Saturday, March 20, 2010

Affiliate Marketing Tips

After the creation of your website and some basic internet marketing you may be wondering how you are going to make money online with your website. One of the easiest and highest paying ways to make money with your website and the traffic flowing through is with affiliate marketing. If you are not sure where to begin amazon.com has an amazing affiliate program that caters to every niche on the web. They have books covering every topic all you need to do is sign up for their affiliate program then create your widget and copy and paste the code to your website or blog. Whenever anyone clicks on one of the books or products you are paid a commission the more people you have coming to your website or blog the more clicks on the products and the more money you will make. Now it is also important to investigate different places to put your affiliate adverts. On my website the top right of my blog seems to bring the most traffic. I have tried placing the ad in my header, in the middle of the page, and even after every post, but it became clear quite quickly that the best place for me to place the ad is on the top right of my blog. For you it could be completely different perhaps an ad in the header would be the best place or within your posts.



To make any money online you will need to have a decent amount of traffic to your website or blog. When trying to increase website or blog traffic you should focus on a few key elements of internet marketing. The first point you should focus on is fresh unique keyword rich content creation which will be the driving force of your website or blog. If you take the time to really write excellent helpful content you will drive traffic much faster than someone with low quality content. The second point of internet marketing is having an understanding of SEO. This is one the biggest separators between websites which webmaster knows more about SEO. When you SEO a website you should focus on four different things. The first two are on site and off site SEO. On site SEO is everything you do on your website whether it be content or meta tags. Off site SEO is backlink creation and brand building. You want to get everyone possible to link and talk about your website this has shown to greatly improve search engine placement. Now the last two types of SEO are sub types of on site SEO. The first is On page SEO and this is everything that a visitor sees when they come to your website. This includes content and headings. The last type of SEO is off page SEO and this is what the robots see when they come to your website such as meta tags and robot text files. Anyway if you would like to increase traffic Google all of these and learn all you can before the creation of your website. If you would like to learn more about affiliate marketing or internet marketing feel free to visit this internet marketing forum to ask any questions you might have.

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