Three Tactics That Spell Affiliate Success

If you have just recently enrolled with an affiliate program after having realized that they could very well be the quickest, most profitable opportunities to earn some cash in the World Wide Web, then congratulations. You made the right choice.

But then again, allow me to remind you that merely enrollment will never guarantee your success in the affiliate marketing field.

After all, the operative word in “affiliate marketing” is “marketing,” which connotes a positive act to rake in some income. Indeed, you have some affiliate links at your disposal, but merely possessing them will lead you nowhere. You have to promote your affiliate links if you want to make it big in this industry.

Hence, “marketing” in “affiliate marketing.”

To help you out, we have compiled the three best techniques that you could implement to guarantee the best possible success for your endeavors. These strategies are powerful. But most of all, they are free, which make them perfect for startup affiliate marketing campaigns.

Let’s take a look at these strategies.

Affiliate Marketing Tactic No. 1: Article Distribution

Distributing articles to numerous channels on the internet is hailed as the greatest advertising strategy developed in the last five years. Why? It’s because the articles you will distribute will plant some seeds that would provide untold benefits for your online business for many, many years. You will discover the reason behind this as we discuss the how’s of article marketing.

First, you’d need to write an article of 300 to 750 words about the subject being tackled by the product of the affiliate program you have joined. Promoting a product about horse racing? Then perhaps proper care for horses would be a great article to develop.

Once you have your article written, it’s time to include your resource box. A resource box is a series of lines where you could introduce yourself and your business, and where you could provide links for your website.

Thereafter, it’s time to distribute your article to the many article directories in the World Wide Web. There are thousands of them. But the ones you shouldn’t miss are www.ezinearticles.com , www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com . Do not forget to include your resource box.

The beauty of this strategy lies in the fact that each page that would host your article would become a very important back link for your website. Additionally, your article can get picked up by many webmasters and eZine editors who are duty-bound to respect your resource box, thereby creating more back links for your website or more exposure for your affiliate links.

Affiliate Marketing Tactic No. 2: Forum Posting

The trick with this strategy is to find the appropriate online community dedicated to the subject that your affiliate merchant’s products are catering to. In such a forum, you’ll find people who are within the target market of your affiliate merchant’s products. Hence, you’d be able to generate instant exposure for your affiliate links by simply including them in the signature box allotted to the account you will create in such forums.

Best of all, through your meaningful posts, you’d be able to build great relationships with people who are interested about the subject you are promoting. Relationships can go a long, long way in pre-selling whatever it is your affiliate program is offering.

And much like affiliate marketing, forum marketing channels are free.

Affiliate Marketing Tactic No. 3: Free Classifieds

The internet is populated by countless resources that you could use to promote your affiliate links. One of the most popular are free classified ads websites. And perhaps, the best and most visited of them all is www.craigslist.com .

Utilizing this strategy is as easy as merely posting an ad with your affiliate link included therein.

The benefits of this are enormous. With www.craigslist.com for example, you’d get an immediate back link in a website that has a page rank of 7. This means an instant boost to your own website’s page rank, if ever you are hosting your affiliate links in your own web pages.

But the main benefit is the sheer amount of exposure your links will receive from posting in a highly visited and highly ranked advertising channel.

And yes, it’s free as well.

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