As an affiliate your job is to drive traffics to program owner’s site. You get a commission from each sale made to a customer that originated from your marketing efforts.

Once you become interested in making money through affiliate programs and do some research you will come to know that there are many affiliates, who consistently make thousands of dollars month after month.

James Martell, who also wrote a handbook on affiliate marketing, claims that he makes over US$ 40K each month from his 30 over niche affiliate sites.

Phil Wiley lives in a remote area near Australia’s Great Barrier Reefs but it does not create any barrier for him to make a comfortable living from his online incomes.

Rosalind Gardner, author of Super Affiliate Handbook, made over US $400,000 last year alone by promoting different affiliate programs.

There are numerous examples like these, but question is do all affiliates make that much of money? Is it truly possible to make your living by promoting affiliate programs?

The truth is very few of thousands of affiliates are successful in making good amount of money from affiliate marketing.

If you follow tips stated below scrupulously your chance to become a super affiliate will increase considerably.

Try product first

Don’t just start promoting an affiliate program because they offer handsome commission! Internet marketing is a complex and time consuming process! If you decided to spend your valuable time and ingenious brain in promoting a product, you better check out product first. Try product! As a consumer if you feel that money spent on product is really worth it, then you probably found a right affiliate program to market.

Sell products consistent to your website’s content

If visitors are coming to your site and spending time, that means they like content of your pages. If you offer them something which is relevant to this content, chances increase dramatically that they will check out that product.

Write ad articles and text ads for product

Don’t use banners to promote your chosen affiliate programs! Our eyes are so accustomed to see banners that in very rare case, nowadays, we click on a banner. Use text ads instead! But don’t just use generic ads supplied by affiliate program owner. Spend sometimes in creating text ads. While writing text ads, think how you can relate content of page with text of ad.

Write articles about subject matter of affiliate product and use links within article. Studies show that ad articles have good click through response. You can submit these articles to other websites and create a viral marketing process for your affiliate program. Get a domain name for affiliate program

If you are getting result from promoting an affiliate program and would like to get more serious in marketing this particular program, get a domain name for this program and use it to redirect to link given by you affiliate program owner. Here is why you should do this:

So, if you don’t have a product of your own to sell online, how can you profit from this exciting trend?

One of finest ways of making money online is to promote other people’s products or services by becoming their affiliates. Affiliate is a term used for a website that drives traffic to another website in exchange for a predetermined commission.

Thanks to success of several affiliate programs in early days of online business, most merchant websites, today, use some kind of affiliate programs to promote their sites and generate sales.

Considering sheer numbers of affiliate programs available on Internet, you may feel overwhelmed. However, if you set some basic criteria, it would be lot easier to find a good program that suits your need.

Free sign up

The affiliate program that you are planning to join must be absolutely free. There are way too many good programs available for free, why should you pay for one? Moreover, programs that require payments to join are mostly multi Level Marketing (MLM) programs. Although, there may be many good MLM programs existing on Internet, I don’t think it’s a viable option for an average person.

Good commission

You deserve handsome compensation for all your hard work! No matter, how you look into it, in most of cases, promoting a product or service is not an easy job. Since you are doing uphill struggle of bringing client to merchant’s door, your commission should be real good one. What is an acceptable commission anyway? If you are promoting an information product, don’t go for less than 50 percent. For more tangible products and services your bare minimum commission should be 15 percent of sale. If you are promoting monthly subscription, choose a program that pays a portion of subscription fee as recurring commission to you as long as client referred by you stays subscribed.

Tow-tier affiliate program

An affiliate program which pays certain percent as a commission from sale for bringing in a client and another if that client brings in other clients. Two-tier affiliate programs are more preferable since once a client base is built, it becomes a great source of residual income.

Quality affiliate tracking system