Now a day's more and more people are using the internet everyday and now it is easy to make money online by using affiliate marketing programs because they are very attractive and effective. In this arrangement, the sellers simply builds an infraestructure were people buy and the seller pay commissions only when a sale is made, which is advantageous for the seller because they risk nothing.
To discover a gold mine is practically the same as finding a fine place of affiliate marketing programs. Actually there are a lot of options to search for affiliate programs, but you will have to complete some steps in order to earn money from them. First of all, you should have a website to post the offers you find on the Internet, but you should create a very focused website in one theme and only that, this has two purposes: The first one is to present an authoritative position to the visitor and the second is to generate more search engine traffic. One trick to rank better at Google for several searches is to have a very themed website.
Search Big Niches Related To Affiliate Marketing Programs
Big niches are better that little ones because you could find much more opportunities in there than in limited niches. Wealthy affiliates always promote affiliate marketing programs that are in very large niches because there is plenty of opportunity there. The biggest niches are realted to only 3 things: health, money and love (after you think for a moment, that makes perfect sense because these are the things all humans are seeking in their lives) and use software that show offers with low competition.
Try ten products that you want to promote and you feel that are going to be successful and start your research on the search engines to know how much competition your are facing for the keyword. One really basic, yet effective way to do it is open the keyword research tool (type keyword research tool in google to find it) from Google and type the keywords you think people are typing on the search engine to find their solution. For example: you can consider "tinnitus" if you have enough interest in this topic and then you search in the Google keyword tool for the keyword that might type potential sufferers from Tinnitus, like "tinnitus cure", then you open Google and see how many competition you will face doing this search and Google will give you the number of existing pages in their index for this exact phrase. If the number is higher than 50,000 the competition probably is too high for someone new to be in there.
Try To Avoid Competition As Much As You Can
Competition is one of the most misunderstood things on the Internet because most people hate it, but some people will say you it is good, but who is wrong? Nobody actually, because competition is in fact good when you are outside the niche, because you could know that if there is competition, it is because there is money to be made in any affiliate marketing programs that you choose. If you are inside a niche, you will probably hate competition because will make your business riskier, will have to work much harder to get paid and all will be much more difficult, but also, this will make your business more stable and opportunities of contacting joint venture partners will be bigger.
How To Find Good Affiliate Marketing Programs
There are many affiliate networks you could choose to promote products and all are free to join:
- Clickbank One of the most known affiliate networks out there. They have a very solid reputation of paying on time without fail and sell a lot of digital good (only electronic things). It is not easy to make a solid income selling cheap ebooks as many sellers of clickbank courses want you to believe, even if you receive 75% of the sale. Although you could find some high price products and with the help of software, find profitable niches to enter.
- Commission Junction This is the place to find physical goods with lower commissions than Clickbank, but there you could find products with a high price tag, enough to make a big commission from every sale. In terms of difficulty, it is the same to sell a cheap ebook of $19, than a refrigerator that costs $5,000 (and you receive $200 in commission for the second).
- ShareASale There are good programs in Shareasale and you will face less competition in general. Also, these are physical products and you could find high price tag products that could earn you a decent living with a handful of them.
- Propietary Affiliate Marketing Programs Some affiliate marketing programs are closed and are not available in this open networks. Although you should be careful with these because it is essential that you are dealing with an honest merchant, probably these programs are the easiest to promote because few people are competing with each other in them.
How To Get Traffic
Affiliate marketing newbies don't have a lot of money to test with paid traffic sources, so their primary source of traffic is the free listings on Google that take much more time than money. But do yourself a favour and treat this as a business. Making a page in your website is like investing $5 because that is what people charge to create a high quality page on a website. Consider that 50% on return of investment is GREAT, so if you build one page, you should probably be earning $7 for that (not daily, not monthly, but $7 is all what you will earn), so if a page could last for 6 years earning money, you should be happy is you earn: $7/(365*6)= 0.003 dollars per day (more or less 1 cent every 3 pages). This means that you have to do massive action to make a decent amount of money, but earnings are much greater than this on the Internet right now, so you could expect 1 cent per day per webpage and if you add leverage to your business, you could be doing much more than that promoting affiliate marketing programs.
Is you are now depressed with this information, you shouldn't because the return on investment you get from an online business is much greater than the return on investment (ROI) when doing a business offline, but as soon as you have money to invest, you have to invest it to accelerate your growth, because if you don't, then the process will be extraordinary painful (like it will be in an offline business without investing one cent). Many newbies don't get this and quit promoting affiliate marketing programs because they get extremely discouraged after some time and effort.
Your Work As An Affiliate
Your work when promoting affiliate marketing programs is not to sell products, but only warm your visitors about the website they are going to visit in a process known as "preselling", because the actual selling occurs at the destination website. This preselling prepares the readers to make the purchase when they arrive at the website you are trying to promote successfully. Trust is very important and if you have built a mailing list and you have treated your readers with respect, they will trust you and sales will become much easier. Lose trust and you will see a lot of unsubscribes and readers not taking you seriously at what you recommend and also, if you only promote things to earn money from your visitors, they will see through it and you will also lose trust, sales and future clients.
The Key To Success Is Testing
These tips will give you some good ideas to find profitable affiliate marketing programs, but the only real way to know for sure if you have a winner is testing. That is the reason why you should go and test 10 affiliate offers in one go to see which one converts and probably you will find one winner in your test. After the test finished, you do it another time and over time, you will have a portfolio of successful affiliate sites that will bring you money on autopilot each and every day.
Conclusion
Actually, there are always some misunderstandings when people enter into this affiliate marketing programs without being trained or not having basic knowledge. This people are affected by advertisement and those people who encourage them. Some advertisers sell irrational promises like push button wealth or make money while you sleep that simply is not true and people think that by using affiliate programs, they will become rich overnight.
Sometimes people are amazed thinking why everybody is not doing this, but obviously you can get established if you take an attempt and understand that earning money online with affiliate programs is not so simple. You can achieve your economic goals by treating affiliate marketing as a serious business. Look closely at your budget and success must come today or tomorrow if you love to work hard. Build better sites than your competition, and presell better. By constructing better planned websites you can easily make money with affiliate marketing programs.
Don't forget to take the easier step finding profitable affiliate programs first.
