Affiliate marketing over the years has become increasingly competitive, it is still one of the best ways to earn money online but the rules have changed. There are hundreds of sites that are claiming to be the top affiliate program, and making enormous profits on the Internet. Are any of them what they say they are? Lets take a look at five of the biggest secrets of super affiliates to know how to be successful.

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1)Know Your Niche

When getting started it is important to know your niche and what they are looking for. If all you know about your niche is what they want then you are going to find it extremely hard to compete in the market. The best way to start is to find a product that you know they need and then create a niche site around the product. To find a niche product you can use keyword search tools, such as Wordtracker and the Google AdWords keyword tool. This will give you a list of all the keywords that people are typing into the search engines looking for solutions to their problems. The list you have should be much smaller than the number of keywords on AdWords. Once you have your niche product you can go to the Google and yahoo search engines and find out how many ads are showing for that keyword. If there are only a few ads it is probably not worth spending your time to create a site around that product. If there are a lot of ads the potential is there and it may be worth a few bucks to get the traffic.

2)Get Your Site Search Engine Optimized

Once you have found your niche product and have the potential to get some traffic there are a couple things you need to do to your site to get it indexed and ready for the surveys and buys. First you need to make sure you include a sitemap on your site. A sitemap is a simple HTML file that shows every URL in a sidebar on your site. Google will analyze every URL on your site and provide you with the results of searches. You then need to make your sitemap relatively unique. You want to include a technological element that is going to stand out from the rest so the search engines will be able to see your site with little competition. A good way to accomplish this is to use Google AdSense ad units. You create a HTML code and then the Google code will automatically include this into your sitemap.

2)Set Up A Blog

You can also set up a blog for your niche website. With a blog you can make more pages that are search engine optimized and actually deliver greater content to your visitors. This way you cut out the time consuming process of visiting different sites and analyzing the results. You can also include Google AdSense ads and get paid every time someone clicks one of your pages.

3) Capture Leads

In order to sell people a particular product you must first capture their leads. Many people fail to do this and so they never make any sales. An added advantage to getting their names and email addresses is you can introduce them to other products.

4) Send Out A Email

You can also send out an email newsletter and make money from your list. This is just like sending out letters to friends and neighbors so is a good way to make even more money. With this type of email you can even introduce them to your products.

5) Sponsor related affiliate programs

You can also sponsor affiliate programs so you can get a percentage of the profits made from the sales. Banners are the most popular form of this, and you can even add them to your website, unlike pay per click advertising.

6) Use a blog

I paragraphs about the products are your best friends when it comes to an affiliate blog. On the blog you can talk about the benefits and relate to the reader on a personal level. This will make them much more likely to click an ad or link to your site.

7)Article marketing

This is a great form of marketing that you should use to your advantage. It’s all about writing articles and submitting them to article directories. People will read the article and click the ads that are included, and you are paid whenever one of the readers buys a product from the merchant.

So if you are looking to make money or build a business then an affiliate marketing program is a great way to do that. Most people never think about it or they never pursue it, but it’s a great business if you think out your own business plan.

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