Affiliate Marketing System

Before we discus some affiliate marketing systems or strategies, lets do a very fast overview of affiliate marketing.

In affiliate marketing, you get your commissions for promoting products and services of a merchant. The Merchant is bound to pay you the sales commission. The affiliate’s task is to promote the products of the merchant.

You do not need a web site to promote affiliate programs, however, it is helpful. Without a web site your internet marketing tool will be email and ezymes. For the rest of this article we will assume you have a web site.

One of the “must” affiliate marketing strategies is to cloak your affiliate links. Usually the affiliate links contain the affiliate id of affiliates at the end of merchant website’s URL. An example is: http://www.website.com?aff_id=your_affiliate_id

Anybody can easily drop your “aff_id” part from the above link and can visit the merchant website to make sales. In this case the sales are made but you are not credited. The solution of this problem is “cloaking”. After cloaking your affiliate link will be like: http://www.website.com/affiliate_site. A search on “cloak affiliate link” will get you more information in this subject, including sites that will cloak your link for free. One such site is http://www.addme.com/linkcloaker.htm.

Your web site is the key to your successful affiliate marketing system.

An important affiliate marketing secret is do not fill your web site with a ton of affiliate links, flashy banners, and ads, which may confused your visitor. He may simply leave your website. People like to see the clear and easy to understand websites. Just put an honest product review to get the visitor’s attention with text ads instead of flashy ads.

Instead fill it with good content, the more original the better. Build a web site with good, easy to follow navigation and at least twenty pages of content articles that you wrote about the niche that you are marketing in. Put the links to your affiliate programs in the text of the articles so that they look natural and flow with the text.

Make the links so that they open in a new window. This will allow your site to stay open when the visitor goes to the affiliate program’s page. This is an important part of this affiliate marketing strategy.

Once your web site is built send visitors to your site instead of directly to the affiliate program you are promoting. As your visitors read your articles they will click on the links that go to your affiliate program.

Use a simple, easy and interesting name for your website. It should relate to the niche you are marketing in.

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