Affiliate Marketing Tips: Creative Strategies For
Affiliate Marketing Success
by: Kevin A.
Koop
Affiliate Marketing is a growing industry and
for good reason. Affiliates can earn a substantial
income by directing website traffic to a merchant's
website and if a sale occurs, the affiliate gets a
commission.
While
Affiliate Marketing can produce attractive
pay days, it does take some work and creativity to
find success.
Here are some creative Affiliate Marketing Tips:
*Harness the huge amount of website traffic that
naturally comes to eBay every single day.
Many
affiliate marketers have yet to take advantage of
eBay and because of this, opportunities abound.
One
newer feature being offered by eBay is the eBay
Classifieds section. You place a classified ad here
just like any other online classified is placed.
You
have the ability to use your own custom HTML so the
classified ad can look any way you'd like.
There are several differences to placing a
classified ad with eBay, as opposed to an auction…
You
have the ability to direct website traffic to any
site you'd like (say your affiliate link). You can
add a web-form to build your list and since this
page is only an advertisement, you don't have to pay
eBay any "final value" fees either.
*Use the ever-growing Web 2.0 community of sites.
Some
sites, liked Scribd.com discourage users from
"commercial" type content but others, like
Squidoo.com and Hubpages.com do not.
These social networking sites are getting lots of
traffic and many are being favored by the search
engines as well. Many affiliates have not figured
out how to take full advantage of sites like these
so there still is lots of room for those who take a
little time to educate themselves.
If
you've created a landing page for your campaign, try
to create some "lenses" which are narrowly focused
around your top 5-10 keywords and point all of these
new "lens" pages back to your landing page.
In
short order, you'll find each one of your new "lens"
pages getting search engine traffic and some of the
traffic will naturally flow to your landing page as
well.
In
addition to this, you'll find your landing page
crawling it's way up in the search engine results
pages as you have pointed 5-10 more quality
backlinks to it as well.
*Use V-books in conjunction with video sites like
YouTube.com
The
term "V-book" was coined recently by marketer Mike
Long but it's really nothing new. Basically, he's
just added some screen-shot images of an actual
YouTube video into a PDF ebook and then hyperlinked
the image to the URL of the video on YouTube.com
The
really creative part of this plan is its "circular"
nature. Here's what I mean…
First, you create an informative (and hopefully
interesting/funny) video on your topic and you
upload it to YouTube.com
In
the video itself, you tell the viewer about the
ability to get more information from your free
report and direct them to your offer page. In
the PDF report, you link the screen-shot images to
one (or more) videos that you've uploaded to YouTube
so that each reader of the report is likely to click
the link and watch the video.
Then, you go out and do everything in your power to
get your report in as many hands as is humanly
possible. You might blog, send PPC traffic,
interact on forums, build Web 2.0 pages, or anything
else that might get people to go to your landing
page and signup for the free report.
These readers then watch the videos on YouTube and
because of this the video gains popularity and with
it, more viewers. The viewers then get exposed to
the free report offer and the cycle continues.
While there are literally hundreds of different ways
to make money as an affiliate, these Affiliate
Marketing Tips can be followed with very little
(or no) money at risk.
Better still, since these techniques are not
over-saturated, you have a chance to stand out from
the rest of the Affiliate Marketing régime
and make sales.
