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I’m often asked how to pick affiliate products to promote and I tend to answer that I mainly use three ways. The first involves starting with the available traffic, the second is by seeing what products are hot and the third is by using some info I’ve come across somewhere.

Let me explain a bit more on the first one:

Starting with the Available Traffic
This is simply looking at the type of traffic coming into my existing sites, articles, lenses etc, what keywords they are using, where they are from etc or looking at traffic I get from ppc or other sources then deciding on a good product to pitch to that traffic.

A variation on this is to see what traffic you believe you can get easily or cheaply from articles or ppc and then match that to a product. This is a bit more ‘stab in the dark’ as you don’t yet know how much traffic you can get or how effective its going to be.

To look at the second method:

Spotting Hot Products
There are a few ways to do this. One is to go to shopping.com or ebay pulse and look through Read More…

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I said I’d post on how to generate a good click through rate from articles and perhaps the best way is through a little demonstration. Which of these footers is more likely to get people clicking through to your affiliate link or landing page:

Joe Bloggs is based in Woop Woop where he writes articles for his website. He is into ping pong and good movies. Click Here to read more of his articles.

OR

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Obviously the second will get a greater clickthrough because we have injected emotion, suggested a benefit, a freebie and put some urgency into the matter for good measure.

We need to give the reader a reason to follow our link! So we find some way to inject a benefit (learn much more, get free thing, become irresistibly attractive etc) and/or stir an emotion and maybe even use an urgency factor.

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Well I seem to be on a roll here so might as well keep it going…

Lets suppose we decide to write an article to promote an ebook about making money from photography. Lets just say its the ebook “Starting a Photography Business” which we got our affiliate link for from Clickbank.

Now we could go and try to write an article entitled “Photography Business” but when I enter that phrase into Google with quote marks around it I get over 1.1million results – I’d say thats going to be hard to rank for , wouldn’t you?

Now if I enter “make money from photography” I get about 60,000 results and by entering “how to make money from photography” we get just 1,600 or so results. Those phrases are clearly going to be Read More…

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