Sunday, July 5, 2009

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

The job of an Affiliate Marketer is to have a site(or blog) and promote either your own product, or someone elses. Some ways to promote (or drive traffic to) a product are:

Pay Per Click: Basically, you pay to get targeted traffic to your affiliate site, anywhere from a few pennys, to a few dollars per click. The most popular two in internet advertising:
http://adwords.google.com
http://advertising.yahoo.com/

Article Marketing: One of the best ways to get free targeted traffic to your affiliate site. Requires more effort but, worth it in the long run. Here are a list of some article marketing sites.
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/

Fourm Participation: Participate in fourms around the product you've chose to promote. This will put you in area of targeted traffic. Heres an adfourm that has permanent posting, which is great for long-term traffic.
thefreeadfourm.com

These were just a few ways to drive targeted traffic to your site. (The most important part of the affiliate marketer.)

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