What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which you get paid for helping others earn profits by marketing for their product and getting commission for each sale that takes place through your reference.
It is a way where people secure millions and millions of dollars each year.

It can be done in many ways. Being, new to this business, I will give you guidelines towards how you can be one of those who do earn a lot. Moreover, mind it, it is a true reality!

Affiliate marketing is Internet marketing for somebody else's product. It is better than having your own product and selling it. As you are relieved of all the worry that controls you in regard to sales of your product. I have tried a lot of ways of earning money online and this is the best of all. In this, you work less time and earn more.

I have put together the fundamental steps with respect to Affiliate Marketing:

Review Site Marketing: In this form of marketing, you build a review site for the product you want to associate with. A review site can be made on one of the free blogging sites that we have. If you want to use your own domain, then you can build it on your own server. This is by far the best practice that I have come across in this business. Make sure your review site is search engine optimized, so that it is easily indexed.

Article Marketing: In this type of marketing, you write short articles related to your affiliate product. After this, you can submit your articles to article submitters, directories, blog sites, social-bookmarking sites. Once your article gets accepted, you need to fill the bio-box and byline provided at the bottom with your references (i.e. your affiliate link) and contact information.

E-mail Marketing: This is possible if you have an e-mail list of buyers. The conversion rate will increases by many folds, if the buyer list that you have is a chosen niche. This is by far, the quickest way to rake in Commissions but creating an E-mail list of your own is the most demanding task to achieve and is a long term process.

PPC( Pay Per Click) Marketing: If you are open to investing money for marketing your chosen product, then this is a very lucrative business. It is a system of advertising your website on search engine results (in the sponsored result listing) where advertisers bid against each other to be the top search result on specific keywords or keyword phrases. Cost per click is the bidding amount you accept to pay whenever there is a click on your result.

by H.-J. Renglef