So we already has a strong discussion on How to start with affiliate marketing and affiliate marketing vs adsense.
The most common problem face by any blogger is selecting the right affiliate product for the niche. A niche affiliate product is always better and conversion rate will be high.
What do you mean by Niche affiliate product?
A niche affiliate product means, you select the product based on your blog topics and your blog readers. Suppose you write a blog on health niche and you try to sell product based in twitter or computers. This will ensure guaranteed failure.
My advice would be select the hot-selling product in your niche and start writing about it. This will help you to boost your conversion rate. Difference between successful and failed affiliate campaign is determined by it’s conversion rate. If you getting 100 odd clicks on your affiliate campaign but 0 or 1 conversion rate. You need to start over again with your strategy.
Which Affiliate program
Now something important about selecting affiliate product is , try before your refer. This is the most common mistake done by any blogger. I have seen blogger referring for Thesis theme, without even trying it. Writing review based on Other bloggers and pitching it like it’s the best wordpress theme ever made.
Will you ever believe in any such review? Atleast I will not. So there are many ways you can do this. Suppose you want to promote Thesis . Why don’t you ask your friend who is using thesis , to give you access to theme, and check Thesis design and option panel.
Giving an honest review will increase your credibility and reliability. Never forget we blog for knowledge, money is secondary. If you think vice versa, you need to rethink again, how and why you started blogging.
Now getting into the point. Now suppose you have selected a product, make sure you read its TOS and also there are many things you need to look for , some of them are :
- Available banners
- Promotional matters
- Affiliate control panel
- Minimum Payout
- Payment method
- Tax form required or not
Such things will help you to decide, if you are ready to promote this stuff or now. Suppose you select a seasonal product and its minimum payout is 1000$. Are you sure , you going to get that much conversions in that particular season?
Bonus tip : Associating with popular brand will be added advantage to your affiliate marketing campaign.
Small questions and you can decide which product is good for you and for your readers.
Are you into affiliate marketing? How do you judge which product is good for your blog and which one is bad?
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Great post.
Although i’m learning the ropes wiith affiliate marketing, i think choosing a popular product that sells is the main thing that decides your success or failure.
Popular product with proper marketing is the thumb rule..
Affiliate marketing is tough task. if you want to make money from this you should have a really big blog.
Dinesh its not true, many blogs with handful of readers and subscriber are making good money with affiliate marketing and another fact is you don’t really need to have a blog for affiliate marketing.
I’ve been pretty happy with my affiliate relationships. It definitely took me a bit of trial and error but I’m settled into what I think is the best for my site currently. I primarily use Commission Junction for most of my ads.
Gabe some how I dont had much luck with CJ, because the product which I promote , I can get affiliate sign up directly which I find much better… So in my case Its mostly direct affiliates…
Getting the right affiliate and promoting it properly is the key.Also depends on the interests of blog readers . Bit of trial and error thing.Still learning from the process.
Getting the Right affiliate depending on the niche is very important , thanks for your insight and comment Sourish.
Bro, Nice Tip Bro… can u give access to Thesis Cpanel.. I will give honest Review..
Hey Chethan
I would love to, but for this I need to give you access to my wp-admin, I will try to arrange Thesis on one of my dummy blog and give you the access. though no promises.
Great post… Thanks for giving more knowledge on Affiliate marketing.
hey tell about some sites which pay for affiliate
Great advice Harsh, interesting read, thank!
~ K.