Most affiliates, new or long experienced, dream about choosing a product, uploading a simple web page to promote it, and right away begin generating huge cash sums every day from now to forever.
Sadly, that's where the big dream ends for most people; people who, with just a little extra effort, could easily generate the income they crave from the Internet.
That's because many people think an Internet site will market itself, they imagine search engines will find the site and promote it aggressively, they think just one advertisement will bring tons of traffic to their web site and generate lots of quick and easy cash.
WRONG!
That web site is just the first step towards making money from your own chosen ClickBank affiliate product and it can be accomplished in minutes. Leave it to find its own way online and the site is next to worthless, meaning. IT WON'T MAKE MONEY! That's because there's a far more important job remaining after uploading your web site. That most important job is to actively promote the web site, to find people to visit the site and hopefully place an order, and this marketing task should be continuous, a daily job, for as long as the web page remains online.
Which brings me to the big question on all new marketers' lips: "How and where do I get traffic to my site?"
It's actually very easy to generate traffic, lots of traffic, to even the humblest web site, and there are many methods to choose from depending on time, money and effort available to the individual. They include:
* Submit your site to the major search engines and directories.
* Offer your articles to Internet and offline ezine and newspaper publishers specialising in topics similar to your site's main theme. Invite those people to add their affiliate links to articles promoting your chosen products. Obviously those products need to be items you created yourself or have rights to sell, with an affiliate program that makes money for you as well as the publisher.
* Write two or three articles each week, focus on the overall subject of your web site or specific pages. Write about 1,000 words for each article and divide them into two self-standing mini-articles. Add one part to online article directories, upload the second to your own web site, link the resource box of the first part to the second part on your own web site. This can create lots of incoming links that will help lift your site in search engine listings.
* Place free and low cost classified ads. for your site and invite people to visit for more information or to buy right away. There are many thousands of free advertising locations online; you should target as many as you can, and remember to return to update your best performing ads.
* Be seen as an expert in your subject by answering questions placed at sites such as Yahoo Answers and similar. Be sure to add an active link to your web site after each posting.
* Start your own blogs, lots of blogs, all focussing on different aspects of the subject of your web site. Link each comment on every blog back to your web site. Post regularly to keep your blogs fresh and increase search engine rankings for your own blogs and web sites. List your blogs in top blog directories.
* Locate blogs and forums dealing with your site's main focus and leave postings and comments with links back to your web site. This can improve your search engine rankings and also invite sign ups for your newsletter or free report.
* Create a 'pen name' or pseudonym, and write reviews about your product or site, add them to article directories, include them in blog postings, post them in forums. It's less embarrassing to recommend your own product using a pen name than to by blatant self-promotion. 'Independent' reviews are also more believable to potential customers who may be upset to discover they were actually written by the author. So you must take care to separate your identities or risk being discovered and possibly ridiculed. Don't overdo the product recommendations or you could be disqualified for misuse of some directories and forums. Read the rules before posting.
* Submit a press release, on and off the Internet, and expect some editors to pick up your story and print it in their publications and draw traffic to your web site.
* Write a free short report or eBook about your site's main focus and submit it to all the main free eBook directories.
Avril Harper is a successful ClickBank vendor and affiliate and the author of A COMPLETE NEWBIES' GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY WITH CLICKBANK.
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