How long did it take for you to make your affiliate income hands off?

Basically affiliate marketing is pretty simple but takes some work:

With bum marketing method you use article marketing leading people to your sales page/ review page of the product that you have chosen. I would try something off of clickbank and work that first.

Once you find your product of choice that has a great sales page etc. You are going to do keyword research for the niche your in and look for the long tail keywords. What I do is find the long tails that are under 800k in google when I do a search and also have no ranking sites listed in the top 5. Meaning if you have a health product and you have mayoclinic ranking for the first place spot you move on since it has high PR and your not going to beat it. Finding the keywords that your articles will rank for is key.

Once you have your keywords your going to work you are then going to take each keyword and write an article for each one. With you keyword being in the title of the article. You goal is to write a article that leaves the person hanging wanting more info so that they will click your link in you sig.

Now for your sales page. Since you cant just link to your affiliate page you need to create a blog review site. You can do this for free with blogger or wordpress or buy your own domain. I would suggest getting a preowned domain if possible if you can find one relating to your niche. A good place to find these are at freshdrop.net.

Once you have it setup I would pick 5 other products and give reviews of each making the one you trying to sell look the best. Dont give all of them bad reviews and yours a good one. You want to mix it up some so its not to biased. Now once your blog is up you can submit your articles to ezinearticle.com. I would do about 4 articles a day and try and get at least 25 for one product. If your not much of a writer then you can outsource it for about 5 bucks a piece. YOu can find some good writers in the WSO area.

Anyway that is pretty basic but its were you can start. There are many tricks to this but thats a good place to launch into affiliate marketing.

Hope this helps,
Jason

Hi, Zijian,

I joined Plug In Profit since Aug 08, and for the past 2 months, I read up about 10 Ebooks, check up my sponsor's blogs, and put into practice some of the "easier" steps, like writing articles.

So far, I wrote 2 articles, submitted to over 20 article directories. I also started my blog, (before that, I had 2 other blogs) and also submitted my website to directories.

I tried to build links to my website, and building a opt-in list.

I am still reading and learning and going through the training over and over again. I think want to "hands off" may not be so fast. If you need fast cash, maybe you have to go for Network Marketing..with your warm leads. I did that, and in my third month, I earned about 3-4k, and now average about 2k per month, cos I had about 800 over customer base over 2 years.


To me, I am willing to invest time and some hosting fees into my website for a year, if by the end of one year, if I dont see results, maybe I just wasted a couple of hundreds, but at least, I will have knowledge that maybe a lot of people may not have.

Which affiliate marketing are you in? Are you from Singapore?

Bee Lian