Learning Affiliate Marketing - Practical advice and tips for those looking to learn Affiliate Marketing
OK, First things first - Affiliate Marketing is easy. Yes, you'll have to put a lot of hard work in, but there's no "secret" or "magic formula". But you can learn affiliate marketing all by yourself with needing any ebooks or paying out for any courses. I will tell you everything you need to teach yourself Affiliate Marketing in the next two paragraphs..
First of all, you need a website. Get yourself some
cheap hosting and your own domain name - Don't go for free hosting or free domains as they just look unprofessional. Then you'll need to get some affiliate links to go on your site - Sign up with the main UK networks such as
Affiliate Window,
Affiliate Future and
Paid on Results (There's a full list of all the UK networks in the main menu to the right), and start putting
relevant links on your site.
Once you've got your site live with some affiliate links on, then it's time to start experimenting and researching what works best - To speed up this process and help you learn Affiliate Marketing quicker, pop over to some Affiliate forums like
Affiliates4u or
Abestweb, and read, read, read. There's tons of information there - More than enough for those learning Affiliate Marketing. And if you're still hungry for more, then there's hundreds of articles right here on Lammo to help you. Just use the search button in the Right Hand menu to find what you're looking for.
December 16th, 2008
Terms such as Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Pay Per Click - they make the Internet and all its jargon seem like a members-only club; if you don’t have any technical expertise or knowledge you’re not allowed to join the party. It can make earning money online, or simply running a website, seem a bit intimidating but it doesn’t have to be.
People, regardless of their background, are making money, and in some cases lots of it, by becoming affiliate marketers. You don’t need any previous knowledge or experience of web design or marketing and you can even do it from the comfort of your own home or simply boost your income from your day job.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
The concept is straightforward enough too. In…
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December 11th, 2008
Website owners everywhere are starting to realise the money-making potential of having blogs attached to their site or incorporating them into their web pages. They are extra pages to post your content onto, build up your users and in which to promote all those lovely affiliate links and advertising, hence boosting your online revenue. If you’re new to all this blogging malarky or want to maximise your money-making capabilities then it’s worth publishing your blog through a platform such as Wordpress.
What is Wordpress?
Word Press is a publishing platform that has developed a strong reputation in the publishing/blog market. First launched in 2003, it has grown to be the biggest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Hundreds of thousands of sites and web…
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December 09th, 2008
Affiliate marketing is one of the most lucrative ways of making money online but it is a competitive space. So how do you get started?
Choosing Web Hosting
The first step, if you haven’t already done so, is to get a website. You’ll need to buy the web space, and there are hundreds of companies that can sell you space or in other words, host your site as well as support you as you get started. The price of web space can vary from as a little as £1 a year for a very limited, basic hosting package right up to hundreds of pounds a month for an all singing, all dancing service; it all depends on what your site will offer…
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November 18th, 2008
How many times have you thought to yourself, ”Monday comes round too quickly’ or ‘I wish I could find a job that had low hours but good pay’? Let’s be honest, very few of us would choose to go to work and wrestle with the daily grind if we didn’t absolutely have to but what if you could find something to make it all a little easier?
One of the most popular books around at the moment is The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. The book suggests that if you outsource and automate everything you can sit back and enjoy life a bit more.
And Affiliate Marketing fits perfectly into this model.
Affiliate marketing involves you setting up a relationship with a merchant…
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October 24th, 2008
If the daily commute gets you down - and let’s face it with the average commuter travelling 8,000 miles a year it’s no wonder - or you find yourself spending more money on travelling to and from work each week than you do on food then the current trend of working from home may be right up your street. Working from home, freelancing, telecommuting - whatever you call it, the fact is more and more people are either taking their day jobs from the office to the comfort of their own homes or looking for jobs which give them a lot more freedom. And it’s not just for parents with young children or for executives. Content writing can be broken down into two main areas of opportunity: freelance writing and…
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October 21st, 2008
We are all striving to get more traffic to our sites, but once you get people, how do you keep them coming back for more? Filling your site with so-called “sticky content” is the best way to ensure that your website benefits from repeat visitors, rather than always having to work hard at winning people over for the first time. Repeat visitors are much cheaper than new visitors in terms of effort required to get them onto your site. How do you measure “stickiness”? There is no hard and fast measure, but good indicators are comparisons of your number of site visits to unique visitors in the same period. You can also use programmes to see how many people are adding…
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