How Rich Super Affiliates Grab Gobs of Money From
Websites They Don't Own
Over
the last few years, affiliate marketing has grown tremendously
in popularity. Many people are now earning a second income
at home doing nothing more than sending people to websites
that they themselves do not own.
In
case you're not yet familiar with affiliate marketing, here's
how it works:
When
you are an affiliate promoting some other company’s
product or service, they give you a special website address
that you promote. Anyone who clicks on this website address
will automatically give you credit if the person ends up buying.
Then, they send you commissions, usually once a month.
Now,
you may not believe this, but there are people today earning
tens of thousands of dollars MONTHLY as affiliates of websites
they do not own. These people are normally called “Super
Affiliates”. Why do some people earn huge sums of money,
and others barely break even in their own affiliate promotions?
Knowledge
is power.
Simple.
It's all about what you know. Super affiliates are masters
at understanding every facet of online marketing. They know
what works, what doesn’t – and they are easily
able to recognize this on websites that they might consider
promoting.
In
fact, since they promote so many different combinations and
types of sales letters, ads and affiliate programs - they
quickly learn about any new marketing technique or successful
sales method, simply because they are constantly promoting
new affiliate programs, as well as older ones that are already
proven to work for them.
What
do they look for exactly? For the most part, just two simple
things. You see, succeeding online – whether its an
affiliate program or your own website – the two main
factors to success remain the same:
1)
How much quality, targeted traffic you send to the website.
2) How effective that website is at converting your traffic
to sales.
Super
affiliates know this better than anyone. This is why they
use tools that the average person doesn’t use, and in
many cases doesn’t even know exists!
For
example, most affiliates have to rely entirely on the statistics
furnished by the affiliate program they are promoting. Most
people have absolutely no way to track people beyond the first
page. They can't see how many sales result from a particular
ad (because they have to run more than one at a time). To
be honest, they can't even see which affiliate programs are
worth promoting – until that is they have spent a great
deal of time and money promoting worthless affiliate programs.
Statistics
So
what is there to do? Let's face it. If you can’t get
the true results of your affiliate promotions, you can't see
anything. As you know, to get the true results you have to
know what people are doing beyond the first page, or you have
no idea what's going on. Imagine the following scenario:
Suppose
you own a store (real world here, not internet) and you have
to leave the store, right during the rush hour of a two-page
promotion you are running at the local newspaper. You ask
a friend of yours to watch the store while you are gone. At
the end of the rush hour, you return. You ask your friend,
“What happened while I was gone?”
Imagine
if your friend told you “Thirty people came into the
store while you were gone”. Sounds like useful information,
right? Not quite. Certainly, more information would help:
“Were there any sales?” or “What attracted
people the most?" or
"What were they interested in?” might be an example
of the kind of questions you might ask.
Unless
you have hundreds of thousands of dollars to use for testing,
you simply can't afford to run your business on guesswork.
This is why the more information you have, the better.
This
is especially true in affiliate marketing. The super affiliates
know this, and that is why they pay very close attention to
which of their ads are getting SALES, and not simply which
ads are getting traffic.
You
see, you might place two different ads to a particular affiliate
website. Your first ad might get you 100 visitors, and your
second ad might get you 50 visitors. Each ad is costing you.
Now, you can only afford to keep one ad. Which is it?
If
you said “I'd keep the ad that's getting a hundred visitors”
– like most people would, you are missing a very critical
point.
Not
All Traffic is Created Equal
You
see, you might be getting more of your sales from the 50 visitors,
because they might be a better target audience for what you
are advertising, compared to the ad which got 100.
Because you are not able to easily connect e-zine ads, pay
per click keywords, and other promotions to actual sales –
you cannot truly know where your results are coming from.
Because of this, you have no real way to make any concrete
decisions about your affiliate marketing, and you may be relying
on guesswork more than you think - It's that simple.
So
how do you find out this critical information? Simple. You
use the same tools that the super affiliates have been secretly
using, until now, to get their massive results.
Most
of these tools, only people “in the know” even
know exists. One of the biggest such tools is something called
“Remote Tracking” and is available from Clickalyzer.
This is a fantastic technology that actually lets you track
what people do on affiliate websites, even though as an affiliate
marketer, you don’t own the website they are promoting.
Remote
Tracking can actually show you what visitors do once they
arrive on the affiliate site – in most cases all the
way through the sale!
Using
this tool, it's easy to see which ads are resulting in sales
& interested visitors. You can easily separate those from
ads that are wasting your time & money. You'll instantly
discover which pay per click keywords, e-zine ads, and other
promotions are resulting in sales.
Can
you really trust all affiliate programs you're promoting with
paying you what you're owed? Using this tool you could check
to see if your affiliate programs are properly crediting you
for sales.
Why
is all this useful?
Not
Getting Good Results? Here's Why...
If
you are promoting an affiliate program, and not getting results,
the odds are there is a problem with one of three things.
They are: