Common mistakes most affiliates make.
Every year thousands of people try to start their online business but 95% of them fail.
Some don’t have skills others are not willing to work hard.
There are stupid mistakes that most newbie affiliates make. I hope you are going to avoid them thanks to this post.
Mistake 1.
Nearly 90% of Internet Marketers start their career after purchasing one of “get rich quick schemes”
They do what they are told to do and start promoting the product they bought. The guru shows them they way, they know nothing about affiliate marketing but the guy who sold them scam ebook shows them the way to “online success”
It is all bullshit.
People start promoting the product they didn’t actually like but this is the only way to make some money for them, because the guru showed them how to promote his crap ebook.
So poor people spend hundreds/thousands of dollars on adwords bidding on expensive keywords like:
“make money online” and “home business”
They let potential visitors know that there is ebook/program “X” and what happens next.
Your visitor will start searching the net for more reviews of the product you recommended and he/she is going to click on 20 other affiliate links before the purchase.
So what happens?
I even if visitor to your site ever buy a product recommended by you, there is a very slim chance that you are going to get any commissions because other, more smart affiliate will get it.
It is a win/win situation for a guru who sold you an ebook because he doesn’t actually cares who gets affiliate commission. He just wants more suckers who will decide to bid on expensive keywords and let people know about his product.
Mistake 2.
I never understand people who bid on product name on adwords. Let’s say you promote “ebook X”
You bid “ebook X review” on adwords and what happens. You send a potential customer to the site were you are just another person who praises the product. Your visitor already “knows” everything you told him because he already read dozen of “unbiased affiliate reviews”.
There is a very slim chance than anybody is going to click on any link at all. Your visitor is going to click away to google search results again.
The only way to make good money when bidding on product name is a situation when you give away some bonus in exchange for ordering via your link.
Mistake 3.
This is probably the biggest mistake most newbie affiliates make.
It is NOT TRACKING CAMPAINS.
You must always track your campaigns. Use Google conversion tool for checking which of your keywords are converting and which are not.
Use Google Analytics to check where your visitors come from.
Use some link tracking tool to check which of your clicks get high click thru rates.
Use simple and free service at snipurl.com
Mistake 4.
Not split-testing. You should always split-test your campaigns. Test your ad copy, headline, website copy to get maximal conversions.
It has happened many times to me that I was able to increase my profits by over 500% by doing simple split testing.
You may want to use A/B test script (just Google it) It always you to show different landing page for every second visitor. It allows you to use different headlines, copy etc. Make sure you use different tracking ID for both landing pages.
I hope you have found this post useful.
/antiguru
Tags: affiliate marketing, Internet Marketing, make money online