How to get started in Affiliate Marketing

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on a relevant note, moreniche is a good program that pays you $45 for learning more and taking steps towards your first sale, thats incentive to new affiliates and helps them stay focused with one program/product/site/niche at a time, which is very important (later you can worry about spreading risk with more projects)

all the best

mk
 
Thanks for the tips. Right now I seem to have more trouble with the landing page design (not writing) than anything else. Maybe thats just me being picky and never feeling satisfied. How important do you think landing page design is in the overall scheme of things?
 
Kieron said:
Just do a search for it in Google and if there are loads of sponsored results there, then it will be a competitive niche and therefore prices are probably high. Also, check the prices on Yahoo! as you can see how much people are paying for keywords using their interface and therefore check the competition out.
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Now that the overture tool is permanently down, is there a way to see what people are bidding for keywords these days? Google sux and if Yahoo offers it, I didn't see it in their search marketing signup. I looked through the last few days of posts including the one that says Overture is permanently down, but didn't see any solutions for actual bids. maybe I missed it...
 
Kieron said:
Do not start off your venture into Affiliate Marketing by using PPC to drive traffic to your site. I honestly believe this is the easiest way for a newbie to throw money away. Instead wait until you have some earnings from natural traffic and even then *research* as much as you can on PPC before giving it a go.
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This is great advice. Practice first. Find no cost ways of driving traffic, to tweak your copy skills, to test offers, and to see what works, if it works on free traffic then you can test it in PPC, but stumble first without the cost avoid PPC if you are just starting out, unless someone who knows it well will hold your had, which finding someone like that is going to be like finding the next big industry to promote before everyone else
 
web copy is king, i used to be very picky but now i know that design is not as important as the words on the page

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great post. i think for the most part starting off with ppc is dangerous but with all the coupons around ($200 adcenter) it may actually be good to 'learn' ppc before it actually starts coming out of your wallet
 
I think also a newbie can do ppc and be profitable with a small budget!
Adwords, MSN Adcenter & Yahoo Search Marketing let you put campaign/daily account limits, etc. So if you are new to ppc & don't have much experience with the offer you are promoting, put your limit as low as possible $5, $10 or whatever it takes... DON'T put your limit on $100 or more for example if you have a very small budget and no experience with ppc! If you see that the offer is doing well, you increase your limit as long as your budget can handle it! If certain campaigns didn't convert well, you didn't waste much money on it and still able to try other offers. This way you not risking much and along the way you get more experience with the whole ppc arena... :)
 
Some great advice here. I also agree with the notion that if you have some "extra" $$, use it on PPC traffic on keywords that won't cost you a fortune, yet building you modest traffic at the same time. What good is it if you throw a ton of traffic in one day and empty your account and have nothing to show for it in the future?
 
I've read that organic traffic converts at a much lower rate. Could you see trashing a campaign because of the conversion rate that might do well if you drove traffic there?
 
Crynos said:
Thanks for the tips. Right now I seem to have more trouble with the landing page design (not writing) than anything else. Maybe thats just me being picky and never feeling satisfied. How important do you think landing page design is in the overall scheme of things?
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I think landing page design is important as your visitors could easily click away if you have an ameaturish banner farm type landing page.

However I think its more important to make sure your visitors actually clicks away from your landing page (using affiliate links of course). By that I mean writing really engaging pre-sales copy, and giving lots of buying choices to the user. I.e. "click here to save money", "click to learn more" and so on.
 
darkpedro said:
I've read that organic traffic converts at a much lower rate. Could you see trashing a campaign because of the conversion rate that might do well if you drove traffic there?
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I have never come across this. If a user is interested in your product or site then they will click on your listing (natural or paid) regardless.
 
jessecooper said:
great post. i think for the most part starting off with ppc is dangerous but with all the coupons around ($200 adcenter) it may actually be good to 'learn' ppc before it actually starts coming out of your wallet
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Do yourself a favor if you cant afford say $200 to drop on traffic, dont use a $200 promo! It may be a free $200 in traffic, but if you can honestly say im using the $200 freebie cuz I cant afford $200 worth of PPc traffic, dont use the promo.....

I could go into a few details why, but im going to assume your smart enough to figure that out on your own.
 
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