How to Make Affiliate Programs Work for You

See that title? Many of us see that at least once a day online. However, most people get the wrong idea. It sounds like a get rich quick scheme and people use it accordingly. The biggest mistake people make is they throw up a website with 100 blinding banners. Set it and forget it might sound good for informercial rotating ovens, but it doesn't work when your trying to create a successful website.

There are probably millions of dead websites out there where people became an affiliate and quit when they saw nothing in return. But how do you expect to get traffic and income if no one knows about your site?

The best advice is to choose an affiliate that doesn't have huge competition. It will be hard to get your foot in the door if 10 million other people are advertising the same product. I know of one person who makes a comfortable amount per month as an affiliate for a foot product. Not many would pay attention to it and that left him with a lot of room to advertise without being over taken by similar ads and competition.

If you want to be an affiliate but don't want the hassle of a website, then consider using a landing page. Some affiliates such as dentalplans give you a free landing page but not many do. A landing page is your own website you can post to search engines, and ad services. It's different because many affiliates give you a link, banner, or buttons to put on your website. But if you don't have a website you have no place to put them. So you get a free web page or free website and use that page to presell that product before showing them the door to actually see and buy the product.

Now with invention and popularity of ad services the average person can afford like google's adsense, adwords, and yahoo's overture, you can now advertise that page for $5.00 a day and get traffic. That's the biggest problem. Traffic. If no one visits your site how can you sell the product? Here are a few tips on gaining traffic.