I've had affiliate sites for a while but I can't seem to get any sales

When I started the affiliate marketing I had the same issue, I earned the first income after 3 years, I learned every single minute what I am doing,
Collect the email address and follow up with them later, otherwise affiliate marketing dont work for this 21st century.



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Is common as a startup, you can do a search in this forum and there are many threads will answer your questions.

If you really want to know where is your mistakes, I suggest you list out what you done and be specific. So that we can give better advice to you

There are many, many ways to make money online with affiliate marketing, what is "all regular advice and products"?

How are these sites monetized? How much traffic? How many opt ins?

If you're talking about the Tenerife Sea and German Shepards in general, you may have picked to topics that are relatively hard (or impossible) to monetize.

You need to at the very least check out someones web property that is doing very well to model after. Not copy but get the right idea and layout , sales funnel etc.

My mindset when I create something is 2 fold. For it to make money soon as possible (in a helpful smooth way and for it to be appealing to investors who may want to take over ownership.

You should study auctions they damn near lay out every detail about how they set their business up.

Maybe join Wealthy Affiliate free version and learn Review sites from scratch.

No do not spend money you do not have my friend. A free blog should be enough to begin making affiliate sales.

Blog design Nothing complicated. You do not need to have the same set up as a Guru.

Social Traffic lead generation.

Converting that traffic to Sales and listbuilding.

Build on those if you can. and of course you can!

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You need to learn Youtube or video marketing. In fact you don't need a website. You can use a site later on.

I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for over 16 years.

However, I do it quite differently than most.

I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best. They also tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience), so the potential exists to produce high volume and they are fairly easy to cross promote on the back-end.

Some of the verticals (niches) I have done extremely well with are: education, insurance, loans, debt, credit, mortgage, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

The bulk of the offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

Bottom line: it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

I drive traffic by acquiring 3rd party email data, which is data that the users have shown an interest in a specific vertical(niche) and have given permission to receive messages from third parties. You get the opt-in record for every user and it's 100% can-spam compliant.

By acquiring data, I'm building assets that I then own and can market to over and over at very low cost. So I control and can drive traffic on-demand to the offers I'm promoting. Which is key to CPA / affiliate marketing success. However, 3rd party data will rarely be as responsive as a high-quality opt-in list you build yourself. But it really doesn't matter because it is much cheaper and highly scalable compared to convention list building.

The real key to making it work is to always be collecting your opens / clickers, segmenting, and removing unresponsive users. That way over time you are building smaller, but more responsive lists that you should eventually be able to send less and make more with each mailing. Essentially you are converting the data from quantity to quality.

Basically, I monetize the data using PPL offers because they offer the path of least resistance to generating conversions($$$) and converting the data into cash producing assets.

Obviously, there is more to it, but done right it can be extremely profitable. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, for the most part, does 6-7 figures. While that's a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively build / manage the infrastructure needed to scale.

Something to think about.

Maybe give a try to youtube .In my experience its convert way better than text .If you watch at majority of affiliate products they have videos because this helps very much with conversion

Are you passionate about Tenerife, cycles and German Shepherds?

If not, you will likely struggle horribly because if you are in this mainly for sales, you are barking up the wrong tree. Yes that is a German Shepherd reference.

Gotta bump up your giving/learning/practicing/problem solving/serving energy to boost your sales, and that energy flows freely if you love what you do.

Can you share what you've done in further detail? Unfortunately there isn't much info about it. The more you tell us the more we can help.

You said you've been following all the advice and products but you didn't
mention what your results were? You have to be able to gather data or
keep some type of records of your activity so you can determine
what is working and what is not.

The first thing you need to do is stop buying products. Have you chosen
a method of promotion such as PPC, social media, etc? Pick one and
stick with it for about 90 days. Then journal your activity to make sure
you're being productive on a regular basis.

The problem may be this...you did a little here and a little there.

And you have been coming here since 2011.

Not trying to offend you OP.

Just stating facts.

Ryan asked you about passion.

Are you regarding these 2 niches you mentioned above?

Well you really need to be.

I would only focus on (1) of those sites.

The one that's most important to you.

Then make sure that you have real value based content on it.

Then use social media and any other platforms related to it.

Most people here are making this mistake...

Most people (maybe you) are only focused on making money for themselves.

Sure you need to be here in the long run to make $$$ for yourself.

But before anyone can do that...make $$$

They have to give.

They have to create.

They have to build their brand.

Are you building yours?

People buy You FIRST then your product.

If you're here, you must have a reasonable passion for internet marketing. Why not start there?

I have a gsd and I'm a big fan, my gf is too. I can take a look if you want some feedback?

Try free methods first. There is no reason you can't get sales from using free methods, even if it is a little less It might give you enough confidence to show you that people definitely buy things!

CPA would be a good way bro.