The reason why you should focus your search on long-tail keywords is that they’re highly targeted, meaning that whenever someone searches for a keyword like this, they’re looking for something very specific: whatever it is you’re selling!
Second, you have to validate your idea. You could just go ahead and build your idea. But, what if people don’t even want it? An idea is only good if people actually want it to come to life.
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To touch this opportunity or not is up to you. What we want to deduce is starting with Amazon Associates is entering a whole new world full of excitement, opportunities, and a spectrum of possibilities.
Key Take-Away: Focusing on creating link-worthy content early on is a great way to grow your site even if you’re on a shoestring budget.
BH Cosmetics affiliates receive an 8% commission on purchases made within 60 days of the user's visit. The site has an average order value of $38 and an on-site conversion rate of 6.46%.
An affiliate making $5000/day might be worse off than another affiliate making $500/day with no cash outflow because the former might be spending most of his revenue on paid acquisition.
Some people use affiliate marketing only for profit, not to benefit their customers. Some will even mislead their audience with spammy, dishonest affiliate ads and promotions, or they try to hide the fact that it’s an affiliate link. Here’s a tip: most readers can smell them a mile away—and that’s okay if you’re honest about the intent!
This is another great way to help your readers. If there are a couple of key competitors in your niche, you can create a comparison and list the different products’ pros and cons.
By now, you're starting to understand why affiliate marketers seem to be swimming in it even though they don't spend their days tied to a desk, working. So, let's finally start talking about how YOU can become a successful affiliate marketer.
Taking the time to do your research and validate whether or your product has a chance to sell, is one of the most important steps you can do when starting out as an affiliate marketer.
That might be fine when you only have a dozen pages. But when you get up to a few hundred pages it can create a massive headache!
Well, the good news is that with a bit of time and effort, almost anyone can start their own website and become a successful affiliate marketer.
The more complex or expensive a product, the more credibility you need to sell it.
Now that you’ve registered and organized your affiliate links, it’s time to start promoting! I’m going to share with you my top eight affiliate promotion strategies.
It's not enough for the topic to be interesting to you, it has to be interesting to other people as well. One way to check if the topic is interesting to other people is to see if they google it and how often. Or, in other words, see if the keywords related to your topic have substantial search volume.
If you can boost that middle number of 10 so that 20 of those initial 100 to click through, you stand a good chance of doubling your conversion rate to 2%. Effectively doubling your money.
All of the above (and more) allowed me to monetize my career coaching blog BEFORE I had created my own products.