How to make money using an affiliate program

There are many people using affiliate programs to boost their online product sales and most of these internet promotion applications are free to join. When you sign up for an affiliate program, a web link with a unique online ID will be assigned to you. The online web link is used to promote the product of your merchant. When a visitor buys an item through your affiliate link, you earn affiliate commission. Here are the steps to starting an online internet promotion business.

1. The first step is to research affiliate programs. (Amazon, click bank, EBay, Commission Junction, etc) Find out which products are most well-known and what its conversion rate. Visit the seller's  web page to see whether their product sales letters are enough to produce product sales. A transformation amount of 5% is reasonably good. This means that for every 100 people landing on your merchant’s web page, 5 guests will place an order.Choose a system that offers recurring commissions that compound each month as you refer more customers; and register with the affiliate program.

2. Get a web site. You can used Word press platforms or blogger.com; if you use word press or any other web tools you have to buy a domain name and pay for the hosting ; if you open an account with blogger.com , they will host it for 100 % free .

3. Promote the affiliate program through your website pages. Visiting other professional sites of your niche is a good way to get some ideas on how to design your web page. Affiliate web link will be given to you for each item you want to promote; paste the web link in your HTML code.

4. Make your web page material relevant. Write a review (400-500 word) on each of the item you wish to advertise or create a YouTube movie for each item with a web link to the product sales web page. Go to the web page of the owner of the item to get some details about the item or search engines the item to get more useful details and write a brief article (review) with a proactive approach at the end of the material. The proactive approach should invite your readers to simply select the web link.  Never display the product on your website without writing a review of the item.

5. Drive targeted traffic to your web page. To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your web page. The more guests your web page gets, the more likely you will produce product sales. There are several ways to produce targeted traffic to your website in brief duration of time:

• Pay-per-click (PPC) Marketing. You can get a lot of targeted traffic from PPC advertising applications. The two most well-known and efficient PPC advertising applications are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. These applications allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a key word matches your keyword in the PPC online search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search engines listing page. If the guest clicks through your ad to your web page, you will be charged based on your bid amount. Also, PPC advertising applications will distribute your ads to sites of their material networks also.

• Article Marketing. Write an article related to your online items with a back link to your web page in the article’s resource box and submit it to credible articles directories sites such as ezinearticles.com or bestezines.com . To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles, and submit it. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can produce truckloads of 100 % free guests to your web page.

• Post Messages on Forums. Post messages on forums related to the product with a link to your site in the signature of each message. Make sure your forum profile includes your website link within the signature option. Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ concerns or messages to develop your status. The more people believe in you, the more likely they will just click your web link.

•  Post video clips online about the product. These movie reviews are the quickest the most effective way to build trust by showing the benefits of the product in real time. Since Google owns YouTube your videos can even rank high in the Google organic search. You can even provide a link under the video and you can encourage your visitors to purchase the product through your affiliate link.

To be successful you need to be focus, and be determined; be consistent and never give up.With some patience and determination you will generate some money.