Introduction – Generic ways of online marketing business to earn money
The first steps is to choose your interesting product and then build a web site to promote the product. Next step is to get ranking in internet searching engines including google, bing, yahoo, facebook, baidu, etc. If visitors browse your web site and buy product via your affiliate link, then, you can make money. Does it sound simple and easy to earn online ? In actual case, many people fail to make money after work hard for creating many pages or posts in web sites. Even someone lost a lot of money because of internet scammer. In this article, I want to give you some tips to make money online with internet marketing via affiliate program, and hope it benefit you.
What is Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing allows affiliate (like you) to promote products or services online for merchants. Creating web site is a starting point for affiliate promotion. As someone is on the web site and they click the “affiliate link”, then, affiliate will get full credit for the sale if this person goes on to buy something.
Some of the most common affiliate programs are as below:
- Amazon
- Commission Junction
- Clickbank
- ShareASale
- LinkShare
- Clicksure
- Walmart.com (Offered affiliate through LinkShare.com)
- Shopping.com
In addition, you can search more affiliate programs from google search engine by inputting the “niche + affiliate program”.
How Affiliate Program Work via Product Review Page
The common way is to create a page or post with an affiliate link, and then publish to your web site. For example, you can highlight the text while editing a blog post, and then add the link via the link button as below diagram:
A product review page has much better promotion and selling power than other title of topic. As people find your product review useful, they may decide to buy. If people purchase through your affiliate link, you can earn money. The most important is to create attractive page and providing useful information to your reader. There are two types of reviews that you can commonly create.
- Singular Product Review – you can write a post or page to introduce a product, describe its features and function.
- Type of Product Review – There are review pages dedicated to a type of product or several “like” products.
Here are some “ranking attributes” you can focus on within your reviews:
- Overall Rank (rank each product against one another)
- Product Description
- Pros & Cons
- Price
- Guarantee (YES, NO)
- Product Specifications
Just remember that when creating any product review or tying in any affiliate program (affiliate links, banners etc) to your website. The better you can educate people about a product or a series of products, the more comfortable they will be with your advice and the more likely they are to make a purchase and earn you money. Otherwise, the “click away” happens more often than not.
The Success Factor of Affiliate Marketing is Traffic. After creating a web site and product review page, you need to have relevant traffic which you will have all the potential in the world to earn revenue online.
Two Useful Google Tools
- To start tracking our traffic and getting insight into our visitors, we are going to use the best program for getting traffic and visitor data, Google Analytics (and it is free). https://www.google.com/analytics/
- You need to have your “pulse” on the industry and be the source for information. The best way to stay informed is to set up a Google Alert. http://www.google.com/alerts, e.g new + your niche
Conclusion
Some comes to your website =>
=> They click your affiliate link =>
=> They buy something from the merchant =>
=> You get the affiliate commission ($$$)
It really is that simple, so don’t over-think this process. And don’t worry about people stealing “affiliate links” this cannot happen. If your affiliate link is the last one that someone clicks before buying a product from the merchant, you will get credit for the sale.
The most important factor is that your web site is helping “potential” customers to make purchasing decision. The more you can educate customers on a product and providing a valuable of product review information, the better earning results you will have. If you can turn your mind set to provide helping to customers rather than selling to them, it is not surprise that you will make money online from affiliate marketing easier.
I hope you enjoyed this review. If you have any question about this review, you are welcome to leave a comment.
