Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: 4 Mistakes to Avoid.

By Asem Eltaher

Mistake (1): Web pages overload with banners make more money.

A central key point of online affiliate marketing is to prohibit the over usage of banners in your website. Nearly every well known affiliate marketing for beginners guide handle this point and warns about the consequences of banners usage. Your visitor would not be happy to be annoyed with pop up banners instead of finding useful and unique content and would be pushed to leave your website. This decreases your creditability and makes you loose huge affiliate commissions.

Mistake (2): Sticking to single affiliate partner in the same niche.

To make money with affiliate marketing, select an affiliate partner based on what you like, or better yet select a few of good and well known affiliate partners. Design a marketing strategy, which promotes 3-4 products from several partners on the same site gives your website visitors a variety of destinations to choose from.

Mistake (3): Start on my own is a good thing.

It does not matter if you are a beginner or an expert in the field of online affiliate marketing. Never ever start form scratch as each affiliate marketing for beginners guide would strongly recommend for you. A wise idea is to periodically visit advertising affiliate forums and directories to hear what other people talk about, what their current challenges are, and before every thing which mistakes they did which you should logically avoid to shorten your learning curve.

Mistake (4): I would first start and then set up my plan accordingly.

It is too risky to start your online business with no concrete financial plan and time plan as well. Never underestimate the cost in terms of time, money, and energy to push your business one step forwards. Otherwise, you would fail which we do not want.

To make money with affiliate marketing, it is worthwhile to devote huge time and energy to design a detailed financial and time advertising affiliate strategy before you start with your online business. What is even better is to write a short report about the expected results versus time. This way you definitely increase your chance to succeed because you have an idea what the output should be even before you started your affiliate business. - 16747

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