3. Keep Track of Affiliates

With 2 tier affiliate programs you want to keep an eye on how many affiliates are signing up under you in 2nd tier. If you see a drop off in affiliates one week, you may need to reinvigorate your affiliate sign up page.

The quality of affiliate program will determine level of affiliate statistics you get.

Some affiliate programs provide you with direct URL that each hit has come from. This means you can tell if a hit came from an ezine ad you ran in another webmasters’ ezine, from a text ad on your web site or from an email marketing campaign. This can be a tremendous asset for focusing on those affiliate marketing tools that are working best.

Don’t just dismiss affiliate statistics as something that you might check once a month. Regularly checking your affiliate statistics is vitally important to being a successful affiliate.

There are many webmasters doing just fine with their hundreds or even thousands of affiliate programs, but market for scatter gun approach now appears to be cluttered.

This is where specialists enter. The new breed of webmaster that focuses on particular products or services. Alternatively your focus may be on one area, and selecting only best-selling, highest-paying commissions for that field. Then you target your affiliates with high level affiliate marketing techniques. Now there is room for specialist to succeed.

Target your affiliate programs.

Pick just a few.

Concentrate all of your time into marketing these programs - because you are so passionate about product or service you are selling, you will drive more targeted traffic to your affiliate program.

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