Affiliate marketing is a time tested method which many bloggers and website owners use in order to increase their online profits. Even if it’s such a great opportunity, many affiliate marketers do not use its full potential, which is a big loss, since it’s such a profitable and easy way of earning extra dollars online. To “fix” this deficiency and to help affiliate marketers to get the most of our affiliate program, we’ve set up a list of tips and best practices which affiliate marketers can use to maximize their profits.
We are fairly sharing our revenue with our affiliates (providing 50% commissions from every sale), so have a look at these great tips to increase your sales with us:
1. Create and follow a plan
Following a plan is probably the most important element in a successful affiliate marketing campaign. You need to create a plan if you want to achieve some good results. Nothing complex is needed – a simple excel table listing the main activities that you will do while promoting your affiliate link is enough. A template for an affiliate marketing plan is shown below:
2. Blog Posts
Writing on relevant topics is a very good opportunity to include your affiliate links and banner ads and to increase your sales. Don’t forget that “Content is King”, become an expert in your field and share relevant and interesting content to your visitors (articles, white papers, tutorials, industry news, etc.). You may also include your affiliate links in the guest posts you make, but in this case, make sure to ask permission from the blog editor.
3. Product Review
You can use your website to write some product reviews and include your affiliate links pointing to the product provider. Make your review useful, structured and trustful, in this way you’ll have more chances that users will click on your links. From our own experience, 4 reviews per month works the best for our affiliates.
4. Banner Ads
This is probably the most used method, which can generate great results. Placing banners on your blog and website is still one of the best methods which generates many sales. You can post banners in dedicated areas and topics of your site. Since you’re promotion Premium WordPress Themes with beautiful layouts, your ads CTR should be above the industry’s average.
5. Community and discussions
If you’re an active member of various forums and have many posts, you may include your links or banners in the body of your messages or in your signature. You can also comment on blogs and related groups, answers questions and provide useful information. WordPress is the most popular CMS, so the activity around it is very intense, you will definitely find a lot of discussion topics.
Post replies including your affiliate links, help users find the Best WordPress Themes for their sites and recommend some good sources from where to buy Premium WordPress Themes. Among the best forums to use for affiliate marketing are WarriorForum.com, forums.digitalpoint.com, forums.seochat.com, v7n.com/forums/, sitepoint.com/forums, etc. A big list of forums that you may also use is available on Big Boards and Wikipedia.
6. Email Marketing
If you have an email list and run a newsletter, you may periodically send some announcements, news, special offers, to your users. Try to include your affiliate banners and links on relevant content so that your subscribers would not view them as advertising but rather as a help or a news source. Email marketing is good for direct marketing too. The key secret in email marketing is your email list and the content you send. The bigger and more targeted your email list is – the higher your results will be. Among the best email marketing providers that you may use to send your newsletter are MailChimp, Aweber, iContact, Constant Contact, GetResponse, Campaigner, etc.
7. Social Networks
Social networks are a gold mine for any affiliate, especially if you have many connections, friends, followers, etc. You just post a message on your profile with your affiliate link and you are done. No hard work is needed, let the buzz work for you. Another good idea is to use shortened URL’s so that your followers and friends could not directly see your affiliate links. Some great social networks that you may use for affiliate marketing are: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Linkedin, Pinterest, and much more.
So this is it. Be proactive, work hard and grow your community and sales, and we will help you out!
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Joseph Corrigan
19 Apr 2017This is awesome, Full of information. Loved it, also this post made me bookmark your site. Good work!