The benefits of this are

1. You can get started almost immediately because you don’t have to create a product, write the sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
2. You have almost no investment of time because you don’t have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
3. You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid.

Looking at these benefits, it’s clear that affiliate marketing is the way to go!

The downside is…

After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you’re losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

What’s the solution?

Simply put, you need to capture the name and email of your visitors *before* sending them to the product sales page. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you’re really on top of your game, you’ll then send to a pre-sales page in between.

Here’s what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

1. You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
2. You’ll be pre-selling them by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
2. One or more content-rich Pre-Selling Pages
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series

The video squeeze page is where you’ll direct your traffic instead of directly to the product sales page. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. Then it redirects them to your pre-selling pages after they subscribe to your email series.

All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it’s well worth the effort of setting it up. And once it’s set up, it runs automatically – you just keep sending visitors to the squeeze page.

If you don’t have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). The benefit is that it’s much less expensive then you could do it yourself, and it’s instantly set up. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn’t much of a concern.

The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your business.

Quality back links are also a necessary part of the equation too. Getting links back to your website or blog might seem to be a hard thing to do what with contacting other webmasters with relevant, high PR sites and either begging or paying them to link to your site. This is not really necessary though.

There are article sites that have a high PR (page rank) that you can submit relevant articles to in their relevant categories that will give you a link back to your site in the resource box at the end of the article.

There are article submitters that you can use to get your articles out for distribution to multiple directories at the same time. A great place to learn about article submissions is at Article Marketing Automation an article distribution network that creates back links like crazy.

You can also go to forums that are relevant to your subject matter and post in them with a signature that is a link to your site. Every time you post it automatically creates a link to your site.

Linking to your websites or blogs is one of the most powerful things that you can do to gain prominence within the search engine rankings and should be taken very seriously and worked on every day or whenever possible.

By following these SEO tips for you, you will be giving yourself a much better chance and put you much closer than 75% of the other websites that are simply put up on the internet without any planning at all. So, before you create your site, plan it out.

Here are a few SEO tips for you to gain superiority over a lot of the others.

SEO Tip #1. Finding a niche by doing keyword research and narrowing down your main, broad keyword to one that is more targeted and more relevant to what your site will be about. Here’s an example: If your main subject and broad keyword is basket weaving for instance, that’s a very broad keyword with a lot of search results and is very competitive. However, if you were to chose something like “basket weaving instructions” or “learning basic basket weaving” this will cut the competition down dramatically and it also contains the main keyword “basket weaving”.

SEO Tip #2. Once you settle on a specific keyword phrase, choose a domain name using those specific  keywords. As in our example above, you could choose  learning-basic-basket-weaving.com. Finding the right keyword and selecting a domain name shouldn’t be done too quickly. Taking your time here will make a huge difference in the long run.

SEO Tip #3. Once you’ve chosen a broad keyword, go to the Google Keyword Research Tool and type it in there to get keyword suggestions that are less competitive. Make sure that the keyword phrase you select has over 100 searches a month. Next, take the keyword phrase that you’ve selected and type into google search with quotation marks to see how competitive it is. The results should be under 10,000. If they are higher, then go back to the keyword research tool and try another phrase. This type of research is very time consuming, typing in hundreds of keywords just to see what the results are. Another viable alternative is to get a good keyword tool that will automate the process and get your statistics for you almost instantly.

SEO Tip #4. Now that you have your site built with your keyword domain, its time to optimize it with a title, description and keywords. adding your title is very easy and should contain your main keyword in it and be short. The meta description should also contain your main keyword once or twice and be a short description of the site itself. The meta keywords should, of course contain your main keyword plus other closely related keywords that you found using the Google Keyword Research Tool.

SEO Tip #5. In the body text of your site, use your main keyword phrase near the top of the text on the page and near the end of the page a few times.The rule of thumb here is to not over use it but to only have it be between 3% and 5% of the total text on the front page of your website. This will give your page visitor a good first impression and make the search engine spiders happy too.

Posting on forums with a link to your site is another great way to create links. Make sure that the articles you submit and the forums you post on are relevant to what the subject matter of your website is. Relevence is very important to your search engine rankings.

Classified ads are another way of creating links to your website. For every classified ad that you write with a link to your website in it, and once again with relevent text, that will get another link to your site. These are relatively easy ways of getting quality links that will count with the search engines

1.  Open up a blog specific to your primary business and post to it every few days. Use the website title for your blog user name and use the keywords from your main website in every blog post that you do. you only need to do a paragraph for each post.

2.  Write an article every 2 or 3 days. They should be between 300 and 500 words long and be informational so that the readers can gain some knowledge about a related industry or whatever your website is about. Don’t advertise a specific business in it, but put links at the bottom in your resource box to your primary website and to your blog.

3  Write a press release once a week about your primary business and any little thing that happens with it like new trainings etc… this is written in the third person as if you are a reporter doing a press release on your company.

4.  Post to online forums like the warrior forum and create a signature tag with a link to your website or blog that will show up every time you post, You dont need to talk about your business, people will click on the links in your signature and go to your site. This will create links to your sites and start getting traffic to them.

The term keyword is also used as a short version of keyword phrase. When we use the term keyword, it means the word, or words, that are typed into a search engine by someone looking for a specific item and carrying out a search for that item.

The fact is that almost all searches done now are not just single word searches, most people using the search engines now type more detailed words into their searches.

This is the main reason why you should know the keyword phrases that people use when searching for specific products or services like the ones that are promoted on your Web site.

Also consider this…

• Without knowing your keywords, you can’t optimize your Web site properly.

• Without knowing your keywords, you won’t know which keywords to put in links pointing to your site.

• Without knowing your keywords, you won’t know which keywords to bid on in Pay Per Click programs.

So, what happens if all you do is to guess at the keyword phrase you need without doing some indepth keyword research? Basically, you will encounter a couple of problems.

• Some if not all of the keywords on your list will be more or less irrelevant, meaning people simply are not using them in when they do their searches.

• You’ll be missing those keywords that people are typing into the search bar for your specific products or services.

Click Here to go to the video on keyword research which will help you find those phrases that get searched for and have little competition from other similar websites.