To make money from affiliate marketing, you have to put your think cap on and also think out of box else you will not make money as affiliate. How do you do this, you have to read articles and buy products that give easy guild line in affiliate marketing business.
You also have to make sure that the product you are promoting fulfills the purpose it is meant for. Most affiliate marketers do not test the product they are promoting before offering it to people. If a product is interesting, I do purchase the product my self to make sure that it will not be a breach of trust to people I recommend the product for. So, think about testing the product by your self before you recommend it to people on your list.
1. Promoting Products That Are Not Credible: Affiliate marketers usually make the mistake of promoting products that are not credible enough to be promoted. Before you start promoting any product, go to the product website or home page and make sure it looks convincing, catchy, have lots of testimonies on it, and has audio or video on it too. With these qualities in place, it will be easy for the product to sell and we make our money.
2. Promoting Too Many Products: This is also a sickness that needs cure in life of many loosing affiliates. They tend to promoting too many products which will cause them in not promoting ones they know will sell well in the market. Consider promoting few products per time and promote the products to the top in ways you can, than promoting too many products which will not be promoted very well.
3. Using Competitive and Wrong Keyword for Pay Per Click Campaigns: Another mistake affiliate market make is using competitive and wrong keyword for Pay Per Click Campaigns. You have to avoid this mistake, because it will cost you many dollars. Before you settle for any keyword, you have to make keyword research using Google keyword search tool or Word Tracker. You have to know what web surfers are searching for, this is to make sure you are not using wrong and too competitive keywords for your campaign.