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AFFILIATE MARKETING, IS It NECCESSAY TO HAVE A WEBSITE?

By: Kelly Roy

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You might have heard that to earn money online that you need to create Website. Is a website necessary to be successful in Affiliate marketing? YES AND NO. Let's talk about the NO! You can generate an income by web without a Website of your own. As you might know by now, Affiliate marketing is you, connecting Buyers with Sellers. The sellers have their own squeeze page or sales page. Your job as an Affiliate Marketer is to direct Buyers to that page, not necessarily to sell. Once the buyers reach the sellers Website it's out of your control. All you can do is hope that the Seller has done their job and they are able to make the sale. Now for the Yes. Having your own Website would give you boost in the amount of sales and possibly resales that you could generate. I explain this below.

What would happen If you were to make a sale without a Website?

The Buyer would make the first purchase through your Affiliate link that they might have seen in some article that they happened to have read at the time and you would make a commission if a sale was made. Now if that customer were to go back to make a second purchase they would go directly to the Sellers Website, which means you don't make any commission on that second sale because they didn't use your affiliate link. It's easier for the customer to find and remember a Website than a random link that they clicked on on somewhere. This is where a Website is necessary if you're looking to get additional sales to that customer. For those of you who might be wondering what an Affiliate link is I'll explain. It is a link that has a special code imbedded in it so that the vendor can knows who earned the commission on that sale and makes payment accordingly.

There are several ways to connect buyer with sellers in Affiliate Marketing and I'll just touch on a few.

Article Marketing: This is where you create a short article about the product, service or membership that your Affiliate link will send the Buyer to. Something like what you are reading now. To do this you will need to do some research on these products, services or memberships so you can let others know about them. Somewhere either in the body of the article or in the provided space at the bottom of the article you can place you Affiliate Link. So when someone reads your article and may require more information, they click on the link and are sent to the vendor squeeze page and hopefully makes a purchase. This would earn you some revenue.

Forum Marketing: Online Forums are great places where you could promote your Affiliate Link. Forums are normally specialized. What I mean by that is, that forums are usually divided by specific categories. An example of this is, if you had an Affiliate Link to a camera shop you would go to forums for cameras and photography where you know that the people who would read your post in that forum already be interested in your Sellers products. Each time you post on a form you're putting your Affiliate Link out there. You will have to look over the rules on using links in each specific Forum or ask the users of the Forum if they know?

eZine Advertising: This will probably cost you some money, because many eZines charge you for this servicefeature. In Affiliate Marketing this is a good way to expose your Affiliate Link to groups of potential Buyers who are looking for that one thing that you are promoting. It is like posting in a highly visable classified ad. The cost will vary depending on the positioning of the ad. You can place your eZine ads in specific categories' depending on your Sellers products, services or memberships.

There are many more ways to spread you Affiliate link around and generate an income by web. So again in affiliate marketing, is a Website necessary? No, not at all. But would a Website generate more traffic and commissions? Yes.

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Kelly Roy is part of a Membership Affiliate Program which has shown to be very successful for the thousands of people who have already given it a try. Check out his website at Incomebyweb.com and see for yourself.

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