Top Tips for Affiliate Marketing

It’s always useful to learn more tips for affiliate marketing if you are new or have been doing it for a while. If you are completely new and just starting out in business, then you need all the top tips for affiliate marketing that you can get.

Definition of Affiliate Marketing from Wikipedia

• Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing effort

Knowledge is Power

The more knowledge you have the better off you are. Learning more tips is always a good thing, it helps to keep up to date as well. If they resonate with you, add them to your store of knowledge, The only thing you have lost is time, as in, how long it took you to read the post.

These days, whatever you get into online, it’s all about blogging.

Before people buy, they want to check out the opinions of others. Very often they are interested in a particular subject whether it’s to do with work, home or a hobby. They will do research and discover the blogs that have their subject as a niche.

They will read, be interested, maybe like the voice that comes through. When that person has a problem or need in that subject or niche he/she will return hoping you can solve it. If you do, even by sending him/her elsewhere, then you build trust. Your aim is to do the best you can for your reader, even if at that time he doesn’t buy from you or via your link.

Why would you do that?

Because at that time you don’t have the power to fulfil that need. Maybe he/she wants to read a review by someone who has used that item or a similar one. If you haven’t but know someone that has you send them to that blog. If that person doesn’t have a blog then this is an opportunity to write a blog as an interview by asking your friend or family member questions about it that your customer will want to know.

Won’t he/she just buy elsewhere?

They may do but it’s more likely they will return. The majority of people go back and forth a number of times before finally making a purchase. So you write a new post, add affiliate links to the item and advertise the post.

Useful Tips 

Pay close attention to your blog’s design and layout, and do not be afraid to redesign the look of your blog. But also do not spend too much time tweaking when you could be writing.

Tip 1. When it comes to promoting affiliate products on your blog, the placement of adverts and links is very important. While you do need to ensure that the adverts are not hidden away in small text links in your blog’s footer, you don’t want to make the ads so bold and flashy that they take overshadow your blog’s main content, or have so many that your readers are put off.

Tip 2. Refrain from using too many different affiliate programs. It can be tempting to add adverts for products from a variety of different affiliate programs to your blog but keeping track of ads for hundreds of different products can over hard and time consuming. Also, most affiliate marketing programs have minimum monthly payouts, so if you are spreading your earnings over dozens of different programs, it could take several months before you actually receive any of the commissions that you earn.

Tip 3. In an ideal world, you would only promote products that you have used yourself. Unfortunately that is just not possible to test everything. If it isn’t something you use, then say so. If you have information from people you know who use it, state that also. If you have done research on the item but not tried it, state that.  It is always better to be honest and upfront.

Remember that you are in effect endorsing any products you advertise on your blog. If any turn out not be to be dodgy it can harm your reputation and put your integrity in doubt. These sort of products are not worth losing readers over.

Tip 4. Make sure that all of the affiliate links that you place on your blog are “no-follow”. Having hundreds of outbound affiliate links on your blog can negatively affect your blog’s ranking on search engine results pages. Therefore, you need to ensure that all of your affiliate links are “no-follow”, rather than “do-follow”.

Conclusion

The world of affiliate marketing is constantly changing and evolving, so you need to ensure that you keep up to date with the latest developments in the affiliate marketing industry. It’s always worth taking a little time to check out new tips and ideas along with new products.

Sometimes it is tempting to go for products that seem to be big earners even though they have little substance. In this situation, use your intuition. If it doesn’t feel right, then don’t do it.

While earning substantial affiliate commissions should be one of the important goals that you have for your blog, your main goal should always be to provide your blog’s readers with valuable content. Content that solves a problem or helps them in some way.

It will bring your readers back again and again if you help them in some way.