9 Advanced Strategies for Making More Money with Affiliate Marketing

Did you know that 20 percent of affiliate marketers produce 80 percent of commissions earned while 80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of the total commissions? Now, I'm pretty sure that you would like to be one of those marketers in that 20 percent category that is earning the 80 percent of the total earnings.

Over the next few minutes I'm going to share with you 9 important techniques that the "Big Dogs" of affiliate marketing use to make their fortunes online. Follow these basic steps and you will find yourself sharing the profits that the most fortunate ones are getting.

1. The best affiliate marketers cover their web site links. Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it actually is. The truth is that visitors will tend not to click on your link when they see that it is leading to an affiliate program on your site once they point their mouse over them.

The usual tendency is for them to go directly to the affiliate domain. Thus ignoring your affiliate ID from the URL displayed. The best way to avoid this problem is by covering your URL. There are cloaking tools available over the Internet that you can take advantage of.

2. Successful affiliate marketers create and distribute their articles. Writing articles regarding your market niche is necessary to expand your reputation as a specialist in your field.

You can get the greatest benefits not just from writing these articles but also from getting those articles published and reprinted by other site owners and ezine publishers. Your articles will then give you both reputation and links from other web sites because of the resource box attached at the each of each article.

3. Affiliate marketers focus on a market niche. Loading your site with content that is focused on a certain product or service niche is one way of getting more web traffic in your target market.

There are tools over the Internet that can help you point out market niches that is important for your website.

4. Top affiliate marketers utilize auto-responders for legitimate email marketing purposes. Auto-responders are important tools that make you capable of sending a timed series of email messages to those persons that signed up for them.

Most of the time, these auto-responders are sent through by a third party provider. The industries best auto-responder service is Aweber. It's cheap, reliable, and has a huge track record for being most online marketer's top choice.

5. Smart affiliate marketers build web pages in order to pre-sell. Create either testimonial pages or review pages that talk about and pre-sell the product or service you are affiliated with. This is the best method of getting increased orders for your chosen affiliate programs.

Many programs truly offer an article or recommended text to sell their products for you and permits duplication of those articles with your links implanted.

6. An outstanding affiliate marketer collects email addresses. The best affiliates gather email addresses on their web site by presenting free reports through auto-responders, giving out ebooks and newsletter signup forms.

This method is best used in building your own list of email addresses to contact. This also lets you contact potential customers that clicked away once they got into the affiliate program website.

7. Top affiliate marketers use a multi-angle marketing strategy.  You should always advertise using PPC, ezine advertising, article marketing, web 2.0, viral marketing, classified ads, etc. The more places your at the more money you will make.

8. Affiliate marketers optimize for the search engines. Search engine optimization is now getting more complex as new and more webmasters participate. But the basics put into your site can add to your visibility over time.

The most critical of the many SEO techniques is the use title tags that shows individual page content. Many webmasters write a master title tag and apply that site-wide. This is the worst thing you could do for search engine ranking.

9. Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists. The best of affiliate marketers have their own newsletter or ezine and gather email addresses on their site to build their list of subscribers.

Having this list allows regular contact with potential customers interested in your site, your product and your market niche.

Final thoughts…

If you understand and make use of the above mentioned techniques, you can be one of the top people that are making it big in affiliate marketing. What are you waiting for?