You Too Can Be A Successful Marketer

The very first thing you must do in order to become a successful affiliate marketer is to decide that it is what you want to do. The next thing to do is to focus on one particular method of affiliate marketing. Once you have researched and experimented succesfully with one technique then you should look to expand your marketing into other places.

Article marketing is a great place to begin you affiliate marketing career. It can be very cheap, even free if you do it all yourself, and it is proven to be very successful and a favorite to many marketers already.The object is to write an article and submit it to the many article sites out there so that your name and backlinks to your site appear all over the internet.

There are thousands of article directories, ezines, and blogs that are constantly looking for content. When you have a website set up to sell your affiliate product you then write an article about it and submit it to these sites. When those articles get published you have a resource box where you get to put a few lines about yourself. In those lines you can put links that point back to your site, the more links to your site the more the search engines recognize you and the more chances you have of people looking for the type of product you are promoting finding your site.

The downside of article marketing is the tedious task of submitting your article to the thousands of publishers out there. The solution is directory submitters, who charge you a fee to submit to thousands of directories. This is great if you can afford it.

One thing to be aware of is the penalty of duplicate content. When a webpage has the same content as another one the search engines penalize the sites and don’t give them as high a ranking. Again, there are services available to automate the process of rewriting your articles and submitting them to the directories for a fee.

Another form of marketing to look into is PPC or pay per click. This involves you writing an advertisement and having it displayed by a company such as Google AdWords. Everytime someone clicks on the ad you get a visitor to your site. The fee you pay can be very small and profitable if done properly, or very expensive and detrimental to your profits if done carelessly.

PPC marketing involves you choosing keywords that are related to your niche and placing a bid on those words. When someone searches for that term your ad gets shown. Depending how much you bid your ad may be first or it may not get shown at all if you don’t bid enough. It is difficult to master how much to bid and on which words but once you find the right balance for the words you choose profits go through the roof!

You can also be a successful affiliate marketer by using your blog. You simply write a review of the product you are promoting on your blog and send traffic there. You can use sites like Squdoo to send traffic to your site and also create backlinks to your site. Also you can put comments on the blogs of other bloggers and leave a link there to your site.

If you focus on one technique and master it you will see results quickly and be on your way to being a successful affiliate marketer. Once those results start earning you money it is a good idea to expand your horizons and learn a new method for getting traffic to your site. As you add more methods to your arsenal and more income streams you will know that you have become a successful affiliate marketer!