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How To Make Money Selling Affiliate Products Without A Website
You have probably heard about affiliate programs. You promote
somebody else’s product and get a commission when a visitor you
refer buys the product. Many people quickly sign up for these
programs, place the affiliate link on their website expecting
sales to roll in like an avalanche, but are soon disappointed.
Being a successful affiliate requires discipline,
creativity and strategy. One can write a book about how
to be a successful affiliate, but in this article I will focus
on a strategy that can make you a top selling affiliate even if
you don’t have a website.
What affiliate program you should choose? Well, it’s up to you,
there are many to choose from. I recommend using Clickbank,
since they have over 10,000 digital products and rank their
products based on number of affiliate sales each product is
generating. I suggest selecting a product that
gives you at least $20 commission on a sale. Products with lower
commissions are simply not worth promoting, because promotion is
going to cost you money.
The main advantage of an affiliate program is that you don’t
have to develop your own product to sell. The product is there;
your efforts must be focused on promoting it. One of the best
ways of promoting a product, when you don’t have a high traffic
website, is using Pay Per Click advertising.
Pay per click advertising is the hottest new marketing medium.
Pioneered by Overture, PPC advertising is offered by major
search engines including Google. PPC method allows an advertiser
to bid on specific keywords and when a search engine user is
searching for that particular keyword, the advertiser’s add
appears in the search results. You get charged only when that
user click on the ad. For example, an advertiser may bid on the
word “camera”. When a user searches for the word “camera”, the
advertiser’s ad would appear in the search results. The rank of
the ad in the search results depends on the advertiser’s bid,
since the highest bidder gets the top position.
Which search engine should you use to promote your affiliate
product? I recommend using Google’s
Adwords.
PPC advertising is quite effective for promoting affiliate
programs, especially if you don’t have a website. When you sign
up for Clickbank or some other affiliate program, you will be
given a nickname or an affiliate code that you must insert
inside a link used to direct people to the vendor’s sales page.
In a PPC advertising campaign this will be the destination link.
For example, let’s say you have signed up with Clickbank and
have decided to promote an ebook about weight loss. You open an
account with Google Adwords, and create an add for this
particular ebook. When creating your add, you will
be asked to enter a destination url, this is the address of the
website that the user will be taken to when they click on your
add. You must use your affiliate name or code inside this
destination url or link, so that when the user clicks on your
add and is taken to the vendor’s sales page and subsequently
purchases a product you will get your commission. As you can
see, you do not need a website to promote an affiliate product.
You can use the PPC add to drive targeted traffic to your
affiliate’s sales page, and when someone from this pool of
traffic purchases the product, you get a commission. More sales
you generate, more money you make.
When setting up your add you have to decide which keywords you
will bid on. Google has a keyword suggestion tool but it does
not tell you how many times a keyword was searched in the past.
I recommend using another free keyword suggestion tool.
This amazing tool tells you the number of
searches that were conducted both on Overture and
Wordtracker throughout the previous month for each keyword
phrase. This should give you good idea what words and phrases
are being searched by search engine users and enable you to
target your keywords accordingly.
When
writing your PPC add, you must use a catchy headline to get the
viewer to click on your add. I suggest using words like achieve,
discover, lose, make, overcome, protect, enjoy, enhance,
satisfy, seek, win. These words have a psychological effect on
humans and have been statistically proven to get people’s
attention. Of course, your headline must fit the product you are
promoting. In the body of your add describe some of the benefits
of the product and include a call to action. Tell the viewer
what you want them to do: buy, order, download. After your add
goes live, you should monitor it and see how many clicks you are
getting. If you are not getting enough clicks, modify your add
and try a different headline.
Mastering PPC advertising takes time, but once you know
what you’re doing, you can promote any affiliate program and
make good money doing it. I know several affiliates that make a
comfortable living by promoting affiliate products using solely
PPC advertising. If you want to learn more about
using PPC advertising to make money, I recommend an excellent
book by Chris Carpenter called GoogleCash<
/A>. I recommend this book because it is a step-by-step guide
filled with practical and real examples. Remember,
the worst thing an affiliate can do is give up easily. Set a
strategy, stick by it and you will succeed. Good
Luck
About the author:
John writes about various business and finance topics. His
newest website is www.electronicforext
rading.com
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