Website Building

I suppose affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to look at money making websites. When you join a program as an affiliate you are given your own websites to promote and when people purchase from your website you make money.

However if it was really that easy more people would succeed with affiliate marketing. In this article we want to give you an example of how you can turn a money making website into a cash machine and actually succeed as an affiliate marketer.

The real key to succeeding with affiliate marketing comes down to two things.

1. Get alot of traffic and play the numbers game. This is how most affiliates try to do it.

They use the website that comes with the affiliate program and try to promote it directly online. The primary problem with this strategy is most affiliate marketers do not get enough traffic to generate a sale.

You need to think in terms of big numbers when you are relying strictly on traffic online. You also need to know how many visitors it takes before one will convert into a purchasing customer.

The only way your affiliate website becomes a money making site in this example is if you get a lot of traffic. Most affiliate marketers think too small and never drive enough meaningful traffic to generate any sales.

2. Pre-sell your customers before passing them through to the affiliate website. All you have to do is look at the top affiliate producers in any program to see this is the best strategy.

There are a number of ways you go about pre-selling your customers. For example you can write review articles and post them on your blog where readers can view the article before going to the sales page.

You can also promote landing pages and build an email marketing list. Use your email messages to presell your potential customers before sending them through to your affiliate website.

Both email marketing and review pages are great ways to warm your customer up before passing them through to your affiliate sales page. When you do this you can get by on less traffic and your conversion rates will be higher because your visitor has been pre-sold by you.

Once you establish your own system you can earn as much money as you want. It still comes down to traffic to a certain extent, but you can venture into numerous niches and create even more money making websites.