Affiliate Marketing Revised
OK, forget everything you know about affiliate marketing. The tactics of the past few years just don't work anymore. If you play by the old rules, you will lose this game.
The big lie
You've probably heard how easy it is to start an affiliate business. And it is - sort of. It's far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But that doesn't mean it's easy.
Here's the ugly truth
And to make matters worse, you've taught to do it the hard way. The first thing you're taught is to pick some great products. Next do some keyword research. Then to use these keywords to buy ads promoting the product. And finally get a fat check for all the sales. But this just won't work!
Don't bother with keywords
There was a time when this worked. But the competition has shot the price of keywords through the roof. So, throw it all away.
The NEW game
There is a solution to this problem. Follow this method and win again...
- Start using CPA marketing
- Instead of researching keywords, research demographics
- Market on display networks
Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
CPA stands for Cost Per Action. It's much better than promoting a product. Because you don't have to get people to spend money. You earn a commission for having them perform an "action". Such as filling in a form. And it's much easier to get them to do that.
Do demographics research
You're not even going to use keywords (explained below.) So spend your time doing demographics research. First you select your CPA offer. Next, you go to Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.
Market on display networks
Now you have your offer and your demographics. You can target these exact demographics on display networks. Using image ads. And you don't need to know or buy a single keyword. The biggest advantage is price. Image ad clicks are much cheaper.
Summing it up
This is truly a quick cash concept. Because getting started in CPA is free. Image ads are cheap. You can use demographics to target your ideal prospect. And getting them to take an action is much easier than making a sale.
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Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
Visitors to your site are critical - getting them there automatically is even better. Here's how...
But, first...
Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. This means it's critical to select your keywords properly.
While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:
- Will you be able to rank for these keywords? You'll have to analyze the competition and see what's out there for this.
- Will the keywords you're targeting bring buyers? If you don't do your research you'll end up with a lot of traffic that doesn't buy from you. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
- What about affiliates? Nothing brings more buyers like an army of affiliates. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. And hiring an expert is very expensive. Which is why practically none of your competitors will do this! If you're smart you will use website traffic software to help you with this process. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.
Once you know your keywords...
Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this...
- Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
- "Traffic Traps"
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. You can use this fact to provide "sticky" content for other website owners. And when they put your survey on their site, they will include a link back to your website. Think about that - you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.
"Help" Websites
Maybe you've seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. But, like the surveys, that's not why you're going to pay attention to these sites. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Now, you can do this all by hand - visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. The good news is that it's easy to find website traffic software that can do this automatically. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.
Video
No doubt you're aware of YouTube and other video websites. These sites generate massive traffic and people watch over 2 billion videos a day on YouTube alone . If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
You don't have to be able to make awesome videos for this to work. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. I've even seen software that will automatically convert an article to a video!
Summary
Getting traffic is not that difficult. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren't doing. Plus, there's lots of great software out there to help you.
Don't waste any more time:
- Keyword research first is key
- Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
- Build your traffic traps
- And don't forget about video