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Internet
marketing affiliate program is one of the most robust models to make
money online at home. Based on the definition appears in the most
respected ClickBank marketing guides, it involves the process of
promoting others products in exchange of a certain commission when you
achieve a sale.
Few days
ago, during leaving comments on various forums, which are dedicated to
learn affiliate marketing, I was faced with the following questions:
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How to be an affiliate
seller?
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How to round good affiliates?
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What is the proper affiliate
marketing rule interpretation?
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How to own one of the
reasonable affiliate websites?
Honestly,
the idea is not to work too much but to work properly and avoid the
costly mistakes that lead to a hard failure. Some of these mistakes can
be found in any respected and well known ClickBank marketing guides but
not all of them. This is because there are some mistakes that you learn
during working and not just by reading a marketing guide.
In this
article, I devoted time and effort to summarize here 5 serious mistakes
that I personally did and unfortunately did not lead to a brilliant
success. So, to achieve the success you deserve, you should avoid doing
the following 5 deadly mistakes.
Mistake (1):
Overloading your website with Google adsense.
Though it is
an important and common mistake, most of the ClickBank marketing guides
mention nothing about this. As a matter of fact, 90% of the beginners in
the field on selling products online think it is a wise idea to insert
Google adsense in the sales letter.
They hope
that, in case the visitors are not interested in their products, they
will click on the ads and make them money. This is not true because:
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A sales letter that is full
of ads does not look professional.
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These ads will disturb the
attention of your visitors.
A wise idea
that works fine for me is to be deterministic and design a unique goal
for your website. Decide from the beginning, if this website is an
affiliate website or a website for adsense.
Mistake (2):
Linking to the merchant’s website
from your articles.
This is
another important point, which is overlooked by many ClickBank marketing
guides. I will clarify this point by a short story, which I personally
experienced.
I used to
promote a well known product that has something to do with Google
adsense program and I used to achieve approximately one sale per day,
which is absolutely fine. I used to insert an embedded link in the
author box at the end of each article I wrote.
Suddenly,
without any alert from the merchant, he took his website down and
redirected the old link to another destination. I was not that happy
with his new sales letter as well as the new product. However, I was in
a situation that I had no chance to change the links in the articles I
wrote since it is not possible to do so.
Therefore, a
better idea is to promote a webpage on your website where you describe
the product you promote and from there you may link to the merchant’s
website. This has 2 great benefits:
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You prepare your visitor to
buy through your own words.
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You have full control over
the products you promote and you can edit your landing page as you wish.
Mistake (3):
Having a poor looking website
Most of the
beginners think that content is the king, which is mentioned in almost
every ClickBank marketing guide. This is only half of the truth.
A poor
looking website will not represent you in the way it should be. Devote
reasonable time and energy to make your website looks like a nice and
professional looking website. However, do not over do it and remember
that a lot of graphics will slow down the loading process of your
website.
Mistake (4):
Overloading your website with Pop-Ups
You may have
experienced websites that nerve you with a lot of pop ups when you try
to navigate it to direct your attention to a certain point. Never ever
do this!
What really
worked fine for me is to replace these pop ups with either videos or
sound messages. A short video says more than 1000 words and an audio
message establishes a nice communication channel with your visitors.
Mistake (5):
Non-Realistic sales letter
This is the
most serious mistake, which some beginners do. They promise more than
what they can deliver. On the way to offer your readers a reasonable
affiliate website:
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Mention in a clear manner the
benefits of the products you promote.
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List the disadvantages of
these products.
No product is perfect.
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It is really effective to
mention your personal story and experiences with the products you
promote.
Taking these
5 mistakes into account, you got a concrete formula of the mistakes that
are overlooked by most ClickBank marketing guides.
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