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.
June 11th, 2009
Social Media Optimisation (SMO) has, over the last couple of years, become a significant discipline in its own right and we will be covering the subject in ever greater depth here at Lammo over the coming weeks and months. In simple terms, Social Media sites are, as the name suggests, sites that are designed to house and encourage interaction between users and the creation of one or more communities with a common theme or purpose.
Whilst many social media sites started life with non-commercial aspirations, the power of the approach has steadily attracted individuals and firms with commercial objectives. It has become a form of relationship marketing but of course entirely online, where website owners can interact and increase traffic to their sites. Social…
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May 07th, 2009
Entrepreneur, billionaire and founder of the internationally recognised Virgin brand, 59 year old Sir Richard Branson bares all in his book Business Stripped Bare. Adventurers of a Global Entrepreneur, published on18th September 2008 by Virgin Books (who else!) and refreshingly written in a frank and honest style.
Branson’s latest literary offering charts the inside track of his business journey, and details the truth behind his most risky business ventures, primarily the origination and growth of the Virgin Empire, Branson’s globally recognised brand. The book lays bare astonishing facts, such as how Virgin Mobile USA became the fastest company in history to generate in excess of one billion dollars, how Branson became the only person worldwide to have created - from nothing - eight billion…
Continue Reading Business Stripped Bare: A review of Richard Branson's new Business Book
April 30th, 2009
As we have discussed in a number of posts here at Lammo.net, much of the work involved in good SEO is about building links and relationships with appropriate partner sites.
Getting a decent number of inbound links is one of a number of key factors in building your ranking within the search engines’ natural results. This may be achieved through your own hard work or you may have used the services of a decent link building firm. Either way, anyone who has ever run a linking campaign will know that it is extremely hard work.
Unfortunately the challenges are not at an end when someone confirms that they have linked back to you.
Firstly, we are assuming for a moment that they will…
Continue Reading Oops I deleted your link again!
April 16th, 2009
Though the Shakespearean reference in the title may seem a little out of place when you’re talking about creating an affiliate website, when it comes to the subject of keywords and site names then it’s more apt than you think. Having to choose how to present your hard fought-for keywords and choosing whether to dash, underscore or leave them as is can inspire in some indecision on a level that Hamlet himself would be proud of. There is a constant argument raging around this whole issue, and it’s not just the address of your site that will need to be scrutinised but also the names of your individual page titles that will have you gnashing your teeth, especially if…
Continue Reading To Dash or not to Dash?
March 17th, 2009
So you’ve scoured this site for every tiny bit of advice out there to help you boost your site’s page ranking. You’ve sifted through all the SEO tips and techniques, you’ve set up a perfect PPC campaign and are adding new content daily and have spent hours and hours getting some relevant links. And yet your site is stuck in the back end of Google (or is nowhere to be seen) and is not showing any signs of moving. You could be tempted, as many new affiliates are, to ease off on all SEO activities, cancel your PPC campaigns and in some cases give up completely.
Stop!
This slow start is perfectly normal and you could be throwing away a thriving business of the…
Continue Reading A crisis of faith - the first six months
January 29th, 2009
Calling all newbies! Do you struggle to know where to start in your Affiliate Marketing career? If so, then worry no more, Affiliates4u member smingle (real name Frank Paul) has over the last few weeks been providing step-by-step guides and advice on the a4u forum, and it’s proven to be so popular that it is now the most read thread in the history of the forum, also containing more replies than any other thread in a4u history.
Click here to read the thread in its entirety - Be warned, at the time of writing, it contained nearly 850 replies spread over 57 pages, so you’d better grab yourself a LARGE cuppa, and settle down to read everything you need to know to get started…
Continue Reading Newbies: Need a kick up the arse? Talk to Frank!
