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February 7, 2012

Affiliate Marketing Simplifed

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Affiliate Marketing SimplifedI’ve condensed and simplified the steps required to start your own business as an affiliate as much as possible in the following article.

Plan to spend time at each site/link below researching and learning more about the process.

Give it enough time, and it WILL start to look much easier!

Here we go.

  1. Choose Your Niche

    Pick a topic you know and are passionate about, then surf the web to find sites related to your interest.

    Pay particular attention to sites with excellent content and products. What products and services do they offer? What keywords would customers search to find those sites? Make a list. Can you think of ways you would improve those sites? Take notes.

    Learn more about niche and keyword research

  2. Register a Domain & Arrange Web Hosting

    Select a dot.com that is relevant to your chosen topic. Keep it short, simple, and devoid of hyphens (if possible). A web host is a server on which your site resides.

    Here are the web hosting services I currently recommend.

    If you want to register your domain separately, I recommend GoDaddy

  3. Start Building Your Web Site

    Start a blog or get a site builder. You’ll find an article on the benefits of learning HTML and other site-building resources here.

    If you’re already committed to using a full ecommerce package, check out SiteBuildiT! first.

  4. Develop Content

    If you hate to write, content development may seem rather daunting.

    Fear not, getting information together for your site is probably easier than you think, as there are many wonderful resources of pre-written content available to you

    Here are 5 ways to put content on your site.

  5. Source Products to Sell

    Having a site won’t do you much good if you don’t list any products or services for your visitors to buy. :-)

    I suggest that you join the following affiliate networks to start with — ClickBank k and Shareasale… but only AFTER your blog is up and has some content.

  6. Build a List

    Overlook this step at your peril! It is essential! Build a list to keep in touch with your visitors and sell them MORE related products.

    Learn all about email marketing. I personally use and recommend Aweber’s autoresponder service.

  7. Market Your Site

    Here is a list of my favorite 3 ways to get traffic.

    However, the fastest way to get visitors to your site, is to use pay-per-click search engines advertising where you pay only for visitors that clickthrough to your site.

    My personal favorite PPC’s are Yahoo! Search Marketing (which often offers a $25 credit), Google Adwords and Microsoft AdCenter which you can join now receive $50 in FREE PPC credits.

There you have them, the 7 basic steps to get your own online business off the ground.

Start today, work diligently and pretty soon you’ll start to see phenomenal rewards.

About Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner is a blogger, speaker and Internet Marketing consultant, best known for her "Super Affiliate Handbook", (referred to by industry professionals as the 'bible' of affiliate marketing) and Rosalind Gardner's Academy - a multi-media version of the book.

Disclosure: We are compensated for our reviews. Click here for details.

Comments

  1. Kathy/Bioniclily says:
    April 13, 2009 at 7:10 am

    I just wanted to say thankyou for all of the Useful information that you provide. I open you emails first, because they pay off.
    Thanks again
    Kathy

    Reply
  2. Karen Cioffi-Ventrice says:
    April 25, 2009 at 8:13 am

    Rosalind,

    Thanks for the simplified version. It’s all great info!

    I’m up to page 94 of the SAH.

    Karen

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  3. David says:
    May 18, 2009 at 8:06 am

    Thanks Rosalind for all these great tips.

    Question:
    What do you think about using Wikipedia for research?
    Also they let you (I think) copy the text if you insert their
    copyright notice/links at the bottom.

    Thanks’

    David

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  4. Carlos Arredondo says:
    May 27, 2009 at 5:50 am

    Hi Rosalind.

    Thank you for he great tips; reading your material (and practicing) is saving me a lot of time, you write
    everything clear and to the point, and a lot of your material is FREE, thank you so much.

    I always read your e-mails because I know I’l learn someting new. Thanks again.

    Carlos A.

    Reply
  5. rakeback says:
    September 17, 2009 at 7:21 am

    Good article, just started my affiliate site and am seeing small profits.

    Reply
  6. rakeback says:
    September 17, 2009 at 7:24 am

    I started my poker affiliate site this year (I am 21, Female) and spend 8-11 hours per day promoting the site. It’s stressful only seeing small profits each month but your information has given me a little bit more of a push ”phenomenal rewards” lol. Well I hope so!

    Thanks for the information!

    Reply
  7. Jamela says:
    September 17, 2010 at 20:27 pm

    I have been looking through the web on how to monetize my blog. Thanks for this wonderful info and links.

    Reply
  8. Judy van Niekerk says:
    May 29, 2011 at 13:57 pm

    Hi Ros,
    My husband and I recently purchased your Super Affiliate Handbook educational – it is superb of course!! My husband introduced the concept to me a few months ago when we took stock of our lives and essentially walked away from our high stress rat race lifestlye – and your guidance has been like a bible to me.
    This new career for me incorporates all of my passions – wirting, research, marketing and of course the topic of each of the blogsites/websites we are building! which includes travel, self development, building wealth etc.
    We are quite far down the road and almost ready to go live; I continue to research the topics for hours and hours – sometimes it feels overwhelming.
    I would like your opinion on something with regard to ‘extra’ information I may require to promote my sites specifically Public Domain Riches, Public Domain Gold Mine and Content Composer – I know you meniton them in your blogs, but the way in which the websites are structured, they don’t fill me with great confidence as they seem more a ‘push’ for you to purchase their information and ‘frighten’ you into doing so. I can imagine that in no time at all one can spend many thousands of dollars in getting set up, but is all of it required, as I am very confident that we will earn great money – eventually – so in esseince what I am asking is – in your opinion do you think purchasing these ebooks are essential for success?
    I really appreciate your time and everything you have done to promote this profession – your honesty and passion is so obvious!

    All the best
    Judy

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    • Rosalind Gardner says:
      May 31, 2011 at 10:06 am

      Hello Judy,

      Thanks very much for getting in touch and for your kind comments.

      As to the ‘extra’ info.. unless you plan to sell information products using public domain products, neither of the first 2 that you mentioned are necessary. And because you love to write, you certainly don’t need the latter. What you might be interested in however is Scribe SEO a tool that I wrote about here http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/rockin-the-seo/

      Hope that helps!

      Cheers,
      Ros

  9. eric johnson says:
    June 10, 2011 at 9:37 am

    FYI
    this link: affiliate program networks
    in this paragraph: Source Products to Sell
    on this page: http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/affiliate-marketing-simplifed/

    is broken

    love your stuff thanks
    eric johnson

    Reply
  10. chris says:
    June 26, 2011 at 7:51 am

    Thank you for the 7 pointers you gave to be a successful affiliate marketing I really like the
    1st one The Choose your Niche because this is the foundation of all to be successful affiliate marketing.
    You need first to choose what you are passionate for.

    Reply

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