The 3 Best Affiliate Marketing Techniques

Finding the best affiliate marketing techniques can be frustrating for a beginner. Part of the problem with affiliate marketing is people trying to many things at once. Compare it to a real life business situation, if I opened three stores at once, and only put a third of my time into each, all three would fail. Affiliate Marketing is no different, if I'm trying three techniques at once BEFORE I've mastered even one, I'm destined to fail.

The key is to find a technique you feel comfortable with, and stick with it until you find some success. Only once you've got the technique working should you branch out to other techniques. Doing things this way ensures you'll be earning money faster and building a better long-term business. So what are the three best techniques to start out in affiliate marketing?

1: Affiliate Review Websites

An affiliate review website is a website which reviews products for consumers and offers unbiased feedback. A good review site will recommend the product without over hyping it, and have an affiliate link at the bottom of the review, which customers will click after reading, and instigate a sale from the review site's affiliate link - therefore enabling a commission to be paid to the affiliate running the website.

2: Affiliate Blogs

An affiliate blog is similar to an affiliate website, but it's much faster and easier to set up. With a blog you post information daily (or as often as you choose) and offer value to your readers to gain trust. Once you have readers and their undying support, you can start to offer them products and services with your affiliate links. Generally, once a reader is attached to a blog, they take any product recommendation or review VERY seriously. This makes Blogging a very powerful affiliate marketing method as you can gather followers who cling to your every word. It is essential not to spend to much time selling products though, as readers aren't dumb, they will realise they're being sold to.

3: Pay per Click advertising

Pay per click or PPC is hands down the MOST powerful form of affiliate marketing, as you literally determine yourself how many visitors you get, thus allowing one with a decent budget to engineer some HUGE profits. With PPC you can choose to drive your visitors to a website or blog, or in some cases you can direct them to your affiliate link instantly, and increase chances of success greatly. PPC is often frowned upon by newbie's however as it requires some financial outlay, but I'm guessing you could find $50 if you knew you could make $600 back, right?

By: Justin Keown

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