In a recent survey conducted through Affiliate Learning Links, the #1 answer to the question;
“What is the first thing you want to learn this week?” was this.
How do I make Money With Affiliate Links?
While this question has many answers to it, we have broken down some action steps you can take right now to do it and do it with precision.
Before we roll out the steps here we want to inform you once again, that the FTC has it’s new guidelines and they will be enforced in the next few week.
We advise you all to comply with the new rules.
Now for the goods on How To Make Money With Affiliate Links.
Action Steps:
1. Start a blog page with great content that is geared toward a particular niche you enjoy.
Your blog should always have valuable content that gives out information on the subject that folks would be looking for in the search engines.
While the affiliate training and information arena is huge, it is also one of the hardest to get in to and make money with out the gate.
Our findings have been that most folks jumping into affiliate marketing do a ton of copy cat marketing. This can be a very good way for you to get the hang of things but it is really best to get a popular niche aside from affiliate marketing arena and gain an audience for it.
You will find out quickly that most of us have other niches we get involved in and for good reason!
2. Once you get your blog going and a good feel for the niche and the market you are targeting, you will look for companies that have affiliate programs within your niche. You will then sign up to be an affiliate for them and will have affiliate links that you put on your blog pages.
3. Post a blog every day if you can. This will increase your chances of getting traffic to your site. Once you start driving more traffic you will have a much better chance of sending your visitors to the offers you have linked on your pages.
4. Make sure your blog is SEO friendly and that you are pinging your post every time you write one. Again, this is helping you to drive that traffic to your page. No Traffic, No potential link clicks! Always be thinking about traffic!
5. Opt-in Subscriber boxes on your blog pages is were you really turn up the heat on potential sales. When you have subscribers that want to be on your list you have that additional stream of potential dollars getting dropped into your bank account. It is important to never spam
your subscribers and to only get to them relevant information that they may have interest in.
We strongly advise getting an Auto-Responding company such as Aweber
AWeber proves it to thousands of businesses every day.
Learn how email marketing software
can get you more sales, too.
Just an FYI, Aweber has an affiliate program you can join as well 
Once you have your auto responder activated, you can set a series of follow up emails to your subscribers. Additionally you have the option to send out broadcast messages for special events and offers that are new or ones that have time limits on them. In most cases the larger companies that have a strong and solid affiliate program will send you updates with your affiliate links attached and inform you to send out to your email list of relevant customers. So in a nutshell, send your affiliate links to your email subscribers on cool new stuff you find to sell them.
6. Social Networking is one of the top ways to get attention from folks that are interested in the same niche you are. You can find these people by doing a Google search on your niche. Once you do that search and find out how many people have interest in your niche then you can go strong by doing deeper searches in the following:
a. Twitter
b. Facebook
c. Search for forums that are targeted in your niche.
d. Hub pages
e. Ning
f. Youtube
These are just a few to start you off.
When you are involved in these networks you will have a place to put your link to your blog page in what is called the signature box. Bada Bing Bada Boom…. Instant traffic back to your blog (that has your affiliate links on it)
I hope this is helping you see the bigger picture!
If you have not yet watched the Affiliate Marketing 101 tutorial yet, that may help you even more through a visual perspective.
Here is the page for that one. http://affiliatetrainingpros.com/?page_id=75
Till next time!
Make every second count and take your action steps NOW….
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