Affiliate Marketing With Free Sites

[Matthew Sherborne]

Affiliate Marketing With Free Sites

Affiliate marketing on the Internet by writing about products is one of the most lucrative ways to increase your income online. Affiliate marketing works by referring others to products you recommend or write about.

You do this by signing up for a merchant’s affiliate program. The affiliate provides you with a special link. This link is used to send visitors to the merchants sales page. When your referred visitors make a purchase through your link on the merchant’s sales page, you're paid.

The amount you are paid per sale can vary greatly, however the average commission for a digital product is usually around 50%. That means if you refer a person to a sales page and they make a purchase of a $50 product, you receive $25. Not too bad for something you set up once and forget about. Except for the money you receive, that is.

You can find virtually any kind of product to market in practically any niche imaginable. In addition when you use Affiliate marketplaces like Clickbank or PayDotCom you're paid regularly for the sales you make.

Let’s go to Clickbank and take a look to see if they have any interesting products to market as an affiliate. To find the Clickbank marketplace go to:

https://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm

From the Clickbank Marketplace enter one of your three topic selections that you’ve been writing about into the keyword box. Choosing a topic that you’ve been concentrating on will allow you to stay focused on your topic niche and overall strategy.

The first and most popular result is a poker training video that pays 50% per sale. To find out more about the product, click on ‘view pitch page.’ To get your own affiliate link, go to ‘create hoplink.’



Clicking on ‘create hoplink’ gives you the opportunity to generate a link to promote the product. If you haven’t signed up for Clickbank yet, use the signup link to do so and get your own Clickbank nickname. Then come back to ‘create hoplink’ to generate your link.

To make affiliate marketing work for you and begin making large affiliate commission checks you'll need some knowledge about the product you're recommending.

This can be through personal experience or research. However if you have not personally used the product do not say you have. Instead list the benefits and information you’ve gleaned by researching the product. Always be honest when you give recommendations.

An easy way to learn more about the product besides the sales page is to go to the merchants affiliate page. This is often found at the bottom of the sales page and is usually displayed as a small link that says ‘affiliate.’

Jot down some of the key benefits of the product, you’ll use a couple of the strongest benefits when you put together your affiliate page.

Now that you’ve got some of the benefits of the product. Let’s look a little deeper into what other people are saying and determine if it would be a good idea to promote this product.

For this lets head over to a cool website I like to use to check online buzz called Serph.

You can find it at: Serph — Track buzz in real time.



You can see above I’ve typed in the name of the product I’m interested in promoting. It turns out there are 27 results for this product.

This is more than enough results to find out what other people are saying and craft an affiliate page based on this information. If the results of your research are negative it’s probably a good idea to go back to Clickbank and look for another product to promote.



To make a great affiliate page to generate sales for this product you need to start with great content. Offer content that is both relevant and useful to the target market by including relevant pieces of information you've already created to make your affiliate page.

The visitor will read your content because it's interesting and will avoid it if it's blatantly sales oriented. So to avoid this add relevant content that will automatically inspire trust and respect with visitors. This is a critical step to creating an effective affiliate page. Mess this up and you'll make far less than you could potentially make.

For instance, to promote the Poker Sit-N-Go Pro System, I'd create a page with information related to poker strategies, tips to win the game, or a personal experience I've had playing poker. Keep it personal as if you're talking directly to them.

People need to feel that you are trustworthy, and knowledgeable before they'll listen to your advice. Your content should prove your know-how and experience and be of great value to your visitors.

Now that you've hooked your reader with great content, insert a soft sell of your affiliate product in the course of your content. A soft sell is exactly what it sounds like. A softly, passively promoted message about the product in the content of your article.

Avoid the sales pitch style of promotion at all costs. Give solid information to encourage your readers trust. Remember we haven’t personally used this product so we’re going to stay away from personal endorsements.

If you have used the product and have personal knowledge about how great it is, by all means share it.

For example, if you’re interested in marketing the Poker Sit-N-Go Pro System, you would want to mention some personal remarks, without sales hype. In the course of your informative content, mention the product and explain how it has helped you. That’s it. Keep your comments down to earth and real, as if you’re talking to a friend.

Use the informative content you’ve already created and in the correct place include a suggestion about checking out the product. Provide your affiliate link to the merchants sales page and you’re ready to begin making sales.

Now let’s take a look at some of the best free sites you can use to provide information about a topic, and direct people to related affiliate products.

[Teguono]

Hi Matthew,
I just went through this affiliate marketing with free sites post again and am really impressed with the detailed information outlined here!
I want you to please update the link to the list of free sites where one can promote his affiliate link for free as the link here seems to be broken.
Waiting for your response.
Thanks.