Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 6:57 am

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is where the business rewards you (the affiliate) for each action the customer did like filling up a form or purchase you brought to them via your marketing efforts online.

Nearly every big brand on the Internet is offering affiliate commissions. Think of it this way, you are the sales person who works on a commission basis for these companies. This is one of the most effective way of Internet marketing and it is not going anywhere soon.

Samples of Affiliate Marketing

It is easy to spot affiliates in the Internet. Some of them optimize their skills to rank high in search engine and some uses google advertisements or yahoo ads to be ranked high in search engine.

The reasons affiliate can afford to pay for their ads is simply because they know how to drive targeted customers to websites and make sales and earn a good commission. However I will personally advice not to go this path unless you know what you are doing or else you will be losing lots of money very easily.

Here is a good example; let us say you are looking for information on how to build a dog house so you go to google and search the keyword “how to build a dog house” You see the first page and click an ad that interest you and brings you to this page. You found the sales page interesting and you bought it. The affiliate who did the ads earned $20.00 and his ad cost him 0.50 per click only. However do remember that not all who click on ads are interested to buy and not all will convert to sales. Beware of competitor clicking or simply people who randomly click on ads to earn adsense money.

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Those who take the longer and more effective path in my opinion are those who aims high in search engine optimization. In my case studies there are companies who dominate google with their knowledge in search engine optimization. Not only they rank in page 1 but they have multiple rankings in page 1 almost guarantee their site will be clicked when anyone search for the keyword.

This keyword has about 900m websites competing for this keyword yet I manage to help them ranked 1 internationally and also took no.3 and 4th spot in Google 1st page. This is extremely powerful for any business because not only you are ranked top but gives the impression that you are extremely famous in search engine.

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