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Affiliate
By
Jesse Regan
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Intro .....................................................................................6
This book is © All Rights Reserved. You may not sell this book,
give it away, display it publicly, nor may you distribute it in any
form whatsoever.
The author does not warrant or represent at any time that the
contents within are completely accurate due to the rapidly
changing nature of the Internet.
Within this ebook we will cover both the basic steps involved in
becoming an affiliate marketer, but I will also take you behind the
scenes by revealing the exact formula that successful affiliate
marketers use to build powerful campaigns that drive in
unstoppable commissions, 24 hours a day - 7 days a week.
Regardless of the niche market you choose, the very core remains
the same. You first need to learn how to research products and
markets, how to build traffic sucking content pages, and how to
seamlessly integrate your affiliate links into every page you
create.
Don't let this guide sit collecting digital dust after you've finished
reading it - you HAVE to take action if you want to get anywhere…
So without further delay, let's start building your very first affiliate
campaign!
In other words, YOU make money and let the developers do the
heavy lifting! You can set up your entire business in a matter of a
few days and by following the strategies revealed in this guide,
you can begin generating targeted traffic to your affiliate
campaigns absolutely free.(and nothing beats free traffic!)
Sound good?
You’re about to start living the ultimate dream of being your own
boss, with no limits on what you can earn. You will be in FULL
control of your own financial destiny and with a bit of grit and
hard work, you CAN be successful.
Better yet, since you have already discovered what markets are
profitable from your affiliate campaigns, you will a) have a much
It’s your “premier” education, your portal into the world of making
money online and by starting your career off from the ground
floor up in affiliate marketing; you will be head and shoulders
above the competition when it comes time for you to develop your
own product!
Above and beyond, before you can even make that very first
decision, there are two things you need to pay attention to:
Assets
Reputation
There are eyes everywhere - and people are very vocal online,
watch out that you keep a good reputation in your niche and just
in general.
But having a good reputation can open all sorts of doors! Good
news also travels, maybe not as fast and far (that's the way of
the world), but it does travel.
You never know what is round the corner on the internet, or what
the person emailing you can do to help or hinder you, so treat
everyone like gold and you should always come out on top!
You need to put in the time and effort into growing your business
online as you would any offline venture.
Knowing how to choose potential products will set you head and
shoulders above other new affiliate marketers who focus only on
top commission payments or in promoting only new releases and
launches.
Think of markets that have stood the test of time and are likely to
still be in demand many years from now, such as weight loss,
relationship support, health niches, gaming niches, family or
parenting niche markets and even pets such as dog training, or
specialized niches that focus on smaller markets, that are still
There are many different ways to first research markets and then
to hand select products from those niches that you can build your
campaigns around. You can begin by browsing through the
marketplace giants including www.Amazon.com and
www.EBay.com to see what is consistently selling.
Tip: Check out the best selling list on Amazon or Ebay pulse for
hot selling products and markets:
http://www.Pulse.Ebay.com
http://www.Amazon.com
http://www.TeraPeak.com
Finally, they are easy to use, you just grab a link and promote
that and all commissions get paid straight into your account as
You'll need to confirm your email address, but after that is done
then that's it, log into your account and you'll find 4 tabs at the
top to navigate by:
Select account settings and look towards the bottom of the page,
you'll see it asks you what your payment threshold is, how much
you want to accumulate before they pay you, and the payment
method, you can see below what mine is set at:
Please note that when you first open your account you
have to get 3 people with unique credit cards to purchase
through your link before they will pay anything out to you.
Every time the product is sold or a new affiliate joins and uses the
link the gravity of the program will change. For example, a gravity
score of 100 means a product is potentially selling better than one
with a gravity score of 20.
The gravity is more involved than that and makes allowances for
the time that has elapsed since an affiliate last made a sale etc,
but just thinking of it as the amount of affiliates successfully
selling the product is enough for what we need.
The products with a lower gravity are either new or they might
not have a good sales letter or offer to actually convert visitors to
sales.
Don't forget that the products with extremely high gravities may
look like the best ones to go for - but they will also be the ones
with the highest competition due to all those other affiliates out
there trying to make sales too.
Gravity
Referrals
Commission
Out of the 10 products that you pick to promote over time, you
will want at least 6 of them to be popular. You want to mix it up
so that at least half of what you’re promoting is more competitive.
The rest of the products should be up and comers, those products
that are newer and building in the Marketplace.
CB Engine
When looking over the sales or pitch page, you will want to think
in terms of being a prospective buyer. Ask yourself some basic
questions:
Does the page lead you to the logical conclusion where you
want to buy the product?
All of these things are important and will make or break you when
people come through your referral link. Having a page where you
want to buy the product will generally translate to high sales
conversions.
In that way, the traffic you drive to the product site stand a
higher chance of buying in the end. If the page left you with a ho-
hum, whatever feeling, it is probably quite possible that visitors
arriving at the site will have the same reaction.
Jv Notify Pro
Mike really is the best of the best when it comes to brokering a joint
venture. What his site does for entrepreneurs like yourself is it provide a
platform to be able to launch your product from and be able to reach out to
many people. What he really does is be the middle man for the people that
have the products and the people that are willing to promote them. He
basically gets a commission on how many products which are sold through
the JV partners he is connected with. It really is a great spot to go and see
what is coming out and be able to rub elbows with many of the big
marketers out there and get some major exposure for yourself.
It is absolutely vital that you are always contacting new people everyday to
see if they would be interested in doing some type of joint venture with you.
If you are good at promoting, you will find more friends on here than you
even could imagine. But hear me out, the biggest difference as to if you
Something that you always want to be doing is making sure that you have a
page that is specifically dedicated to your JV partners and affiliates. On this
page, have several prewritten emails that they can simply copy and past
and send to their list. Also make sure that you have made several different
sizes of banner ads that they can immediately get out there to promote your
site.
There literally are JV partners that you can find that single handily can
make you thousand of dollars in 1 day. What I highly recommend doing is
finding out what is coming out say a new CPA video course called, “CPA
Underground Money”.
What you should do when you find this out is immediately go out and
purchase the domain name, www.cpaundergroundmoneyreview.com or
something similar that you think people could be searching for.
From that point what I suggest is that you make your own page with either a
video review of the product or some type of well written but short
information on why someone needs to buy this thing. All the links of the
page will obviously be your affiliate links pointing right to the main page.
Reoccurring Income
I highly recommend that you look at promoting something that will provide
you with reoccurring income. Now I am not trying to discourage you from
promoting a one time thing because (if it is a good product) you can make a
lot of money from it. What I am saying is that you should seriously consider
What I am really trying to stress here is that you need to see that if the
product is a good one it will easily sell. Many of the product owners are
willing to pay 50% or more if you are willing to promote their service. I
personally know of some people pulling in 20k or more a month just
promoting a coaching program. Not keep in mind that the coaching
program is top notch and the customers get way more value then what they
are paying for so everyone essentially comes out ahead in that process.
Recap:
If you focus on creating a niche swipe file of products that you are
interested in, you will find keeping up with your campaigns,
generating traffic and creating content such as articles or bonus
material enjoyable which will make your job a lot easier and help
sustain the content creation process.
Note: When you begin to scout out good, solid affiliate products to
promote you want to pay attention to a few factors, including the
commission percentage you are being offered, the price of the
product, the demand of the product, and ultimately how well the
Remember that it is very important that you are not only looking
at promoting things with a one time fee but also things that fall
under the reoccurring payment types. When you find something
that is very good and has a monthly fee, you really could have a
goldmine on your hands.
Often times the programs that make the people the most money
are the ones that give out great affiliate tools and have awesome
promotional emails.
The relationships that you build online can be the ones that make
you the most money in the future.
Once you have an idea as to the niche markets and products you
are going to build campaigns around, the next step is to create
keyword swipe files that consist of highly targeted keywords and
phrases that are entered into the major search engines by people
looking for information on the niches you are promoting.
Type in (organic) traffic is not only far more targeted, but it's
absolutely free and it's important that you define your keywords
so that you can build high quality, targeted content pages that
will pull in traffic and funnel them through your affiliate link to the
merchants page.
The more targeted your content is, the far more likely people will
be to click on your affiliate links, which will result in you making
more money!
You will know what type of keywords, phrases and even questions
they are entering in the search engines when looking for products
similar to the ones you are promoting.
That means that you can create different types of content tailored
exclusively for each target base, such as product reviews that
answer the most commonly asked questions, or article content
So, how can you begin to create these all important keyword
swipe files?
We turn to Google's free keyword tool for that! Not only is it very
easy to use but it will provide you with enough information on
every single niche market that you are even considering.
And apart from using keyword swipe files in order to create highly
targeted content, by conducting keyword research prior to
promoting any niche or product, you will be able to verify that
there really is a growing demand for these products, just based
on the global search volume alone!
To start, visit
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
When you enter keywords into the Google Keyword tool, you will
be able to generate extended listings that feature various
keywords associated to the main keyword that you entered into
the search box.
Instead, think of the keyword phrases that people who are on the
verge of buying a product would enter in if they were looking for
help or information on your niche. To target people looking to
lose weight, some of my keywords might include:
Using the Google Keyword selection tool, you can click on the
drop down menu “Filter My Results” and choose to sort by
Advertiser Competition
This means that the more competition, the more costly it will be
to purchase paid sponsorship on the Google pay per click search
engine (AdWords).
Search Volume
This column shows the search volume for each specific keyword
used on Google in the previous month. The shaded bar represents
a general low-to-high guide to help you determine, once again,
how competitive ad placement is for that particular keyword.
Just like the search volume it shows you results from past
searches, however this column displays average results over the
course of a year, rather than just the previous month.
Create your keyword swipe file so that you have 20-40 keywords
for each product you intend to promote and then save your
research in a text file. You'll use it in the next chapter.
The more information you provide, the more genuine you are,
ultimately, the more your visitors will trust you and the
recommendations you suggest.
The script will generate a complete review site quickly and offers
extensive customization options.
Once you have the basic structure for your review site created,
you can then spend an hour a day creating new reviews and
article content in order to keep people (and the search engine
crawlers) returning to your website time and time again.
Just like a sales page, you need to inject urgency into your
squeeze page, motivating your visitor to hand over their name
and email address, and then confirm their subscription via email.
Once you have generated a good size list of subscribers, you need
to ensure that you retain these people, and keep them interested
in the products and services you are either offering yourself or
If you are not a seasoned writer, you can hire a freelance writer
to create captivating email campaigns based on your niche
market. Many of the industry’s’ top marketers use sites like
www.elance.com or www.Guru.com to find affordable writers who
are experienced in creating autoresponder sequences that are
effective. I also high recommend checking out
http://iwillreplacemyself.com, I have found that they have some
of the best workers there for some of the best prices around. As
a matter of fact I would say that this is probably the best place to
go to find highly competent people at ridiculously low prices.
You want to make sure that you send out the first email right
away, so when you create your first email sequence in your
autoresponder account, set the “Date for Delivery” as “0” which
means that your message will be sent immediately after your
subscriber confirms their request for information.
Apart from having an opt-in form on your squeeze page, there are
other important factors to consider:
Explain the whole process of opting-in. Tell them what will happen
after they sign up. If you have a double opt-in process then
explain about them having to verify their email.
It may seem obvious, but tell them what they will be getting if
they sign up. Let them know exactly what it is and how often they
will be getting it.
Make sure you have them enter their email twice. This helps to
ensure that they do not incorrectly enter their email.
You should have some type of confirmation box where the person
enters a word, series of letters or numbers to verify that they are
a person who is filling in the form. This helps you to ensure that
you are not getting false signups.
You want to get them worked up about your subject so that when
you do introduce your sales pitch, they already understand the
benefits that are available to them if they purchase.
1) http://www.aweber.com
2) http://www.GetResponse.com
3) http://www.ProSender.com
You want to ensure that you create a different list for each subject
so you don’t confuse your subscribers with emails that don’t
You can generate an ongoing profit just from the campaigns you
mail to your list, as long as you work hard to offer value on a
consistent basis.
It’s a win-win situation if you play your cards right and you learn,
early on, that list building should always be the center point to
your business, regardless of what market you are in.
Co-Registration
There are sites available online that will help you grow a list via
co-registration. With co-registration you are able to receive
confirmed subscribers that are ready to be imported into your
Newsletter Offer
Once you have an offer and niche that you know convert, and
once you have studied how to use PPC effectively (buy a solid
training course and not just the latest 'trick') then it can be a
great way to tap into a huge amount of traffic and possibly make
a lot more money.
One of the most underused aspects of PPC that you can try to
take advantage of is using the placement targeting option - this
means you are targeting specific sites to put your ads on rather
than placing them alongside the search results.
This can result in much lower costs per click and it also allows you
to tap into the hard work that a website has done to get the right
audience to visit the site.
Article Marketing
The closer you are able to target your prospective customer base
with well written articles that incorporate primary keywords, the
more traffic and exposure you will be able to generate.
Leeching
If you get this right you can grab hundreds of views and clicks
(depending on the quality of your title etc and the traffic to the
articles in that category).
You will need to time this right based on how long your articles
usually take to get approved, but if you can do it then as they
don't approve any new articles over the weekend you'll be in
those recent article lists all weekend and grabbing free views and
clicks!
If you have a paid account with EZA this is a lot easier as they
often approve your article in hours rather than the days it takes
non-paid accounts.
With your article and attention grabbing title in those lists then
you not only benefit from any homepage traffic they get as you
are on the front page, but more importantly then any article in
Just make sure you write an interesting and engaging article and
have a great bio box (we'll cover that later) and you can get some
good traffic. Now onto the harder option.
Even with the leeching method then an article you submit will
quickly fall into the directory black hole and be buried by all the
new articles, never to be seen by human eyes again!
So the only way to get long-term traffic to and from your article is
to have it rank in the search engines for a term that people use to
look for information or products in your niche, this means you
need to do a bit of SEO (search engine optimisation).
Select 'exact'
Type keyword
If you can't find anything with low enough search volume then
that usually means you aren't using a keyword that is targeted
enough, so maybe if you struggled with the term 'gardening' then
use 'rose gardening' as long as that is still relevant to your
offer/product, the more words you add to the keyword phrase
then the more targeted you get and the less searches there will
be.
means average search volume per month, rather than the other
column which refers to just the last month and might be affected
by news items etc).
Now we take that and to search for the competition you enter it
into Google.com with speech marks around it, this finds the pages
that have that exact term in them; they are your direct
Then you check how many results show up, you can see mine has
1,060 results:
That is a great number, ideally you want less than 10,000 results,
although EzineArticles is powerful and you can rank with even up
to 20,000 results in some niches.
So you have your keyword, now you need to write an article for
that keyword, first off choose an article title that includes that
keyword and precious little else, you don't want to dilute the
density of the title, we want Google to see that keyword in the
title and know our page is relevant to that search term.
For my search term that is fine, but other keywords phrases you
may need a word or two just to help them make sense, if they
need them then add them, don't be afraid to add a few words.
Just add the phrase in naturally and again if you have a strange
phrase and need to add a word or two into the middle of it to get
it to make sense then do it.
Once you article is complete then add a bio box to it, submit it,
and then if it is approved you need to build a few links to it, social
bookmarking is probably the easiest way, and try to make sure
you get some with the anchor text (the text in blue on the link)
the same as the keyword phrase you are targeting
(WLMarketing.com can do 30 social bookmarks for $4).
If you do all that then hopefully you will get onto the front page
and/or the first position for that keyword.
But the idea is to get lots out there and have some stick, if you
find you are at #5 and still getting some healthy traffic then
consider getting more links to the article so you can try and get it
up to #1, but otherwise just ignore the ones that don't make it
and move on and create a new one.
With sites like Ezine Articles, you are able to create multiple
resource boxes, choosing one that compliments each article that
you write. You can also create multiple authors’ accounts so that
you can cover a large number of topics, all within one account.
Use your resource boxes wisely, and make sure that you offer
your reader with an incentive to click through.
If you can spend some time on this and come up with something
you are happy with then getting 30 - 40% of people who read
your article to click through to your site is not unreasonable.
There are three parts to every article. Let’s take a look at what
these are, and how you can make sure yours are written in the
best possible way.
Article Title
The first thing your reader will see is your article title, so it’s an
exceptionally important part of your article and serves as a
headline does on a sales page.
Your title needs to captivate them, get their attention and prompt
them to read further. You want your article title to be irresistible
so they can’t help but click on the link and read the entire page.
Article Description
The remainder of your article should carry the reader right to the
end. Don’t think that if your title and initial paragraph is good that
they will simply continue reading, you still need to bring them
along with you by weaving your article content so that it directly
addresses the topic of your article.
Remember, you don't need the best articles; you need the highest
QUANTITY OF ARTICLES.
The more articles you have, the more articles people are going to
read. The more articles people read, the more click-through links
you will get, and the more money you will make.
When writing your articles, use simple, everyday words. That way
you won’t confuse your reader and you will encourage them to
read your entire document. Quite simply, you want to offer quality
information in as concise a way as possible.
Forum marketing
Now you can link to that from your signature and that should
work (double-check the rules again - some forums are tougher
than others).
This links into what you said about the offer and product on the
page you are directing them to, so why should they visit your site
and more importantly why should they visit the site you are an
affiliate for? Do they have the biggest range of products in that
niche? The best prices? A new method for something?
Social marketing
Most people think that all you do is build up a great big list of
friends on these networks and then send them messages to get
them to go through offers, or plaster your profile with link to stuff
- that is the wrong way to do it!
The power in these networks lie in the groups, there you can find
groups of people who are not only interested in the topic of the
group, but are interested enough to actually put their hand up
and take the time to sign up to a group on it.
Now again, think long term, you are not there to go in, drop a few
spam messages saying 'Hey this is awesome check out this link'
then get blocked and move on - how anybody thinks that will
So join the group and start to interact with them all, share your
experiences, share good sites you have found that are not yours.
Then in time you will have gained trust and be part of the group.
This means you are not spamming them, you are giving them
good information, but you also have a pool of eager people ready
to visit any article you want to send them to! And of course with
your new super bio boxes then you can expect some of those
visiting to go to your site and check out what you have to offer!
This works even better if you have your own blog as you can get
links and traffic from this technique as well as the chance for
anybody else in that group who has a site or blog to tell their
readers about it and maybe link to it too!
The same goes for Twitter, every time you publish a really good
article (not every single article!) you can head over there and
tweet about it and get some instant traffic to it!
Video is taking over the Internet and the smart marketers are
finding all sorts of ways to incorporate it into their daily marketing
plans.
The key to video marketing is to brand your videos with your url,
make sure that your url is in the description for the video, and
preferably to give people an incentive for visiting your site that
you mention in the video.
Too many people rely on just having a url showing on the bottom
of the video - but unless you give people a good reason to visit
the site and actually tell people in the video to click through and
visit your site then most people are lazy and won't bother!
Keep your site fresh, update it at least once a week - and make
sure you don't get lazy with marketing it, fresh links and visitors
are the lifeblood of a website and the more people you get the
more money you can make!
Simply changing the offer you are promoting across the site
(using banners etc) could double your income if it converts to
clicks and/or sales better than the one you currently have.
Don't fall into the trap of constantly trying to increase your traffic
and not testing, a simple test might increase your revenue by
25% with a new banner or offer or a new bonus you offer people
to buy through your link etc, to get that kind of increase with just
more traffic means you'd need 25% more traffic every day which
is a lot of work!
Good luck!
For a huge list of affiliate networks you can join then head over
here:
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/228/1/Affiliate-
networks-list/
But here are some of the top ones you will want to try and get
into:
http://www.cj.com
http://www.shareasale.com
http://www.linkshare.com
http://www.paydotcom.com
http://www.pepperjam.com
Now it is not absolutely crucial to have a website, you can say you
promote using purely PPC and you'll buy a domain name that
suits the products you find in their network to use for that.
That has worked for me in the past, or you can build a dummy
website, buy a large pack of PLR articles (100), go and grab a
professional free Wordpress theme (type 'free Wordpress theme'
Voila! You now have a 100 page blog you can submit on the form!
Heck you might even make money from that site from traffic the
search engines send your way!
One important thing that will help you decide is how well the
offer/product is selling currently, pretty much every affiliate
network has a way to show how well each product is selling, in
Commission Junction you'll get something like this:
The 3 month EPC is the average earnings for affiliates per 100
clicks on their affiliate link; the next is the same but for the last 7
days.
This means you can quickly compare programs and see which are
generating the highest commissions (EPC) and which are selling
lots and lots of their products (network earnings). You can then
decide which ones are best and whether the site or niche is worth
exploring (if all the sites in a niche have low stats then it might
not be a great niche to go into).
Now you need to choose the niche you want to work in.
Step 1: Well first you need to think about the kind of niches that
you have experience in; things are a lot easier when you actually
know something about the subject and the people you are trying
to connect with.
Yet you can't follow a niche blindly just because you like it or have
experience in it, you also need to check out the offers to see if
people in that niche are buying and there are things you can
make a commission on.
If you can't find one that way, then move onto plan B, find all the
best niches based on what stuff is selling like hot cakes, then
make a list of them and choose the one you think you would be
most comfortable researching and writing about, then move onto
the next step.
The first thing you need to look for are the number of articles
being submitted in that kind of category at EzineArticles.com.
That is the biggest article directory and you can get both traffic
and links from there when you need it, but you can also get
content ideas.
This also gives you a great source of ideas for your content, if
someone wrote an article on 'The Top 5 Ways to Groom Your Dog'
then you can write an article on the 'The Top Tips For Perfect
Grooming' or something like that, you can use their work to jump
start your own (no blatant copying though).
You will soon see when you start digging how many articles are
being submitted, and how popular those articles are (it tells you
at the bottom of each article how many views they have had).
That gives you a great indication of how easy it will be for you to
submit articles and get traffic.
Don't forget to check all the categories you could submit to, there
might be one obvious category - but think of all the others you
could submit articles to that are related to your niche, you might
find a great category that gets a load of views!
Now check for large forums in that niche, you can use
http://www.big-boards.com to help you with that, that is a
directory of forums and message boards and it usually tells you
how many posts and members a forum has so you can compare
the size to other niches. Or you can just use Google and type in
something related to your niche plus 'forum' to see what comes
up.
Check to see how active they are and when the last post was etc,
see if you can use that forum later to help you get some traffic to
the products you want to promote.
Then you want to check out the volume of searches in your niche
per month that will help you to make sure that enough people are
searching for information and products in your niche to make it
worth your while.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Then the second one is the Google Keyword Tool which pulls data
straight from Google.
For free then Wordtracker limits itself to 100 results, in the paid
version you can get a lot more (of course you can just vary the
keyword you are using to dig deeper and get more from the free
tool). The Google tool is totally free but limits itself to 200 results.
There are no magic numbers, but if you have a few that you are
trying to choose between then you can get a great idea of which
have the best search volumes in your list and therefore the
biggest potential.
One key thing to note - the Wordtracker results are searches per
DAY and the Google ones are searches per MONTH! Try to choose
which tool you like best and stick to just the one so your figures
don't get messed up.
I said to keep the future in mind so make sure the niche you are
going to enter has enough scope to create a website about, you
don't want something that will be tricky to expand on if you start
making money with it.
You never know what your target prospects are going to really
'connect' with so if you just put up one offer and leave it up as
you are making money off it then you could be leaving lots of
money on the table!
There are a lot of people who will not click on links they feel are
affiliate ones for whatever reason, or they will remove part of
your link before visiting the site so that you do not receive credit.
There are many sites online that offer free link cloaking, and one
of the longest standing services is http://www.TinyURL.com
You simply enter in your affiliate link and click “Make Tiny URL!”
and your link will be modified to hide your affiliate link and make
it shorter.
http://www.DwarfURL.com
http://www.CommissionJunction.com
Share A Sale
http://www.ShareASale.com
Link Share
http://www.AffSpy.com
http://www.OfferVault.com
There are a many keyword tools that you can use to perform
keyword research, including:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
http://www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com
http://www.GoodKeywords.com
http://www.WordTracker.com
http://www.marketsamurai.com/