Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Affiliate Marketers - 6 Common Questions

By Anson Hall

As an affiliate marketer you will have a chance to make a lot of money online. However, as you know, you will need to learn the correct ways to work in order to make money.

This is why sometimes it is difficult to make money with affiliate marketing for newbies. This is because they do not know how they should work in order to make money effectively. There are 6 questions affiliate marketers will commonly ask and below are these questions.

#1 How many affiliate programs should I join? There are some marketers who will try to join plenty of programs. However, you do not need to do so. You can stick to some good programs. Joining 5 to 8 programs will be good enough.

#2 Should I create an affiliate site? Yes you have to create your own affiliate website. However, it can just be a landing page instead of a whole site. It depends on your way to promote it. If you are going to use PPC, you can just go for a landing page.

#3 Should I learn SEO? If you have a lot of capital to invest, you may consider outsource the job. To this end you may not really need to learn SEO. However, if you have limited budget, you may probably need to learn that.

#4 Should I do link exchanges? Yes you can do link exchanges with related website. However, you should never exchange links with unrelated websites. Besides, you should also build some one way links at the same time.

#5 Should I write your own articles on your website? Of course you will need to create your own contents. You would certainly want to make your website unique and you need to create quality and unique contents.

#6 Can I promote on online forums? You should try to promote your affiliate website on online forums. Yet you should not spam the forums. Make sure you read all the rules before you post.

You will need to discover more ways to make money online with affiliate marketing. Make sure you will spend an hour or so every day to visit affiliate forums and website on making money online. You will have to keep learning new tactics everyday. - 16747

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