| Does Affiliate Marketing Really work? I can now | | | | you can. |
| answer that question and the answer is a | | | | 7. Treat the whole exercise as one in giving value |
| resounding yes! I started Internet Marketing with | | | | to your public, all your articles should be original |
| The Wealthy Affiliate University on 22nd June | | | | and self penned. |
| 2009 and despite there being a recession I have | | | | 8. Join as many social networking sites as you can |
| already made Sales! | | | | and include your URl in your bio section, but be |
| Affiliate Marketing is not the easiest way to make | | | | careful to follow the site rules and also provide |
| money but once established your web site will | | | | links to other URL's not your own to add value to |
| work for you 24 hours a day 7 days a week and | | | | your public. |
| 365b days in a year! If you are prepared to work | | | | 9. Keep writing articles on an ongoing basis and |
| hard and follow the advice given to you by the | | | | getting them published, this will help your back |
| experts (in my case Kyle and Carson at the | | | | links as your bio will be included whenever a |
| Wealthy Affiliate University), then after just one | | | | legitimate article is published. |
| to two months effort you will make money. | | | | 10. Read as much as you can on your selected |
| Things to remember are: | | | | topic and follow what the market is asking for. |
| 1. You must find an appropriate niche, this is an | | | | Use Google Reader, Yahoo Answers etc. etc. |
| area that is under served in the market and that | | | | If you follow this pattern you will find that your |
| has people wanting to buy the product, whatever | | | | site will be picked up by the Google spider and |
| you choose, in my case Classical Guitars. | | | | subsequently Yahoo and Bing etc. Then all you |
| 2. You need to research the appropriate | | | | have to do is keep on doing more of the same |
| keywords to optimize you site for. | | | | and your web ranking will increase with time. It is |
| 3. You need to write an original article using the | | | | important to get and keep a first page ranking, if |
| keywords in its theme that will benefit your | | | | you can, as approximately 45% of the traffic |
| buying public and put this on your site. | | | | goes to the first position and less than 10% gets |
| 4. You should write a series of related articles and | | | | past the first page. |
| get these published on various different web | | | | There are some fantastic tools that you can use |
| publication sites (E Zine, Squidoo, Weebly, Blogger, | | | | to help analyze your web sites position and the |
| scribd etc.) the more the merrier but at least 10. | | | | best of these are from Google and they are free! |
| 5. Get back links to your site which should have | | | | This definitely works and anyone who is prepared |
| been chosen to include one of your main | | | | to work at it can do it, I know because I did! |
| keywords in its URL | | | | Good luck in your efforts. |
| 6. Publish your site in as many web directories as | | | | |