waht is the key to affiliate marketing?

[wantsab]

what is the number one reason for failure in the affiliate market business, I have been up and running for a month, good traffic, poor results, any ideas? Is my content realavent? Feed back please or just some good ideas.

http://www.1freefinancialsolutions.com

[Unstoppable Dreams]

The thing that stood out for me was the fact that your site displays that it is under construction. That seems to be an immediate turn off. You can take some ideas from the web host that I use. You will find some topics that relate to your question.

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[Mab]

Hi,

You need a lot of content, and good content. If you are very familiar with the area you are working in as an affiliate, then write articles and upload them to the major article directories. If you are not a good writer, consider outsourcing your writing - check out eLance and rentacoder. You need LOTS of traffic and you need TARGETTED traffic. Buying 1,000,000 visits/hits/whatever is usually useless since it may not be targetted traffic.

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Mohamed
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[Angie]

To be a super affiliate you have to know the product you are going to market. You have to believe in it so that you can let others know the benefit to you.
You can either choose a less competitive niche to dominate which might have less traffic or you can choose a highly competitive niche like weight loss and still make it because of the high traffic volume.
Secondly your product must have a great sale page. For example if you want to market clickbank products you have to go to the sales page to check it out yourself to see if you will buy from such a page. You have to test the sale page to see if all the links work.
One Internet marketer you can learn a great deal on affiliate marketing from is Ewen Chia you can check his super affiliate program from the link below.
He has taught a great number of marketers including me about affiliate marketing.
When you find yourself a winning sales page then you start driving traffic to it either through forums, criagslist , yahoo group etc.

[Jakes]

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[Phil]

From what I have learned, your site conversion would do better if it was more focused for one area niche at a time. For example, you are going to get to wide of audience with student loans and dental plans, etc. There will be too much traffic just looking for information...not buying and your page would rank much higher for a specific keyword google search with better focus.

This takes me to the real gold...finding that market looking to BUY! So when we have a product, it is very important to understand the "why" of our market....because when we can tap our marketing into the ones we have answered their WHY, they will buy.

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[Rahman A]

Hi,

I visited few pages of your website, and I could give you these comments. I hope you do not mind with these types of comments :

1. Your website is too wide of spectrum, and you need to be more focus. Website which has too wide of topic range will be hard to get targeted visitor. REMEMBER, TARGETED VISITORS MEANS MORE SALES.

2. Place in you website more meat ! There is lots of subtopics, but there is no relevent content to support the topics. Without content, visitors will first see you affiliate link or banners which will be a big turn off.

3. Generate targeted visitors. you said you have lots of visitors, but are they targeted? Generate targeted visitors by using article marketing, forums, social website and etc.

4. Patient - how long have your website is up and running? If it is still new, then you need to give it time and constant effort pushing traffic to thw website.

5. Improve your adsense feel and look. it should blend with your website. This could give you some cash too.

I can tell you all, but you could read from my Tutorial Website for free all about affiliate marketing, adsense and etc. They all are 100% free.