Whenever I publish my monthly income report, the most common question asked by most of my blogger friends and readers is How to get started with affiliate marketing?
Before I will tell you the golden rule, on which I work, one thing you should know, always come up with your own ideas for promoting your affiliate product. If you will copy someone else idea, you might be making money but for obvious reasons you will be running behind the guy with the main idea, and it won’t be long lasting
The basic idea on which I work is mixing my content and affiliate link, to maintain the Google webmaster TOS. More over I’m not willing to let me Page rank go, just because of these affiliate link. So one thing which I will highly recommend is use nofollow attribute and if you are on wordpress, use Gocodes wordpress plugin, and in your robots.txt file make /go/ or /recommended/ as noindex.
Affiliate marketing requires, proper strategic planning.
There are two main things which you need to have before you start with the affiliate marketing:
- Product (Related and quality)
- Sales Pitch
Product
Selecting the right product is very critical. Most of the product in online market have affiliate link associated with it. It can be any eBook, Cheap webhosting, jewelries and more. Make sure you select the best product based on your niche. Else you might get 1000+ clicks but your conversion rates will be 0%. In the next post I will tell you how to select product for your affiliate marketing.
Sales pitch
For selling any product, you need to create a sales pitch. The sales pitch can be in the form of a blog post or can be a static web page. Many companies provide you with a product page. Creating a sales pitch in simple words, you need to make your readers aware of what are they getting with their investment.
The things which you need to keep in mind before selecting your product is, who is going to be your target audience, do you have any current target audience related to same product, or you have to start from scratch.
In both the cases your strategy will be different.
In the upcoming post I will be covering more post related to affiliate market and my own experience with Affiliate marketing.
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Article by Harsh Agrawal
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Very much helpful post. The sales pitch funda is really cool and the results related to your affiliate marketing plans are visible in your monthly reports. Thanks a lot Harsh for sharing this info, will definitely try some of them on my blog.
Thanks for your comment Sanjeev and best of luck with it.
hey good start harsh we are waiting for next post
Mohit Currently I have 5 posts schedule and I guess I can add more post soon in the series. Make sure you subscribe to my Email newsletter if you don’t want to miss any single post.
harsh already subscribe to Email newsletter and following SML from last few months so i am regular reader. waiting for your next killer post
My bad Mohit. I should have realized that with your no. of comments.
Yay! you’re finally revealing the hidden secret
Looking forward to your next post…
But now I have understood the game of affiliate marketing and it’s doing great for me.
Hey Harshad its good to know that you have understood the hidden gem of Af. marketing but IMO there is no limit of learning process and more anyone read learn and implement better his understanding will be.
Nice move Harsh ! I have always had difficulty with this affiliate marketing as i couldnt make out how/where to get started ! Appreciate your effort.
Neeraj this series is targeting those people who have not yet started with affiliate marketing and I hope this will help you and others. Just a reminder Make sure you subscribe to my Email list to ensure you keep getting updates.
I have already installed that plugin and have edited my robots.txt to suit my blog. Have to try affiliate things in my blog soon.
Sure buddy. Good to see you are reading and implementing it. Best of luck with it.
Thanks For Sharing Your Golden Rules..
But I didnot understand it properly.. May Be I will understand later
Chethan feel free to ask questions if you have any. I will be glad to answer each of them.
Gr8 post……waiting fr d nxt 1 in this series
Rahul each post is schedule for next day, so I hope you will keep a track of it.
Heard of it but didn’t know how to start with. Waiting for continuation of this post
Thanks for your comment Phani. Hope to see you more active here.
Hey harsh,
It’s intereting that you are gonna start a new series.We are waiting for the rest posts to be appeared.Thanks in advance for creating such an useful series
Thanks Rajeel for your kind words and I hope this will help you and others as well.
You are like a true teacher bro, your articles are well explained.. I prefer to read you and hellbound Bloggers before anyother..
Thanks Kashish for your comment and I’m glad you find my post self explanatory.
Awesome post you got here! I definitely look forward to reading more
Thanks for your First comment Rob. Hope to see you more around. Welcome to Shoutmeloud
Yes, When it come to choose affilates products & services many things should be kept in mind, where product selection & sales pitch plays very important roles. Thanks, Harsh
Thanks for your insight and glad you agree with it.
Great post. I will be waiting for the next post related to this.
Hey Nihar
Here is the second one in the series
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/affiliate-marketing-vs-adsense.html
nice harsh as you are sharing your secrets of affliate marketing . the post is really appreciative need to listen more about rules to follow in future
Great Nitesh. Hope to see your around .
I never had much luck with Affiliate Marketing. I was infact looking forward to your posts on it.
I like your posts Harsh as it is easy to understand .
Thanks for your kind word Shabnam, I’m sure you will keep enjoying upcoming post in the series.
I never tried this. But thinking to give it a try
. Thanks for the share.
Arjun do try and let us know if you find affiliate marketing useful or not..
Really very informative post bro!! thanks as always
Thanks d3monoid for dropping by and for your comment
affiliate marketing can be pretty slow. Looking forward to learning more. I like your blog design too. The subheaders in the post are a nice touch.
Jade Affiliate marketing is slow but once you get hold of it, you can make some quick and huge money.. Thanks for your remark about my blog design
Thank you harsh i was not knowing how to start affiliate marketing.
Thanks for your comment Ravi and glad this article helped you.
Hey
Amazing post Harsh. I’m kinda young with my affiliate knowledge.
Could you suggest a few affiliate networks which work closely with Technology / Software
Thanks
Rehman
harsh what’s the right to think of starting affiliate marketing………….?
Thank you for this guide. I just starting with this website opportunities. I am on my own as a selft-taught webmaster.
I am still trying it hard to get success with affiliates …your posts certainly gave me idea on how to promote my affiliates…Thanks for sharing it..
Thanks for sharing this! But if you could provide any online affiliate marketing strategies, I’d appreciate it.