As you may know, the success of the affiliate programs resides in the traffic you drive to them. I have seem websites with several affiliate links but they have not success because their webmasters don’t know how to drive traffic to those pages. So the key to be successful in this business, is to drive traffic to your links!
There are many techniques which you can do it, besides to crossing your fingers, let’s study some of them:
- Advertising: This is the first thing you can imagine when you talk about promoting. By buying advertising you can drive a lot of persons to your landing page, giving you high probabilities to catch some of them and earn money. You can advertise with programs like Adwords of Google, Blogads, StumbleUpon or another network like Bidvertiser, which gives you $20 in clicks for free.
- Building Links: If you are a blogger and you want to promote your affiliate programs, you should start checking your past posts looking for those ones where you talk, or just refer/mention something related to affiliate marketing. When you find those posts, you need to optimize them to be potential landing pages. You need to build links into your posts pointing to your affiliate programs, but in this case you need to advertise the post itself. But wait, just build the links only if your post is related to it!
- Placing Banners: Well this is part of advertising, but I want to mention something very important. Some of those affiliate programs provides several banners which you can use to promote them. When you are going to place a 125×125 banner on your blog for example, you should study which one is the most impressive and catchy to the eyes. This way you have more chances to attract new affiliates… Remember to use just 1 banner, placing 3 or 4 banners won’t give you more affiliates, instead you could be scaring them, it’s suspicious when someone place several banners of the same type.
Well guys, as you see, to make money with affiliate programs, you need to invest some money on this. Once you are established in this business, it will pay itself so don’t worry about that. Just be sure to promote it in the right way, avoid spamming and drive traffic to your landing page and you will start making money online 
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Drive traffic is the most important and most difficult part
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I don`t know much about affiliate programs but if visitors come to my blog I always appreciate it.
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Driving traffic to the site is always one of the important factors. I have tried all three of your methods you mentioned. For advertising with Google, as from what my friend observed (am myself also), you really need to have a running cost to maintain it before you can see any return; especially in the bidding for keywords part. I am still working on it to make it works better for me. I am getting slightly more results from the second mode of advertising that you mentioned and that is through building links. I always insert links at the end of my post so that it is not intrusive to readers. As for banner, it did not work so well so far
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your are suggesting only the paid methods to improve traffic to your blog, it may not benefit website in long term…..
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In order to find your best landing pages try to use a site statistics sistem like Google Analitics or SiteMeter or any other that provide such information as top landing pages, top exit pages, top keywords. It really help you optimize your site, just use that information right.
Oh, and by the way, put your best affiliate links on your top landing pages and don’t forget to blend them with the page.
To your success
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@ravinder Well I’m suggesting you how I do it. If you find another way to drive traffic without paying I would like to know it
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By the way, I think that adding your landing page to several traffic directories can really help you to get people clicking on your banners, what do you think?
It can do some good but you need to chose the best category that your page fits in and your banners need to relevant to the subject of your page. People interested in your page will be interested in your ads too.
To your success
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Thank you for your post it is valuable information for me
1.Take some time out to surf your own archives looking for posts that are ideal for linking to affiliate products
2.Add deep links to affiliate programs from posts in your archives
3.Check previously used affiliate links to see if they still link to live pages
4.Identify high converting posts (or potential ones) and work on driving traffic to them.
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