How to Get Started Like a Rocket in Affiliate Marketing

By Tammy Lynch Powell

Finding an affiliate marketing program that you could take up or even creating your own product-based website is quite easy. All you have to do is to browse through the thousands of affiliate programs and networks on the Internet until you find one that you would be comfortable with or the one that suits your taste and interest. You could sign up with the company as an affiliate (Amazon would call you an associate instead of affiliate) and obtain their code. Include the code in the links that you generate in your website and sit back for visitors to come to your site and click on those links that would take them to the company. Slowly, your earnings would increase.

However, there are a few things that you have to do so that the traffic to your website is increased. The first step is the most important one and it is called keyword research. There are several tools that you could use to obtain proper keywords, so that your website is fully geared towards maximum search engine optimization (SEO) and is ranked at the top spots at the search engines and directories like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. You could find several keywords with the tool WordTracker.

Whenever you come across a product or a service that interests you or the one that you feel is offering the very best product or a relatively higher payout for you as commission, compare the product or the service with the search terms that you could find in WordTracker. By process of selection and elimination, you would definitely be able to arrive at a product or service that has got a decent demand, that offers a fairly decent commission and at the same time, would convert well and attract more people. Now you could join their affiliate marketing program with confidence. Over a period, you could increase the number of affiliate marketing programs that you have joined in, to multiply your income.

Another tool that is very effective in affiliate marketing is known as Keyword Analyzer. This tool has got access to Overture database. The tool reveals the number of searches that are made for any given word or phrase and at the same time, shows the number of results or web pages for that word or phrase at the search engines. This tool also exhibits the number of Overture pay-per-click (PPC) programs or campaigns that are running at present for that particular word or phrase along with the number of AdWords. With the help of Keyword Analyzer, you would be able to analyze the PPC ads that are currently running on Overture and AdWords for each keyword. You could also take a look at the headlines that are being used, the URL's of the landing pages of those headlines, etc. This is a great help in getting to know more about the competition. In a matter of minutes, you would get a fair idea about the actual profit potential of any particular product or the market in general.

Keep in mind, the more the number of keywords and phrases, as well as the items displayed, the steeper is the competition. Still, where there is a hungry market there is plenty of affiliate revenue to be made so you can easily overcome competition with the right affiliate marketing strategies.

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