Affiliate Marketing Strategy

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn a living working from home, there is not product creation, customer service, etc. As an affiliate you only job is to drive traffic through your affiliate coded links and collect the money.

There are many ways you can promote other peoples products as an affiliate, however today I am going to focus on one affiliate marketing strategy that I have used for some time now with great success.

This affiliate marketing strategy I am going to share with you is like creating ‘Money Machines’ that become self sufficient and deliver commissions to you every month once they are set up.

So Let’s Get In To It…

Let’s say you have already done all your research, you know your niche, your product(s) you want to promote and you know what your keywords are that you want to target  (very important). Now you need to start building your ‘Money Machine’

What You Will Need:

• Domain name
• Hosting
• WordPress blog – I prefer to use Mandigo Theme because it comes with loads of customization options, and it’s FREE
• XHeader – to create customized headers for your blogs – FREE
• Super Special Plug-ins (all free) to go along with your wordpress blog.

Ok…what I have found as the best way to promote affiliate products is to pre sell the customer on the product before you send them straight to the sales page. You can do this in 3 main ways: You could do a comparison type site, you can pre sell with stories, or you can do a review type site.

I really like review sites and that is what we are going to do here. Once I have my blog all set and looking the way I want it, you then want to write a short review of the product that you are promoting and make it a static page on your blog. You want this page to always be the first thing a visitor sees when they go to your blog. You can do this in the ‘Reading’ option under the ‘Settings’ section of your blog admin area.

How To Write A Product Review.

1. My Story, The Problem – Tell a short story about myself, making it personal and related to my target audience. You then want to pull some emotional strings about the problem your target market is experiencing. For example if I was selling a stop snoring product I might say something like this:

“Are you snoring yourself and your family members to death? I know I used to, for many years I had suffered from snoring and mild sleep apnea, in my early 20’s it didn’t really bother me. Now I as I am married and getting older it has become a real problem and it’s starting to seriously affect my health, not to mention my relationship.”

1. Be Skeptical, Before Solution – At this point I mention that I finally had enough and went on a search and finally found a solution. But to not come across as like all I want to do is sell something I will mention that I was skeptical just like your reader probably is. Staying with the same snoring example I might say something like this:

“On my search to find out how I could stop snoring I came across this anti snoring device that, well to say the least had an amazing effect on my snoring.

However before I tell you about this anti snoring device and my experience with it I want to tell you that I was very skeptical about it at first and was a bit hesitant about using it but to cut a long story short it came with a full 12 Month, 365 Day Money Back Guarantee so I thought I would give it a good honest try, thinking if it doesn’t work, well I haven’t lost anything.”

1. Explain Solution and Testimonials – There I will talk more detail about the solution a small sales pitch and then show 4 – 5 testimonials which I get from the website of the product I am promoting.
2. Call To Action – Make sure you have a few links on the page where the visitor can find out more information about what solved your problem or where they can go to purchase the product. I usually place a banner in the side bar aswell and have an opt-in form on the site to capture name and emails so I can follow up and even offer my list other products that are related to the niche I am in.

Now you need some content to post in the back of your blog, so to speak to make it look and appear more as a genuine blog offering great tips and advice about your niche.

The best part here is that you don’t have to create the content. I am going to show you where you can get FREE content posted to your blog related to your niche market. Some of the reasons you want this is to:

• Save you time and energy from creating it yourself.
• To help create more back links.
• Having fresh new content posted all the time while getting pinged will bring over the search engine crawlers helping you rank better
• You can also bookmark this content (automatically of course) creating even more backlinks, helping your search engine rankings.

So Where Do You Get This Free Content?

There are a few plug-ins that you can get, the two I like and use are:

http://www.syndicatekahuna.com/

UAW Plugins for Various Article Directories

If you want to post Amazon products to your blog automatically you can use this plug-in:

http://lunaticstudios.com/software/wp-amazon-autoposter/

You also want to set up your blog to social bookmark all this content as well once it is posted, I use a service called OnlyWire and the plug-in I use is.

http://lunaticstudios.com/software/wp-onlywire-multisubmit/

I also use this plug-in to ping all the content once it is posted.

http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mpo/

Once you have all this set up you blog will grow and your search engine rankings will increase over time. What I like to do in the mean time is to market my blog now for a few months by submitting articles to the article directories which send traffic to the site directly while also adding more back links.

I then follow the traffic generation tips I gave you in this post and I will also do some videos to help promote the blog and submit them to many video sharing sites using Traffic Geyser or TubeMogul which is a free service

On top of all that I will promote them continually though UAW which after the initial few months puts all my marketing on autopilot.

I have used this exact model many times to create many ‘Money Machines’ that continually to send me money every month and some of them I haven’t touched

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