Live Nine Month Affiliate Marketing Test

After going through a lot of the forums as well as reading a lot of emails, one of the most common inquiries has to do with the best way to make money online. Well, the answers to those queries often dealt with the idea of being an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing, as such, is a business practice by which the company pays the affiliate a part of the profit from the sales that the affiliate is able to bring about as a result of his or her promotion of the company product. This idea, naturally seems to have appealed to many as it meant that they did not have to manufacture any product or service nor did they have to provide a sales pitch for anyone. But due to a variety of reasons, most of them have failed at affiliate marketing.

Of all the affiliate networks the largest is Clickbank with over 10,000 downloadable products from books, ebooks to software products. All of these can be promoted by an affiliate at any time. Many people have tried to do just that but since they did not go about it the right way, all they managed to do in the end is to tear out their hair in frustration. I was interested to see if I could succeed where others have failed, so I decided to start my own experiment with Clickbank, starting from March 2007. It was slow in the beginning but by the end of 2007, I had managed to earn something like $8,200, with the monthly average around $1,200. Now, that is saying something, isn’t it? By this time, next year, going by my estimates, I should make at least around twenty to thirty thousand dollars by Clickbank commissions alone.

The best excuse that I can come up with, for having to do this experiment was that I wanted to know if I could make money online, without having to fall back to using email lists or end up spending a lot of time on it. Guess what, I only had to spend about 30 minutes a day on this experiment of mine and what is more, I did not even use a single email address for this experiment. Going by my progress, if I can do this so can anybody else, all they would have to know is how to do it right!

There are a few things that you can do right in order to make it a success as an affiliate marketer. To start with, one should always choose the right product, that is , choose one that sells well as there is absolutely no sense in choosing one that does not sell well. Once you have done that the next thing to do would be to watch the video that I had created for my InternetMarketingTelevision.com membership site as it clearly shows the entire process step by step. So if you are a member or want to be one, just visit the site and watch the video. The next step would be the creation of a simple web page, one that can be very easily created with the least amount of fuss, after which you can go ahead and do the review on the product that you have chosen. Make a point to choose a product that you have an interest in as this would make it a lot easier for you to write about the product. This is what I had done with my product, which was an ebook on weight loss, a subject that I was interested in. Along with my review I also added a simple but interesting human interest story as this would make it easier for the readers to relate to the product. At the end of my review I had put up a very noticeable link to the product itself and I suggest that you do the same. This way, the readers would be able to click on the link and purchase the product once they are done with the review. Once you have done the same, you can then see if it is possible for you to give a bonus to the reader. This is to provide a kind of incentive to the reader so that he or she would want to purchase the product the same day itself. The last step for you would be to get some good amount of web traffic to your webpage, the one with the review.

To get some good quality traffic on the net is not that easy until and unless you use the best pay per click advertising company and by that I mean Google Adwords. So I decided to set up a campaign with Google Adwords and set my bids at 30 cents per click and this meant that I would be paying every visitor who visit my site as a result of Adwords a sum not less than 30 cents.
The answer to any successful Adwords campaign is the keywords, the right keywords are the ones that make all the difference between success and failure. This is how the keywords work, basically for any person, if he or she wants to search online for something, and then they go to a search engine and type in the keywords. Now the Google Adwords works with Google. Com , so if any person were to go to Google.com and type in the keywords that you had bid on, then your ad would immediately appear on the right side of the page, depending on the amount that you had bid for. This is why it is important that you bid on specific terms and not too vague a term. For example, the product that I had reviewed was called the “overnight weight loss genie”. So for my choice of specific keywords I could choose from “overnight weight loss genie”,” overnight weight loss genie review” or “overnight weight loss genie program”. The thing to remember here is that there must be a lot of people who have bid on vague terms like “weight loss”, so it is always a good idea to be as specific in your choice of keywords; otherwise you would have thrown your money away for good.

After 16 hours of my ad campaign, I ended up spending only about $1.60 for advertising but also managed to make about $30 as a result of my very first commission. Then, there was literally no stopping me, I went on ahead and created something like about one hundred pages with product reviews, each and every webpage carrying a different one from the next. That is how I managed to average about $1,200/month from Clickbank. But I should point out that this only forms a part of my income, but what you should be concerning yourself with is, “what will an extra $1,200 per month do for me”? I hope that by the end of all this, you would have found all the information that I had listed above quite useful and that you would have gained from all this.