Affiliate Marketing

One of the most profitable ways of making money online is affiliate marketing, what is affiliate marketing? How it could be profitable? This article will simply answer these questions.

Affiliate marketing simply is, rewarding the publisher by the advertisers for promoting their products, services or sites.

    

A website or a blog is the best tool for publishing and promoting, so making a website or a blog is the first step in this field of making money (affiliate marketing). Then increasing the audience of the website (more audience means more money), when the visitors of the publisher site follow the promoting link to the advertiser site the publisher gets a commission for every sale.

There are some factors to consider before starting any affiliate program:

1- How much of the Commission per sale?

2- The Quality of the program provider:

·The program has a good history.

·Good affiliate records on them and reviews.

·High page Rank in the search engines.

·The quality of the products they provide.

3- The Quality of affiliate program's Website It should be attractive enough to hold the attention of the visitors.

4- Make sure to join a company that will teach and show how to make as much profit as possible.

5- Make sure that to be inspired to continue on the track of making the amounts of money that you want to earn.

6- The conversion rate. Make sure that the audience brought to the site converts as high as possible. 

7- Getting the money after the first sale as soon as possible is a good indicator to trust this affiliate program.

8- Helping other people that are in the same field will increase the marketer's reputation.

How to increase the income as an Affiliate Marketer Online:

1. Using the PPC or pay per click programs (like Google Adword) for advertising to direct audience to the website or the blog.

2. Article marketing. Place the articles wrote about the product in article directories and leave a link back to the affiliate product.

3. Share links with others Affiliate marketers that having the same topic on other sites.

Best Affiliate program for 2013:

Program provider	Features	Reporting features	Ease of use	Search options	Help & support
Commission Junction	10	10	10	10	9.7
LinkShare	9.8	9.7	9.7	9.7	9.5
One Network Direct	9.8	9.6	9.7	9.7	9.2
ShareASale	9.5	9.5	9.4	9.5	9.5
Plimus	9.5	9.4	9.2	9.3	9.5
Amazon Associates	9.5	9.2	9.3	9.2	9.5
FlexOffers	9.2	7.8	8.4	8.8	9.2
ClickBank	9.4	9	7.3	9.1	7.5
Commission Soup	8.9	8.3	7.3	9	9.2

10-9  Excellent
8-6    Good
5-4    Average
3-2    Poor
1-0    Bad

As an affiliate marketer working very hard is the main factor to keep your customers happy, more work, more time, and more audience means that means more money. Simply follow the advices in this topic to be a good affiliate marketer and to have a good opportunity for success.