2 Quick Tips for Affiliates to Increase Sales

I thought I would share two quick tips for affiliates to increase sales. The first tip is for Amazon affiliates and the second applies to almost any affiliate network.

~ A lot of affiliates look at their orders in the "Orders Report" section at Amazon but overlook the drop down box for "Items with No Orders". If you click on the arrow, you will see all the items people clicked on and looked at but did not buy.

Once you see what people are clicking on but not buying, you can go to your articles for these products and optimize them better. You may also get more ideas of what to sell.

And importantly, if you see just numbers instead of a product name, click on it as it may mean the item is no longer available at Amazon - so you need to change your product out.

~ Another tip which can be applied to almost any affiliate network is to subscribe to one popular magazine in the field. Even though magazines are months in the making,if they are targeted, they often share new nuggets of information.

I have a subscription to one magazine that runs me $12 a year. I routinely go through it and tear out the "best of", "latest news" etc. type articles. I scan these and get ideas for new products to add to my site. It saves time over having to constantly search the internet for new product ideas.

I routinely find great products that I can add to my sites, that are low competition but building up in searches. By the time the demand for that product becomes even greater, I already have my article in place and am near the top of Google.