of different places on the web with the right search engine optimization, all though no one appreciates spam, it is more generally considered to find an interested party or group that can be targeted for that particular affiliate product.

Some of the top affiliate programs are credit card affiliates and webhosting affiliates, so try and go for the high earning affiliates if possible.

Update: Affiliate Bot is my top earning affiliate network now and I thought I'd add that to this post, as usual there is tracking and stats for every promotion you join as an affiliate, so you can best determine your results and make decisions based on these deciding factors.