How To Make Money With Affiliate marketing
                     Introduction   to
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How to Make Money with 
Affiliate Marketing
  
 
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"Affiliate marketing has made 
businesses millions and ordinary 
people millionaires."
Bo Bennet
"Being an affiliate marketer is 
very cost-effective. You don’t 
have to put much money in an 
affiliate program in order to gain 
a lot."
Russell Brunson
"Affiliate marketing is not a ‘push-
button’ solution. It takes focus 
and commitment, and a certain 
choreography to make it happen 
the way you want it to."
Pat Flynn
Special Offer:
Introduction
Affiliate marketing is is one of the fastest and most creative ways to 
make money on the Internet.  Affiliate marketing can be defined as 
selling products or services of other people on a commission basis.
You own a business that advertises and sells products for other 
companies.
Affiliate Marketing is a simple but powerful concept.  As an affiliate, 
you sell the products of other companies and receive a commission 
on every sale.
You need to follow these simple and easy steps to start earning as 
an affiliate marketer.
1. First of all you need to search a market which you think is the 
best to start with. Health, sports, clothing, computers, etc. are 
examples of some hot market areas for an affiliate marketer.
2. Register with some suitable affiliate program. Choose product(s) 
to sell. These products are called affiliate products. 
3. For every product, you will receive a specific affiliate link. You 
have to promote your affiliate link to get more and more sales. The 
success of affiliate marketing depends on this step.
4. Finally, after selling the product, you will receive the affiliate 
commissions from the merchant.
Choose an Affiliate Product
Before choosing any product or market, the basic thing you should 
always remember is that you must have a complete knowledge 
about the demand and worth of the product. You should choose a 
product which has a big demand plus it is also more profitable. 
There are some products which are very demanding but they do not 
give a healthy profit. Some products carry both the qualities and 
are ideal for you to start with.
 
Promote Your Affiliate Link
After choosing the products, you will receive your affiliate links for 
each product. You can use many ways to promote your affiliate link. 
The most popular methods are websites, newsletters, emails, blogs, 
classified directories etc. You can use all these methods of 
promotion, at the same time, for best results. There are many 
other tools and methods to do this. The key point is how to drive 
the traffic that is really interested in what you are offering. If 
interested and serious, people will visit your website etc, thus being 
greater chances of sales. 
When a visitor clicks on your affiliate link, visits the merchant's 
website and makes a purchase, you will receive your commission. 
So the number of sales directly depends on how many people see 
your affiliate link and visit the merchant website.
Getting Paid for the Sales
There are different ways of paying the commissions. You can get 
the commissions through Paypal, Bank Transfer, Checks etc. 
Different Affiliate Networks and Merchants offer different ways to 
pay the commission to the affiliates.
Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is very beneficial both for merchants and affiliate 
marketers. It is a popular method to earn profits from the websites 
and also helps the merchants to increase their sales.  It is the 
cheapest business on the Internet that can make you the highest 
profit.
Lets us discuss some important benefits of affiliate marketing to 
affiliate marketers and merchants.
1. No Need to create a product 
One important benefit of affiliate marketing is that you are not 
required create or produce any products.  It is the duty of 
merchants to create the products. So you are only required to 
select the products to sell, get the affiliate links and start your 
business in ten minutes. You can focus on selling the product as 
you don’t need to do anything with the production or delivery of the 
products.
2. You Can Start with No Money or a small amount
Another important feature of affiliate marketing is that you can 
start your business with little or no out of pocket expense. This is 
the lowest possible investment in today's world to start a business 
which has a great scope in the market. If you simply don’t have any 
money to invest, you can always use free tools to start your 
business.
3. The Easiest Online Business
It is the easiest online business due to the fact that the merchants 
do all the hard work like making products, delivering products to 
consumers, handling money transactions etc. Affiliate marketers 
are not responsible for any of these tasks. They just need to focus 
on promoting their affiliate links.
 
4. Make Money While You Sleep
As you have your affiliate links on the website which is available on 
the Internet all the time, you are not required to remain online to 
keep in touch with your customers. People can visit your site 
whenever they want and can visit your affiliate links. If they like the 
product they can easily buy it by just by clicking the given links.
Your only concern will be checking your email to see how many 
sales you have made from your links.
5. Penetrate Hot Markets Fast
You can select any hot market at any time to choose the products 
you wish to sell. If you observe that other marketers are making 
money with pet care related products for instance, just register 
with an affiliate program to get some hot pet related products, set 
up a Facebook or Google Adwords campaign, and within 24 hours, 
you can start to make money.
Comparison of Affiliate Marketing With Other 
Businesses
Affiliate marketing is a type of Internet advertising in which 
affiliates drive the traffic to the advertiser’s website for sales. In 
turn the affiliates receive a share from the advertisers. Affiliates 
place the ads of advertisers on their websites.
There are various advantages as well as risks associated with this 
online business. Let us compare this online business with an office 
job or other business. This may help someone who is considering 
this business.
1. Low Cost Business
Most people are afraid to start a home based business because of 
the capital that is normally needed. With affiliate marketing, you 
need not worry about the money because it does not require much 
investment. It truly is a low cost business. It is even possible to 
start this business without any investment. 
2. Inventories Not Required 
In all other businesses, product management is the most stressful 
aspect in running your business. In many cases, it is necessary to 
hire additional people to handle your inventory. But in the case of 
affiliate marketing, you are not required to maintain any inventory. 
All of this is done solely by the merchants. This is yet another 
advantage of affiliate marketing.
3. Unlimited Income 
If you are a successful affiliate marketer then you can earn 
unlimited income. If your website has got a high page ranking then 
it is assured that you will get more and more sales with the 
passage of time. After your business is up and running well, you 
usually don’t need any more investment. Not like other businesses 
where your income is always limited and you are always required 
more investments to expand your business.
4. Worldwide Business
With affiliate marketing, your market is not limited to your city or 
even your country. In this field you have a global market. You just 
need to set up your website and drive traffic to it from all over the 
world. 
5. Risk 
As you know, to start marketing as an affiliate you are not required 
to make a big investment. This makes it a virtual risk free business. 
This is the reason why more and more people are engaging in this 
field day by day. The only risk involved in this business is your time 
if you are not doing it properly. If you are not equipped with proper 
knowledge to do this business then you may end up with nothing in 
hand after waiting for months.
6. 24 hours Sales 
As I have said, if you choose to earn your income as an affiliate 
marketer, the entire world becomes your potential customers. 
Your business in affiliate marketing continues twenty-four hours a 
day. This means that yes, you are earning even when you are 
sleeping.
You will only enjoy all of the above benefits of affiliate marketing, if 
you have selected the right products, the right merchants and the 
right market.
Affiliate marketing has many benefits over other businesses. The 
main benefits are less investment requirement, 24 hours sale and 
unlimited sales. But not all the people can be successful in this 
business as it requires the patience, focus and proper knowledge of 
market trends. So the risks associated with this business are for 
those who are not well equipped with proper knowledge and 
training. 
Things to Know About Affiliate Marketing
It is a known fact that almost 90 percent of affiliates earn less than 
hundred dollars per month. So, you cannot depend on affiliate 
marketing. But if you put in some extra effort, then you can 
increase you commissions. Before entering into this field, a lot of 
people are under the false assumption that affiliate marketing is 
basically a short-cut way of becoming rich without much effort. 
Actually it is not such an easy business. Don’t think that you will 
put a couple of banners on your website and you will start earning.
There are some tips to increase your affiliate commissions:
1. Build a good website 
Good website means, a website that attracts the visitors’ attention. 
It must not be rich in graphics. It should be simple and easy to 
navigate. It should be simple for the visitor to find anything that he 
wants.
2. Do Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is very necessary to drive steady traffic 
to your site. This is a very big topic. There are various techniques 
to increase the page rank of your website. Banner exchange is a 
famous technique. Search engine friendly URLs is another search 
engine optimization technique.
3. Pick the Right Merchant
Pick the right merchant to start with. Don’t look at the profits 
offered. Look at the expertise and experience of the merchants. 
See their history. How many products they have launched in the 
markets and how many were successful. Are they good in 
marketing? Are they providing good service to their customers?
Find the answers of all above questions and you will find the right 
merchant that will give you good and constant business.
4. Increase Traffic to Your Website
Getting a lot of traffic to your site is basically the key factor in this 
field. You must remember that not every visitor is your buyer. Only 
a few of them will buy your product, so it is important to get more 
and more traffic to your website. Some important techniques are 
email campaigns, banner exchange, RSS feeds, selection of the 
right keywords, writing search engine friendly content on your 
website etc.
5. Pre-Sales
An important point is to read the minds of your visitors to 
understand what they need and then offer them the right thing at 
the right cost. Try to attract your visitors with the extra things that 
they would like. For example, if you are selling laptops on your 
website, then you can put some useful articles on how to 
troubleshoot laptops. This will attract your visitors. It is possible 
that your visitor might not make a sale in the first visit. But if he 
likes your articles he will come back to study your articles and it is 
possible that he may make a purchase after some visits. This 
concept of offering some useful free gifts to your visitors is called 
pre-sales. It is very helpful in increasing your sales.
You cannot get the desired results in a few days, but it requires 
some time. Concentrate on how to improve your business by 
making a good website and driving more and more traffic to your 
website. Choose the right merchant and attract the people by 
offering useful products and gift packages. One satisfied customer 
will bring 10 more customers.
Start Your Affiliate Marketing Business In 6 
Easy Steps
Affiliate marketing is an easy to start online business. It is really 
easy to start but requires the hard work to become successful. In 
this article you will learn the six basic steps that are required to 
enter in this business. The steps are brief and quite simple. You 
must follow these steps in order to become successful otherwise 
you would not get the desired results.
1. Pick a Market
Why to choose a market instead of product? The reason is quite 
clear that you would like to put more products in your pipeline. You 
have to choose a market which suits you. You must obtain detailed 
information about it. 
2. Pick a Product
When you have picked a specific market, now it is time to select a 
product. You will definitely want to add all the products at the 
beginning, but it is advised not to do this in the start. If you choose 
more products in the beginning, you will not be able to focus.  Your 
attention will be diverted to different products. So it is better to 
choose one product to get best out of it.  When you have started 
getting the sales then you can add more products.
3. Build an Autoresponder Series
After you start your business, you must create a follow up series, 
which is also called an autoresponder series. This series must have 
the information about your product. There you can add contents of 
your product. If you are selling golf clubs, you can build a series 
having some basic information about it. There you can tell your 
visitors how they can purchase golf clubs. You can also add some 
advantages or the profiles of some major golfers in the world. You 
should try to be more and more creative. It is observed that during 
the period of first few months affiliates do not get reasonable sales. 
But after six months, they expect to gain much better sales. 
4. Build a Page to Capture Emails
Create a page in your website where you will capture information 
about your prospects so you can send them your follow-up series. 
If you are building a business, having your own web site is a 
necessity. This website will be needed to show your affiliate 
products to the website visitors. You will grab the visitor’s emails to 
promote your email campaigns.
5. Use Traffic Generation Techniques
Once your website is up, use some traffic generation techniques. 
After applying the traffic generation techniques, you should wait for 
some time to get the results. Try different techniques and see the 
results. Then on the basis of your experience, continue with the 
technique that shows best results.
6. Find additional related products
Once you have started to make a good and reliable income with a 
single product, then you should add some new products to your 
products list.  But you must carefully select new products to put 
them in the list.
Always start with a single, hot and demanding product to gain good 
results. Concentrate on this single product, make your website to 
display the product and capture the email addresses of visitors. Use 
these email addresses and your website to start a powerful 
advertisement campaign. Use the techniques to drive maximum 
traffic to your website. Once you have started earning with a single 
product, add more products and repeat the process.
Which Affiliate Networks to use 
There are many horror stories about affiliate programs and 
networks. People have heard them over and over again, that some 
are even wary of joining one. The stories they may have heard are 
those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this 
kind of market does not have real, worthy products. 
You do not want to be associated with these schemes. It is obvious 
you want to be with a program that offers high quality product that 
you will readily endorse. The growing number of those who have 
joined already and are succeeding immensely is proof enough that 
there are reliable and quality affiliate programs out there. 
Following is the list of some good, reliable and reputable online 
affiliate networks that can provide you the best affiliates. You can 
join many affiliate networks at a time so that you can make a good 
income. 
ClickBank
https://www.clickbank.com/
JVzoo
https://www.jvzoo.com/
WarriorPlus
https://warriorplus.com/
ShareSale 
https://www.shareasale.com/
Commission Junction
https://www.cj.com/ 
Amazon US
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/  
Rakuten (LinkShare)
https://linkshare.com/
MarketHealth
https://www.markethealth.com/
ClixGalore
https://clixgalore.com/
How to Choose an Affiliate Program
If you are an affiliate marketer, you have two options. The first 
option is to choose the product which has a great demand in the 
market. These items are expected to be sold immediately due to 
the interest of the people. Some examples of such particular items 
are dating sites, casino sites and weight loss products. The second 
option is to choose a product that suits your interests and you, 
yourself like to promote it.
It is not difficult to find profitable affiliate programs. A good option 
is to search in regular affiliate networks like Click Bank and 
Commission Junction.
We recommend you choose a product which is considered to be the 
hot product in the market as well as you having some interest in it. 
For example if you are golfer, then you should choose golfing 
products to promote. These products are among the hottest 
products on the market. Plus if you are a golfer, it will be easy for 
you to give detailed information about it on your website. So you 
can give lots of information there, you can write the basic rules 
about that sport, you can also write the tips about how new golfers 
can improve their playing skills. You can also give some guidance to 
anyone who may want to purchase golf equipment by suggesting 
the best place to go for good quality equipment. Similarly, you can 
give lots of golf related information on your website that may 
attract more visitors.
Let us look at some of the important things before promoting any 
affiliate program
Choose Hot Products
Always choose the items which have a high demand in the market. 
Most affiliate networks provide details about the conversion, rating 
and refund rates of each product. In Amazon.com, you can check 
the Customer Ratings and Reviews of Amazon products.
Be Familiar with Product
You must be knowledgeable about the product you are selling. If 
you do not know much about the product, how can you satisfy and 
convince your customer? You must know all the drawbacks of the 
product. Also do the comparative study of the product with the 
other same types of products present in the market. Provide your 
customers with this comparative study using graphs and tables. 
This will help sell your customers.
Good Sales Letter
Your sales letter is considered to be the key point for boosting your 
sales. It should be convincing enough for your consumer to want to 
buy. A good sales letter will attract visitors. You should also add 
some testimonials in it to make it more effective and believable.
Money Back Guarantee
If you want consumers to buy your product with no hesitation, then 
give them the benefit of a money back guarantee. If the affiliate 
program owner is not providing this guarantee with the product, 
then you should look for another merchant.
Contact Info
Email address or a link to Customer Support system should be 
there on the site.  A site with Physical address will be more reliable 
and trustable to your customers.
Real-time Statistics
Choose the affiliate program that can show you the real-time 
statistics of your visitors and sales. This will tell how many visitors 
are going to the merchant website from your website and how 
many visitors are converted into buyers. This will help you to see 
your progress.
Tips on Choosing the Right Affiliate programs 
It is not difficult to find profitable affiliate programs. It is advised to 
search the most popular networks like ClickBank or JVZoo for digital 
products.  Clickbank is a popular affiliate network of digital 
products.  Search Amazon or Commission Junction for physical 
goods. Choosing the right affiliate program is the key factor.
Here are some tips you may want to look over before choosing one:
1. A program that you like and have interest in. One of the best 
ways of knowing if that is the kind of program you wish to promote 
is if you are interested in purchasing the product yourself. If that is 
the case, chances are, there are many others who are also 
interested in the same program and products.
2. Look for a program that is of high quality. For instance, look for 
one that is associated with many experts in that particular industry. 
This way, you are assured that of the standard of the program you 
will be joining into.
3. Join in the ones that offer real and viable products. How do you 
know this? Do some initial research. If possible, track down some of 
the members and customers to give you testimonial on the 
credibility of the program.
4. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This 
will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for 
your referrals. Make inquiries. There are forums and discussions 
you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.
5. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual 
income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. 
There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look 
closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not 
reward substantially for your efforts.
6. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales 
target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes 
pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that 
you are capable of attaining their requirements.
7. Select one that has plenty of tools and resources that can help 
you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate 
programs have these capacities. Make use you decide on one with 
lots of helpful tools you can use.
8. Check out if the program has a proven system that can allow you 
to check your networks and compensation. Also check if they have 
it available online for you to check anytime and anywhere.
9. The program that is offering strong incentives for members to 
renew their membership each time. The affiliate program that 
provides continuous help and upgrades for its products have the 
tendency to retain its members. These things can assure the 
growth of your networks.
10.  Be aware of the things that members are not happy about in a 
program. Like with the ones mentioned above, you can do your 
checking at discussion forums. If you know someone in that same 
program, there is ho harm asking if there are many downsides 
involved.
Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate 
program and network you will be promoting on.
Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will make 
you anticipate and prevent any future problems you may encounter.
 
3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To 
Survive Online 
Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market 
that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic 
formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more 
complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have 
been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing 
and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of 
today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able 
to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.
What are these three tactics?
1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you 
are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some 
money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each 
and every product and nothing more. 
Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have 
an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who 
buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already 
tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than 
willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the 
specific product you are marketing. 
You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and 
include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages 
attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. 
Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even 
contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your 
readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out 
more.
2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at 
the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. 
Try to create Autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those 
who input their personal information into your sign up box. 
According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh 
contact with a prospect.
Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: 
closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return 
again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain 
specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought 
they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that 
the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. 
Do not make it sound like a sales pitch. 
Focus on important points like how your product can make life and 
things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines 
in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” 
because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of 
contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. 
Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be 
missing something big if they do not avail of your products and 
services.
3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, 
if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever 
in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on 
and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and 
e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on 
your target customers and what you have put up might just grab 
their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 
300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining 
these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to 
your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy 
your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 
1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can 
made 10 sales based on the average statistic. 
The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if 
you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan 
on your part. 
Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You 
can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this 
business that not all marketers can do. 
Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…
Essential Tools for Successful Affiliate 
Marketing
Following are the top three essential tools for a successful affiliate 
marketing business. 
Create Your Own Website 
Your own website is the basic tool which is essential for successful 
affiliate marketing. If you want to make a good start in this field 
you must build an impressive, credible and professional-looking 
website. If you are able to create a website successfully and it is 
appreciated by the users, then it is the sign for a successful affiliate 
marketing career for you. You must create a site which will fulfill 
the requirements of almost all visitors and all of your prospects 
may be inspired by it. A user friendly site will promote the user to 
visit the links to the products and services that are advertised on 
the site. This will give you sales. 
An important point to note is that the majority of the visitors do not 
come online to buy something. The reason of using the internet is 
to find some information or they may be looking for entertainment 
purposes. So all you need to do is just fill your website with this 
kind of stuff to gain the traffic. It is fact that when people visit your 
website they will click on the links of your affiliate products. So it 
will help to increase your sales. You should provide your own 
original content on your website. You can put some interesting 
articles there. If you provide good stuff, it will be liked by your 
visitors.  If you add interesting content, then your website can 
become very popular and your search engine rating will also be 
improved.
Give Incentives to Your Visitors
Competition today is very tough among affiliates on the Internet. If 
you want to get the major share of your target market, then you 
should always keep an eye on your competitor. You should use 
every possible technique to make your users visit your site 
regularly. You should also stride to make it easier for your visitors 
to click the links and take a look at the products and services that 
you are offering. Creating an opt-in email list is a good method to 
get prospects. You should provide newsletter to your users, and 
offer them attractive incentives.  This is the ideal way to convince 
them to subscribe to the newsletters. Offering free software or e-
books to attract the users to your website is always a good idea.
Drive Traffic to Your Web Page 
If you want to run a successful website then you must remember 
the fact that your success is hidden in driving more traffic to your 
website. It is necessary in order to achieve a good income. To 
achieve this goal, your website must be rated high in search 
engines. Link Popularity is an important factor which is used to 
determine search engine rankings. To get the high rankings, you 
must try to enhance your link popularity. Link popularity simply 
means how popular your website link is. Try to choose a website 
name that is short, interesting, easy to remember name that is 
related to your business. This will help to increase your link 
popularity.
Above are the three basic tools for you to increase your sales in the 
field of affiliate marketing. There are still many other methods and 
tricks that can be used to maximize your earnings as an affiliate 
marketer but these are the basic tools. Make your own website. 
Your website must be easy to use and informative. It should deliver 
what people are looking for. Try to attract people by offering them 
free incentives.  Try different methods to increase your link 
popularity to achieve a high ranking in the search engines. Use a 
simple, easy and interesting name for your website. Long and 
difficult names are hard to remember, so try to avoid them.
Three Fatal Affiliate Marketing Mistakes
Affiliate marketing gives you the opportunity to make money online 
automatically, once you have setup your website successfully. It is 
considered to be a very simple and a very easy way to earn a good 
income with affiliate marketing. But it is not as easy as it is 
thought. Not all persons entering in this field become successful 
affiliate marketers. Those who are lucky enough to get real success 
in this business are few.
Here we will discuss the three major mistakes of affiliate marketers 
that usually make their business collapse.  This will help you in 
earning a steady income. If you will avoid these mistakes then you 
can sit back and enjoy your steady and monthly “free” income.
 
In affiliate marketing, you get your commissions for promoting 
products and services of a merchant.  It is the Merchant who is 
bound to pay you the sales commission. The duty of the affiliate 
marketer is to promote the products of the merchant. The 
merchant is the investor, who pays commissions to the affiliate 
marketers, when any of his products are sold.
Now take a look at the three fatal mistakes of affiliate marketers:
1. Don’t send your prospects directly to an affiliate website
Don’t send your prospect directly to the website without offering 
any free benefit to the visitor because there is a possibility that the 
consumer will not like the product and close the website without 
even buying a single product. Now you have lost this consumer 
forever because it is obvious that the next time he will choose to 
visit another site. 
If you want your visitors to visit the website again and again, offer 
them some kind of free benefit like free gifts, software or e-books. 
You can send them a free newsletter or weekly horoscope at their 
email address. If you are successful in grabbing their email 
address, then you can send them advertisements on their email 
address on a regular basis too.
2. Don’t Create a Website Full of affiliate links, flashy 
banners and Ads
If your website is full of affiliate links, lots of flashy banners and 
other advertisements then your visitor may become confused and 
he may simply leave your website. People like to see the clear and 
easy to understand websites. Just put an honest product review to 
get the visitor’s attention. Try to put text ads instead of flashy and 
graphical ads. Researches have proved that text links are more 
successful than flashy banners. People like to see what they want 
and not the fancy graphics. Also the load time of simple websites is 
much faster in comparison to full graphics, loaded websites. People 
like to visit the sites that opens in seconds. So be simple and be 
focused.
3. Commission theft 
Commission theft is one of the biggest drawbacks in this field. 
Although, it is not possible to eliminate it completely, you can use 
some tricks to minimize it. Cloaking and redirecting of affiliate links 
are the options for you in this situation. 
Usually the affiliate links contain the affiliate id of affiliates at the 
end of merchant website’s URL. An example is:
http://www.website.com?aff_id=your_affiliate_id
This is not a good style. Any person can easily drop your “aff_id” 
part from the above link and can visit the merchant website to 
make sales. In this case the sales are made but you are not 
credited. The solution of this problem is “cloaking”. After cloaking 
your affiliate link will be like:
http://www.website.com/affiliate_site
In conclusion, an affiliate marketer should try to avoid the common 
fatal mistakes to become successful in this field. Always try to 
collect the email addresses of your website visitors by offering them 
some free gifts like newsletters etc. Then use their email addresses 
to start your advertisement campaigns. Try to design your website 
really simple and easy to understand for the visitors. People don’t 
like the fancy graphics when they are searching for something to 
buy. And don’t forget to cloak your affiliate links to get the 
maximum benefit. By avoiding these main mistakes you can start 
earning sooner.
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