How to become a successful Affiliate in 10 easy steps

How to become a successful Affiliate, and work from home, in 10 easy steps.

I guess the most common question I get asked at Affiliate School is “How can I get people to visit my web-site”; a pretty important detail to get right when you think about it, because many people spend loads of time creating beautiful websites, but if no one visits, what’s the point.

In case you don’t know what an affiliate is, this is someone who promotes other people’s products via the Internet. We provide free tuition for new affiliates and home workers through Affiliate School.

Rather than just sell one product, an affiliate can promote many products. By signing up to the Google AdSense Program, affiliates get paid commission every time someone on their site clicks an advertisement posted onto the website by Google, 24/7.

Here are 10 steps to ensure you become a successful affiliate, and not just another wannabe rich someday sort of person.

Step 1. By all means, have a nice website, but let people know how to find it. No visitors? No Clicks! No income! We recommend the Hov Pod Affiliate program - click on the banner to get a FREE website promoting the Hov Pod Hovercraft. This is a unique niche product - request their FREE Hovercraft Report website.

Step 2. The easiest way to create a one page site nowadays is to sign up to Blogger, which is owned by the grand masters of the Internet universe, Google. I love Google, why use any other search engine. You will find links to useful websites that will explain how to create an account and get started through the Affiliate School website. http://affiliate-school.blogspot.com/

I love Blogger as it is easy to create very nice looking one-page websites, plus there are loads of gadgets you can add to make it interesting for your visitors. To prove a point, we have made Affiliate School website entirely with Blogger, and stitched various Blog sites together interconnected with links to create our website, to practice what we preach.

Step 3. Once you have created a nice site, tried out a few templates, added a few widgets, be sure to tell people how to find you. On the Blogger Settings page, you will see a tab titled Site Feed – through that page see FeedBurner. This free service publishes a site map so that Google can find your site, when they send out their robots on site watch patrol.

Step 4. Sign up to AdSense via Google, and place the AdSense bar on the right hand column high enough up the page so people can see and click onto the ads. Once signed up, Google will take a look at the content of your site and automatically place ads to maximise the likelihood of people clicking through to an ad. Once somebody clicks, they get directed to an advertiser’s website, to an advertiser who has bid the most amount of money to Google to get noticed through an advertising program called AdWords. Don’t be tempted to advertise your own site through AdWords unless you really know what you are doing, otherwise you could spend $20 advertising, and get $1 back in AdSense revenue. Why so little? Well, Google have to make a living somehow, how else do you make $21 Billion.

Step 5. Check out the valuable tips and resources at Affiliate School Library page. http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/ See Find the Share & Save button on the top right hand side of that page. First of all, use this button to tell your friends about Affiliate School, either via email or through social network websites. If you like this button, get your own button. You will find a link to Share & Save Add to Any website on the Resources list on the Affiliate School Library page. This link will take you to the Add to Any site, where they will explain how to get the html code so that you can copy and paste the HTML code into your Blogger website, see Customise Menu (Add HTML).

Step 6. Read about Viral Marketing by selecting the link on the Affiliate School Library page.

Step 7. Take the link from the Affiliate School Library http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/ to Cash Key Words and watch the video, entitled, See how the CashKeyWords Toolbar can help you make more money online. It’s really great; we use this toolbar all the time, really useful.

Step 8. The Cash Key Words toolbar will explain how to select subjects such as weight loss etc that you could focus on in your Blog to earn valuable AdSense click-through commission, but one subject even better to focus on is ofcourse Affiliate Marketing. Lots of people have lost confidence in relying on others for gainful employment, and the recession has resulted in many people wondering whether Internet Marketing offers a work from home business opportunity. Home working is ofcourse possible, provided that you quickly get up to speed to know what to do and what not to do. It is the objective of Affiliate School, to provide such information. If you register and sign up to the free Affiliate School program, you can copy and paste articles like this one to add content to your site. By posting this article from your Blog, you will receive visitors to your site, as for sure this subject is very popular, as confirmed by Google Trends.

When you do a post, be sure to add keywords in the window at the bottom of the post window in Blogger, we suggest that you use the words, business, affiliate, work from home, home working, Internet Jobs, home jobs, free online business, work online, online job, internet marketing, affiliate marketing. Add a comma after each word or phrase.

Step 9. Submit this article to article submission sites or use the other articles in our posts, copy from Affiliate School, and use the really useful Affiliate School Article Submissions Site at http://articles-submit.blogspot.com/ Add a paragraph to provide your endorsement of Affiliate School, but add a link to your website or Blog site so that readers click through to your site in the first instance.

Step 10. Checkout Alexa to see what’s hot and what’s not on the Internet, so that you can develop your site to maximise relevancy to future trends. Find the link to Alexa on the School Library page at http://affiliate-school-library.blogspot.com/

If you discover any more useful Internet marketing tools, be sure to contact us and share your knowledge with us – be sure to bookmark Affiliate School, and consider adding the Affiliate School Banner to your site, to allow you to more easily find our site and gain quick access to the Affiliate School Library.

Follow these steps and you will be well on your way to financial independence, but to stay motivated please do sign up to Affiliate School so that we can send you free regular updates.