The Super Affiliate

The Super Affiliate

The status of “super affiliate” is normally given to those who have succeeded in maximizing their income, as well as that of their advertiser’s over a given time period. The super affiliate is one who attracts large amounts of traffic to their affiliate websites, exceeding the rates of their competitors.
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Super affiliates are highly sought after, and quickly recruited by top tier advertisers. This is a result of them desiring a greater return on investment (ROI) in their marketing campaigns. Super affiliates have several specific attributes other affiliates should try to achieve if they are in search of this status themselves. These are all points which have been taken on over and above any beginner steps to affiliate marketing.

* They have studied and incorporated the strong features in search engine optimization (SEO) as well as search engine marketing (SEM) in an effort to enhance their affiliate marketing.

* They have developed one or more websites. Each of them is professional looking and able to engage visitors without flashiness or disruptive graphics in order to get them to click on banners or links leading to merchants.

* Optimized keyword searches are used to determine the appropriate word used to attract traffic to their affiliate websites.

*  “Content is king” has become a natural attribute of their affiliate websites. These sites are created with factual and interesting content on the product they are promoting.

* Text link ads are automatically inserted HTML links used by super affiliates to increase traffic on their affiliate website.

* Super affiliates use some sort of monitoring system to allow them to see the statistics of their website rankings on the various search engines.

* The use of a Trellian search term is often employed to find keyword phrases which will assist them in increasing the traffic volume to their affiliate website.

* Link exchanges and submissions are used to magnify visibility of their web pages, therefore increasing their potential for site visitors.

* The use of Internet business promotion tools maximizes their SEO for website improved rankings in various search engines.

* W3C Certification is a tool they can use to ensure their affiliate website is HTML compliant, so avoid being blocked by various software programs designed to restrict access to possible fraudulent websites.

How to become a Super Affiliate in Niche Markets

How to become a Super Affiliate in Niche Markets

You see them all over the internet. Look at the bottom of the web page and you may see a link for an affiliate program. You may have even signed up for a few. But have you been making any real money? Or have your reports been consistently showing a big zero in the monthly earnings column?

Many people sign up for affiliate programs hoping it will be their start into a lucrative online business. But if you want to become a super affiliate, finding the right niche market is important. Choose a niche that you’re passionate about. If you’re not interested in paintball equipment, no matter how popular it is, you’re simply not going to put the effort and energy into it the same way you would for a niche you’re already interested in, or even passionate about.

It also helps if you already have expertise in the niche you choose. Don’t let the lack of experience discourage you though if you’ve found a niche you’re truly interested in. You can learn about a niche and still become an affiliate any product owner will be glad to have on their team.

To become a super affiliate is to choose products you would pay for personally. Do you honestly have good things to say about the product? If you don’t, you may not want to try to sell it as an affiliate. Let’s face it, if you’re trying to encourage others to buy a product so you earn a commission from it, don’t you think they want honest feedback?

Go to a forum regarding the niche you’re interested in. Check there to see if anyone knows about a profitable affiliate program. Look at how much commission it pays when people go through your website to purchase. If you find one that pays well, you can honestly get behind their products, and it’s something you’re interested in, you may have struck gold. You could very easily be well on your way to becoming the very next super affiliate.

To Affiliate Blog Or Not Is The Question-

What is the blogosphere, really?  It's a place where anyone-man, woman, child, or automated feed scraper-can slap up templates or build a site of their own and update it with useful(?) information or tales of their weekly shopping trips to their hearts content.  It's both a powerful tool utilized by businesses and websites on a daily (or more often) basis and a running personal diary put up online for all to see.  The blogosphere is filled with experts and novices, and people who think they are experts who are really novices.  It's a mixed-bag of content and expertise, or lack thereof.  It's a community experience that knows no real bounds.  Or boundaries.

As such, blogs can be a boon or a bust to your affiliate program.  Nevertheless, they are being touted as the fastest, easiest, most simplistic way to promote affiliate products and generate sales.  But are they?  Let's explore both sides of this issue.

The Bene's of Blogging
The up-side.  Let's take a look at what we've got; blogging is

" Easy to get started
" Cheap to get started
" An easy place to put up relevant information that can really have value for your readers
" A place where you can utilize the community aspects such as commenting to hold virtual conversations with your readers
" A place where you can potentially build long-term relationships with your readers, which in turn can boost return sales and add to the lifetime value of that customer
" A place where you can feature, in detail and in depth, any singular product you want
" A simple way to update content to get on the good side of search engines

That's quite a list of benefits in the argument for blogging.  Truthfully, blogging is-or can be, has the potential to be-all of these things and probably more.  A blog can be a very good way to sell an affiliate product.  But there are a lot of other things that blogs are, too, and many of these qualities do not fit into the grander scheme of affiliate websites.  So before we decide on whether to blog or not to blog, let's looks at the flip side of the coin.


Why Blogging Might be a Bust

Many of the very things that make blogging a 'natural' choice for affiliate promotions are what make blogging the wrong way to effectively market as an affiliate.

First of all, let's take on the very blogosphere itself.  It's a crowded place.  It is true that the blogosphere is filled with a variety of interests, and holds something for everyone, but in the midst of all that interest, it's increasingly hard to be found.  Even the best, most prolific, and most dedicated bloggers take months and years to build a solid following.  A blog is absolutely not the place to go for instant traffic.

The community aspect of blogging can be great, but couldn't it also be a bust?  All that commenting and free-for-all outside commentary might work against you and discredit you.  And you need to think about how valuable that following is.  This will largely depend on your spectrum of product offerings.  If you have a variety of products that a customer might want to come back for, or an upgradeable product suite, staying in touch with buyers could be a great thing.  If your product is more of a one-time-only purchase, there's probably no recouping the time investment you will incur.

Content refreshment is one of the biggest recognized benefits of blogging.  You can post quickly and easily everyday and thereby please those search engines and hungry blog-followers with new content.  There's no denying that.  But you need to think this through-how much can you come up with to say about your products?  Can you keep your products upfront on a blog?  How many times can you spin it?  And most importantly, what happens when your well of topics dries up?  Those search engines and readers will be waiting for more, and you'll be grasping for new post ideas.

It's easy to get a blog started and keep it running for a few months, but Big Dog kind of income demands that you construct a more long-term plan.  Theoretically a blog is a long-term prospect, but without something new to say, one can only live so long.

We also need to tackle the issue of being able to feature multiple products.  This flies right in the face of the discussion we just had in the last chapter, doesn't it?  By doing that, you're dividing your forces and taking the focus away from your top-seeded efforts.  You've created a marketplace of confusion, and you've made it hard to figure out what the right-simple-solution is.

We also need to talk about blogs from a structural standpoint.  Unless you can build your own blog (and even if you can this is tough…), blogs and templates do not allow for a high level of flexibility.  There is a basic structure, and it is very hard to add the buttons and features in the places you need them to be.  Consider, too, that sometimes the structure and design you've worked so hard for may be impacted (rearranged) by the length and amount of your postings.

Now it might sound like we're completely anti-blogging for affiliate programs, but that's not exactly the case.  Let's wrap this discussion up by looking at how a blog might still be a useful tool.