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how to choose a good affiliate product

how to choose a good affiliate product
how to choose a good affiliate product


 Recognizing the most proficient affiliate marketing product to promote and sell in the market can be challenging at times. Many novice affiliate marketers have a tendency to join every program that they come across with, thinking that they will be able to generate more profits. The truth of the matter is, this is not always beneficial. Keep in mind that the affiliate service or product that you choose is vital to your online success. Thus, you need to research before you choose any product or service. Here are a few items you should consider:


• Select a product or service that is already in demand. Search for affiliate programs that exhibit high conversion rates. Also, if a product is on a merchant’s “best seller” list, then you know that there is a market for the item.


• Selecting a product that relates to your interest, while not absolutely necessary, is a nice bonus.


• Always look for quality of products than quantity of commission rates. Although, it is important to ensure that the commission fees are competitive, it is more important to ensure that the product is one that you want to be associated with.


• Make sure the merchant is reputable. Try to send an email or contact the administrator or support desk to find out how they easily respond to inquiries. You should obtain a reply within two to three days. If they fail to send you a reply, the company may not be as reliable as it should be.


• If you want to market more than one affiliate marketing product, you should ensure that you have enough time to promote many products, services, or programs. Remember that you can’t generate money if you don’t have sufficient time to market them effectively.


Main Steps to Become a Successful Affiliate

After choosing a product

To become a really successful and wealthy affiliate, you really need to focus on 5 main steps. There are some steps in between as well, but by doing these 5, the others come automatically with.


Pick and research your niche – first you need to find a niche that you know something about, or you like it for one reason or another – or you can related to it somehow. Then go ahead and research it. Go to Amazon.com and check out the most popular books in the niche. Usually Amazon has a Table of Contents that is freely viewable. Check that out, see the topics, find some interesting tags and keywords. Write them down. The go ahead to the various free keyword research tools (Google’s tool being one of them and find some nice longtail keywords that you can use. Of course there are whole books written only about keyword research and there are specific software that will help you tremendously with it, like MicroNicheFinder that I totally use in my daily research, but I won’t go into details about research just yet, that is for another article.

Find some great converting affiliate programs that you can advertise – some people like to start with finding a Clickbank product and then building the niche around it. I prefer it the other way around. I want to know that I have a hungry market eager to buy the products and then I’ll research for something that I know I can happily product because I know the market is already there.

Create your website and build your content around it – first get yourself a domain name that is relevant to your niche, so that Google can see it as such. Then decide whether you want to create blogs around the niche, or landing pages that will have buttons where people will click to go to your selected product that you promote, or maybe you’ll do a sales page yourself or a squeeze page. The possibilities are endless here. But make sure that you don’t just point your domain to the seller’s website with your affiliate link embedded in it. People have grown accustomed to seeing these pages and they will be fast to clicking the back button when they see that you don’t offer anything of substance but a trick to lure them to buy the product.

Get targeted traffic to your site – I have discussed getting targeted traffic to your site here, so I will not repeat myself. Make sure you go and read this article.

Finally now is the time to monitor and tweak – see how all is converting, what traffic you are getting, and tweak if necessary.

A last step, which is not really part of this process, yet, it is integral to your becoming a great affiliate is: do it all over again in another niche 

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