Selling affiliate products is a great way to make a ton of money! A lot of internet marketers do nothing but sell affiliate products, and get rich doing it. You can to. It’s not all that hard. It just takes a willingness to learn the ropes and experiment.
Affiliate marketing is basically commission based selling. You create a website, drive traffic to it, and when someone clicks through it to an affiliate merchant’s site and actually buys something, you get paid!
What a deal!
Where do you find affiliate products?
From affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Kolimbo, Hydranet, Clickbank and others. There are literally hundreds of these out there.
My main goal with affiliate marketing is to create what I call online, automated money machines. I do this buy building websites, using what I know about internet marketing to build up traffic, and then monetizing the site with affiliate products.
It takes some work to get this going, but the beauty of the system is once you do, you can just forget these sites and they just keep churning out money month after month-with virtually no upkeep.
In order to understand this more, let’s talk about how to use your website to sell.
Why would someone come to your site and click through it to an affiliate merchant’s page and buy something? Well, you might just be at the right place at the right time, and just get lucky. But we’re not going to depend on that. What you really want the content on your site to do is to be of real value to your visitor in their buying decision.
Let’s say you have a niche website about organic dog foods. In addition to having page after page of product descriptions, you would want to have more in depth discussions of the various dog foods offered–their pros and cons. This way you help your visitor make sense out of a potentially confusing marketplace. You become a trusted ally, instead of just a funnel to the merchant’s site.
This is called pre-selling, and this is what a lot of content on the Internet is all about.
Your pre-selling does two things. One, it gets your visitors to get comfortable enough with you to follow your recommendations-i. e. buy your affiliate products. Two, it creates content that attracts Google searches.
This type of content, the kind that ranks well for Google searches is what search engine optimization (SEO, for short) is all about. Create enough pages of this stuff and you have a built in source of traffic for life!
