Newbies quite affiliate marketing early because they don't know the affiliate marketing basics.
Knowing the affiliate marketing basics is very important for being a successful affiliate and making a living online.
So, before starting to promote any product you should know the affiliate marketing basics.
Here are the basics of affiliate marketing: People go online for information - not to buy a product at the first encounter Keep in mind that people use internet for information and they are not likely to buy a product at the first encounter.
So, don't refer people to straight a sale page.
They are looking for information - not for a sale page.
Give something useful to them before referring to a sale page.
Normally, people have some problems and they want to solve those problems by searching on internet.
If they find solutions from you, then they may become your customers.
Know your targeted audience When you set up your affiliate website, think about your targeted audience.
Put yourself in the head of your targeted audience.
Make sure that your website should be good enough to solve the problems of your targeted audience.
PREsell is very important in affiliate marketing You will a digital product easily if you have a content rich affiliate website.
Think about PREsell instead of sell.
Warm up your visitors, give free eBook and free software to your visitors.
Download PLR products from the internet and distribute them to your visitors for free.
If you deliver more services to your visitors for free, then they will become more eager to buy your affiliate product.
This is an affiliate marketing reality.
Traffic generation What is the source of your traffic? Do you use social networking sites to generate traffic? Or do you use search engine to get traffic? What is the quality of your traffic? Think about these questions.
Create a free account on Google Analytic and track your traffic.
Know which traffic generation method is working well for you and which are not.
Do focus more on the method that is working well.
Normally, article marketing and search engine optimization are the best methods to generate high quality traffic on any website.
These both methods are used by top affiliates.
Referring People Avoid banner ads to refer people to venders' sites.
Researches show that conversion rate become very low when anyone refers his or her visitors by banner ads.
But when you refer your visitors by text link with your recommendations, then you will see that your conversion rate is increasing.
These are the affiliate marketing basics you must bear in mind when you start promoting digital product.
Don't promote any digital product with wrong mindset.
Most of Newbies don't make any sells, because they don't take care of affiliate marketing basics.