Earn money using Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate marketing?

Well,to answer that question in straightforward terms...Affiliate advertising is the way toward acquiring a commission by promoting others' (or company's) items. You discover an item you like, promote it to other people and acquire a piece of the profit for every deal that you make.

It depends on income sharing. In the event that you have an item and need to sell more, you can offer advertisers a monetary incentive through an affiliate program. On the other hand, if you have no item and need to earn cash, at that point you can promote an item that you feel has value and earn a pay from it as an affiliate marketer.

 Now you may ask "why choose affiliate marketing for earning money?" It's because...

1)Affiliate marketing is execution-based

           The primary advantage of having an affiliate program is that it is entirely execution-based. Because affiliates are only paid a commission once the desired action has taken place, they’re more motivated to drive the conversion you’re looking for. This mitigates any endeavors that drive traffic with little to no value to your company while also ensuring that you get what you pay for.

2)It’s a lucrative and far-reaching industry

              Have I mentioned affiliate marketing as a whole is a billion-dollar industry? In such a wide field, it’s pretty easy to look for products that you can actually use, belief in and in all honesty promote to your audience.

That kind of involved affiliate marketing where you actually have faith in what you promote has been tested and proven to produce the best results, especially commission-wise.

3)No expertise required

 You don’t need to be an affiliate marketing guru to succeed. Not right away. This is a field where practice makes perfect.

You’re free to choose what campaigns to test and what learning method you want to use to become better at your trade.

If you’re a blogger, for example, you can choose to start by writing optimized content to attract more people to your blog. The more visitors your blog gains, the higher the chances of getting in touch with the right kind of people.

4)Targeted Traffic

Since the affiliates are handpicked by you, it can ensure that the traffic that comes to your site is from individuals that find your product or service useful. This is because affiliates that resonate with your brand will most likely have individuals with their area of influence that’ll find your brand useful.

5)The techniques and strategies you can choose from are limitless

There are myriad of ways you can market your chosen affiliate programs. You can promote it on your blog, create online courses and then recommend the product to your students, use affiliate emails. Social media is also a good tool that you can explore when marketing.

Also, you can create a website dedicated to your affiliate product. Then you can install the best plugins for digital marketing to generate more commissions.

You’ll find a lot of resources online related to this topic, and more ways are being discovered even as you read this.

 

6) Targeted traffic

All traffic is not created equal. If you sell spa products, for example, you don’t want to waste your advertising budget attracting people who are looking for car products. By working with affiliates who understand your industry and are already active in it, you will receive targeted sales from a warmed up audience. This makes it easier to maintain the relationship with your new customer going forward.

7)Affiliates can boost your reputation

    By partnering with trusted bloggers and reputable websites, you can further the reputation of your brand and its products. These partners will champion your products and, in our opinion, will further solidify consumer confidence in your product or service. While in the research phase of a purchase, consumers are more likely to trust a 3rd party’s opinion over content produced directly from the site selling this product. Consumers also have a certain level of trust in websites they frequent for product recommendations.

So...those were just 7 benefits of affiliate marketing. And there's a lot more,but I guess those were enough to explain why you should go for affiliate marketing.

Now some tips to become a better affiliate marketer...

1) Concentrate on one niche affiliate business

    Too often affiliate marketers use a shotgun approach, getting as many products as possible to push when they should be focusing on their main interest and niche-related products. If you want to develop a successful affiliate marketing site, always stick to one niche. You can create other sites to promote other niches, but don’t spread yourself too thin, because that will lead to thin content sites.

2) Learn About the Product You’re Promoting

Never promote a product you have no idea about.

Always do research, see what the product is about, what are its advantages and disadvantages, and so on.

Also, it is important to know why this particular product is better than its competition.

Learn about the market.

By this, I mean what product features are available, which are not available in competitor products, how is your product better, and why customers should buy it over the competition

3) Drive traffic to your affiliate site

You’ve created great content. The next step is to get more people to read it, so they will click on your affiliate links.

Here are three traffic strategies to consider:

 

A. Paid traffic

This is where you pay for traffic to your site. You can do this using PPC ads.

The advantage of paid traffic is that the moment you start paying, you get traffic.

However, there are some downsides.

First, running ads will dig into your profits. It’s quite normal for advertisers to lose money before they make it… if they ever do.

You need to be realistic about how long it takes to optimize a paid traffic campaign.

Secondly, once you stop paying for ads, your traffic will stop.

Generally speaking, ads are a great traffic strategy if you’re part of a high-paying affiliate program and can make the numbers work.

But if you’re completely new to paid marketing and have no marketing budget (or are working with lower commission programs like Amazon Associates), then it might not be such a great idea.

 

B. Search engine optimization (SEO)

SEO is the practice of optimizing pages to rank high in search engines like Google.

For as long as you can rank high in the search engines for your target keywords, you’ll get consistent and passive traffic.

On the most basic level, SEO is about:

Understanding what your target customers are searching for;

Creating content around those topics (blog posts, product pages, etc.);

Taking care of the “technical” stuff to push these pages higher in the search engines (which includes link building).

 

C. Build an email list

Email lists allow you to communicate with your readers anytime.

Use them to tell fans about new content and keep them coming back to your site for more. This leads to more affiliate clicks and sales.

 

Ways to make money with your website

In this article, I can provide you with perhaps the best low-cost way to get make a significant income online.

 

How if you ask?

Create your website 

 

But make sure your website is a trusted and a reliable source of information where people can go to find information on a particular niche or topic. 

 

If  you are not sure, how to create your website, you can always reach out to our partners, Divitech they can make some beautiful websites for you or you can learn the required programing languages to create your own website or blog. We will teach you how to create your website, in a different blog post, but in this post we will let you know how to earn from your website.

 

 

1. Affiliate Marketing

Being an affiliate means you promote a product or service to your website's visitors in return for earning a commission if a purchase occurs through your link.

Join any affiliate network to access thousands of affiliate programs from major brands.

Then simply include an affiliate link when mentioning products from your chosen partners on your website.

Read more about Affiliate Marketing here

 

2. Email Marketing

 
Email marketing helps build a solid brand.  It encourages readers to come back to your site.

Website traffic may go up and it may go down, but with an email list and a good offer you are always in business.

Email marketing can make you money in a few different ways, such as email promotions, which deliver free reports that are monetized (have affiliate links in them). 

 
You can then email them with recommended products that they might be interested in (affiliate promotion), and earn various commissions if they sign up or buy something.

Or you offer your readers a free report or eBook or access to a video in return for their email address.

The important thing here is to offer something of value. Ideally something that people would pay for if it was not FREE.

 

3. “Pay Per Click” Advertising (Google Adsense, Media.net, Taboola etc)

One of the easiest ways to make money from a website is by placing ads on it. Google AdSense is one popular way to get ads appearing on your website fast. But make sure to abide by Googles Rules – you cannot click on the ads that appear in the hope of earning a commission.

The best part about this system is how simple everything is.

Once you sign up, Google will place a simple code on your website that will identify the content of your site and start displaying relevant advertisements. For example, if your site is about book reviews, Google AdSense will start showing your visitors ads for newly launched books, best selling books on amazon, and more.

Even if you don't get approved from Google Adsense, you can try applying on other ad networks like Media.net, Taboola etc.

You get paid each time someone clicks on the ad. (Yes, it’s really that easy!)

These networks will pay you every time a visitor clicks on an advert (cost per click, or CPC), or per 1,000 impressions (cost per impression, or CPM).

 

4. Sponsored content

Sponsored posts are those articles you get paid for by third parties (advertisers), after both parties have come to an agreement about the conditions of publishing them on your website. You can reach out to them, or else they might contact you for (writing &) publishing content regarding their products/services.

 If you have created a significant following for your website and your social media pages, you can make money by creating sponsored content. Brands pay influencers to promote their products and services. 

Join blogger network groups on Facebook and share your website, as that's where the advertisers are looking!

 

5. Generate and sell leads

The lead generation model is another viable option for monetizing a website. Through content in your website, you should attract users that can be registered as qualified leads that a company will use to turn into customers/clients. It is very important that the leads should be qualified, for you to get paid for bringing them to that company. The payment models are either pay per lead or pay per call.

6. Sell digital products

eBooks, printables, graphics, templates and podcasts are all examples of digital products that can help you earn a passive and ongoing income from your site.

You have the potential to make the most money on a per-sale basis when you can sell your own directly.

That’s because there’s no middle-man or person in between you and the buyer that’s taking a ‘cut’ from the money earned.

 

You could charge around ₹150 (~$2) for a 5,000 word eBook – it doesn't sound like much, but 50 eBook sales per month will soon add up!

Conclusion

Keep in mind that it might be suitable to combine several methods and mold them into a monetization strategy. Carefully choose them and put the perfect monetization strategy work for you.

And if you don't have a website yet, you can check out divitech.in and make a new website for only $99!

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How to increase your blog's pagerank

It can be really frustrating if your blog doesn’t get good traffic. You try to find a hell lot of ways to get traffic for your blog. Today I’m giving you some suggestion on how to Increase your Blog’s Page Rank and get good traffic. So, some you might ask what is a Page Rank? The answer is it is one the method Google uses to determine the importance of a certain webpage. It also depends upon the number of ‘quality’ inbound links you have.

Few Facts about Page Rank

• The Value Link exchange is much lesser than one way links.
• Meta Tags doesn’t increase your Page Rank.
• Search Engine Rank and Page Rank are two different things. Don’t get confused between them.
• Suppose you have multiple outbound links on a same page, it will be counted as only a single outbound link. Remember that.

Now the question is, How to Increase your Page Rank

Here I provide you with “10 awesome tips” which will help you increase your page rank.

• Quality Content

 The first and the most important tip is that you must have quality content in your blog. You must always think about helping your reader’s then you should think about money or the search engine bots. If you have quality contents your readers will share your page with their friends, which will automatically help you get a higher page rank.

• Guest Posting 

 This is the best technique which is used nowadays to get good page rank. If you write an article on a blog with higher page rank which has a same niche as yours, in return you get 2-3 backlinks for your blog.

• Site Submitting

 The effective way to get a higher rank is submitting your blog to some web directories and in return you will get some quality back links. For e.g. DMOZ, Yahoo Web Directory.

• Commenting On Do-Follow Blogs

First of all you have to find whether the blog is a ‘Do-Follow’ Blog or ‘No-Follow’ Blog. Commenting on a ‘no-follow’ blog will not give you a back link, but if the blog is a do-follow blog commenting on such a blog will generate you a back link.

• Social bookmarking

Social Networking Sites are an efficient way to get good traffic and back links.

Secret tip-Google Plus is a Do-Follow site, make sure your posts get a good number of “G +1” then your chances of getting a good page rank increases automatically.

• Be Active on Forums

Be active on do-follow forums and a put your blog’s address on your signature.

• Don’t Use unethical Methods

Don’t try to buy backlinks or traffic; if you get caught you could lose your page rank.

• Use commonly used Keywords

Use Adwords to find commonly used keywords, and place them on your article.

• Review Websites

Review Websites or Services which you like and place your link in your signature. Chances of your getting a back link will increase.

• Update Your Site

Update your site regularly with quality posts and a result Google Bots will crawl your Page much frequently resulting in increase of your Page rank.

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Best Ad networks for indian bloggers

Best Ad Networks For Indian Bloggers

Hello Guys! I'm back after a long time..Received a lot of emails where most of them asked me the best ad networks in India other than Adsense.As we all know it is really difficult to to be accepted by Google Adsense.So I'm telling you guys about the other networks which will be handy for Indian Bloggers.




1.Komli - Komli is an Indian Ad Network, and it is the fastest growing Indian Ad Network Company. It also offers to pay directly to your Bank Account or PayPal. The Minimum Payout is Rs.2000. It pays on Net-30 Basis. But I don't recommend you this network if you have Non Indian Traffic.




2.Bidvertiser - Bidvertiser is the third most popular Ad Network among Indian Publishers. It pays via PayPal and pay as soon as you earn US $10. It pays on Net-30 basis. But you may feel some problem with click through rate.

  


3.Chitika - Chitika is the Best Network if you have traffic from US and Canada. It pays via PayPal and $10 is minimum payout. Chitika pay on Net-30 basis. I recommend this network if your blog have good traffic from US/Canada.But personally I didn't have much desired income from chitika.

  



4.AdBrite(closed now!) - AdBrite is the largest independent ad exchange, reaching 300 million global unique visitors every month, including more than 150 million in the U.S. adBrite’s Exchange provides a yield management solution with advertisers being ranging from small local companies to world-wide advertising agencies. adBrite makes it easy for you to have access to thousands of advertisers with minimal effort. It supports different ad formats and provides publisher, the full control and account management.But To be honest the amount it pays you per 100 page views or per click is really less.

 

5.Burst Media - Burst Media gives you high CPM’s, quality campaigns, and full control of which ads run on your site. Your site must have minimum traffic of 25,000 monthly page views or 5,000 monthly unique views.

  

6.Infolinks - Infolinks is a Text Link Advertising Network and its payout is really very nice. It pay via PayPal.The minimum payout is $50. And Infolinks pay on Net-45 basis. Infolinks has great number of advertisers. At present Infolinks is the most popular Text Advertising Network.

7.SMX - SMX or Social Media Xchange is a Europe based Ad Network and now it has come to India. It pays via PayPal on Net-30 basis. It offers it has more than 2500 Indian Publishers.  It offers CPA and CPM type ads.



8.ValueClick Media - ValueClick Media is the premier Internet advertising network for publishers who wish to earn the most for their available inventory. You get the complete control over your advertisements along with quality advertising and superior support.




9.Cpx Interactive - Cpx Interactive is an ad network recommended for Big Bloggers who have high impressions each day.It was formerly use by the Indian Railways website.



There are other Ad networks too.But I have handpicked a few sites and have presented to you as the alternatives of Google Adsense.No one can match the amount of ads which google adsense has got but these sites could get a few more bucks in your pockets!

Please post your valuable comments and or any suggestions.It would be highly appreciable.