How To Become A Super Affiliate
Over the weekend I was visiting the Fat Loss 4 Idiots affiliate support page. Hadn’t been there in a while, but right now I recommend that everyone who is interested in affiliate marketing take a good look at their Super Marketing Affiliate Secrets, which I think is perhaps the best free advice about affiliate marketing I’ve seen in a long time. The most interesting points:
- Fat Loss 4 Idiots generated over $21 million in retail sales last year, mostly from affiliates.
- The most successful affiliates do NOT target diet-related keywords. Instead, they go for topics that interest the target demographic (they give “women over 30 years old” as a sample demographic).
- The most successful affiliates are constantly writing new articles and blog posts every day on those non-diet topics. Sheer volume is what gets them traffic and affiliate sales.
In fact, here’s a quote on what they think about article marketing:
For example, try to think of various topics which appeal to women over 30 years old — and then create your PPC (and article) campaigns around those topics.
Don’t just write 2 articles on each topic and then quit……..you should write 50 or 100 articles to ensure that you’ll still make money even if they are indexed poorly by the search engines.
HIGH VOLUME is the key.
If you write enough articles then you’ll get lots of visitors even if they are indexed poorly.
The days of writing an article and "ranking #1" (for a highly sought after keyword) are gone — those days are gone forever.
The key to making money in 2009 is to use VOLUME and CLEVER THINKING (just like we’ve outlined on this page).
If you begin to think cleverly and work hard — then you’ll soon discover the kind of money which our top affiliates are quietly making behind the scenes (they are laughing all the way to the bank while the rest of the affiliate world has no clue what’s really going on).
There’s some sound advice in there, and it doesn’t just apply to Fat Loss 4 Idiots, either, it can work with any affiliate or CPA offer.
Seriously, take the time to read the entire super affiliate tips page and start thinking out of the box.
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8 Responses to “How To Become A Super Affiliate”
Nice post, Eric thanks…I wonder, if an ad is a great ad dealing with something we all need (like losing weight or making money) and causes clicks and has a great conversion rate, then would it matter where the ad appears? That is, if I have a blog about motorcycles that gets a lot of visitors, and I have a great dieting ad, would that ad get a lot of clicks and make me sales?
Thnx Eric! Very nice post with useful information! I have the same question as rich, when i add a banner that is totaly different.. would that get me a lot of clicks?
I think the theory is based on the same theory as keyword targeting in that it’s more effective to target less competitive keywords than the most sought after.
Ok thnx for the information Lee
It is interesting that effective affiliate marketing works best when you are not the exact key words. I didn think about that and I guess it makes sense. Your competition is probably less too because of the indirect marketing. Something to think about and I am going to check out tha material.
Great post, Eric. Wondered how i could use some of your ideas to set up demographic that would apply to the local entrepreneur who was set on surviving in this difficult economic time.
Fat Loss 4 Idiots generated over $21 million in sales last year….wow
the name of the ebook is great and everybody would like to see whats inside the ebook
Interesting comment about not targeting fat related keywords and going for the demographic. Goes to show how targeting the right market and understanding customer behavior is so important.