4 Vital Tools For Affiliate Marketing Beginners

By Jeff Sargent

Advertisements like "Earn $1000 each week" allure many individuals to setup their own affiliate marketing business. However, lack of experience and knowledge often, compels these affiliate marketing beginners to rush out of the pitch as quickly as they have entered. During the entire process of entry and exit, greenhorns lose not only thousands of dollars, but also their faith in the potential of affiliate marketing.

I also faced a lot of predicaments when I started my affiliate marketing business. Conversely, instead of leaving the ground unexplored, I decided to take a plunge. Today, my kith and kin call me a successful affiliate marketer. On the basis of my failures and victories, I have compiled a list of tools that are indispensable to all affiliate marketing beginners.

Tool #1

The success of any affiliate marketing business is closely dependent upon the manner in which the information about the products and services is made available to the prospective customers. These days, people usually connect to the internet to search for requisite information. Thus, websites and blogs become crucial. However, designing a website or blog requires loads of technical knowledge.

You would either have to learn languages such as HTML, MYSQL and PHP or you would have to rely upon professional web-designers. All this would be quite time-consuming. An easier method would be to use off the rack templates that are freely provided by website and blog hosts such as GoDaddy, Doteasy, Bravenet, Wordpress, and Blogger. These affiliate marketing beginners' tools make the website and blog building process a piece of cake.

Tool #2

As soon as your website and blog is up on the Internet, you would need to bring in traffic to your site. Now, there are two very powerful tools that make your site visible almost instantly: One is Pay-Per-Click advertising through Google Ad Words, Yahoo Sponsored Search and Microsoft adCenter, and second is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which helps search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN to find and track your website and blog. Granted these may not seem like beginners' tools because they can be tough to master but believe me this is where you need to start.

You can increase the page rank of your website and blog by creating inbound links. Write useful articles and press releases, and post them on reputed directories with a link to your site. Thus, your probable customers will get 3-ways to reach your website or blog, via advertisements, search engines and web-content. Affiliate networks, forums and chat-rooms are some other ways to increase traffic on your site.

Tool #3

Nowadays, people have become highly selective. They want the best and that too without delay. While your prospective customers are searching the products and services you offer, you can help them reach your site faster by providing them the right keyword. For this, you would require a free keyword research tool like the Free Keyword WordTracker Tool or Google AdWords Keyword Tool.

These tools will proficiently tell you what keywords your potential customers are using to reach your site, and how often they are using them. Once, you have all your targeted keywords, you can use them appropriately in your web-content, articles, press releases, newsletters and brochures. Remember, content can make or break your affiliate marketing business. Therefore, use your keywords with care and toil hard to write good content for your website and blog.

Tool #4

Your website would also have a number of images; hence you would require a dexterous image editing software to edit all those images. You can either use an online graphic software like Andromeda eFX Services, JPEG Wizzard and myImager or you can depend upon tried and tested image editing tools as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP.

According to a study conducted by MarketingSherpa, affiliates generated approximately $6.5 billion in sales in 2006. You can also become a part of this grand success; get started with the above-mentioned affiliate marketing beginners' tools. Once, you have successfully entered into the arena of affiliate marketing, you will enjoy dual benefits: Firstly, the pleasure of working from the comfort of your home, according to your own schedule, and secondly, the satisfaction of generating a decent income. The power of affiliate marketing beginners' tools is ceaseless, so use them without fear, and become a super affiliate in a flash.

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