Affiliate Marketing - Quick and Easy Steps to Get Started

By Mark A. Abrahams

Affiliate marketing is a free or cheap way to trade advertising for income. You have something advertisers need - visible space on a website or blog page. Advertisers have something you need; namely, a source of income. It's a perfect relationship. It even helps your web traffic, because if they are interested in your topic, they will be glad to know where they can buy related products or services. This is a relationship in which everyone can benefit.

Of course, there are thousands of businesses willing to enter into a marketing relationship with you, and you don't have the web space to put ads for everyone on your page. When you're considering who to affiliate with in your marketing strategy, there are a few things to consider. The following tips will help you make your choice.

* Consider your audience. If you run a parenting site, place ads for child or baby related products. Your affiliates should have some connection to your theme or product. Your readers are a ready made audience for certain ads, but not for certain others.

* Have integrity. Make sure you're only placing ads for products you believe in. Hosting someone's ad is an implicit endorsement of their product or service, so if that company isn't up to your standards, you should reject their ads, no matter how much they pay you. Only host businesses you can be proud of partnering with.

* Use restraint. Having too many banners and too many flashing images makes it hard for your viewers to find and read your content. You want traffic to your site because of the content, not because of the ads.

When you do it well, affiliate marketing can benefit everyone involved.

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Mark Abrahams is a full time internet marketer who has helped others to earn a living online.

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