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Why You Must Have an Affiliate Page

By Kathy Dobson

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When you create any Web sales page, your main concern has to be driving traffic to it so you can get sales and capture email addresses for future marketing.

There's several ways to do this, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO), registering your site with Google and putting your website link in the signature of all your emails, forum and blog posts.

While all those site promotion methods are popular and effective, creating an army of affiliates is a powerful alternative to the slower methods of getting traffic mentioned above. Your sales might be something you consider to be the most important thing you can accomplish in your marketing methods and you would be wrong.

It is a well documented marketing fact that, without a list of loyal buyers, you won't create a sustained income. One of the fastest ways to get a list started and an income flowing into your bank account is to offer lucrative commissions to affiliates.

For examples, check out ClickBank's marketplace, which is a treasure trove of products you can promote as an affiliate yourself. On the surface, the 50% - 70% commission most list on ClickBank for their prospective affiliates might seem exorbitant and feel like you are losing money, but it isn't.

For your purposes here, you are gathering information so you can compete with others offering lucrative commissions to their affiliates.

When you have a sales page (website) online, you need targeted traffic in order to make sales. Sure, you can register your page with Google and other search engines, but it might take a couple of months before their spider robots find you and index your page.

A link in your forum and email signatures will be effective, but it might take longer than you can wait to drive traffic to your sales page.

What you need is an army of affiliates working for you 24/7. Motivated affiliates will promote you like crazy and make a good income from the commissions they will earn with each sale made for you.

If your product is current and related to the latest online trends or a quality solution to common problems, you will have affiliates beating down your door.

When your website is finished, you should create an affiliates page as soon as possible. Your affiliates need tools to do a good job for you and one of the first things they will check out is what you are providing to improve their sales efforts on your behalf before becoming an affiliate for you.

All of that content will have an affiliate link that sends interested buyers to your site with their ID so your software will credit the sale to the affiliate who sent the customer.

Your affiliate content can include banners of several sizes, a specific set of email messages, to send to their list, a well-written article or two that they can send to the directories or print in their newsletters, to name a few.

Most affiliate pages have the HTML code or script displayed under each banner or text message so you can easily add your affiliate link to them.

While it might not seem like it, creating your website and getting it online is the easy part and only the beginning of your job. In order to succeed and make a good living online, you just have to get targeted traffic to your sales page and on your email list.

A motivated team of affiliates will do that job for you if you give them excellent working tools to promote with.

Your affiliates are the life blood of your business, so treat them with respect and give them what they need to experience success. Their success...is your success!

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