Successful Affiliate Marketer

They say that rich people are quick to make decisions and slow to change them.

Have you ever set a goal for youself and then never achieved it? I’m sure you have, we all have. We have that type of nature in which we’ll think of something that we want to accomplish and tell ourself that we will but then when it comes time to do the work we won’t do it. Why do we do that to ourselves?

If you truly want to be successful in this business then you have to be persistent and stick to your goals. One of the biggest mistakes that I see is people will being to work on a project or a campaign and then they will give up if they don’t see immediate results. The best thing you can do for your business is to pick a plan of action and to not stray from it. If you’re constantly changing from idea to idea month after month then you will always be at the beginning and you will never get anywhere.

Think about the last project that you gave up on. Do you think things would be differently if you had kept up with that project and hadn’t decided to start the one you’re working on now? Now think about one of the very first projects you started when you first got into affiliate marketing. What if you were still working on that one project? I bet you would be a lot better off right now then you currently are!

So sit down and give it a good though the next time you get bored with your current project and want to change to something else. Think about where you’ll be with it in another month or two if you don’t give up.

There is currently a residual income opportunity that allows you to earn residual income right from your own home. It is not a get-rich-quick scheme or a pyramid scheme or anything like that. It is a legitimate venture that allows you to work from home and earn residual income right from your computer. The type of business that I’m referring to is affiliate marketing.

An affiliate marketer is someone who is self employed and works independently online from their computer. What they do is they sell other people’s products online for commissions. Most marketers get started by signing up for Clickbank, where the commissions they receive are usually somewhere between $30 and $150 for each sale.

To make a sale as an affiliate, you are given a link which is your “affiliate link”. Each time someone clicks on your affiliate link they are taken to the sales page of the product you are promoting. If they decide to buy the product then you will receive a commission for referring the sale! if you promote a product which pays $50 commission per sale, then you could probably live off of two sales per day.

I know that this sounds like one of those “too easy to be true type things”, and the honest truth is that it’s not as easy as it sounds. Getting people to actually click on your affiliate link is the hardest part in the process. But this does not mean that you can’t be making a full time income after a few months of hard work.

I know someone who made their very first sale on July 6, 2009. Four months later on October 31, 2009 they were excited to see that they had hit the $5,000 mark for the month. This was all income from affiliate marketing on Clickbank. Of course these results are not typical at all, but it goes to show what is really possible if you work hard enough for something.

So if you’re looking for a real residual income opportunity to earn residual income, then I would highly recommend that you look into affiliate marketing.

If you’re reading this then I’m sure you know how important it is to get backlinks so I won’t get into the importance of getting them. I do want to say though that you should try to strive for position one for whatever keyword you’re targeting. There is not much of a difference between the amount of traffic that positions 2-10 get, but position 1 usually receives about 40%-60% of the traffic that a keyword generates. That’s a big increase compared to about 10% at position 2.

So how do we get the backlinks to get to position one? Well if you already know what anchor text is then you should go ahead and skip down to where we list the types of ways you can get the backlinks. If you don’t know what anchor text in then it’s imperative that you read the next paragraph.

Know What Anchor Text Is?

An anchor text is the text of a backlink. For example, the blue text in the image is a backlink for this site that is on another website. It is helping the main page of this site to rank for the term “successful affiliate marketer”. All backlinks, no matter what the anchor text is, will help a webpage rank higher for any term it’s ranking for, but backlinks with specific anchor text will help it to rank even higher for the certain text of the backlink.





For these reasons it is important to try to use specific anchor text that is relative to the keywords you’re trying to rank for.

Now that I’ve explained all that, let’s look at some of the things that we can do to get backlinks to our webpages.

Article Directories

You probably already know this one, but it’s still an effective way for getting backlinks. Article directories are a great way to get backlinks to your site and it is simple to do too. You simply write a short article and submit it to some of the top article directories with two links back to two different webpages of your choice.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is another great way to get a good quality backlink and even some extra traffic. To get blog comment backlinks, just simply go to Google and type in the name of your niche plus the word “blog”. Go through the results and find some blogs that allow you to leave comments. When you leave your comment leave a link back to one of your webpages. The real trick behind doing this is to make sure that your comment doesn’t look spammy and actually provides value.

Forum Posting

If you’re already part of a forum that you post regularly too, a simple thing you can do is to go into your account and make your signature a link back to one of your webpages. This is a great way to easily get a backlink from wherever you have already posted in the forum. If you’re not part of any forums then I suggest you become a member at some that are related to the pages you want to backlink. After you have posted a few times then change your signature to include your backlink. Most forums also usually have a spot where you can put your homepage in your profile and it will give you a backlink to your homepage.


These are just a few of the ways to get backlinks to your webpages. I hope that you have learned how to get backlinks, and the importance of getting a top position in the search engines.

A good way to generate wealth online is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a form of Internet marketing in which you promote and sell other peoples products for commission. Affiliate marketing is a great way to create wealth online because it does not require any money to start and you can either make a few sales from it here and there or turn it into a full-time income.

To generate wealth online through affiliate marketing you must first sign up for an affiliate network. One of the most popular ones is Clickbank. After you’ve signed up you will be able to browse through the list of products that you can promote.

All of the products on Clickbank are all information products which means they can be downloaded right online. For this reason the commissions for these products are very high, usually between 40% and 70%. Most products sell for around $47 so you can expect about $25 for each sale for an average product. The commissions can range though from as low as $10 to as high as $150.

After you’ve chosen a product to promote you will receive an affiliate link. The affiliate link is what you will use to get your sales. Anyone who clicks on your affiliate link will be taken to the sales page of the product you’re promoting, if they buy the product then you will get the commission.

The real trick to build wealth online through affiliate marketing is to get people to click on your affiliate link. There are many different ways to get people to click on your affiliate link but that is a whole other topic. I hope that you will find affiliate marketing to be a great way to generate wealth online.

It is many affiliates dreams to learn how to become a super affiliate. Becoming a super affiliate not only means that you will receive recognition as a great marketer in the Internet marketing community, but it also means something that many affiliate marketers always dream of. Many marketers always dream of making a full-time income online and being a super affiliate usually equals a lot of money. So let’s look at some super affiliate marketing strategies.

The one that I like the best involves using a redirect from a top level domain and article directories, preferably EzineArticles. To perform this type of super affiliate marketing strategy, you’re going to want to buy a domain name. The name should preferably be something either related to the product you’re promoting, or something neutral such as, “yourname.com”.

After you have bought a domain name and have it set up with your hosting account, you’re then going to want to go into your hosting account and switch the domain to redirect to your affiliate link. This way when you visit your domain name, it automatically redirects you to your affiliate link sales page. The option to redirect your domain can be found somewhere in your hosting account.

After you have your domain set up, now the only thing you need to do is drive traffic to the domain. I’ve found that the easiest way to drive traffic to a webpage it is by writing articles for EzineArticles. Make sure that the articles you write are done with good keyword optimization. I won’t go into the whole keyword research standpoint because that’s a whole another topic.

If you don’t like the super affiliate marketing strategy listed above then another option, which is probably one of your best, involves building up your own mailing list. I’m sure that you’ve heard this many times before but it’s very true that a mailing list is probably the best way to become a super affiliate. When you have a mailing list, all you simply need to do is send out an e-mail with an affiliate link and you’ll usually see some sales.

If you do decide that it’s time to start building a mailing list than the last way to do that is by creating a squeeze page with opt-in bait. For your squeeze page to be effective, you must have an opt-in bait that is simply irresistible. You have to think about exactly what your market wants, and give it to them.

You can drive traffic to your squeeze page by submitting articles to article directories just like you would for the first strategy. There are many other ways to drive traffic to a squeeze page and an affiliate offer including the use of forums, web 2.0 properties, blogs, your own website, etc…

I hope either of the two super affiliate marketing strategies above will help you to learn how to become a super affiliate. The real thing that separates the super affiliates from the regular affiliates is the amount of effort they put into their work. Are you really putting as much effort into your affiliate marketing efforts as you should be? The first part of the equation is having a solid plan, which is laid out above. The second part to the equation is actually putting in the time and effort to make the plan work.

Good luck in your marketing efforts!