3 easy steps to affiliate moneymaking success

Affiliate marketing on one of the best new "super affiliate" networks like PeerFly is one of the nicest ways to earn great money online.

It doesn't require you to have a supply chain, logistics, warehousing, or even an IT department. You don't ever have invest into research and development of products, but you still make between 5 and 15 % of the gross revenue from the sale of items you have referred.

It sounds almost too good to be true. So what's the catch? The catch is precisely that it is so easy. It means a lot of people are doing it and you therefore have a sea of competitors to fight off.

Before you begin

Because of this vast ball of competing sites, it is important that you go into an affiliate marketing business with some sort of strategy for driving targeted traffic through your website. Here are a number of ways to distinguish yourself from the competition:

• piggy back on your current business or other pre-existing traffic stream
• provide unique and peerless information
• provide the highest quality content available

The first option is without a doubt the easiest. If you already have a well-liked blog or website then seamlessly introducing affiliate links is a cinch. The second option generally requires specialist knowledge on a topic and a good platform from which to share it. For example, you can consider making predictions, based on your niche knowledge, at topulo.us - be sure to include an affiliate link in each prediction's References. Finally, you can do it the old fashioned way and create lot of really attractive, engaging, SEO enhanced, socially mobile content that builds good traffic volumes and generates sales.

The three steps

What are the three steps to becoming successful? We've already discussed them:

1. Create a niche website or blog focused on your target audience - Wordpress or Drupal are good options
2. Create unique and interesting content to drive traffic
3. Monetize that traffic using affiliate links

That's more or less all you have to do in order to enjoy affiliate marketing success. Ok, so what I shown here is really a bird's eye view. Drop by in a few weeks when we release our Affiliate moneymaking handbook, which will be sold online through Site prebuilder and on Kindle and other mobile devices through Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.