How Affiliate Marketing Works

It is simply amazing how really simple affiliate marketing is. Many do wonder how people who own and manage their own websites and blogs that don’t offer products make money. The simple answer is, most of these blogs and sites have page banners or links within blog posts, which are often features of affiliate marketing. This type of marketing typically involves a website or a blog author posting a link to another company’s website or product in order to earn a commission from a sale. This allows for potential readers to connect and for blog owners to make some extra money. The more these links are clicked by online surfers, the more the money the person who posted the link makes.

Every day, people go online searching for information and tips about businesses, life and health matters. For example, people may want information about a particular drug or supplement. Such people may then find online a blog post centered on their topic of interest. Because blog writers know that people who search for such niche topic are likely looking to buy a specific product, they insert links in their blogs linking to where that product is sold. The blog owner in this instance may provide a link to one or more companies selling the products to enable the buyers have a choice platform.  When readers click the links and purchase products, the poster gets a percentage of the sale as commission. In some instances, even if no sale is made at that moment, some affiliate structures allow for some form of payment to be made once the link is clicked. That is how it works.


 

Great Blog Posts to Get Links and Traffic

Most bloggers blog for a reason, to get links and traffic! Some people blog but never seem get these results. For such people, it is best to ask, what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? According to experts, if you are able to bring some powerful post types into your blog, your content will begin to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of grassroots in-bound links. Now, that’s great if you ask me. Get your blog to draw from the following resource areas and it will attract traffic.

Expert advice: Online, everyone is looking for answers and solutions to many and varied problems. Hooking up to an expert is one good way to get results. A quality advice-post generally sticks to one topic and provides in-depth information on it. If your topic manages to provide the advice people are hungry for, they usually hook up with good backlinks and traffic.



Espousing a popular and trending point of view: Helping to deepen and expand a popular and trending matter easily helps to get attention for a blog! Because people always like to have their world-view affirmed, if your blog can articulate something a lot of people agree with, the people who agree with you will champion your post. Even the people who disagree with your viewpoint may still link to you, simply because their response won’t make any sense if they do otherwise. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter help such posts to go viral easily and the benefits are immense.

Powerful and relevant tips: Everyone wants to know how to get things done in our highly competitive world. If your blog can provide quantifiable lists of tips, it becomes very attractive to readers who want explained in just a few seconds what a visitor stands to receive in return for their attention.

Best-of lists: Many people rely a lot on expert judgment. If your blog authoritatively provides a resource list useful to many readers, it will benefit from bookmarks and even votes for it just on face-value alone. That is one credible and effective way to spark up traffic and links to the blog.

Powerful and arresting headlines: Many bloggers already know this. The more the power a headline packs, the more attention it gets. When others link to you, it’s usually done in the space of a paragraph or even a single sentence which caught their attention. Most times, a really outstanding headline is all it takes to get traffic and links to a blog.

Q&As with high profile experts: Everyone wants to hear from experts and high profile people who have made it. In that quest, interviews with well-known bloggers, professionals and successful business persons always seem to get links, comments and traffic particularly through social media.

Ranked resource lists: Products reviewers and researchers wield a lot of clout on social media. At each year’s end, when such people come up with a list of best-of products/services in their own judgments, they usually get a lot of attention. These people are effective because many people are constantly searching online and elsewhere for the ‘best’ of everything, a term that promises high quality. That is what attracts attention to ranked lists and naturally, debates, links and traffic follow.

 

 

How to Make Your Personal SFI Website Effective

Your personal SFI website serves as the front office to your SFI business. It is the first place visitors to your website get the first impression about you and your business. For these reasons, to make the website effective, you need to have the following in it.

1. Your business-like photo must be displayed there.
2. What your business is all about must be there at a glance.
3. Your contact information, email address and telephone numbers must be displayed there.
4. The products you market must be accessed from there.
5. Your achievement badges must be seen there.
6. How long you have been in the business and your rankings in the business must be there.
7. The ECAs you connect with are seen there.
8. Your blog posts must be accessed from there.
9. Your favorite products and the products your recommend must be accessed from there.
10. Above all, the site says in unmistakable terms that you are in business.

I have no doubt in my mind that with the foregoing well displayed in your personal SFI website, it is welcoming enough. That makes it effective for the purpose it was designed.