three tips to create a killer affiliate marketing strategy

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If you own a blog or a business which constantly explores new ways to generate revenue then you will have almost certainly heard of affiliate marketing.

Quite simply is the process of selling other people’s products for a commission payment for the sale or lead.

Truth being told there is a lot of good and solid revenue to be made from affiliate marketing, however a lot of people fail with it.

Now a lot of the reasoning behind people failing to capitalize on the potential of affiliate marketing is simple; a lot of people simply know nothing about it, and ignore the possibility of creating an easily sustainable revenue.

Today we are going to discuss three key tips in order to capitalize on affiliate marketing and turn your blog in to a reliable source for affiliate products.

With these tips under your belt, you should be able to take your affiliate marketing strategy to the next level.


Understanding Your Audience

Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools only go so far as to give you an insight in to who your blog audience really is.

In order to be successful with affiliate marketing you need to know your audience inside and out, or more specifically know exactly why they are visiting your blog.

Do they visit because of your charismatic charm and your enviable ability to play on words?

Whatever the case, the first step to creating a profitable affiliate marketing campaign is to know your audience and there is only one way to get to grips with this; communication.


Does your blog allow comments on posts?

If so, start your search for learning about your audience by visiting your most commented and popular posts. Do you have a blog, Twitter and Facebook account? Find out which posts have been re-tweeted and voted on the most.

After you have figured out which posts are most popular by social proof then take the time to find out or think about which products would be most beneficial to your readers.

Will your readers like a digital download perhaps?

A link to an eCommerce store which sells a product mentioned in your post?


Once you have figured out what kind of posts your audience loves, you can then move on to the next step.

Research Your Affiliate Products

To follow on from the above point regarding having a think about which affiliate products would most benefit your readers, you’ll want to do a little bit more than go by a hunch.

If you operate a blog within a specific niche then it is possible you will have generated a number of friends and contacts over a certain time period as well as a list of decent blog’s which you keep up to date with.

Chances are these blog’s you keep up to date with already utilize affiliate marketing in some form through different placements.

Have a little browse around other blog’s and ‘competitor’ websites to see if they use affiliate marketing.

If they do make a note of the types of websites they link out to as well as the exact sizes of the ad placements they use.


Once you have a basic list of affiliate products that other websites in your niche use, then you should set up a few accounts with affiliate marketing platforms with decent advertisers on.

Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future and Paid on Results to name but a few.

These affiliate networks have a wide range of niches to choose from.

Seek Ideal Placement

Depending on your content structure your blog will generate search engine traffic in a number of ways.

In the long-term, it is always good to create killer content for highly searched keyword terms and insert affiliate links and banners there.

three tips to create a killer affiliate marketing strategy

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