There are many ways to increase affiliate marketing sales if you think about it. You can create a review page, optimize your traffic campaigns or find more traffic sources. You can target more niches or invest more in advertising. There are a multitude of ways to drive traffic to your affiliate offer, including banner advertising, pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, and much more. It’s very easy to become overloaded with too much information when it comes to affiliate marketing, and that may be one of the reasons why your affiliate marketing sales are stagnating. It’s not for lack of information, it’s for lack of correct information!
With that being said, here are 5 proven tips to drastically increase your affiliate marketing sales:
Tip #1: Promote Popular, High-Converting Offers
Although new products may seem like the right options to promote, it’s the popular, high-converting offers that you’ll want to promote. At ClickBank, the most popular affiliate marketplace for digital products online, popularity is indicated by the product severity score. The higher the Gravity score, the more affiliates will promote you. Although this may seem bad at first, as more affiliates indicate more competition, it can be a good thing because it means the product is converting well and many affiliates have been successful in promoting it. It may be worth jumping on the bandwagon and promoting the product yourself. The internet is a huge place and there are a huge number of potential prospects that you can reach out to.
Tip #2: Consider removing review sites
Many internet marketing ebooks and courses these days advocate review sites to promote affiliate products. In some cases, such as for complicated and more expensive products like software and services, review sites are recommended. However, in most markets, it’s just another link the visitor has to go through before landing on your affiliate link and being presented by the affiliate sales page. It is often more profitable to send all of your traffic directly to your affiliate sales page and let your visitors sell right away, rather than putting them through more hoops.
Tip #3: Test the offers against each other
Since there are often many possible ebooks and courses that you can promote in almost any market, it’s a good tactic to test offers against others. In some advertising systems, such as pay-per-click advertising, this can be easily done. However, for other marketing tactics such as article marketing, where the link in the resource box has to be changed by hand for each article, it can be very problematic. The way to compare offers against each other is to register your own domain, either a.com or .net, or even a.info (which is the lowest cost top-level domain you can buy) and redirect it to your affiliate link. You can change the redirect at any time through your domain registrar’s control panel.
Tip #4: Build an email list
Building an email list instead of sending your visitors directly to your affiliate link can seem like putting up another hoop for your visitors to jump through. However, in this case, building an email list is positive because you have the ability to show your affiliate offer to your visitors multiple times in the form of email follow-ups and broadcasts. The more exposure your visitors have to your offer, the more likely they are to open their wallets and buy.
Tip #5: Focus on driving traffic
Since you don’t have to focus on developing products, building sales pages, or providing customer service, your focus is primarily on driving traffic to your offer. You should focus at least 80% of your time on generating traffic: finding new traffic sources to test, testing ad copy for your campaigns, and optimizing your campaigns.
These 5 tips will help you get a lot of affiliate sales if you apply them diligently. Hope to see you at the top!