Tips To Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Income

Finding a profitable niche is crucial to making it in the affiliate marketing world.

If you’re targeting the wrong niche, you’re just wasting all your time and effort. That is why it is important for you to target the right niche from the onset.

Even though money on the Internet doesn’t come quite as easy as it used to, it is still possible for new home business owners to enter the world of Internet marketing and reap substantial amounts of profit.

There are many work from home moms who have entered this arena and are making a fortune online.

Internet marketing is continually expanding and parents that stay at home can certainly take advantage of this.

Working from home gives you more flexibility and control over your schedule. You can work during hours best suited to your life-style, which allows you to also enjoy the company of your children. The Internet makes it possible for work from home moms and dads to take care of their family at home while earning a healthy income online.

The Internet is already a part of humankind’s modern lifestyle. Millions of people around the globe connect to the Internet everyday to perform searches and conduct online transactions. These people are from different backgrounds and age groups. There is a huge market out there that you can tap into right from your very own home. You just need to find the right niche.

The quickest and easiest way to start cashing in online is to sell products as an affiliate. There are countless products sold online that target very specific niches, for example, dog shampoo. If you spend the time and effort to market these products, you can earn generous commissions from the sales you make.

Another way that requires a little more effort, but ultimately will be more rewarding as a business, is to start your own niche website. The great thing about this is your own interests can match your chosen niche or business.

Now, how do you determine the most profitable niches to target?

Keyword research is essential. Keywords can make or break you, so it is imperitive that you identify the most profitable keywords and phrases. These keywords are what online users type in search engine boxes. Highly searched keywords have great money-making potential.

You can use keyword research tools such as Google AdWords and Wordtracker to pinpoint the most popular keywords and phrases that belong to your chosen niche.

When trying to find niche with good income potential, go for one that is not too saturated, yet generates enough interest that it will be worth your time and effort.

Select niches with high popularity yet relatively low competition. If there is too much competition, it may be hard for you to enter that market and put yourself in an advantageous position.

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FLIPKART AFFILIATE PROGRAM

The Flipkart affiliate program is a great way for you to earn commissions by placing product banners or links on your website to refer users to the Flipkart.com website. You can earn up to 15% every time a user clicks on the banner/link and makes a purchase on our site. Fore more details, visit ...

Pre-Selling The Product

When you are sending traffic to an affiliate product, master the art of the pre-selling before you even take your visitors to the product page.

This means – never send your traffic directly to the affiliate page.

Always have an intermediary page that explains to your visitor why they should clickthrough to the product and purchase it. But don't do a hard sell here. Just get them into a nice frame of mind as to what this product will be able to solve for them, so that they are in a better frame of mind, pre-disposed to buying the product when they are brought to the product sales page.

New affiliate network program in South Africa

Growthonline Solutions, an international online solutions company, is proud to announce the launch of its EarningsOnline.co.za affiliate network program in South Africa. EarningsOnline.co.za currently has 16 merchants on the program with more signing up on an ongoing basis.

EarningsOnline is a true "pay for performance" affiliate model whereby both merchants and affiliates sign up for free and remuneration is based on sales generated.

EarningsOnline offers key marketing and revenue generating benefits to both merchants and affiliates and these are:

For merchants/ advertisers:

1.There is little risk to the merchant in that no lead/sale = no remuneration
2.Merchants' sign up to the program for free.
3.Affiliate marketing offers merchants a local/global sales force creating exposure for their brand.
4.No upfront costs, no monthly management fees.
5.The program is entirely managed by GrowthOnline Solutions and its Earnings Online program - no need for additional in-house resources, etc.
6.Earnings Online offers the merchant an additional sales channel and the ability to measure success in terms of campaigns/offers

For Affiliates/webmasters:

1.Many webmasters do not know that they can generate real and additional income from their sites and existing/surplus traffic.
2.Joining is absolutely free - some webmasters are under the perception that it costs them to join affiliate programs.
3.The EarningsOnline network offers a growing and diverse stable of reputable brands - provides real choice to affiliates rather than one merchant offering.
4.We have a team of experienced Affiliate Marketing Managers, with 10 years of international experience, keen to assist.
5.It offers added credibility for webmasters sites due to association with leading Merchant brands.
6.There is the additional benefit of getting a lifetime commission for referring other Affiliates - EarningsOnline offers affiliates a two-tier structure.
7.Access to stats 24/7
8.Monthly payments via EFT

Although it is early days in South Africa, the affiliate marketing concept is absolutely booming in Europe, UK and the USA where 35% of all online retail sales are through affiliate programs.

Now is the time to get on board the affiliate program and start to experience the power of an affiliate network program.

For more information from a merchant perspective, contact Edward Lindsay-Bowman on 021 790 8041, 082 906 9087 or elb@growthonline.co.za.

And for more affiliate information as to how to sign up and earn revenue, contact Kamiel Mahomed on 021 790 8061, 082 564 1779 or affmanager@earningsonline.co.za

Submitting your web site to web directories

Submitting your web site to web directories is a great way to build high-quality inbound links, increase your Page Rank, and improve your SERPS.

The Internet now features a large number of both general purpose and specialized directories. The specialized directories focus on a specific topic or region. Unfortunately, submitting your web site to the available directories requires a significant investment of time and effort. The key to achieving a positive ROI (Return On Investment) from directory submissions is to focus on those directories, which will provide you with high-quality inbound links.

It is important to note that many web directories have issues, which prevent them from providing useful links. Taking the time understand these issues and submit only to the directories which will provide value will provide significant timesavings in promoting your site.

Taxonomy of Web Directory Issues

Web Directories Which Are No Longer Managed - A survey of 79 general-purpose web directories revealed that 62% of those web directories do not appear to be processing submissions. In many cases, this is because the operators of the web directory launched their site with great enthusiasm, became overwhelmed by the amount of effort required to maintain a web directory, and stopped maintaining their directory. These operators leave their directories online to take advantage of the residual advertising revenue, but no longer invest the time required to process directory submissions.

Web Directories which Block Search Engine Robots - Some SEO's believe that they can preserve Google Page Rank by not giving outbound links from their web sites. Web directories, which operate in this manner, will sometimes block Googlebot and other search engine robots from their directory pages using robots.txt or meta tags.

Before submitting to a web directory, check the Page Rank of the directory page upon which you expect your listing to appear. If that page has a Page Rank of zero, it could mean that the site operator is blocking Googlebot. However, this same symptom can also mean that the site or the page is new, and has not been assigned Google Page Rank yet. To research this further, examine the sites robots.txt file and the source code to the directory page upon which you expect your listing to appear.

Web Directories which use Scripted Links - Many web directories use scripted links to avoid leaking Page Rank. Scripted links use PHP or JavaScript links to redirect the user to the target page. Although these links work correctly for most site visitors, they do not work for most search engine robots.

Free Directory Scammers - Several web directories pretend to accept free submissions, but in reality these free submissions are never processed. These directories claim to accept free submissions as part of a bait-and-switch tactic to upsell webmasters into paid submissions. Often these web directories will claim to provide free service for web sites, which meet certain defined criteria. It just happens that no web site ever manages to meet those criteria!

Web Directories, which Require Reciprocal Links - Some web directories require you to link back to them in order to be listed. This helps build the Page Rank of the directory, which benefits all web sites in the directory. Some people view these sites as link-farms. If your web site is unable to provide a link back to these directories, do not invest your time submitting your web site to these directories. Reciprocal linking is not an appropriate strategy for all web sites.

Paid Directories - Some web directories charge for submissions. These web directories charge either a subscription fee, a one-time fee, or a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) fee. Some of these web directories charge exorbitant fees -- and a few of these web directories charge this fee whether your site is accepted or not! Although there are exceptions, the general rule is that paid directories do not provide a positive ROI.

Better Directories - A few web directories stand out by offering good user interfaces, speedy inclusion, and plain HTML links which pass Page Rank:

All The Web Sites / Ezilon.com / illumirate.com / Jayde.com / JoeAnt.com / Massive Links / Mavica.com / Search City.com / The Super Ultra Mega Web Directory / Tygo.com / World Site Index / Wow Directory.com /

Summary

Submitting your web sites to web directories is an excellent method of building quality inbound links.

Affiliate Networks

Affiliate Networks are the most commonly used form for promoting others affiliate programs.

Now, this is a common question I have noticed in many forums regarding which network to join and which network, pays the best or which has the best service.

Basically these questions arise only if you are the merchant and not an affiliate or publisher as they like to call it

Most affiliate networks are generally free to join. You can easily make money online by signing up for pay per lead (PPL), pay per sale (PPS), pay per action (PPA) and pay per click (PPC) network affiliate programs for marketing on your website. Sometimes affiliate marketing networks call themselves as marketing solutions provider or pay for performance network or a performance based online marketing network services company.

Affiliate marketing market in the UK according to leading affiliate solution providers (another name for an affiliate network) for 2004 was around £400-£500 million in terms of total sales. generated through the affiliate networks, excluding white label and self-administered schemes.

This represents at least double the affiliate turnover compared with 2003 and the affiliate solution providers confidently expect their own revenues to grow between 40%-75% in 2004. TradeDoubler's monthly Tracker report, which details online sales volumes and trends across Europe based on TradeDoubler's monitoring of sales made through its European network, confirms these projections of strong growth with sales volumes increased by 23% and sales values risen by 54% from February to March 2004. Compared with the same period last year sales volumes have grown by 259% and sales values are up by 328%.

Most affiliate merchants today make use of affiliate network services. If you don't have a specific online service, or product in mind then there are tons of affiliate programs you can find online in affiliate networks. Some will undoubtedly relate to your special interest.

ShareaSale
A large network offering hundreds of programs with nearly a thousand merchants – Includes pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead, and pay-per-click programs. It has a strong pro-affiliate attitude and lots of data feeds. Highly recommended. .

Link Share
Link Share pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing networks on the Internet. Link Share, recently taken over by a Japanese firm has more than 600 merchants in its affiliate network. Choose from categories such as books, music, flowers, fashion, computers, etc. You'll find some big name companies here, including Dell, Nordstrom, Target, Disney and American Express. Featuring patented technology, Linkshare provide all the tools and services merchants need to create, manage and optimize a successful affiliate marketing program. With over 10 million partnerships in the network it is the most successful pay for performance network of its kind. Click on Merchant information or Affiliate information below to find out how you can become part of a winning network today.

AffiliateWindow
Professional, UK-based affiliate network. Provides more than 200 merchants to choose from, including well known brands. Affiliatewindow.com was a slow starter in the industry. In the early years they were perceived as the poor relation. However, by releasing themselves from the shackles of a third party tracking software company, they have developed their own in-house tracking and have gone on to become one of the industry leaders in affiliate solution providers. Affiliatewindow.com have become innovators rather than followers which can be attributed to their team of specialists in software development and affiliate marketing practices. Affiliatewindow.com also offers affiliate programs for web sites running in UK pounds, US dollars and Euros, and has fast affiliate payment. There are also no minimum traffic requirements

Trade Doubler
Big European network with hundreds of affiliate programs from that region. Anyone who has a web site can join. With a local presence in the UK and 15 other European markets, a client base of over 700 advertisers and country networks totalling nearly half a million publishers, TradeDoubler is the only truly Pan European network. Will Cooper, Chief Marketing Officer. Tradedoubler.com is a very polished company with is roots based in Sweden. Their linking methods are the same as most affiliate solution providers but with a heavy emphasis on dynamic linking. All affiliates must be pre-qualified by the merchant before allowing the affiliate to place the merchants' links on their website. Their software and reporting has come on leaps and bounds over the last year. TradeDoubler.com are popular amongst big brands.

Fineclicks
A variety of offers. A minimum of 75% of all traffic produced must be U.S. traffic. Short links are provided for newsletter publishers.

Clix Galore
ClixGalore is one of the larger affiliate networks offering nearly 4,000 programs. All applicants are accepted immediately, automatically. Affiliate programs are increasingly used by merchants for affiliate marketing and product / website promotion. These merchants seek affiliates to promote their products / services and in return will pay you high commissions. Join our affiliate network and choose from the many affiliate programs that will pay you high commissions for displaying advertisements on your website, in newsletters and emails. You may choose from the many graphic, text, Macromedia 'flash' or custom html advertisements available. Why not also earn commission for life by simply referring affiliates to join ClixGalore. Join now by clicking here and see immediate income results!

MAX Bounty
MAX Bounty has a very flexible and highly targeted customer base. Their payout rates to Affiliates are higher than most networks and other such high profile Affiliate Programs. MAXBounty customer support is very fast and professional. MAXBounty are proud to offer some of the highest affiliate payouts in the industry among competing ad networks. They also strive to provide the highest possible payouts to affiliates.

Paypopup.com
Paypopup.com is a three year old online advertising network which has been providing unique targeted internet traffic through pop-under technology, Pop-In Layer Ads and Regular Banner Advertisement to its advertisers. It consists thousands of specialized websites offering a wide range of targeted categories to ensure your campaign will be catered to the right audience.

KowaBunga Network
Founded in 1996 in Westland, Michigan USA. By being a software provider rather than a network, Kowabunga charge only for the solution software and services and neither charge a percentage of sales nor require a monthly minimum payout of commissions. They are a network of hundreds of merchants using My Affiliate Program affiliate tracking software by KowaBunga Technologies to run their affiliate programs.

Click Bank
Offers a huge array of downloadable products, mainly ebooks. Because it is cheap and easy for merchants to join, the quality of the products provided varies enormously, from very good to downright awful. It's a popular place to search for overlooked niches.

LinkConnector
LinkConnector offers pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale programs.

LinkProfits
Exclusive, unadvertised performance-based offers. You must have "adequate" traffic or a sizable opt-in subscriber email list.


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eWealth - affiliate marketing forum
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All said and done, before examining each network, check whether they insist on an 'exclusivity agreement', whereby if you use their services you cannot use one of their competitors {[only for merchants and not for affiliates] Although this a little distasteful, what if a merchant is happy to pay an access fee for both or all affiliate networks to access each group of affiliates as a paying customer ?

Affiliate network services are also the safest when it comes to making payments on time, conflict resolution and accurate tracking. Affiliate Networks are also great sources to find good affiliate programs thereby promoting your affiliate links to search engines and getting started as an affiliate marketer Then you can just sit back and wait for the commission checks to start rolling in.

As a closing line, examine each network, see what fits your needs and draw your own conclusions These networks give a diversification not only to affiliate marketing as such, but also allows you to access many merchant's marketing affiliate programs through their affiliate networks.

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