Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money from home, and membership programs provided to anyone with Internet access, where the chance of winning can last a lifetime.
The affiliate programs are usually free or very inexpensive to join and easy to get, usually with the regular fees that more and more people are turning to them as the best way to start a business from home.
However, there are some mistakes in affiliate marketing that harm your business.
Avoid these common mistakes made by participants of membership, many are quickly and easily improve their chances of making sales and increase your commissions with an affiliate.
Here are some major mistakes to avoid us being members:
Do not investigate the site, service or product offered through the affiliate program before promotion.
It’s really amazing,for many members the first thing to do is sign up, simply because it has a high rate of commission or just because you can promote to earn some extra benefit.
But if the site, service or product does not have much to do with the overall theme of your own website, it will be difficult to convince your visitors and subscribers to buy or register the product. Why do it if it has nothing to do with the area for which you run your site?
In other words, should seek to promote products or services that relate to your niche market and not the first thing you see and move on.
Do not use your signature file correctly
Many members add a signature file to all outgoing emails and forums, but they should not do it properly. Twenty lines of text full of affiliate links to a lot of different products is not considered a good signature file! In fact, you can very easily be considered as spam. Try to keep your signature file at least with only five lines.
Do not write your ad copy custom
There is nothing worse than seeing the exact same ad across the Internet or e-mail messages from ten different suppliers. What value can have a message when it reaches the reader who is looking for the tenth time? Take time to edit your ad according to your target audience and subscribers, before sending it. Customize it for your ad to be your own, so that even looks like an ad anymore.
Do not pay your own domain name and hosting account
Even newcomers to the Internet can tell when an accommodation is free. It is very unprofessional and suggests to visitors who have not made any money online and probably would not be much they are offering. If you have not invested the minimum to create your online business the right way, then how visitors can trust you? Less than 10 dollars per year for a domain name in Smart price and perhaps 5 dollars per month for a hosting account, your bank account also loses weight but gains consideration relative to others. Indeed, it is likely to help win the long term.
Do not capture the e-mail addresses of your potential customers before sending them to the site affiliate
If you spend your marketing time and money to get someone to click a link to their membership and then leave your site without buying anything, you won? Nothing!
It’s just a waste of time and money spent to get a link displayed in the first place. Create a landing page for the purpose of capturing the address of your prospective client before sending to the product site. Thus, if no purchase can accompany you, then try again (again and again and again.) This can be very helpful!
Now that you know these major mistakes to avoid while we were affiliated, you should be able to make more sales and increase your commissions as an affiliate.
So get out there and become a super affiliate who always knew it could be and make money and don’t forget to leave your comment!!
Thank you isha for sharing wonderfull ideas regarding Affiliate Programs.
Nice article.. Another important thing with affiliate marketing you have to take care of is cloaking of URLs with plugins like Pretty Link or Simple URLs, so you won’t get penalized by Google.. more here : http://yoast.com/affiliate-links-and-seo/
I am new to affiliate marketing.these tips are really helpful
Very good article about affiliate marketing…I was going to add but I see the comment above by wordpress webshop has already said it. Some say Google hates affiliate links, so to be on the safer side, its a good practice to hide affiliate links.