"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

"Never part with your dreams. When they're gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live." - unknown

When you are ready to start your own website or blog and add some affiliate marketing links to it, there are a few things that you should know.

#1. Affiliate marketing is not for everyone.

It is not for anyone that is looking to make money fast, nor is it for the impatient. In order to be successful with affiliate marketing, you will need patience and determination. When you put those two together, there is no stopping you or what you can do with your affiliate marketing business.

#2. Affiliate marketing can be done a few different ways.

It can be done through email, newsletters, websites, or blogs. Finding your target audience, and catching them with good content is what it is all about. You will need to know where they go and what they are looking for. Try starting out with message boards first. Make sure that the message board is relevant to your market. If you have a website that pertains to a market that has to do with gardening, you will not want to be visiting a message board that is all about pregnancy. Once you have found a busy message board that will allow you to include your link to your website in the signature of your posts, you are in business.


Start off by posting and chatting, and when someone asks a question that you know the answer to, answer it. This will peak their interest and before you know it, they will be clicking on the link in your signature and checking out your site. While doing this can be quite time consuming, it will pay off in the long run. You can not go wrong when you gain the other members trust.

#3. Write articles targeting your chosen market.

Writing articles on the market that you are promoting and then submitting them to article directories or ezines is a great way to get the most from your affiliate links and programs that you are a part of. Be sure that you include a link to your website in the authors resource box in the articles that you are submitting. Doing so will get your site more traffic. You do not want to submit the same articles that you have on your site to these directories. You will want different variations of your articles to be used in the directories.

#4. Affiliate marketing is something that takes work.

The worst thing you can do is set up your site and let it go. You have to work on it consistently to see a good amount of revenue come from it. Make sure that you are doing everything that you can to get visitors to your site. Use the best free tools that there are available to you, and only pay for the ones that really work and that you can afford.


Ready to get started in affiliate marketing? Super affiliate Rosalind Gardner can show you how with her Super Affiliate Handbook.


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3 comments
  1. Anonymous January 30, 2008 at 8:30 AM  

    it is really truth...affiliate marketing is not for everyone...liked the tips

  2. Anonymous January 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM  

    Your Affiliate Manager is a very useful tool in your affiliate marketing efforts. They can give you ideas that to help your offers convert better. Affiliate Managers can offer other advice to make your campaigns successful as well.

  3. d.francis October 10, 2010 at 8:45 PM  

    Thanks for these tips. I have been unsuccessful in my affiliate efforts for the past few months. Thanks again for the tips.


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