A few changes being made around here…and basic affiliate stuff

 

Hi everyone – I am currently in the midst of changing things around a little and plan to provide an ezine as well as regular blog posts too.

So this week I’m cheating as I am a bit pushed for time!

This week’s post is on some basic affiliate questions that I answered earlier this week from one of my subscribers.

I hope it’s helpful…

Here’s the question:

“I went into Clickbank and signed up as affiliate for a couple of sites I was subscribing to and then to reg.co.uk and got a domain-name because I thought I could have one domain name and one website for all the affiliation.

Someone told me I needed to have different websites and I realised it was going to cost me a fortune, so I just left it.

So I have never sold a single book. I have been looking again for proper information on the subject of affiliation but it’s all the same; do this and do that………sure, but HOW, and in WHAT ORDER, that’s the questions I can’t find answers to.

Ok, first I find a theme/topic/subject and then I look at clickbank to find a good book to sell. HOW do I know when a book/website is good? And once I’ve decided on the website, what do I do next?”

Here’s my answer:

“I would do things 1 at a time.

Find 1 niche market and then 1 good ebook in that market.

On Clickbank the ebooks are ordered in what sells best - so if you want to sell on “dogs” I would use one of the top 2 or 3 products on there for example.

Then drive traffic to it (e.g. Adwords, free articles etc.)

It is better to have just one website per niche (e.g. mydogsite.com) as the site fits with the niche better - but it’s not essential.

You could have a general website e.g. www.informationon.com then have lots of pages on it in different niches e.g. www.informationon.com/dogs www.informationon.com/cats etc.

Test each one though - if you are spending time/money on it make sure you are getting some monetary return.

If you pick one and it doesn’t work - move on and try the next one (not everything I try works believe me!)

The best way I have found to sell affiliate ebooks is by doing an honest review of them yourself - which makes it look less salesy.

For example - http://johnhillage.com/product-reviews/free-traffic-voodoo-by-george-katsoudas/

Also check out the Warrior Forum (www.warriorforum.com) for some more great free help on being an affiliate.

Hope this helps

John

PS - Don’t use co.uk use .com for websites (it’s more universally recognised).